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Feminism

Being a Bad Feminist

I can’t stop shaving—and it makes me feel like a fraud

January 23, 2023 • by Amalie Thieden

Here’s my confession: for years I’ve felt ashamed. Ashamed of spending more money than I’ll ever want to count on hair removal products, and ashamed of all the times I haven’t worn what I wanted to because I didn't have the time or energy to shave. I was ashamed of ...

Philosophy

How Should We Commemorate Mary Wollstonecraft?

Why the current controversy is curiously appropriate

November 19, 2020 • by Sandrine Bergès

On Tuesday, November 10, the British sculptor Maggi Hambling’s new monument to Mary Wollstonecraft was unveiled on Newington Green, in North London – and almost immediately, there was an uproar. On social media and in newspapers, the monument was variously decried (“What the actual fuck is this?”) and mocked as “a ...

How Should We Commemorate Mary Wollstonecraft?

Multi Media

Afghanistan, Plus-Size Clothing, and Swearing

Past Present: Episode 98

September 1, 2017 • by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Nicole Hemmer and Neil J. Young

On this week's Past Present podcast, Nicole Hemmer, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, and Neil J. Young debate Trump's proposal for Afghanistan, plus-size clothing, and why swearing is on the rise.

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Afghanistan, Plus-Size Clothing, and Swearing

Feature

The Business of Being Made

March 8, 2016 • by Ali Shames-Dawson

Two weeks ago The New School’s Ferenczi Center hosted Katie Gentile and a panel of contributors to celebrate the launch of a new book and a new series. The book, The Business of Being Made: The Temporalities of Reproductive Technologies in Psychoanalysis and Culture, is the first to critically analyze ...