Books Mentioned in This Episode

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Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode, complete with an Amazon buy link and quotes from the episode.

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Feminism against Progress

by Mary Harrington

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"I had the chance today to talk to Mary Harrington, author of 'Feminism Against Progress', published in 2023."
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Feminism against Progress

by Mary Harrington

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"So Mary, you launched your book, 'Feminism Against Progress', in the spring of 2023, so why don't you start by walking us through the book and the argument that you are making there?"
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Gender

by Ivan Illich

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"I've drawn from Ivan Illich's book from 1980, 'Gender', to understand the transition."
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Sex and the single girl

by Helen Gurley Brown

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"But the feminism which falls out of Helen Gurley Brown's Sex and the Single Girl in the 1960s, which is really the girl boss feminism, is the feminism of Cosmopolitan magazine, and it's really a thin ideological veneer over what is fundamentally, as you say, a hedonistic project."
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Feminism against Progress

by Mary Harrington

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"In fact, so much so that I devoted a chapter to it in Feminism Against Progress, the feminist case against the contraceptive pill."