Tag: Feminism

Clementine Ford on the Case Against Marriage

Ladies We Need To Talk | 30 October 2023 | 0h 26m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
Interview with Clementine Ford about her book I Don’t: The Case Against Marriage. Criticises the societal programming of women that they are incomplete without marriage. Argues that women ditch the institution of marriage and live life on their own terms.

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Caitlin Moran: What About Men?

The Book Club | 12 July 2023 | 0h 51m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
Interview with Caitlin Moran about her book What About Men? Having written one of the bestselling works of popular feminism of the last 20 years – How To Be A Woman – she turns her attention to the other half of the population. Discusses how to reboot masculinity for the 21C, why she felt she needed to write such a book, and what qualifies her to do so; why she thinks young men are turning against feminism; what she says to the people who accuse her of trading in stereotypes; and why she thinks Jordan Peterson is a poor excuse for a ‘public intellectual’.

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Libertad Gonzalez on Parenting, Violence & Fertility

Rocking Our Priors | 14 June 2023 | 0h 42m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
Interview with Libertad Gonzalez discussing her research looking at the effect of paternity leave in Spain on the sharing between men and women of childcare and housework, fertility rates and children’s attitudes to gender roles; intergenerational transmission of migrant gender inequality and violence; looking at the relationship across European countries between female employment and fertility to the divergent attitudes between men and women to how housework is shared.

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South Korea’s F Word: Inside the Feminist Movement

Cover to Cover | 7 March 2023 | 1h 01m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
Interview with Hawon Jung about her book Flowers of Fire: The Inside Story of South Korea’s Feminist Movement and What It Means for Women’s Rights Worldwide. Discusses why “feminism” is such a loaded term in South Korea, the #MeToo movement, digital sex crimes, deep-rooted patriarchal gender norms, and how the women’s rights movement here connects to other movements in Asia and beyond.

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Angela Saini on the Origins of Patriarchy

A Podcast of One’s Own with Julia Gillard | 3 March 2023 | 0h 48m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
Interview with Angela Saini about her book The Patriarchs: The Origins of Inequality. Discusses how patriarchal values have shaped lives across centuries and continents of societies dominated by men. Explores the roots of gendered oppression and how patriarchal systems became embedded in societies and spread across the globe.

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Why ‘Progress’ is Bad for Women – Mary Harrington

TRIGGERnometry | 6 March 2023 | 1h 12m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
Interview with Mary Harrington about her book Feminism against Progress. Argues that social progress for women has been driven by market needs rather than the moral case for equality, that technology is curbing the effects of physical sex differences, that feminism has been captured by well-off white-collar women, and warns of the negative effects for most women of the commodification of women’s bodies, pornography, hormonal birth control, and the removal of social protections for women.

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Jess Wade on Chiral Materials, Open Knowledge, and Representation in STEM

Conversations with Tyler | 5 April 2023 | 0h 56m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
Interview with Jessica Wade discussing gender stereotypes in science, ways to encourage women in science, her work editing Wikipedia entries and how Wikipedia should be improved, how she’d improve science funding, her work on chiral materials and its near-term applications, whether writing a kid’s science book should be rewarded in academia, and more.

The episode mentions her kid’s science book, Nano: The Spectacular Science of the Very (Very) Small, which sounds like a good buy for the young people in your life.

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Victoria Smith: Hags

The Book Club | 22 March 2023 | 0h 45m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
Interview with Victoria Smith about her book Hags: The Demonisation of Middle-Aged Women. Discusses the resurgence of one the oldest forms of misogyny. Suggests feminists of each new generation seem destined to forget or reject the lessons learned by the previous one, and argues that female bodies – and the life experiences that go with them – are something that can’t be wished away by postmodern theory.

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