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Title: Excelent book.
Review: This is a great book for people whose experiences do not reflect feminist orthodoxy. I am an undergraduate at UC Berkeley, and I have had some outrageous experiences with certain students and faculty who I didn't agree with on some gender issues. Young's research was reassuring, and offered me an explanation of why these people are so insecure about their beliefs. Her constantly qualifying her criticisms of feminism with criticisms of the right at first seems wishy-washy, but by demonstrating that conservative views on gender are at least as outrageous as the views of radical feminists, she provides an important warning of the danger of overreacting to bad experiences. Hopefully, this book will convince some feminists to live up to their professed ideals of fairness and tolerance.
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