Status Updates From Traumatized: The New Politi...

Betty Friedan always at the crime scene :o

So far the first chapter has been essentially a review of the history of child labor in the Western Hemisphere and I am not complaining.

"Claiming trauma as a mark of distinction allows the subject to instrumentalize catastrophic childhood events; however, achieving a level of cultural and linguistic mastery of a new language of belonging did not produce real recovery or healing. It promoted, as the Harvard students found, a new kind of alienation and self-objectification."