Welcome to the weekly Fairer Disputations round-up: your one-stop shop for the best in sex-realist feminism. This week: Mary Harrington on parenting in a moral void, Eliza Mondegreen on WPATH’s recent conference, and an editorial on “hag” horror. Plus: mothers and the birth rate, boarding houses as antidotes for loneliness, FD recommends a book, and more!
First, Featured Author Mary Harrington writes about choosing to become a parent in the moral void.
Next, Featured Author Eliza Mondegreen’s series on the World Professional Association for Transgender Health’s conference provides an important glimpse into the world of “gender-affirming care.”
Finally, The Guardian’s editorial takes on the notion that an aging woman is the stuff or horror.
More Great Reads:
- The Left Should Applaud Italy’s Surrogacy Ban – So Why Are They So Outraged?, Miriam Cates, The Telegraph
- Want to Improve the Birth Rate? Stop Being So Harsh on Mothers., Neeraja Deshpande, Align
- Boarding House at the End of the World, Shelby Kearns, Front Porch Republic
- Where Do Dead Babies Go?, Nadya Williams, Current
Fairer Disputations Recommends:
Classics scholar (and Fairer Disputations author!) Nadya Williams’s new book, Mothers, Children and the Body Politic: Ancient Christianity and the Recovery of Human Dignity highlights the growing commodification of human life, seen first and foremost through the disdain with which our culture treats mothers and children. Williams draws parallels between ancient times and our own, to highlight what is—and what isn’t—new about our today’s utilitarian approach to human life.
Keep an eye on these pages in coming weeks for a review of this important work!
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