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Maiden Mother Matriarch with Louise Perry

Louise Perry

A podcast about sexual politics www.louiseperry.co.uk

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6:08

BONUS: Pathologising Personality

Maiden Mother Matriarch with Louise Perry ·

2025/08/27

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.louiseperry.co.ukIn this bonus episode I spoke about Freya India about the modern pathologisation of personality traits – including virtues like "people pleasing" – and whether a better understanding of psychological sex differences might encourage young people to be less vexed about common psychological phenomena like rumination. We also spoke about parasocial relation…

43:57

Feminism, defeated - Kate Phelan | Maiden Mother...

Maiden Mother Matriarch with Louise Perry ·

2025/08/24

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.louiseperry.co.ukMy guest today is Kate Phelan, a Lecturer in the School of Global, Urban, and Social Studies at RMIT University in Melbourne, and the author of a new book titled 'Feminism, Defeated.'We spoke about how feminism has changed over the past half century, from the radicalism of the Second Wave to the absorption of feminism into the progressive omnicause. In …

7:36

BONUS: Lucky Boy

Maiden Mother Matriarch with Louise Perry ·

2025/08/21

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.louiseperry.co.ukIn this bonus episode, I spoke with Meghan Murphy about the phenomenon of female teachers – typically young and attractive – having sexual relationships with their young male students. Plus we spoke about women behaving like 'female chauvinist pigs', my theory of nonce radar, and whether or not men are now more interested in dating older women. We discu…

35:55

The Science of Menopause - Amy Alkon | Maiden Mother...

Maiden Mother Matriarch with Louise Perry ·

2025/08/17

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.louiseperry.co.ukMy guest today is Amy Alkon, science reporter and author of a new book titled 'Going Menopostal: What You (and Your Doctor) Need to Know About the Real Science of Menopause and Perimenopause.' We spoke about menopause: what it is, the symptoms, treatment options, and why Amy believes that most menopausal women are being terribly misserved by their docto…

6:40

BONUS: Bonnie Blue

Maiden Mother Matriarch with Louise Perry ·

2025/08/13

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.louiseperry.co.ukIn this bonus episode, Nina Power and I spoke about '1000 Men and Me: The Bonnie Blue Story', a new documentary on Channel 4, as well as Kathleen Stock's recent essay for UnHerd about the documentary. Is Bonnie Blue the perfect capitalist? An artist? A demon? A psychopath? A neo-religious symbol? All of the above?

38:52

The Rise and Fall of Private Life - Tiffany Jenkins |...

Maiden Mother Matriarch with Louise Perry ·

2025/08/10

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.louiseperry.co.ukMy guest today is the writer and cultural historian Tiffany Jenkins. She has previously written books on museums and the moral questions raised by exhibiting or retaining certain artefacts, in that spirit she is also a trustee of the British Museum, and a radio presenter, including of the BBC Radio 4 series 'The History of Secrecy.' Her latest book is '…

5:46

BONUS: the new politics of advertising

Maiden Mother Matriarch with Louise Perry ·

2025/08/06

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.louiseperry.co.ukIn this bonus episode, Rob Henderson and I spoke about Sydney Sweeney's ad for American Eagle – why has it been so controversial? What does the response tell us about intrasexual competition? Does this indicate a political pivot in popular culture? And why did so many companies embrace the spirit of 2020 in the first place?

91:48

DEBATE: Should We Encourage Our Daughters To Be...

Maiden Mother Matriarch with Louise Perry ·

2025/08/03

In a first for MMM, today’s episode is a debate. Discussing the question “should we encourage our daughters to be feminists?”, we have Bryan Caplan (professor of economics at George Mason University) and Holly Lawford-Smith (professor of political philosophy at the University of Melbourne). This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.louiseperry.co.uk/subscribe

44:31

On the Front Line of the Second Wave - Phyllis...

Maiden Mother Matriarch with Louise Perry ·

2025/07/27

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.louiseperry.co.ukMy guest today is the writer and psychotherapist Phyllis Chesler. Her bestselling book, 'Women and Madness', published in 1972, was one of the most influential books of the second wave. She has spent a lifetime writing about and campaigning on feminist issues including honour killings, the surrogacy industry, child custody, and the treatment of women in…

6:37

BONUS: Civilisational Depressive Syndrome

Maiden Mother Matriarch with Louise Perry ·

2025/07/23

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.louiseperry.co.ukIn this bonus episode for paid subscribers, Mary and I spoke about why thinking about death makes people want to have children, climate change anxiety, the post-literate future, the new vigilante groups springing up in Britain, and why Britain’s upper classes are suffering from post-colonial grief

40:56

I Want to Believe! - Ross Douthat | Maiden Mother...

