All the episodes I've devoted to feminism and patriarchy—along with my favorite books on the topic.
Jul 10, 2026
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The Deconstruction of Belief (Sarah Bessey)
Listen now (59 mins) | “One of the things about practices that I love is this notion of it's not perfect. I haven't got it mastered, just by the very word, it's implied that I'm working it into my..."
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The Women Who Raised Consciousness (Clara Bingham)
Listen now (55 mins) | "So one night, late night, I was working in February and I printed out the PDF of this and it went alphabetically. And the fourth name was Joan Bingham..."
Why Women Need Fairytales Now (Sharon Blackie, PhD)
Listen now (64 mins) | "And I have found certainly as I kind of look back at my own life that fairytales in lots of ways have mapped it. The particular stories and images..."
How to Fully Engage with the Rest of Your Life (Sharon Blackie, PhD)
Listen now (58 mins) | "To ask the question, when everything that once defined you is burned away, is stripped away, and that happens at menopause, you can try to hold it off all you..."
Choosing Wholeness Over Wokeness (Africa Brooke)
Listen now (56 mins) | “In writing my book, I wanted to bring it back to the self because being online allows us to have this inappropriate level of audacity. And I think audacity is a very..."
Seeing Each Other's Pain (Rabbi Sharon Brous)
Listen now (61 mins) | “How do we center the voices that traditionally and historically we know existed, but were only marginalized in the tradition? And that does feel like holy work..."
How to Change the World (Austin Channing Brown)
Listen now (59 mins) | “When you are quite literally told that you are not human. What option do you have? What’s the other option other than to overthrow the system that is telling..."
Whose Pain Counts? (Susan Burton)
Listen now (57 mins) | "I mean, I do think that I have an abiding interest in women's bodies. In how our bodies can be determinative, how they can suggest certain identities..."
The Basics of Spiral Dynamics (Nicole Churchill)
Listen now (79 mins) | “Turquoise is looking for how do we bring back the village? How do we live in community again? Why are we living in these separate houses? We're not sharing resources...."
The Intrinsic Order that Emerges from Within Chaos (Elinor Dickson, PhD)
Listen now (53 mins) | “We have to recapture the fullness of our own humanity, in a feminine form.”
Really Hearing Our Own Voices (Carol Gilligan, PhD)
Listen now (55 mins) | "What I became aware of when I started writing about resistance and I thought the healthy body resists infection. We have an immune system and the healthy psyche resists..."
The Power of Girls (Mattie Kahn)
Listen now (56 mins) | "I think historically we have always seen that intergenerational partnership is the way that movements grow and expand and the way people feel resilient about what..."
The Most Dangerous Idea Ever Created (Ibram X. Kendi, PhD)
Listen now (47 mins) | "And that is the single most dangerous idea that humans, in my opinion, have ever created because it will continuously lead to political violence to genocide..."
On Being Basic (Kate Kennedy)
Listen now (60 mins) | "When I went back and looked at some of these shows that I loved, I noticed that the writer's room was all adult men with the exception of one or two episodes in "Saved...
Challenging the Stories We Tell Ourselves (Elizabeth Lesser)
Listen now (54 min) | “The obviousness of something that has been with us forever and must change, is often the most painful part..."
Not Operating by the Checklist (Stacey London)
Listen now (58 mins) | "There's something a beautiful about. This age, this time that actually did propel me to want to really start looking at this and really, really start doing..."
Take Back Your Brain (Kara Loewentheil)
Listen now (53 mins) | “There are studies showing that, once your basic needs are met, and you're not worried about losing your house, losing your health care, increases in money don't..."
Where Does Fatphobia Come From? (Kate Manne)
Listen now (61 mins) | “I think there's a lot of assumptions in play here that a good body is a thin one, a thin body is achievable, a thin body is achievable for everyone, and that you will..."
Knitting Together Our Lives (Peggy Orenstein)
Listen now (53 mins) | “Women spent so much time in the ancient world spinning, like they spent all their time, any spare moment. And spinsters were not bad, it wasn't bad to be a spinster..."
On Telling the Truth (Nell Irvin Painter)
Listen now (47 mins) | “But one thing the whole 'Karen' thing did, which I think was very good, was that it pointed out the existence of spaces Ostensibly open to everyone, but not, and then..."
Calling In the Call-Out Culture (Loretta Ross)
Listen now (53 min) | “Do you want to continue to live out the patterns of your childhood? Or do you want to make different choices? Are you programmed or are you self-determining?..."
The Origins of Inequality (Angela Saini)
Listen now (63 mins) | “People have always fought against anyone trying to impose power on them or trying to assert their status on them. That is true right throughout history, from..."
The Legacy of White Feminism (Kyla Schuller)
Listen now (61 min) | “There's a fantasy in argument, in Lean In, or Girlboss style corporate feminism that says, once you have women in charge of your company, then your company is feminist..."
Why Don’t We Believe Women? (Deborah Tuerkheimer)
Listen now (45 min) | “Outside the legal context, I'm urging readers and listeners in this case to think very deliberately about whether that high standard of proof..."
The Best Books About Feminism & Patriarchy
These are vast topic spaces, with myriad voices—many voices that have been culturally oppressed for millennia (i.e.