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gender wars

12/15/19

How the Gender Wars of the Early 1990s Shaped the World We Know

by Philip Jenkins

Political campaigns combined with media crusades and popular activism to effect a radical and irreversible change in concepts of sexual behavior, and to raise unprecedented alarm about the dangers of male sexual violence and harassment.

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gender wars

How the Gender Wars of the Early 1990s Shaped the World We Know

by Philip Jenkins