“Review: Leah Libresco Sargeant’s ‘Dignity of Dependence’”:
Sexism has two pillars: the insistence that female biology is moral destiny, and the insistence that female moral destiny is inferior.
What is at stake is nothing less than affording women access to the tumult of total humanity. To propose that a woman’s biology consigns her to a single corner of the moral universe is to force her to undergo a violent truncation — a shrinkage of the sort that always attends the indignity of specialization.
Nothing innovative here, but the phrase the tumult of total humanity is so majestic that I can’t help gazing at it.