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'The break with the past, which has been described by others as the transition to a capitalist mode of production, I describe here as the transition from the aegis of gender to the regime of sex.' Illich insists that we survey attitudes to male & female in both industrial society & its antecedents in order to recover a lost 'art of living'. 'While under any reign of gender women might be subordinate, under any economic regime they are only second sex...both genders are stripped, &, neutered, the man ends up on top.'
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Guide to Titled Footnotes
Acknowledgements
Sexism & Economic Growth
Economic Sex
Vernacular Gender
Vernacular Culture
Gender Domains & Vernacular Milieu
Gender Through Time
From Broken Gender to Economic Sex
Index
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