Topic: What is the birdcage analogy? What does it help explain?

How does it differ from

ordinary harms as when one has an accident?

Resource: The paper is based on the writing of, “Marilyn Fyre, the Politics of Reality:
Essays on Feminist Theory” from PG 17: “Sexism” onwards. This paper is based on "Marilyn
Fyre, the Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory"

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