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What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About #MeToo by JoAnn Wypijewski
Challenging essays on sex and reactionary morality
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KEVIN DONNELLY outlines how the bourgeois institutions inhibit our ability to to view art in revolutionary ways, and suggests some tactics to overturn it
ANDY HEDGECOCK welcomes an accessible - and optimistic - take on our relationship to new technology
JOHN GREEN suggests that a new, biased, and highly readable re-hash of the story of the Cambridge Five be taken with a large pinch of salt
BRENT CUTLER welcomes a timely reminder of the long history of protests and the outdoor spaces in which they takes place
NEW YORK-BASED feminist intellectual JoAnn Wypijewski has spent two decades writing for The Nation and New Left Review magazines and in this book she focuses on the nuances underlying infamous sex and violence scandals pervading the US’s social fabric and the ways in which moral panic and a punitive culture combine.
In this selection of essays, perhaps misleadingly titled in a pitch for a feminist punch-up, Wypijewski’s fearless forensic method takes no prisoners — left, right, feminist or otherwise.
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