The Life and Legacy of Alexandra Kollontai

Breht discusses recent events in Minneapolis... ------------------------------------ Outro Song: Song for Alicia by Haley Heynderickx and Max Garcia Conover 

In this episode, Breht is joined by Kristen R. Ghodsee to dig into her provocative essay on the political economy of love under capitalism. Using Marx's distinction between use value and exchange value, Ghodsee argues that love is not just a private feeling but a material necessi ...  عرض المزيد

In this episode, Alyson and Breht teach and discuss two works by Alexandra Kollontai: her 1909 essay "The Social Basis of the Woman Question" and her 1923 essay "Make Way for Winged Eros". They contextualize each essay, walk the listener through them both, and then discuss their ...  عرض المزيد

When the Soviet Union collapsed and the Berlin Wall was toppled, a lot was unearthed and a lot of interesting information became available to scholars and researchers in the West. One of those little bits of information was the answer to a question that a lot ...

David Gornoski sits down with Rachel Wilson, author of Occult Feminism: The Secret History of Women's Liberation, for a conversation on the public education system; the suffragettes and their elitist backers; the rise of Margaret Sanger; how feminism became popular; the religion ...  عرض المزيد

This week we talk about the recent Alabama IVF court ruling. We also talk about women’s history month, recap love is blind season 6, and share our obsessions of the week!

**apologies for the abrupt ending, we had some technical difficulties and lost the last few couple ...