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How to “Family Plan”
NB: I wrote this for an EA-adjacent audience. That might not be you. You might well read this and think that the romance is missing. But I think opportunity favors the well-prepared: romance has a way of showing up in surprising situations — and it’s well worth it. *** Why family plan? What do you…
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Aliens & The Pursuit of Carnivorous Men
In my dissertation, I’m investigating a variety of “origin stories” for patriarchy, because I think they have a lot to tell us about how we think about the problem. There are a lot of different stories, and some of them are more … plausible, let’s say, than others. One of my favorite examples of this…
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The Opposite of Freedom
For class this week, I’m reading Walter Johnsons’ “The Pedestal and the Veil: Rethinking the Capitalism/Slavery Question.” It is, thus far, excellent. One of the main themes that Johnson interrogates is the tendency of orthodox Marxists to adopt a teleological lens on slavery: slavery is pre-capitalist, wage labor (wage slavery) comes to replace it in…
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A(n In) Complete List of Catharine MacKinnon’s Work
As I’m working on my chapter on Catharine MacKinnon, I’ve been trying to find the complete list of her works. I want to be able to see if there are any major shifts in her thinking — my hypothesis is that there are, although the commonalities between pieces are also very much in evidence. Anyway,…
Joan O'Bryan 