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  • Feminism Beyond Left and Right - Holly Lawford-Smith | Maiden Mother Matriarch Episode 153
    2025/07/13
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    My guest today is Holly Lawford-Smith, a philosopher, author and associate professor in Political Philosophy at the University of Melbourne. We discussed her latest book, titled 'Feminism Beyond Left and Right', in which Holly argues for an expansive definition of feminism that untethers it from its association with the Left.

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    55 分
  • BONUS: The lie of female empowerment
    2025/07/09
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    In this bonus episode, I spoke with Meghan Murphy about whether marriage is still an attractive prospect for women, Meghan's own objections to getting married, the problem for feminists of working out whether a woman is really choosing something or whether she's deluded about her own desires, and what the apparent return of the bandage dress reveals (if…

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    8 分
  • God is an Englishman - Bijan Omrani | Maiden Mother Matriarch Episode 152
    2025/07/06
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    Bijan Omrani is an historian, classicist, and research fellow at the University of Exeter. His most recent book is titled (somewhat provocatively) 'God is an Englishman: How Christianity Created England.' We spoke about how little we know about pre-Christian Britain, why Christianity swept through the country so rapidly during the Early Middle Ages, the…

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    47 分
  • BONUS: Marriage, Mirrors, and Modernity’
    2025/07/02
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    In this bonus episode, I spoke with Rob Henderson about expensive weddings, the unexpected consequences of abortion decriminalisation, whether or not hunter gatherers are happier than modern Westerners, and why we should all consider giving up mirrors next Lent.

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    8 分
  • The Untold Stories of Trans Widows - Vaishnavi Sundar | Maiden Mother Matriarch Episode 151
    2025/06/28
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    Vaishnavi Sundar is a filmmaker, founder of Limesoda Films, and creator of a new documentary titled 'Behind The Looking Glass', a film about the lives of women whose male partners identify as trans. This is the first film to be made about the experiences of so-called 'trans widows.' Vaishnavi interviewed dozens of women and pieced together their testimo…

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    53 分
  • BONUS: Is Britain repaganising?
    2025/06/24
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    In this bonus episode for paid subscribers, I spoke with philosopher Nina Power about the new laws on abortion and assisted suicide passed in the House of Commons this week, and what they tell us about the state of modern Britain.

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    7 分
  • The Tyranny of Progress - Ben Cobley | Maiden Mother Matriarch Episode 150
    2025/06/22
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    My guest today is Ben Cobley, former Labour Party activist turned journalist, and author of a new book titled 'The Progress Trap: The Modern Left and the False Authority of History.'

    We spoke about why progressivism is such an attractive ideology, not least because it offers certainty and a feeling of being a part of a grand historical project. We also …

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  • The Evolution of Mental Illness - Marco Del Giudice | Maiden Mother Matriarch Episode 149
    2025/06/18
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    My guest today is Marco Del Giudice, Associate Professor in the Department of Life Sciences at the University of Trieste. We spoke about one of Marco's key research interests: evolutionary psychopathology. That is, how our evolutionary history influences mental illness. We spoke about how gender differences in personality influence psychopathology, part…

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    57 分