Noah Berlatsky
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Noah Berlatsky Articles
The MIT professor recently wrote that feminist literature left him "terrified" of his sexual desire. But is Dworkin to blame?
Read...As a parent, you tend to assume that you have some say in forming your child's mental landscape. Then Santa comes along.
Read...The founder of the brilliant fyeahblackrockmusic Tumblr talks racial politics, Kelis, and . . . the Doobie Brothers?
Read...The cover for A-Force is a combination of tired trope and deodorant ad. Female empowerment can do so much better.
Read...Irritation is the way of all flesh. The question is, if you're going to be annoyed for all of eternity, who do you want to be doing the annoying?
Read..."I believe that, in order to address these problems, we need to first understand how we got here."
Read..."Childbearing [is] barbaric and pregnancy should be abolished," wrote radical feminist theorist Shulamith Firestone in The Dialectic of Sex.
Read...These covers remind us of the lengthy, rich—but often obscured—history of female songwriters.
Read...Rather than seeing Beyoncé's sexual performance as linked to destruction, we can consider whether eroticism might be an alternative to violence.
Read...While Atwood's feminist dystopia remains our favorite nightmarish future, Marge Piercy's Woman On The Edge Of Time is far superior.
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