qabas’s Reviews > Right-Wing Women > Status Update

Is there a way out of the home that does not lead, inevitably and horribly, to the street-corner? This is the question right-wing women face. This is the question all women face, but right-wing women know it. And in the transit - home to street, street to home - is there any place, reason, or chance for female intelligence that is not simply looking for the best buyer?

To the orthodox of male culture, she is animal, the anthesis of soul. To the liberals of male culture, she is nature.

The identities of the dangerous outsiders can change over time to meet changing social circumstances – for example, racism can be encouraged or contained; antisemitism can be provoked or kept dormant; homophobia can be aggravated or kept under the surface – but the existence of the dangerous outsider always functions for women, simultaneously as deception, diversion, painkiller, and threat.

Anita Bryant

Ruth Carter Stapleton

Most girls, however much they resent their mothers, do become very much like them. A girl may,as she enters adulthood repudiate the particular set of males with whom her mother is Allied run with a different pack as it were, but she will replicate her mother‘s patterns and acquiescing to mail authority within her own chosen set.