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The era commonly referred to as ‘modernity’, ‘modernisation’, or ‘modernism’ (despite the different implications and nuances of each of these terms), is marked by the changing socio-economic and discursive conditions in the status of all minorities, especially women. For a number of reasons that I have analysed elsewhere1, the emancipation of women and their integration into not only the labour force, but also intellectual and political life, has become a pressing necessity in the western world. The first paradox to explore in a discussion between modernity and the feminist quest is therefore that of a historical period that needs to integrate women socially, economically and politically, thus reversing what had become the traditional patterns of exclusion and oppression of women.
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Braidotti, R. (1995). Equality and Diversity Radical Feminism and the Quest for Fundamentals. In: van Vucht Tijssen, L., Berting, J., Lechner, F. (eds) The Search for Fundamentals. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8500-2_8
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