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Defining Women

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Defining Women

The ludicrous nature of our age

Ben Domenech
Mar 24, 2022
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In her book out this week, Rethinking Sex: A Provocation, Christine Emba writes in a chapter titled “Men and Women Are Not the Same” — a chapter title, she told me in a forthcoming interview, that was viewed as controversial by her editors:

The push to minimize sex difference was both practical and cultural. In 1990, philosopher Judith Butler published t…

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