📚 4 Books mentioned in "Reappropriating Feminism, Maternity, and the Woman’s Role | Mary Harrington | EP 466" of The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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

In this episode, Dr. Jordan B. Peterson introduces Mary Harrington, discussing her book 'Feminism Against Progress', which was published in 2023.

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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?

In this segment, Dr. Jordan B. Peterson invites Mary Harrington to discuss her recently launched book 'Feminism Against Progress', released in the spring of 2023, where she outlines the main arguments presented in her work.

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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.

Mary Harrington discusses the arguments presented in her book, 'Feminism Against Progress,' where she devotes a chapter to the feminist perspective on the contraceptive pill.

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I've drawn from Ivan Illich's book from 1980, 'Gender', to understand the transition.

Mary Harrington shares that she referenced Ivan Illich's book, 'Gender', published in 1980, to gain insight into a transition she discusses.

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There's a tremendous emphasis in classic religious tradition; you see this particularly in the Book of Job—that you're to be grateful for your fate, no matter what it is—because being grateful for your fate, no matter what it is, is actually the best way of approaching your fate.

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson references 'The Book of Job' as an example from classic religious tradition, highlighting the importance of being grateful for one's fate.

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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.

In this segment, Mary Harrington discusses how Helen Gurley Brown's book, 'Sex and the Single Girl', laid the groundwork for what is now known as 'girl boss feminism', linking it to the ideologies promoted by Cosmopolitan magazine.

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