Obdurate

stubbornly resisting persuasion; intransigent; unyielding; mulish

London Review of Books

London Review of Books

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‘From her early critique of Kate Millett, Cora made clear that patriarchy is never singular, obdurate or simply personified in its worst rigidity by each and every male.’

Jacqueline Rose remembers the feminist critic Cora Kaplan: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n12/jacqueline-rose/on-cora-kaplan

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London Review of Books

London Review of Books

@lrb.co.uk

‘From her early critique of Kate Millett, Cora made clear that patriarchy is never singular, obdurate or simply personified in its worst rigidity by each and every male.’

Jacqueline Rose remembers the feminist critic Cora Kaplan: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n12/jacqueline-rose/on-cora-kaplan

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"He waved his hands.
'This way,' he cried. 'This way.'
... He tried to encourage the more obdurate loiterers with smiles and beckoning. They would not be persuaded. He gave it up for a moment." 112 TK #AnthonyPowellTogether The host tries to wrest attentions away from Widmerpool vs Pamela.

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