Lady Science no. 33: Fascism, Gender, and Science: Part II
Eugenics, Policing Everything by Joy L. Rankin
The Science of Life as Art and Dissent by Christopher Martiniano
Contributing Editor Joy Rankin explores the history of American eugenics, ultimately showing how 20th century science was deployed for anti-democratic and authoritarian ends. Christopher Martiniano writes about English poet William Blake’s poetics of resistance in which Blake illustrated the necessity of a willful, feminine nature to subvert oppression and authoritarianism.
This issue was published in syndication with The New Inquiry.