Episode · Honestly with Bari Weiss · 2025-02-19
Bari Weiss & Louise Perry: books mentioned on Honestly with Bari Weiss
"1950s Sex Culture Got It Right" | Louise Perry
Bari Weiss discussed Case Against the Sexual Revolution by Louise Perry, A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century by Louise Perry, and Sex and the single girl by Helen Gurley Brown. Louise Perry discussed The all-or-nothing marriage by Eli J. Finkel, Dominion by Tom Holland, and Sex and culture by J. D. Unwin.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Case Against the Sexual Revolution
Discussed“This is the Crux of her book the case against the sexual Revolution which has just been adapted for young adults”
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A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century
Discussed“it's called a new Guide to Sex in the 21st century”
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The all-or-nothing marriage
Discussed“there's this um uh Eli fle wrote this book called The All or Nothing marriage some years ago”
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Dominion
Discussed“and actually this the argument that's made by Tom Holland in his book Dominion in many ways me too despite me too being a secular movement traces its Origins back to that first sexual Revolution”
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Sex and culture
Discussed“I Revisited recently um for an essay the work of um this Edwardian Anthropologist British Anthropologist called JD Unwin he wrote a book called sex and culture which was published in the 1930s”
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Sex and the single girl
Discussed“one thing I was thinking about coming into this conversation is Helen Gurley Brown who famously wrote sex and the single girl in 1962”
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