In Conversation with Heather Brunskell Evans

[katenewey]

Catching up with this - excellent. From an old 1970s feminist - thank you for keeping up the fight (and I'll feel safe about sending my undergrads to Cambridge for postgrad work!)

[suelamb]

Absolutely brilliant. Thank you, all of you. Sophie’s summing up at the end was so thoughtful, hopeful and inspiring. You are ON FIRE. I LOVE IT. X

[debbielondon]

Magnificent explanation of how Foucault might be useful in the analysis of this surreal situation we find ourselves..

[MissMagic]

Thank you so much for putting this series together 👍

[johnjosmith]

Listening to this again (and getting even more from it the second time around and can’t thank you enough). Could you kindly provide the link in the description you promised? Thanks 🪴

[katespellxx]

Thank you all so much. It has been a brilliant series. Positively inspiring.
I look forward to seeing what you come up with next.
Good luck with your assessments and so on. And thank you again to all of the women involved.
Cheers from Australia
re radfem networking, I maintain a page on fb called Reasons to Riot :)

[david]

Great discussion. Heather mentioned how 2nd wave feminism separated sex and gender and this was initially seen as an advance which she thinks led to subsequent errors. I just want to say I think separating sex and gender itself was an error. Not that sex and gender are the same; but that they are inseparably linked; especially in matters such as motherhood, breastfeeding etc. Females & males ought to be equal in social terms; but they are not and cannot be considered equivalent.

[alastairmoody]

Bodies precede any biology. Put another way, Aristotle understood bodies differently from a contemporary biologist. Teleology was part of Aristotle’s worldview, which modern biology (and the whole of modern science) eschews. Yet bodies were there for both.
Sex is always both a condition of life and a cultural category. So-called
‘Transhumanism’ denies the subject’s dependence on the body. It is wilful intellectualism.
Read Dr Rowan Williams on the body / learning / knowledge (in ‘Being Human’, 2018). Read Mary Midgley on humans and animals! And Marjorie Grene on philosophy of biology!