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Political theorist and philosopher at the University of Edinburgh working on the politics of sexual desire, socialist republicanism, and freedom and mental health.

Political theorist and philosopher at the University of Edinburgh working on the politics of sexual desire, socialist republicanism, and freedom and mental health.

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Griselda Pollock

Love and Beauty after Feminism

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The Failure of Patriarchy

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When Women Rule the World…

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Women in Business

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The XX Factor

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Serena Kutchinsky

Eggs: To Freeze or Not to Freeze?

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4 Perspectives on Feminism

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Margaret Heffernan

A Woman's World

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Is Feminism Failing Sex Workers?

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Sexual Harassment and Feminism

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Kate Kirkpatrick

What is authentic love? Simone de Beauvoir's View

structures of abuse

Helen Beebee, Heather Widdows

Weinstein, philosophy, and structures of abuse

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Kate Kirkpatrick

Simone de Beauvoir's #MeToo

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Why Does the World Cup Give Rise to Domestic Violence?

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Helen Lewis, Catherine Flay

Helen Lewis on Sex, Power and Influence

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Unnatural sex

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The body industry

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The body of feminism

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Louise Richardson-Self

Mind, body, meaning

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Jasmine Picôt-Chapman

Radical pronouns

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The future of feminism

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Sophie Grace Chappell

Does consciousness have a gender?

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Tamar Kricheli Katz, Tali Regev

Language and reality beyond gender

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The false freedom of the female gaze

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Consciousness has no gender

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The myth of the one true feminism

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Sam E. Greenberg

Unrestricted sexuality and the transcendent

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Lisabeth During

The right to no sex: a case for celibacy

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Kimberly Hamlin

The myth of man the hunter

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Judith Butler: Gender is not a culture war