I think with my children I probably would still like them to get married because it is stability and it is stability for the next generation what worries me is that so if you families really well say if you women want to have children. The economic account of it is overblown or is possibly just too short term, she says. Fertility is now plummeting across the entire world except with the exception of sub-Saharan Africa which is likely to spell the future.
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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