Mary Harrington
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Feminism Goes Home March 07, 2024
Mary Harrington has written a thought-provoking book that joins works by a diverse group of women who are shaping a novel form of modern feminist thought. This new strand of feminism, to be sure, demands that women be entitled to the same rights and ...
The Case for Postliberal Feminism October 24, 2023
In The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976), Harvard maverick sociologist Daniel Bell popularized a new lens to grasp, translate and decipher the West’s post-industrial dysfunctions, a three-way slicing of society into ‘realms’ or ‘spheres’: ...
Hunting for Harmony September 01, 2023
The dust jacket on the British edition of Mary Harrington’s Feminism Against Progress features Artemis, Greek goddess of apparent paradoxes. She is the hunter, but also the hunted; she stands for chastity, but also childbirth. It’s a fitting image fo...
A Feminism Embedded in Human Nature June 30, 2023
What happens when elite women get what they want? Mary Harrington’s Feminism against Progress is in part a tale of a dream fulfilled: a feminism of pure freedom, driven by the ideals of progress, achieving its goal of unfettered self-actualization. H...
Feminism in the Dock June 28, 2023
I am often asked by young women if we should take back the term “feminism.” It still carries the cachet of caring about women, and most of us are quite happy with the achievements of first-wave feminism: equality before the law, voting rights, and pr...
Feminism Needs Religion June 15, 2023
The following review is part of RealClear Books & Culture's symposium on Mary Harrington's 'Feminism Against Progress.'Mary Harrington’s Feminism Against Progress (2023) is a sharp blade that slays every sacred cow of today’s mainstream feminism in t...
Nature's Progress June 15, 2023
The following review is part of RealClear Books & Culture's symposium on Mary Harrington's 'Feminism Against Progress.'Human beings have a pesky tendency to evade, avoid, and escape. We seek freedom at any cost but often have no idea what this holy g...
Feminism's Alienation of the Body June 15, 2023
The following review is part of RealClear Books & Culture's symposium on Mary Harrington's 'Feminism Against Progress.'Modern people are very confused about bodies. The public conversation about sex and the human body has become increasingly detached...
A RealClear Books & Culture Symposium June 15, 2023
In the first RealClear Books & Culture Symposium, Rachel Lu, Emina Melonic, and Elizabeth Grace Matthew review Mary Harrington's 'Feminism Against Progress.' Feminism Needs Religion by Elizabeth Grace MatthewFeminism's Alienation of the Body by Rache...
On 'Feminism against Progress' May 15, 2023
Feminism Against Progress is an immensely rewarding read, filled with provocative insights, clever theories, and evocative writing. It correctly diagnoses much of what has gone awry in the modern world’s approach to sexual matters. Whether Harrington...
The Three Principles of Reactionary Feminism May 09, 2023
One of the things I discovered when writing Feminism Against Progress is that it’s much easier to make a critique than to suggest what to do about it. When you start suggesting policies, someone is bound to hate it. In the end I gave up trying to ple...
Feminism's Failures March 24, 2023
Feminism has never been short of enemies. Evangelicals, red state conservatives, anti-abortion groups, grassroots organizations like Eagle Forum founded by the Napoleon of all anti-feminists, Phyllis Schlafly, have been standing athwart the Ms. Revol...
