"[Juliet Mitchell] believes feminism is the longest revolution. And if it’s the longest revolution, then periodical setbacks and a kind of hatred towards the body of the woman, which is what all this is about, dressed up as sexual admiration for the woman, this hatred towards the body of the woman is actually a mark of a fear of the progressive and continuing emancipation of the woman, and therefore we should expect it."
An interview with Jacqueline Rose
