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“The political meaning of femininity is historically and socially specific. In the mid-twentieth century, the expectation of femininity was a source of violence against white women just as the social denial of femininity was a source of violence against Black women. Eradicating gender expression or finding new empowering ways of expressing gender is not the basis of political liberation; it is the right to gender expression in light of historically specific strictures that is emancipatory.”

Holly Lewis, The Politics of Everybody: Feminism, Queer Theory, and Marxism at the Intersection
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The Politics of Everybody: Feminism, Queer Theory, and Marxism at the Intersection The Politics of Everybody: Feminism, Queer Theory, and Marxism at the Intersection by Holly Lewis
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