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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 Butlerโ€™s Trouble

Angela Franks

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

Foucaultโ€™s Principalities & Powers

Angela Franks

In the late 1960s, a sociologist described French theorist ยญMichel Foucault (1926โ€“1984) as โ€œa 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 Americanย Politicsby r. marie griffithbasic books, 416 pages, $32 Ever since Havelock Ellisโ€”one of the first sexologists, who wrote more than a...