Against Collectivist Feminism
A tribute (panel) to Joan Kennedy Taylor <> Plus: Sign up for our next book club!
Join us for a chat about Joan Kennedy Taylor & the battle for feminism’s soul — past, present, & future.
From the Victorian era to the hippie era, the 1990s to today, feminists have fought over the role of the state and the importance of individualism in achieving feminist goals. Joan Kennedy Taylor detailed this dichotomy in her 1992 book Reclaiming the Mainstream: Individualist Feminism Rediscovered — a book that reads surprisingly like it could have been written today.
We’ll be discussing the book, Taylor’s life, and how her work and the feminist battles of the ’90s still resonate in 2023.
When: April 23, 7-8 p.m.
Where: Your computer
Register: tinyurl.com/F4L-JKT
Panelists: Walter Olson, Cathy Reisenwitz, & Elizabeth Nolan Brown
Moderated by: Kat Murti
Join our next book club, starting in May
We just wrapped up our first book club and our looking forward to the next one, launching in May. For the last one, we discussed Joan Kennedy Taylor’s Reclaiming the Mainstream, a (somewhat) historical text and a firmly libertarian feminist one.
For the next book club, we’re trying something a little different, by discussing a contemporary work—and one in which libertarian feminists might find much to disagree.
… Or maybe not? The issues that author Louise Perry raises in The Case Against the Sexual Revolution are sure to be divisive, even among libertarians. We’re hoping that makes for some lively (but civil!) discussion.
Join in by signing up for our book club on the Bookclubs platform. We’ll use the platform to post information about upcoming meetings and send updates to members. (Members can also use the Bookclubs platform to chat among themselves, ask questions, and vote on upcoming Feminists for Liberty Book Club reads.)
Meetings will be held via Zoom and take place every other Sunday at 7:30 p.m. EST.
Meetings for our Case Against the Sexual Revolution book club session will take place May 7, May 21, June 4 and June 18. (Feel free to join even if you can’t make every meeting.) Meetings will be relaxed, informal discussions of the book and the ideas it brings up.
I don't Zoom, but a transcript should be interesting to read.
Quote from a man who wasn't p.c. about women's issues, but his comment was cogent anyway: "The sexual revolution is over. The microbes won."
(Does everyone reading this Substack recognize quotes from P.J. O'Rourke?)