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In the nineteenth century, in part because a ton of American men moved west, in part because of the Civil War, and in part because of trepidation about marriage, which was then a very confining institution, there was a big population of women – mostly middle-class white women on the East Coast – who didn’t marry.

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I think a lot of divisions of perspective and experience that happen within feminism are very natural. Any movement that represents the interests of 51 percent of the population is covering such divergent experiences, perspectives, and priorities that, if you’re doing it right, people are going to be arguing within it.

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Marriage has been a way of attempting to ensure the replication of power and wealth from one generation of another, passing it down from men to men.

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May 25, 2024

Marriage has been a way of attempting to ensure the replication of power and wealth from one generation of another, passing it down from men to men.

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May 25, 2024

I think a lot of divisions of perspective and experience that happen within feminism are very natural. Any movement that represents the interests of 51 percent of the population is covering such divergent experiences, perspectives, and priorities that, if you’re doing it right, people are going to be arguing within it.

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