Episode · The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast · 2024-07-25
Books mentioned on 466. Reappropriating Feminism, Maternity, and the Woman’s Role | Mary Harrington
Dr. Jordan Peterson sits down with author and columnist Mary Harrington.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Feminism against Progress
Feminism against Progress by Mary Harrington is a 2023 book that critically examines modern feminist movements, maternity, and traditional roles for women.
Discussed“I had the chance today to talk to Mary Harrington author of feminism against progress which was published in 2023”
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Gender
Ivan Illich's Gender offers a radical historical critique of modern sex roles, arguing that the rise of industrial society destroyed a premodern golden age of vernacular gender complementary.
Discussed“I've drawn from Ivan nich's 1980 book gender in the book to to to to understand the the transition which illich reads and I agree with him as as really a not not a not a moment of empowerment but as as a significant loss of agency”
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Case Against the Sexual Revolution
The Case Against the Sexual Revolution by Louise Perry is a cultural critique examining the long-term psychological, social, and relational consequences of modern hookup culture and hedonistic sexual norms.
Discussed“and our mutual friend Lise Perry wrot recently wrote a very persuasive book detailing all of the ways it hasn't really worked out like that and all of the ways which as you've just outlined the sexual Revolution was considerably more to the benefit of”
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Sex and the single girl
Sex and the Single Girl by Helen Gurley Brown is a groundbreaking 1962 cultural phenomenon and bestseller that redefined women's independence, career ambitions, and financial autonomy outside of traditional marriage.
Discussed“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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Im Westen nichts Neues
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque is a classic anti-war novel depicting the brutal physical and psychological realities experienced by young German soldiers during World War I.
Discussed“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.”
Other mentions in this episode (3) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“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?”
“and my stance on on contraception is that there's a there's a robust feminist case against the pill um and i' in fact so much so that I devoted a chapter to it in feminism against progress”
“In fact, so much so that I devoted a chapter to it in Feminism Against Progress, the feminist case against the contraceptive pill.”