In Bed With The Right

By The Clayman Institute for Gender Research

What's In Bed With The Right about?

Welcome to In Bed With the Right, the new podcast from the Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Hosts Moira Donegan and Adrian Daub welcome a range of scholars and critics to analyze right wing ideas about gender, sex and sexuality – and to plumb the ways in which these ideas persist in and shape our present moment.

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In Bed With The Right episodes:

05.14.2024
Episode 22: Richard Wagner: Act I
Adrian leads Moira through the life and career of composer Richard Wagner -- a not-s0-great man with some of world history's worst fans. Aesthetics, politics, revolutionary zeal that curdles into something far more ominous! This one is -- as befits...
05.04.2024
Episode 21: "The Campus" in the American Imagination with Samuel Catlin
Samuel Catlin (University at Buffalo) joins Moira and Adrian to talk about "The Campus" -- about the peculiar mental image Americans seem to have, how little it comports with reality, and the uncanny power of that it nevertheless exercises. ...
04.30.2024
Episode 20: Conservatism's Daddy Issues
Moira and Adrian speak to political scientist Jeff Dudas about his 2017 book Raised Right: Fatherhood in Modern American Conservatism. The conversation touches on campus panics, Clarence Thomas's many father figures, and neoconservative failsons.
04.23.2024
Episode 19: Judith Butler's Who's Afraid of Gender?
In this episode, Moira and Adrian delve into Judith Butler's latest book -- about the worldwide movement against "gender" and the role it plays in right-wing politics.
04.09.2024
Episode 18: Trad Wives
Moira guides Adrian through the strange, troubling world of tradwifery -- the latest trend in butter-churning, vaguely religious gender conservatism that's taken over your Instagram feed. Come for Adrian's immediate discomfort, stay for Moira's grand unifying theory that links Phyllis...
04.04.2024
Episode 17: Otto Weininger, or Gender and Anti-Semitism
Adrian takes Moira into the wild, wildly misogynist and deeply depressing world of Otto Weininger (1880-1903). A posterchild for all manner of fin-de-siècle neuroses, to say nothing for massive quantities of self-hatred, Weininger may be a footnote today -- but...
03.04.2024
Episode 16: Kate Manne on Anti-Fatness
Philosopher Kate Manne (Down Girl, Entitled) joins Moira and Adrian to talk about the politics of anti-fatness – where fatphobia came from historically, how it intersects with racism, sexism and transphobia, and how interpreting bodies according to moralizing principles remains...
02.13.2024
Episode 15: Taylor Swift
Follow Adrian following Moira following various conservative pundits down what is already shaping up to be one of 2024 weirder rabbit holes: the Great Taylor Swift Conspiracy! What it says about electoral politics in 2024, shifting media ecosystems and the...
01.09.2024
Episode 14: Prisoner of Sex – Norman Mailer vs. Kate Millett and Women
In her 1970 book “Sexual Politics” feminist critic Kate Millett devoted 20 pages to a critique of novelist and public intellectual Norman Mailer. In this episode Moira guides Adrian through Mailer’s very cool, very level-headed response: a 250 page screed...
12.22.2023
Episode 13: The Cursties with Michael Hobbes
2023 was a year rich in truly cursed discourses, In Bed With the Right has already analyzed many of them. In this episode — our first annual CURSTIES — your able hosts (with guest Michael Hobbes) analyze a few that...
12.16.2023
Episode 12: The Morehouse Man with Saida Grundy
Founded in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, Morehouse College in Atlanta remains one of the most elite HBCUs. As Prof. Saida Grundy argues, the all-male college also sheds light on gender conservatism, Black masculinity and the politics of...
12.04.2023
Episode 11: Homocons
Together with their guest, historian Samuel Hueneke, Moira and Adrian delve into the history of the homocons. Gay (and sometimes, very sometimes, lesbian) conservatives. Toggling between the beginnings of the AIDS crisis of the 1980s, the gay marriage fracas of...
11.27.2023
Episode 10: Nietzsche and his Heirs
