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Note 2: Whittier's Analytic Framework for Political "Frenemies" Notes on Feminism and the Culture Wars
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Bess summarizes Nancy Whittier's analytic framework for understanding the difference between coalition (ideological congruence) and collaborative adversarial relationships, using anti-pornography feminists and Catharine MacKinnon's novel civil legislation as an example. Spoiler: MacKinnon and anti-pornography feminists were not in coalition with anti-pornography conservatives and remained in active opposition to anti-pornography conservatives' legal goals & morality-based understandings of the harms of pornography. Feminists were known to say: Sex is not obscene!
Rethinking Coalitions: Anti-Pornography Feminists, Conservatives, and Relationships between Collaborative Adversarial Movements by Nancy Whittier. See also Whittier's longer work (yes, a book) Frenemies: Feminists, Conservatives, and Sexual Violence (2018).
REFERENCES (see also previous show notes)
Natasha Chart and Penny Nance co-author a letter published by conservative newspaper, The Federalist.WoLF's submission to the U.N. Independent Expert on Sexual Orientation And Gender Identity, w/advice from United Families International.Kara Dansky, formerly of WoLF and current leader of WDI USA, has been working w/conservatives since at least 2016.On the ground, Kara Dansky and conservative Natassia Grover in Loudon County at school committee hearings.Texas undertakes child abuse investigations of parents of transgender children.Texas attorney general investigating pharmaceutical companies who offer puberty blockers.Women's Sports Policy Working Group and Nancy Hogshead-Makar (no, my apologies, I did not pronounce her last name correctly).WoLF's testimony against the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act.Natasha Chart testifying on behalf of WoLF in favor of South Dakota legislation to prohibit pediatric transition (paywall).Review of "educational gag orders" filed in 2021.Finally, Christopher Rufo is definitely not a feminist, nor a friend.recorded 5/31/2022
Bess summarizes Nancy Whittier's analytic framework for understanding the difference between coalition (ideological congruence) and collaborative adversarial relationships, using anti-pornography feminists and Catharine MacKinnon's novel civil legislation as an example. Spoiler: MacKinnon and anti-pornography feminists were not in coalition with anti-pornography conservatives and remained in active opposition to anti-pornography conservatives' legal goals & morality-based understandings of the harms of pornography. Feminists were known to say: Sex is not obscene!
Rethinking Coalitions: Anti-Pornography Feminists, Conservatives, and Relationships between Collaborative Adversarial Movements by Nancy Whittier. See also Whittier's longer work (yes, a book) Frenemies: Feminists, Conservatives, and Sexual Violence (2018).
REFERENCES (see also previous show notes)
Natasha Chart and Penny Nance co-author a letter published by conservative newspaper, The Federalist.WoLF's submission to the U.N. Independent Expert on Sexual Orientation And Gender Identity, w/advice from United Families International.Kara Dansky, formerly of WoLF and current leader of WDI USA, has been working w/conservatives since at least 2016.On the ground, Kara Dansky and conservative Natassia Grover in Loudon County at school committee hearings.Texas undertakes child abuse investigations of parents of transgender children.Texas attorney general investigating pharmaceutical companies who offer puberty blockers.Women's Sports Policy Working Group and Nancy Hogshead-Makar (no, my apologies, I did not pronounce her last name correctly).WoLF's testimony against the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act.Natasha Chart testifying on behalf of WoLF in favor of South Dakota legislation to prohibit pediatric transition (paywall).Review of "educational gag orders" filed in 2021.Finally, Christopher Rufo is definitely not a feminist, nor a friend.recorded 5/31/2022
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