Welcome to the weekly Fairer Disputations round-up: your one-stop shop for the best in sex-realist feminism. This week: Patricia Snow on Taylor Swift and the sexual revolution, Madeleine Rowley on the explosion in sex trafficking throughout the US, and Ivana Greco and Elliott Haspel’s new report on the support stay-at-home parents need. Plus: strangling during sex, a family-friendly culture, parents fight for custody of their gender-confused child—and more!
First, Patricia Snow on Taylor Swift’s songs as a response to the suffering the sexual revolution causes women.
Next, Madeleine Rowley reports on the rise in sex trafficking (including trafficking of minors) through the US’s southern border.
Finally, Featured Author Ivana Greco and Elliott Haspel released a new report the needs of stay-at-home parents, who are so often overlooked by policymakers. Interested in hearing more? Sign up for a webinar with Greco and Haspel next Friday.
More Great Reads:
- Gendered Worlds: Our Need for Belonging and Usefulness, Alisa Ruddell, The Front Porch Republic
- Boys Think Strangling Women is Sexy, Charities Warn, Helen Puttick, The Times
- What Will It Take to End Stay-at-Home Mom Shame?, Neha Ruch, Marie Claire
- Kids Are Being Taken From ‘Non-Affirming’ Parents. Here’s One Family’s Fight To Get Their Son Back, Megan Brock, The Daily Caller
- Joint Review: Family Unfriendly, by Timothy P. Carney, Jane and John Psmith, Mr. and Mrs. Psmith’s Bookshelf
Fairer Disputations Recommends:
Susanna Rustin has written Sexed: A History of British Feminism, tracing the importance of women’s sexed bodies in the fight for equality:
“Her goal? To show how successive generations have fiercely contested what it means to be a woman, and why this matters. Biology on its own is not destiny. But this book argues that differences between male and female bodies have always been feminist issues. While gender is a useful concept, women cannot be supported by a politics that forgets that they, like men, are sexed.”
Rustin’s pieces have been featured in our roundups in the past, and this week’s original, “Why Have British Feminists Successfully Resisted the Erasure of Sex?“, is a must-read.
