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In the middle of the night a woman screams and jumps out of bed, eyes filled with terror. Her startled husband watches her rush into the bathroom and open the medi-ane cabinet. She then dashes to the kitchen and inspects the inside of the refrigerator. Finally, she flings open a window and gazes out onto the street below their apart. men. She takes a deep breath and returns to bed.

If you don't give a whit about women's lives because you're a gynophobic right-wing internet troll, save your money and get back to your parents basement right now; this isn't the book for you.

To paraphrase the cultural theorist Fredric Jameson: it is easier for many of us to imagine the end of the world than it is for us to imagine the end of capitalism,