20 episodes
In Bed With The Right The Clayman Institute for Gender Research
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- Society & Culture
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4.8 • 69 Ratings
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Welcome to In Bed With the Right, the new podcast from the Clayman Institute for Gender Research. 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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Episode 19: Judith Butler's Who's Afraid of Gender?
In this episode, Moira and Adrian delve into Judith Butler's latest book -- about the worldwide movement against "gender" and the role it plays in right-wing politics.
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Episode 18: Trad Wives
Moira guides Adrian through the strange, troubling world of tradwifery -- the latest trend in butter-churning, vaguely religious gender conservatism that's taken over your Instagram feed. Come for Adrian's immediate discomfort, stay for Moira's grand unifying theory that links Phyllis Schlafly, the #Girlbosses of the 2010s and unnervingly peppy women currently hand-weaving their childrens' sweaters for social media clout!
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Episode 17: Otto Weininger, or Gender and Anti-Semitism
Adrian takes Moira into the wild, wildly misogynist and deeply depressing world of Otto Weininger (1880-1903). A posterchild for all manner of fin-de-siècle neuroses, to say nothing for massive quantities of self-hatred, Weininger may be a footnote today -- but he was deeply and weirdly influential in his own time.
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Episode 16: Kate Manne on Anti-Fatness
Philosopher Kate Manne (Down Girl, Entitled) joins Moira and Adrian to talk about the politics of anti-fatness – where fatphobia came from historically, how it intersects with racism, sexism and transphobia, and how interpreting bodies according to moralizing principles remains a right-wing idea that succeeds even in the leftiest of spaces.
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Episode 15: Taylor Swift
Follow Adrian following Moira following various conservative pundits down what is already shaping up to be one of 2024 weirder rabbit holes: the Great Taylor Swift Conspiracy! What it says about electoral politics in 2024, shifting media ecosystems and the long history of masculinity-mysticism.
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Episode 14: Prisoner of Sex – Norman Mailer vs. Kate Millett and Women
In her 1970 book “Sexual Politics” feminist critic Kate Millett devoted 20 pages to a critique of novelist and public intellectual Norman Mailer. In this episode Moira guides Adrian through Mailer’s very cool, very level-headed response: a 250 page screed against Millett in particular and feminism in general.
Customer Reviews
My Favorite Podcast
I cannot stop talking about this podcast. Every episode had me both laughing and gasping at a new, wild fact. I’m excited to read the sources, and thrilled by the way Moira, Adrian, and their guests provide analysis of incredibly urgent questions re: society and gender. I will be trying to make the marriage and masculinity episodes required reading for the guests of my big gay wedding this summer.
Thank you for making this! Excited to hear more.
Incredibly thoughtful
As a white cis-het male this podcast is a thoughtful and insightful entrance into perspectives that are not necessarily present in my everyday experience. Can’t wait for the episode that inverts the F**-hag perspective and examines why straight males and lesbians don’t have a similar relationship (even though I know it’s because straight male entitlement poisons everything). Can’t wait for new episodes, thank you!
Update - ‘he’s a howling vulgarity; like if Boston was a person’. I am in awe
F-bombs and snark, not serious discussion
Superficial and snarky, this is not the kind of podcast you’d expect from a respected Stanford think tank. It’s not a serious or nuanced look at the politics of gender but a self-congratulatory echo chamber. The hosts come off like they skimmed the assigned reading and are content to drop F-bombs and nod along with each other for having the “right” takes. Rather than digging into conservative views of gender roles, they are dismissive and snide. They don’t need to subscribe to the beliefs they are covering, but as representatives of an academic endeavor, don’t they owe it to listeners to be more intellectually curious and not presume that everone shares their views?