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Podcast: New Books in Women's History
Episode: Michaela Chamberlain, "Misogyny in Psychoanalysis" (Phoenix Publishing House, 2022)
Description: Today I talked to Michaela Chamberlain, author of Misogyny in Psychoanalysis (Phoenix Publishing House, 2022)Chamberlainâs book is a product of âcumulative traumaâ whose original starting point was an interest in in menstruation where, in psychoanalytic literature filled with papers on âmicturition and fecesâ, there is a âstartling lack of writing on the monthly passing of menstrual blood.â Chamberlain realized that this absence was a symptom of something bigger. That something is misogyny.Working with a definition attributed to Kate Manne[1] misogyny is seen as âthe law enforcement branch of sexismâ and Chamberlain argues that we really have âto gr...