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Positive Feminist Reading X4 John Donne Flea Speaker's

Front Positive feminist reading x4
(John Donne The Flea)
Back •Speaker's permissive approach to sex out of marriage destigmatises (makes undisgraceful, not disapproved) love and desire 
•Post sexual revolution could admire modern outlook. even if aim is purely sexually self-serving
•Fact he is appealing to the addressee at all is liberating to women, empowering her to refuse or deny him. Consider regard presents agape or philia?
•Ultimately poem can be seen as emblematic of cultural dissonance, even if effect was unpremeditated

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