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We Are All Dependent—And That’s Our Strength

Leah Libresco Sargeant’s The Dignity of Dependence: A Feminist Manifesto depicts a human ideal for the post-industrial workforce. Such a human can work any number of hours, has no personal entanglements, and suffers from no bodily needs: Through a combination of pressure and compensation, the company has succeeded in denying basic biological reality and making that contradiction the employees’ problem. Continue Reading...