Maiden Mother Matriarch with Louise Perry ·

2025/07/20

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.louiseperry.co.ukMy guest today is Ross Douthat, columnist at The New York Times and author of many books, including a new one titled 'Believe: Why Everyone Should be Religious.' We spoke about near death experiences, the mystery of the Turin Shroud, how mystical experiences change people (if at all), the challenge of detecting the presence of the Holy Spirit, and what …

6:37

BONUS: on terrorism

Maiden Mother Matriarch with Louise Perry ·

2025/07/16

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.louiseperry.co.ukIn this bonus episode, I spoke with Nina Power about the symbolic power of terrorism and how this has changed post-9/11, the increasingly nihilistic motivations of terrorists in Europe, the use of the Oasis track ‘Don’t Look Back in Anger’ in the wake of the Manchester Arena bombing, and the increasing public distrust of government narratives around ter…

55:15

Feminism Beyond Left and Right - Holly Lawford-Smith...

Maiden Mother Matriarch with Louise Perry ·

2025/07/13

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.louiseperry.co.ukMy guest today is Holly Lawford-Smith, a philosopher, author and associate professor in Political Philosophy at the University of Melbourne. We discussed her latest book, titled 'Feminism Beyond Left and Right', in which Holly argues for an expansive definition of feminism that untethers it from its association with the Left. The MMM podcast can also be…

7:48

BONUS: The lie of female empowerment

Maiden Mother Matriarch with Louise Perry ·

2025/07/09

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.louiseperry.co.ukIn this bonus episode, I spoke with Meghan Murphy about whether marriage is still an attractive prospect for women, Meghan's own objections to getting married, the problem for feminists of working out whether a woman is really choosing something or whether she's deluded about her own desires, and what the apparent return of the bandage dress reveals (if…

46:42

God is an Englishman - Bijan Omrani | Maiden Mother...

Maiden Mother Matriarch with Louise Perry ·

2025/07/06

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.louiseperry.co.ukBijan Omrani is an historian, classicist, and research fellow at the University of Exeter. His most recent book is titled (somewhat provocatively) 'God is an Englishman: How Christianity Created England.' We spoke about how little we know about pre-Christian Britain, why Christianity swept through the country so rapidly during the Early Middle Ages, the…

7:31

BONUS: Marriage, Mirrors, and Modernity’

Maiden Mother Matriarch with Louise Perry ·

2025/07/02

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.louiseperry.co.ukIn this bonus episode, I spoke with Rob Henderson about expensive weddings, the unexpected consequences of abortion decriminalisation, whether or not hunter gatherers are happier than modern Westerners, and why we should all consider giving up mirrors next Lent.

53:04

The Untold Stories of Trans Widows - Vaishnavi Sundar...

Maiden Mother Matriarch with Louise Perry ·

2025/06/28

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.louiseperry.co.ukVaishnavi Sundar is a filmmaker, founder of Limesoda Films, and creator of a new documentary titled 'Behind The Looking Glass', a film about the lives of women whose male partners identify as trans. This is the first film to be made about the experiences of so-called 'trans widows.' Vaishnavi interviewed dozens of women and pieced together their testimo…

6:02

BONUS: Is Britain repaganising?

Maiden Mother Matriarch with Louise Perry ·

2025/06/24

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.louiseperry.co.ukIn this bonus episode for paid subscribers, I spoke with philosopher Nina Power about the new laws on abortion and assisted suicide passed in the House of Commons this week, and what they tell us about the state of modern Britain.Please go to LouisePerry.Substack.com to listen to the full episode.

62:26

The Tyranny of Progress - Ben Cobley | Maiden Mother...

Maiden Mother Matriarch with Louise Perry ·

2025/06/22

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.louiseperry.co.ukMy guest today is Ben Cobley, former Labour Party activist turned journalist, and author of a new book titled 'The Progress Trap: The Modern Left and the False Authority of History.' We spoke about why progressivism is such an attractive ideology, not least because it offers certainty and a feeling of being a part of a grand historical project. We also …

57:06

The Evolution of Mental Illness - Marco Del Giudice |...

Maiden Mother Matriarch with Louise Perry ·

2025/06/18

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.louiseperry.co.ukMy guest today is Marco Del Giudice, Associate Professor in the Department of Life Sciences at the University of Trieste. We spoke about one of Marco's key research interests: evolutionary psychopathology. That is, how our evolutionary history influences mental illness. We spoke about how gender differences in personality influence psychopathology, part…

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