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Thinking About Another Child? Here’s What It Does to Your Brain
Thinking About Another Child? Here’s What It Does to Your Brain
In the last decade, we have learned that women’s brains are profoundly transformed by motherhood. Research studies have typically focused on the transition into first-time...
Margery Kempe, Masculinism, and Angry Young Women
This week, Featured Author looks at the medieval autobiography of Margery Kempe and asks: “What could an illiterate mystic from the fifteenth century possibly have to teach us about sex, marriage, and consent?”
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Who Is Margery Kempe?
Who Is Margery Kempe?
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What could an illiterate mystic from the fifteenth century possibly have to teach us about sex, marriage, and consent?
Rather a lot, it turns out. Viewed with suspicion by her contemporaries af...
Yesteryear, Maternal Intuition, and Grok Against Girlhood
This week, Editor reviews the headline-grabbing tradwife novel Yesteryear, and asks: is it actually satirizing performativity?
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Yesteryear: A Chilling Satire of the Empty Self
Yesteryear: A Chilling Satire of the Empty Self
The premise is tantalizing: the queen of the tradwives wakes up in 1855 and is forced to live out the old-fashioned life she play-acts on the internet.
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Editor, Fairer Disputations. Contributing editor, Public Discourse. Writing a book for Penguin Random House, "Saving the Second Sex: Feminism and the Female Body.”
Mother of three, teacher, Catholic convert, hippie. Joyfully existing outside of ideological boxes and reading 2 books at least, always. Not on Twitter.
I write on literature, religion, culture, and motherhood: https://share.google/bf7hSypZhlYt2nuY9 You can read my work in Public Discourse, The Critic, The Spectator, Seen & Unseen, Fairer Disputations, and more.
Nadya Williams is Books Editor at Mere Orthodoxy and Interim Director of the MFA in Creative Writing at Ashland University. She is the author of three books, including Christians Reading Classics (Zondervan Academic, 2025).
Sex-realist feminism for the 21st century. Full text of each original available for free on our website. Sign up for our weekly newsletter: https://fairerdisputations.substack.com/
Victoria Smith is feminist writer based in the UK. She is the author of 'Hags: The demonisation of middle-aged women' and 'Unkind: How kindness culture punishes women'.
Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, working on pro-family policy.
Professor at the University of Southern California. I study the neurobiology of parenthood & wrote the book Dad Brain: The New Science of Fatherhood and How it Shapes Men's Lives, forthcoming June 2026.
Mary Rose Somarriba, editor-in-chief of Verily Magazine and co-editor of the Human Life Review, completed a Robert Novak Journalism Fellowship on the connections between pornography and sex trafficking.
Theologian, author, and mother of six, Angela Franks's most recent book is Body and Identity from the University of Notre Dame Press.
Pursuer of ordered liberty, and the True, Good and Beautiful.
Classicist at UATX, lover of science fiction, mother of two.
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