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Women, even the most oppressed among us, do exercise power. These powers can be used to advance feminist struggle. Forms of power held by exploited and oppressed groups are described in Elizabeth Janeway’s important work Powers of the Weak. One of the most significant forms of power held by the weak is “the refusal to accept the definition of oneself that is put forward by the powerful”. Janeway call this the “ordered use of the power to disbelieve”. She exp
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