“The possibility of the collectivity itself is persistently foreclosed through the manipulation of female agency.”
-Gayatri Spivak, quoted by Sharon Kinsella in a 2006 lecture at MIT, Men Imagining a Girl Revolution
“Your extraordinary disappointment is an index of your optimism.”
-Lauren Berlant, quoted by Candace Vogler in Sophia’s “Theories of Sex and Gender”class
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