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Polluted Erotic Ecologies
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 Butlerโs Trouble
ABerkeley student approaches two older women. She has a flier in her hand. โHey, happy No-Pants Day!โ she exclaims, in the state of undress to match her words. One...
Foucaultโs Principalities & Powers
In the late 1960s, a sociologist described French theorist ยญMichel Foucault (1926โ1984) as โa sort of frail, gnarled samurai who was dry and hieratic, who had the eyebrows of...
Deleuze on Desire
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
Moral Combat:How Sex Divided American Christians and Fractured Americanย Politicsby r. marie griffithbasic books, 416 pages, $32 Ever since Havelock Ellisโone of the first sexologists, who wrote more than a...