The Sexual Revolution and the Radical Redefinition of Feminism — A Conversation with Mary Harrington
Thinking in Public with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 2 October 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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In this edition of the popular podcast series “Thinking in Public,” Albert Mohler speaks with editor for the online editorial UnHerd, Mary Harrington. They discuss her latest book, “Feminism Against Progress.”
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| 0:00.0 | This is Thinking in Public, a program dedicated to intelligent conversation about |
| 0:06.7 | frontline theological and cultural issues with the people who are shaping them. |
| 0:10.8 | I'm Albert Moly, your host and president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. |
| 0:16.0 | Mary Harrington is a columnist and editor for the online platform Unheard, and she runs her own |
| 0:22.2 | sub-stack entitled Reactionary Feminist. |
| 0:25.0 | Born in the United Kingdom she graduated with a first in English literature from |
| 0:28.8 | Oxford University in 2002. Mary's work has been published in First Things, American Affairs, the New York |
| 0:35.2 | Post, the Spectator, the Statesman, the London Times, and the Mailin Sunday. |
| 0:39.9 | We're going to be talking today about her new book, Feminism Against Progress. Mary Harrington, |
| 0:44.9 | welcome to thinking in public. |
| 0:46.8 | Thank you for having me. So you have made a very provocative thesis in this book, against progress and there's so many aspects of it I'd like to ask you about |
| 0:57.2 | but I think just for the sake of the conversation it'd be helpful if I just ask you |
| 1:06.2 | why did you write this book and what do you see as its main point? |
| 1:21.0 | I wrote the book as a way of answering a question which preoccupied me for a number of years, which is this. Is it possible to be a feminist if you don't believe in progress? And it's a very long story how I came to lose my faith in progress |
| 1:26.7 | and how I came to, how I came to think of progress |
| 1:30.2 | as a belief in a sort of, as a |
| 1:33.3 | theology if you like in its own right. |
| 1:36.3 | But anyway, this is where I found myself and yet, |
| 1:38.9 | and there are by, and there I was trying to try to figure out, you know, is it possible? I don't believe in progress and I was thinking, well, hang on, if you don't believe in progress, then I'm also a woman and the situation of women now is quite different to the situation of women say even a hundred years ago let alone 300 years ago and if you say to anybody as I did on occasions I don't believe in progress they say a ha, but do you want to go back to? |
| 2:03.4 | You do you want to go back to an age when we couldn't vote? |
| 2:05.1 | There's progress. |
| 2:06.1 | So what do you make them about then? |
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