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Shari Benstock

  • “Neither the biologically determined categories 'male' and 'female' nor the socially produced categories 'masculine' and 'feminine' are absolute — entirely consistent, even monolithic, within themselves. Each inhabits and is inhabited by its opposite.”

Shari Benstock, U.S. educator, writer

(1944)

One of my favorite books …