Louise Perry

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Louise Perry is a British journalist and author. She is a features writer for the Daily Mail and a columnist at the New Statesman.[1][2][3]

Perry co-runs the charity We Can't Consent To This which campaigns around problems with the rough sex murder defence.[4] She is the co-founder and research director of The Other Half, a non-partisan feminist think tank which was founded in 2022.[1] She is the host of the podcast Maiden Mother Matriarch.

Biography

Louise Perry in panel discussion at Alliance for Responsible Citizenship, 31 October 2023

Perry graduated from SOAS with a degree in anthropology and women's studies. She then received a degree from the University of Oxford in women's studies. After Oxford, she worked for a few years in a rape crisis centre.[5][6]

This "harrowing" experience became the starting point of her first book The Case Against the Sexual Revolution through Polity Press.[7][8] The religious journal America said it "decimates any case for the sexual revolution." The Guardian reviewed the work "daring and important" as:

"In this cultural moment, The Case Against the Sexual Revolution could hardly be more radical. It is an act of insurrection, its seditiousness born not only of the pieties it is determined to explode, but of the fact that it is also diligently researched and written in plain English."[9]

Perry wrote an essay for the October 2023 issue of First Things on abortion and infanticide in ancient Rome.[10][11] The article was discussed in National Review, and described Perry as making a non-Christian argument in favour of Christian ethics. It quotes Perry's saying:

When pro-life and pro-choice advocates fight about the nitty-gritty of abortion policy, what they are really fighting about is whether our society ought to remain Christian. Most people who describe themselves as pro-choice have not really thought about what truly abandoning Christianity would mean—that is, truly abandoning Christians’ historically bizarre insistence that “God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.”[12]

On 13 September 2023, Perry and Anna Khachiyan, the co-host of the Red Scare podcast, debated Grimes and Sarah Haider in what was called "a clash of the female titans". The debate was held at The Theatre at Ace Hotel and was moderated by Bari Weiss.[13][14][15]

Perry was a participant at the first conference of the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship in October-November 2023.[16] In her panel, she argued that both women, and the community more generally, had been adversely affected by the widespread belief we can take traditional sexual norms "just throw them out the window.”[16]

By 2022, Perry was described as a being a London-based writer, "a non-religious feminist", and a new mother.[17]

References

  1. ^ a b "Against the Sexual Revolution: An Interview with Louise Perry". Areo. 17 November 2022.
  2. ^ "Review: The sexual revolution has hurt both men and women. Where do we go from here?". America Magazine. 15 December 2022.
  3. ^ Lewis, Helen (18 June 2023). "The Feminists Insisting That Women Are Built Differently". The Atlantic.
  4. ^ "If the government bans the 'rough sex' defence, what would it mean?". The Independent. 7 July 2020. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
  5. ^ "Feminising Feminism – - Helen Dale".
  6. ^ Duggan, Michael (2 October 2022). "Book Interview: A feminist challenge to modern thinking on sex". Irish Examiner.
  7. ^ "The Case Against the Sexual Revolution by Louise Perry review – a potent, plain-speaking womanifesto | Society books | The Guardian". amp.theguardian.com.
  8. ^ editor, Kay S. Hymowitz is a City Journal contributing; Institute, the William E. Simon Fellow at the Manhattan; Boys, the author of Manning Up: How the Rise of Women Has Turned Men into (9 September 2022). "Review of The Case Against the Sexual Revolution by Louise Perry". City Journal. {{cite web}}: |last1= has generic name (help)
  9. ^ Cooke, Rachel (6 June 2022). "The Case Against the Sexual Revolution by Louise Perry review – a potent, plain-speaking womanifesto". The Guardian.
  10. ^ "We Are Repaganizing | Louise Perry". First Things.
  11. ^ "Babies' Bones". 12 September 2023.
  12. ^ "Babies' Bones". National Review. 12 September 2023. Retrieved 21 November 2023.
  13. ^ Staff, BrooklynVegan (31 July 2023). "Grimes taking part in 'Has The Sexual Revolution Failed?' live debate, moderated by Bari Weiss".
  14. ^ Howley, Kerry (16 September 2023). "Scenes From the End of the Sexual Revolution". Intelligencer.
  15. ^ "Bari Weiss' big L.A. debate was less 'free expression' than self-promotion". Los Angeles Times. 14 September 2023.
  16. ^ a b Lehmann, Claire (3 November 2023). "Why feminism is no guarantee of women's happiness". The Australian.
  17. ^ Matthew, Elizabeth Grace (15 December 2022). "Review: The sexual revolution has hurt both men and women. Where do we go from here?". America Magazine.

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