Kate & Holly discuss Cordelia Fine's book Testosterone Rex, which won the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize in 2017.
Kate & Holly discuss Mary Harrington's book Feminism Against Progress (2023).
Holly reads Gloria Steinem's short essay 'Transsexualism', first published in 1977, and later republished in her book ~Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions~ (1983).
This is a talk about Sarah Lucia Hoagland's book 'Lesbian Ethics: Toward New Value' (1988), which I prepared for an International Women's Day event in Melbourne, Australia in March 2022.ReferencesFrye, Marilyn. ‘Review: A Response to “Lesbian Ethics”’, Hypatia 5/3 (1990), pp. 132-137. Hoagland, Sarah Lucia. Lesbian Ethics: Toward New Value (Palo Alto: Institute…
A presentation of some of Catharine MacKinnon's ideas from her (1991) paper 'From Practice to Theory, or What is a White Woman Anyway?' She defends the idea that there is such a thing as being treated as a woman, regardless of other identity features, and she talks about what the caricature of 'white woman' as…
An introduction to Mary Daly's feminist conceptual engineering project, starting in 1968 and culminating in the 1987 book Webster's First New Intergalactic Wickedary of the English Language.Online access to the Wickedary here.
Kate & Holly talk about whether Andrea Dworkin has been fairly claimed by contemporary trans activism as an example of a radical feminist who thought transwomen were women. They draw on some of the ideas presented in the videos 'Intercourse' and 'Androgyny'.
In Chapter 9 of Andrea Dworkin's book Woman Hating (1974), she talks about androgyny, her vision for a future without sexual subordination.
A discussion of the ideas in the first chapter of Andrea Dworkin's (1987) book Intercourse.
Shulamith Firestone was one of the first radical feminists. This video introduces some of the ideas from her (1970) book The Dialectic of Sex (1970).
Shulamith Firestone was one of the first radical feminists, with four essays in the magazine Notes From The First Year (1968), published by New York Radical Women. In this video ideas from her essay 'On Abortion' are introduced.
Ti-Grace Atkinson was arguably the first radical feminist, and the inventor of the idea of 'political lesbianism'. In this video, her understanding of the idea, from her three most relevant essays, is presented.
Ti-Grace Atkinson was arguably the first radical feminist. In this video, ideas from her essay 'Radical Feminism' are introduced.
