'Reactionary feminist' came out of a long-running argument with a friend over the phrase post-liberal and whether or not it really meant anything. 'It's deliberately not universalist in the sense that I don't think there is a universally applicable set of doctrines for what concept institute, what's self-evidently going to be good for women,' she says. The whole thrust of my argument in feminism against progress is that much of what looks like progress in terms of women's rights is actually when you drill down into it very much more about the technological than moral progress.
Louise Perry has been described as the most influential young feminist in Britain. She claims in her book The Case Against the Sexual Revolution that the contemporary world of rough sex, hook-up culture and ubiquitous porn is harming women and she calls for a radical challenge to what she sees as the failed liberal feminism of the 20th century. Meanwhile writer Mary Harrington argues that the belief in the progressive march of history is misguided and that new technology, far from liberating women, has trapped them into commodifying their bodies in the false belief that they are empowering themselves. In this conversation hosted by Alice Thompson, columnist and interviewer at The Times, they present their case for why they think progress is at odds with feminism.
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