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August 30, 2010

Elisabeth Badinter: 'Women Aren't Chimpanzees'

by Britta Sandberg,Spiegel, Germany - French philosopher Elisabeth Badinter cut her teeth in the women's liberation movement of the 1970s. In a SPIEGEL interview, she discusses her worries about how a new back-to-nature movement is persuading many Western women to forsake the gains of emancipation and embrace their grandmothers' values instead.

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