'The reasons for the recent intensification of sexual combat lie in the transformation of capitalism from its paternalistic and familial form to a managerial, corporate, bureaucratic system of almost total control: more specifically, in the collapse of "chivalry";'
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'...the liberation of sex from many of its former constraints; the pursuit of sexual pleasure as an end in itself; the emotional overloading of personal relations; and most important of all, the irrational male response to the emergence of the liberated woman...'
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'...Democracy and feminism have now stripped the veil of courtly convention from the subordination of women, revealing the sexual antagonisms formerly concealer by the "feminine mystique."'
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'Denied illusions of comity, men and women find it more difficult than before to confront each other as friends and lovers, let alone as equals ... All women find themselves identified with "women's lib" merely by virtue of their sex...'
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'...unless by strenuous disavowals they identify themselves with its enemies. All women share in the burdens as well as the benefits of "liberation," both of which can be summarized by saying that men no longer treat women as ladies.'
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- Christopher Lasch, 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐶𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑁𝑎𝑟𝑐𝑖𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑠𝑚: 𝐴𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝐿𝑖𝑓𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝐴𝑛 𝐴𝑔𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝐷𝑖𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐸𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 (1979).
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