Notes on Feminism and the Culture Wars
Notes and interviews about feminism, sex, gender, history, power, and radical Christian conservatism in politics. Hosted by Elizabeth Hungerford.
Episodes
8 episodes
Title IX Athletics: 2023 Proposed Changes & Commenting Period
Katherine Acosta, sociologist and feminist writer, and Max Dashu, lesbian feminist historian, join Bess to discuss the Department of Education's (DOE) proposed changes ...
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Note 2: Whittier's Analytic Framework for Political "Frenemies"
Bess summarizes Nancy Whittier's analytic framework for understanding the difference between coalition (ideological congruence) and collaborative adversarial relationships, using anti-pornography feminists and Catharine MacKinnon's novel civil ...
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Note 1: Bess's Feminist Basics
In less than 25 minutes, Bess finally talks about her feminist principles and the purpose of the podcast: differentiating feminist analysis from old fashioned conservatism. Using the example of a popular conservative framew...
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Clip 2: The right wing is coopting, diverting, and setting the "feminist" agenda (Interview 1, part 2)
Kathy Acosta asks who sets the political agenda and why right wing Christian nationalists are interested in making alliances with small feminist organizations.
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Episode 3
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Interview 1, part 2: Katherine Acosta and Shoshana Handel on grassroots feminist organizing in the US
PART ONE of this conversation, including notes and...
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Interview 1, part 1: Katherine Acosta and Shoshana Handel on grassroots feminist organizing in the US
Katherine M Acosta blogs at Cassandra Speaks/She's Right You Know. Women's Liberation Front ("WoLF")
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Episode 1
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Welcome to Notes on Feminism and the Culture Wars
Welcome to Notes on Feminism and the Culture Wars, my name is Bess Hungerford and this is a podcast about politics. We will talk about grassroots feminist organizing, the rise of Christian nationalism, especially in the US,...
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Clip 1: "I do not have the same ideology around porn/prostitution as the right wing!" (Interview 1, part 1)
Bess comments that she knew she disagreed with Women’s Liberation Front (WoLF)’s approach to gender identity in 2016, but didn't consider it a "red flag" for conservatism until later. Shani describes her introduction to WoLF's political...
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