EP 242: Leah Libresco Sargeant: Rethinking Feminism

About this episode

Leah Libresco Sargeant discusses the current state of feminism and critiques the concept of radical autonomy in her new book.

In the United States right now, a group of feminists is taking stock of the movement — where it is at and where it’s gone wrong. Our guest on the program this week is one of those feminists. Her new book argues that our problem is we’ve bought into an idea of radical autonomy, which is not possible for human beings. It is, in fact, disconnected from physical reality. Leah Libresco Sargeant is an American writer. She runs the Substack newsletter Other Feminisms and her latest book is The Digni...

People in this episode

Host: Tara Henley

Guest: Leah Libresco Sargeant

Topics covered

• feminism
• radical autonomy
• women's rights
• cultural critique
• American literature

Keywords

• feminism
• radical autonomy
• Leah Libresco Sargeant
• cultural critique
• women's rights

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Other Feminisms

Books & works: The Digni...

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