Reading The Second Sex in the Age of #MeToo

Where are we coming from, and where do we go?

In the firestorm of debates about the implications of #MeToo, feminist activists and commentators have found themselves circling around the definitions of a handful of essential terms: rape, harassment, assault, consent. We have seen the word “pleasure” disentangled, and the word “inappropriate” expanded. We have discussed power and victimhood, empowerment ...
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Reading The Second Sex in the Age of #MeToo

Give a Woman an Inch, She’ll Take a Penis

Backlash and the fragility of privilege

On February 8, 2018, The New School will host an event entitled "Sexual Harassment and Assault: Eros, Power, Violation, and Consent." Psychologist Jeremy Safran will moderate a panel featuring Lew Aron and Adrienne Harris from NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, Katie Gentile from John Jay College of Criminal ...
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Give a Woman an Inch, She’ll Take a Penis