Here's an interview with Eleanor, about her amazing new book 'The Once and Future Sex'. We discuss the key themes of the book

- about how the story of what it is to be a woman was told (and how this connects to power and hegemony),

- where the beauty standard first came from and how women faced a double jeopardy of following them / not following them

- how the story of what it is to be a woman meant creating stigma around sex and relationships

- the role of the medieval mother and why motherhood was central to medieval life (yet women were still seen as inessential 'Others')

- and why all of this matters for the present day, for feminism, and also why learning from this should be an important, central, part of post-capitalist politics

Her book is out on 17th January 2023 in the US https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393867817 and here in the UK on 3rd March 2023 https://uk.bookshop.org/books/the-once-and-future-sex-going-medieval-on-women-s-roles-in-society/9780393867817