Marilyn Frye

Mar 26, 2024 | juliebindel.substack.com | Marilyn Frye |Andrea Dworkin |Audre Lorde |Christine Stark

Robert (Bob) JensenWhy am I passionate about this? After bumping around newspaper journalism in my 20s, I wandered into a Ph.D. and then landed a great job at the University of Texas at Austin. Being a professor allowed me to explore any subject that seemed interesting, which resulted in books on environmental collapse, sexism and pornography, racism, foreign policy and militarism, religion, journalism and mass media, and critical thinking.

Mar 25, 2024 | shepherd.com | Robert Jensen |Marilyn Frye |Andrea Dworkin |Audre Lorde

The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist TheoryWhen I first read this book on feminist philosophy in the late 1980s, I was nervous about both feminism (because I wasn’t sure what it meant for me) and philosophy (because I wasn’t sure I was smart enough to understand it). Marilyn Frye’s book helped me realize that I had been raised in a male-dominated and deeply sexist culture without knowing much about it, making feminism essential to my education.

Oct 27, 2023 | primer.com.au | Laura Brading |Marilyn Frye |Sally Rooney

Each fortnight we catch up with a writer to get a peek inside their reading life. This week it’s Clementine Ford’s turn. The writer, broadcaster and feminist community builder is preparing to release her new book I Don’t: The Case Against Marriage (which the publisher tells us is “her most incendiary and controversial book to date”).