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Dayna Tortorici’s Followers (7)
Dayna Tortorici
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What Was the Hipster? A Sociological Investigation
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2010
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8 editions
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No Regrets: Three Discussions
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2013
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3 editions
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n+1 Issue 36: Get Help
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n+1 Issue 14: Awkward Age
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2012
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3 editions
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n+1 Issue 17: The Evil Issue
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2013
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4 editions
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n+1 Issue 22: Conviction
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2015
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The Trouble is the Banks: Letters to Wall Street (N+1 Research Branch Small Books, 4)
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2012
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n+1 Issue 33: Overtime
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In the Maze : Must history have losers?
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n+1 Issue 30: Motherland
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“None of the men I had in mind were Nazis. None resembled the men who’d marched through Charlottesville with tiki torches shouting, “You will not replace us!” But there was another spin on the game, and this was the one that worried me: Who in a showdown would accept the subjugation of women as a necessary political concession? Who would make peace with patriarchy if it meant a nominal win, or defend the accused for the sake of stability? The answer was more men than I’d been prepared to believe. I’d have to work harder not to alienate them, if only to make it harder for them to sell me out.”
― In the Maze : Must history have losers?
― In the Maze : Must history have losers?
“To say that feminism is good for boys, that diversity makes a stronger team, or that collective liberation promises a greater, deeper freedom than the individual freedoms we know is comforting and true enough. But just as true, and significantly less consoling, is the guarantee that some will find the world less comfortable in the process of making it habitable for others. It would be easier to give up some privileges if it weren’t so traumatic to lose, as it is in our ruthlessly competitive and frequently undemocratic country.”
― In the Maze : Must history have losers?
― In the Maze : Must history have losers?
“At some point it’s irresponsible not to connect what a man says with what he does... “Who Goes Nazi,” Dorothy Thompson’s famous Harper’s piece from 1941, sprang to the collective mind...
None of the men I had in mind were Nazis. None resembled the men who’d marched through Charlottesville with tiki torches shouting, “You will not replace us!” But there was another spin on the game, and this was the one that worried me: Who in a showdown would accept the subjugation of women as a necessary political concession? Who would make peace with patriarchy if it meant a nominal win, or defend the accused for the sake of stability? The answer was more men than I’d been prepared to believe. I’d have to work harder not to alienate them, if only to make it harder for them to sell me out.”
― In the Maze : Must history have losers?
None of the men I had in mind were Nazis. None resembled the men who’d marched through Charlottesville with tiki torches shouting, “You will not replace us!” But there was another spin on the game, and this was the one that worried me: Who in a showdown would accept the subjugation of women as a necessary political concession? Who would make peace with patriarchy if it meant a nominal win, or defend the accused for the sake of stability? The answer was more men than I’d been prepared to believe. I’d have to work harder not to alienate them, if only to make it harder for them to sell me out.”
― In the Maze : Must history have losers?
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