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and seems to bolster her even when other feminists have deemed her views to be unacceptable... Angel illustrates how she has felt feminism, in some instances, enforces precisely the same “shaming and silencing” of women’s sexuality that it seeks to oppose. This is shown through an occasion when Angel
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is a blemished but vigorous testament to a female libido undaunted by the cold shower of self-analysis, or by the bedside interjections of feminist heroines."
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