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New York Magazine writer, acclaimed author and old(ish) school GenX feminist Rebecca Traister joins the pod to talk about her September article, “The Return Of The Marriage Plot: Why everyone is suddenly so eager for men and women to get hitched.”
Do trads have a point when they say the sexual revolution has led us down the primrose path and people need to start procreation early and often? Or is this simply the moral panic du jour and everyone should be left to their own devices — technological and otherwise?
Also, artificial wombs: yay or nay?
Guest Bio
Rebecca Traister is writer at large for New York magazine. A National Magazine Award winner, she has written about women in politics, media, and entertainment from a feminist perspective for The New Republic and Salon and has also contributed to The Nation, The New York Observer, The New York Times and The Washington Post. She is the author of Good and Mad and All the Single Ladies, both New York Times best-sellers, and the award-winning Big Girls Don’t Cry.
Relevant Links
“The Return of the Marriage Plot: Why everyone is suddenly so eager for men and women to get hitched.” By Rebecca Traister for New York Magazine.
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Rebecca Traister on the Radfem-Tradfem Divide