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Polluted Erotic Ecologies

Angela Franks

Feminism Against Progress by mary harrington regnery, 256 pages, $29.99 Sometimes life is stranger than art. Suppose you were a novelist, and your book’s protagonist is the genderqueer founder...

Judith Butler’s Trouble

Angela Franks

ABerkeley student approaches two older women. She has a flier in her hand. “Hey, happy No-Pants Day!” she exclaims, in the state of undress to match her words. One...

Foucault’s Principalities & Powers

Angela Franks

In the late 1960s, a sociologist described French theorist Michel Foucault (1926–1984) as “a sort of frail, gnarled samurai who was dry and hieratic, who had the eyebrows of...

Deleuze on Desire

Angela Franks

Andrea Long Chu, a biological male, explained in a 2018 op-ed for the New York Times why he desired radical surgery that would equip him with ersatz female genitalia....

Sex, Fear, and Idolatry

Angela Franks

Moral Combat:How Sex Divided American Christians and Fractured American Politicsby r. marie griffithbasic books, 416 pages, $32 Ever since Havelock Ellis—one of the first sexologists, who wrote more than a...