Moira and Adrian continue their earlier discussion of the thought and influence of Friedrich Nietzsche — morality and the critique of metaphysics, antisemitism and anti-feminism.
11.15.2023
Episode 9: Marriage Boosters with Rebecca Traister
Every few years, it seems, a set of academics and pundits discovers marriage as a panacea for a host of social ills — poverty, unhappiness, social cohesion, research assistants. Moira, Adrian and their guest, New York Magazine writer Rebecca Traister,...
10.16.2023
Episode 8: Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 – 1900) is one of the 19th century's most versatile, counterintuitive and ... well, misogynistic thinkers. Moira and Adrian talk about the legacy of his thought in later movements, both feminist and anti-feminist, and about a specific...
09.25.2023
Episode 7: The “Transsexual Empire” with Susan Stryker
Often considered the ur-text of trans-exclusionary feminism, Janice Raymond’s “The Transsexual Empire” came out in 1979, but rehearses a bunch of tropes you could just as well get off JK Rowling’s Twitter feed. In their conversation with historian Susan Stryker,...
09.11.2023
Episode 6: Perverts, Creeps and Priests!
It's Moira and Adrian's version of a classic Cher-song: Perverts, Creeps and Priests! This episode takes deep dives into three texts that illuminate contemporary "crisis-of-masculinity"-debates: those that invoke the Bible, those that invoke science, and those that invoke only their...
08.24.2023
Episode 5: Crisis of Masculinity
Moira leads Adrian through the endless discourse about the "crisis of masculinity" -- where it comes from, what has motivated it in the past, and why we're having it again. Together, the two of them take a long tour de...
08.07.2023
Episode 4: Fag Hag with Moira and Adrian
Ever since the 1960s, the figure of the “fag hag” — a (mostly) straight woman hanging around gay men — has been a mainstay in and around queer spaces. As a woman who refused heterosexuality she aroused the ire of...
07.24.2023
Episode 3: Susan Sontag with Merve Emre
Susan Sontag (1933- 2004) was a writer, critic and activist, one who isn’t thought of (and didn’t think of herself) as conservative. In this episode, your hosts talk with Prof. Merve Emre to think through Sontag’s writing on gender and...
07.10.2023
Episode 2: Midge Decter with Matt Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell
Midge Decter (1927-2022) has often been called the "grandmother of neoconservatism" -- hers was in some ways a pretty classic trajectory, from New Deal liberalism to profound unease with the social movements of the 1960s, to the center of the...
07.10.2023
Episode 1: Gay Marriage with Moira and Adrian
For their inaugural episode, Moira and Adrian delve into right-wing (ahem) contributions to the gay marriage debate. Ten years ago the Supreme Court decided Windsor v. US and Hollingsworth v. Perry, which together spelled the beginning of the end of...
07.10.2023
In Bed With The Right - Trailer!
Get a sneak-peek at the all new, upcoming show In Bed With The Right hosted by Adrian Daub and Moira Donegan.

What's In Bed With The Right about?

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In Bed With The Right episodes:

Episode 22: Richard Wagner: Act I

Episode 21: "The Campus" in the American Imagination with Samuel Catlin

Episode 20: Conservatism's Daddy Issues

Episode 19: Judith Butler's Who's Afraid of Gender?

Episode 18: Trad Wives

Episode 17: Otto Weininger, or Gender and Anti-Semitism

Episode 16: Kate Manne on Anti-Fatness

Episode 15: Taylor Swift

Episode 14: Prisoner of Sex – Norman Mailer vs. Kate Millett and Women

Episode 13: The Cursties with Michael Hobbes

Episode 12: The Morehouse Man with Saida Grundy

Episode 11: Homocons

Episode 10: Nietzsche and his Heirs

Episode 9: Marriage Boosters with Rebecca Traister

Episode 8: Nietzsche

Episode 7: The “Transsexual Empire” with Susan Stryker

Episode 6: Perverts, Creeps and Priests!

Episode 5: Crisis of Masculinity

Episode 4: Fag Hag with Moira and Adrian

Episode 3: Susan Sontag with Merve Emre

Episode 2: Midge Decter with Matt Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell

Episode 1: Gay Marriage with Moira and Adrian

In Bed With The Right - Trailer!