Incompetent Cervix: The Misogynist History Behind Naming The Female Body
The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism
Slate Podcasts
4.2 • 903 Ratings
🗓️ 21 September 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode of The Waves, Host Kat Chow welcomes back author and science journalist Rachel E. Gross to talk about the misogynist origins of many names and diagnoses in the female reproductive system. Gross is the author of Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage and the New York Times column Body Language.
In Slate Plus: Rachel E. Gross’s thoughts on the documentary Every Body about intersex people
If you liked this episode, check out: The Vagina et Al., an interview with Rachel E. Gross and Slate’s Shannon Palus about Gross’s book Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage
Podcast production by Vic Whitley-Berry and Cheyna Roth with editorial oversight by Daisy Rosario and Alicia Montgomery.
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| 1:01.0 | Slates podcast about gender. Welcome to the waves, Slate's Podcast about Gender, Vaginas, and Why Old White Men |
| 1:08.4 | Maybe Shouldn't be the Ones to Name Them. Every episode this month you get me, Cat Chow, talking with someone |
| 1:15.4 | smart about something I cannot get out of my brain. So the other day and this is something |
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