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Gender Studies Won’t Have Them As A Member: The Attempted “Conceptual Penis” Hoax

May 20, 2017

…the isomorphism between the conceptual penis and what’s referred to throughout discursive feminist literature as “toxic hypermasculinity,” is one defined upon a vector of…

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Gender Studies Won’t Have Them As A Member: The Attempted “Conceptual Penis” Hoax