Carter Sherman
speaker
754 appearances
6 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 8 Sep
Carter Sherman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And also, it did so with, like, a lot of verb and panache, and the writing is just very good.
Yeah, the writing's great.
Yeah, she talks about the boning in the corset
Playboy Bunny costume being so tight that it would make Scarlett O'Hara blanch.
And I just
It's such a vivid picture of what that work really looked like.
And I think this idea that it was dismissed as frivolous speaks to this idea that was prevalent at the time and really is still prevalent now that whatever concerns women is frivolous, that women's worries are not real, are not serious, that it's men's concerns that are the things that we should all really be thinking about.
What happens?
When she was in her early 20s, she decided to break off an engagement and she moved to India for a few years.
And on her way to India, she discovered that she was pregnant and she didn't want to be.
And while she was in London, she managed to get an abortion.
And at the time, it was illegal for doctors in England to perform an abortion for any reason other than for a woman's health.
And so this was a dangerous thing for her to do.
It was a dangerous thing for the
life.
She didn't quite, I think, put that experience into perspective until much later in the late 1960s, when I believe she was in her mid-30s.
She attended an abortion speakout while she was reporting for New York Magazine.
And she had, yes, what she called the big click, which is when she finally understood that experience in the context of the systems that oppress women and keep them from being able to live their full lives.
And it was after that that she ended up writing her first openly feminist article for New York Magazine, which was called After Black Power, Women's Liberation.
This was really at a time when second wave feminism, which was the feminist movement of the late 1960s, 1970s here in the U.S., that was really taking off.
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