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Episode · The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast · 2024-07-25

Jordan Peterson & Mary Harrington: books mentioned on The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast #466

466. Reappropriating Feminism, Maternity, and the Woman’s Role | Mary Harrington

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Dr. Jordan Peterson sits down with author and columnist Mary Harrington.

Jordan Peterson discussed Feminism against Progress by Mary Harrington. Mary Harrington discussed Gender by Ivan Illich, Case Against the Sexual Revolution by Louise Perry, and Sex and the single girl by Helen Gurley Brown. Also mentioned: Im Westen nichts Neues by Erich Maria Remarque.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

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  1. Feminism against Progress

    Mary Harrington · at 0:40 · mentioned 3 times

    Feminism against Progress by Mary Harrington is a critical analysis arguing that the sexual revolution and modern progressive feminism have ultimately harmed women by dismantling traditional family structures and reducing human value to economic productivity.

    Discussed
    “I had the chance today to talk to Mary Harrington author of feminism against progress which was published in 2023”
    Jordan Peterson 466. Reappropriating Feminism, Maternity, and the Woman’s Role | Mary … 2024-07-25 Listen at 0:40
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  2. Gender

    Ivan Illich · at 9:50

    Gender by Ivan Illich is a provocative 1980 cultural critique that examines the historical transition from premodern vernacular gender roles to modern economic gender structures, which the author views as a significant loss of human agency.

    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”
    Mary Harrington 466. Reappropriating Feminism, Maternity, and the Woman’s Role | Mary … 2024-07-25 Listen at 9:50
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  3. Case Against the Sexual Revolution

    Louise Perry · at 32:15 · mentioned 2 times

    The Case Against the Sexual Revolution by Louise Perry is a cultural critique examining the long-term psychological and social consequences of modern hedonistic hookup culture and sexual liberation.

    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”
    Mary Harrington 466. Reappropriating Feminism, Maternity, and the Woman’s Role | Mary … 2024-07-25 Listen at 32:15
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  4. Sex and the single girl

    Helen Gurley Brown · at 59:33

    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.”
    Mary Harrington 466. Reappropriating Feminism, Maternity, and the Woman’s Role | Mary … 2024-07-25 Listen at 59:33
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  5. Im Westen nichts Neues

    Erich Maria Remarque · at 1:08:29

    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. On the Lex Fridman Podcast, the host recalled reading the book and highlighted a striking, memorable line from the text that compares the horrific experience of modern warfare to the distinct smell of a skunk, noting an almost bizarrely perverse quality in enduring it.

    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.”
    Speaker 466. Reappropriating Feminism, Maternity, and the Woman’s Role | Mary … 2024-07-25 Listen at 1:08:29
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Other mentions in this episode (3) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged Feminism against Progress
“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?”
Mary Harrington 466. Reappropriating Feminism, Maternity, and the Woman’s Role | Mary … 2024-07-25 Listen at 2:31
Plugged Feminism against Progress
“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”
Mary Harrington 466. Reappropriating Feminism, Maternity, and the Woman’s Role | Mary … 2024-07-25 Listen at 1:19:02
Plugged 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.”
Mary Harrington 466. Reappropriating Feminism, Maternity, and the Woman’s Role | Mary … 2024-07-25 Listen at 1:19:11
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