Season 1 · Episode 3
Episode 3: Susan Sontag with Merve Emre
In Bed With The Right · Adrian Daub and Moira Donegan
July 24, 20231h 7m
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Show Notes
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 on the women’s movement. How do Sontag’s leeriness about identity and identification, her ambivalent attitudes to bodies, sex and beauty, and her elitism land in today’s political climate and landscape?