In Bed With The Right

Adrian Daub and Moira Donegan

On In Bed With the Right hosts Moira Donegan and Adrian Daub welcome a range of scholars and critics to analyze right wing ideas about gender, sex and sexuality – and to plumb the ways in which these ideas persist in and shape our present moment.

  1. Episode 142 -- Nancy Mace

    4 dgn geleden

    Episode 142 -- Nancy Mace

    For this episode, Moira walks Adrian through the troubled and troubling story of congresswoman Nancy Mace -- a moderate who first became MAGA, then a vicious transphobe, and then became a gendered apostate from that movement (while remaining hugely transphobic). Trigger warning: While we initially thought this would be an acerbic deep dive into an unusual MAGA politician, the portrait that emerged was instead pretty complicated, and Mace's story turned out to be incredibly dark.

    1 u 4 m
  2. Episode 140 -- Lena Dunham

    23 jun

    Episode 140 -- Lena Dunham

    For this episode, Adrian and Moira discuss the life, career and (many, many) opinions of Lena Dunham -- creator of Girls, writer of memoirs and the face that launched a million think-pieces back in the 2010s. They touch on the gendered attacks, questions of maturity and accomplishment, nepobabydom and the Apatow extended universe, as well as on the conspicuously different reception Dunham's new memoir has received when compared to her earlier work.

    1 u 24 m
  3. Episode 139 -- Mifepristone

    16 jun

    Episode 139 -- Mifepristone

    In this episode, Moira walks Adrian through the history of Mifepristone. Developed in France in the 1980s, this medication (which, together with Misoprostol, is used to end pregnancies) has been a flashpoint in Europe and the United States pretty much since it was first created. Today, it is the only way for millions of Americans living in states where abortion is illegal or impossible to get to safely terminate their pregnancies safely. This episode dives into the attack on Mifepristone, the history of medical abortion and what the future might look like.

    1 u 4 m
  4. Episode 138 -- The Politics of Plagiarism-Hunting

    5 jun

    Episode 138 -- The Politics of Plagiarism-Hunting

    In this episode, Adrian walks Moira through the strange politics of plagiarism hunting -- an (initially non-partisan) German preoccupation that became another line of attack in the right wing assault on higher education in the United States. The episode details how legitimate concerns about academic fraud were fused with a broader populist critique of "university corruption", which effortlessly fused with anti-woke and anti-"DEI" critiques of the university. NOTE: As he feared, Adrian was indeed incorrect on one particular point: German dentists do not have to write a dissertation, though a surprisingly large percentage of them do.

    1 u 12 m
  5. Episode 137 -- Catching Up with the Cinema of Cancellation

    26 mei

    Episode 137 -- Catching Up with the Cinema of Cancellation

    For a while now (though mostly on Patreon), Moira and Adrian have examined a strange canon of films and texts about. powerful people being taken down by forces of social justice. Many of these take place on college campuses or near them (Oleanna, Deconstructing Harry,The Human Stain, After the Hunt); others center figures of the art world (Tàr). There have been a few new entries in this genre, and they tell us a lot about where our culture and are politics are with regards to consequences, impunity and powerful men. The focus in this conversation is the HBO show Rooster starring Steve Carell and Outcome starring Keanu Reeves.

    54 min.
  6. Episode 136 -- Marilyn Monroe

    20 mei

    Episode 136 -- Marilyn Monroe

    For this episode, Moira guides Adrian through the life, career and legacy of Marilyn Monroe, and the role gender played in all three. Monroe was born Norma Jeane Mortenson in Los Angeles on June 1, 1926 -- so her centennial is coming up in a few weeks. We touch on Monroe's suffering, her canny manipulation of her own image, and the political dimension of her public persona. Here are some of the books and articles we refer to in the episode: Joyce Carol Oates, "Blonde" Norman Mailer, "Marilyn, A Biography" (NOT an endorsement) Gloria Steinem, Marilyn Monroe: Norma Jeane Jaqueline Rose, Women in Dark Times Lois Banner, "Marilyn Monroe: proto-feminist?"

    1 u 3 m
  7. Episode 134: Natural Law

    5 mei

    Episode 134: Natural Law

    In this episode Moira and Adrian discuss the natural law tradition -- its origins, its long varied history, the many uses to which it has been put, and the way conservatives are trying to revive it in our own day.

    1 u 2 m
  8. Episode 132 -- "Repeal the 19th"

    28 apr

    Episode 132 -- "Repeal the 19th"

    In recent months, the call to repeal the 19th amendment and rescind American women's right to vote, has proliferated as a hashtag, meme and a shibboleth in certain far-right spaces. But how serious are those championing the cause? In this episode, Moira explains to Adrian that while we needn't worry that the 1920 amendment is going anywhere soon, this demand is about jockeying within the masculinist coalition that brought Donald Trump to power. While the supposed "arguments" for a repeal don't really bear engaging with, the history of the demand and its proliferation at this moment tells us a lot about gender and the (far) right: specifically about an alliance and a competition between tech bros and religious fundamentalists.

    1 u 11 m
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On In Bed With the Right hosts Moira Donegan and Adrian Daub welcome a range of scholars and critics to analyze right wing ideas about gender, sex and sexuality – and to plumb the ways in which these ideas persist in and shape our present moment.

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  • Maker
    Adrian Daub and Moira Donegan
  • Jaren actief
    2023 - 2026
  • Afleveringen
    115
  • Beoordeling
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    © Adrian Daub and Moira Donegan 2023
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    In Bed With The Right

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