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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Today, I want to talk about a work that people don't really discuss about Gay Talese. It's called Thy Neighbor's Wife, yeah, Thy Neighbor's..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Today, I want to talk about a work that people don't really discuss about Gay Talese. It's called Thy Neighbor's Wife, yeah, Thy Neighbor's..."
Jiang says Thy Neighbor's Wife sold millions, made Talese rich and famous, and also damaged his reputation because he violated the moral and social conventions expected of a public literary celebrity in late-1970s America.
Sexual taboos and the stud/slut double standard are presented as cultural tools for shaming women into proper behavior and controlling women's bodies.
"Today, I want to talk about a work that people don't really discuss about Gay Talese. It's called Thy Neighbor's Wife, yeah, Thy Neighbor's..."
"mid 40s, he decides to do something that completely went against the convention, the rules, the morality of that time. He decided to write..."
"...this was not true. Okay? All right. So, you look at sexual taboos today. Okay? Why do we have sexual taboos? To shame woman..."
Jiang begins with Gay Talese the master reporter and ends with Gay Talese the man who learns to stare back at shame.
Gimbutas's Old Europe becomes Jiang's Paradise Lost: a Mother Goddess civilization where art, writing, sexual agency, and nonviolent social control show that war, property, and patriarchy are historical arrivals, not human nature.
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