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VEXY THING: ON GENDER AND LIBERATION Academic and turn a passion intoEven as feminism has become increasingly central to our ideas about institutions, relationships, and everyday life, the term used to diagnose the problem "patriarchy" is used so loosely that it has lost its meaning. In Vexy Thing Imani Perry resurrects patriarchy as a target of critique, recentering it to contemporary discussions of feminism through a social and literary analysis of cultural artifacts from the Enlightenment to the present. Drawing on