Reckoning with Linda Hirshman

Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast

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4.6 • 8.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

What came before the #MeToo movement? Acclaimed author Linda Hirshman's new book "Reckoning" traces 50 years of brave women, crucial court battles, and social awakenings that preceded the movement we're witnessing today. This conversation illustrates in vivid detail the decades of struggle to hold those in power accountable, and introduces you to the women who worked tirelessly to make that happen. RELATED READING Reckoning: The Epic Battle Against Sexual Abuse and Harassment by Linda Hirshman Intercourse by Andrea Dworkin Deconstructing Clarence Thomas YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE: Women, Rage, and Power with Rebecca Traister (Oct 2, 2018) Get tickets to our New York Live show with special guest Tony Kushner!

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0:00.0	The Republican Party has come to own both the traditional patriarchal oppression of women
0:08.0	and the sexual revolution, liberty, oppression of women.
0:12.4	That's a good place to be.
0:13.4	So they like congratulations, GOP.
0:15.2	Yes, it's a party of Mike Pence and Donald Trump.
0:17.2	Exactly right.
0:18.2	They have 100% of the bad things that can be done to women.
0:21.9	They subord.
0:22.9	The Democrats have been, shall we say, ambivalent, but slowly but surely they have moved away
0:31.8	from defending Bill Clinton and in the direction of defending women's claims to equality and
0:37.9	respect.
0:38.9	So politically, unlike 98, where someone like me had nowhere to go, women now have some
0:44.7	place to go.
0:45.9	Hello, and welcome to Wise is happening with me, your host, Chris A's.
0:51.6	We're going to get into today's conversation, which is a really good one.
0:54.9	But before we do, I just want to give you a heads up to you with pod heads that may live
0:58.8	in the New York City metro area, maybe traveling to the New York City metro area in December
1:03.2	8th, maybe want to make a trip out of a trip to New York for this very reason, which is
1:07.7	that our final fall with pod data has been announced.
1:10.2	It's going to be December 8th at Town Hall, which is a great space, huge space Sunday
1:14.2	night with the one and only the inevitable, the incomparable, the redoubtable Tony Kushner,
1:19.8	one of the five most important playwrights of our time, probably, I think it's fair to
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