Sex Strike, David McCullough, and Doris Day

Past Present Episode 180

In this episode, Neil, Natalia, and Niki discuss a proposed “sex strike,” historian David McCullough’s new book, and the life and legacy of Doris Day. Here are some links and references mentioned during this week’s show: Actor and activist Alyssa Milano this week suggested that women withhold sex from men until women achieve ...
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Sex Strike, David McCullough, and Doris Day

#MeToo

Thinking beyond legitimation through social media

Legitimation is double edged: it is crucial that, politically, we lay claim to intelligibility and recognizability; and it is crucial, politically, that we maintain a critical and transformative relation to the norms that govern what will and will not count as an intelligible and recognizable (28) In the case of sexual ...
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