On this edition of Conversations, Janet Jakobsen talks with host Dan Skinner about “The Sex Obsession: Perversity and Possibility in American Politics.” Jakobsen is a professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is also the author of “Working Alliances and the Politics of Difference: Diversity and Feminist Ethics.”
Conversations: Janet Jakobsen, "The Sex Obsession: Perversity and Possibility in American Politics"
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