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Some aspects definitely feel like she is stretching out some of her points to fill up pages. Also, not enough discussion of Girard.

Much to digest here…

Interesting history of the debates raging within second-wave feminism so far, but Gruber often interprets studies her way just as her opponents interpret studies their way, both leaving flaws in their statistical approaches.

Read the first 7 chapters so far. It’s got a few good essays (like the one about Moody) but also a lot of duds, quickly jotted polemics as academic prose.

Good definition of populism: a response to a perceived economic downturn or loss of status that culminates in us-vs-them politics, where "us" is "the people" vs an elite "them"

Really good ethnography so far. Solid writing; author knows how to weave in first-person current happenings with the backstories of the three people being profiled. Although John’s story seems a bit weaker than the other two so far.