"..she has benefited from those institutions (education) which have loosened the ties of tradition and community for women, making it possible for them to be disembedded and re-located to the city to earn an independent living without shame or danger"."post-feminism positively draws on and invokes feminism as that which can be taken into account, to suggest that equality is achieved,in order to install a whole repertoire of new meanings which emphasise that it is no longer needed, it is a spent force."
".. gentle denunciations of feminism (as in the film Bridget Jones’s Diary) co-exists however with the shrill championing of young women as a “metaphor for social change” on the pages of the right wing press in the UK, in particular the Daily Mail."
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