If we think of the feministsss that you read and liked, you talked about a second wave generation. You talked about jermain gree and the female eunuch. Which were the books have a bearing influence on this book do you think? Well, in terms of writing style. Goman greer andrea dwarkin, i discovered bell hooks, the late bell hooks, when i wasr in my leghteen thirly twenties,. Oddly, also, literary writers like angela carter and jeanette wildson werea huge, huge influence. I came to anterosis, an intersectional feminism a little later, and i came to it like
We are in an era of crisis, collapse, and reactionary tyrants, argues Laurie Penny, but we are also witnessing a transformation: a revolutionary change in how we define gender, sex, consent and whose bodies matter. In her new book, Sexual Revolution: Modern Fascism and the Feminist Fightback, Laurie offers an urgent analysis of this moment of sexual politics we are living through. Our host for the discussion is cultural historian and broadcaster Shahidha Bari.
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