Mary Harrington

In 2025

Mary Harrington is a British journalist. She coined the term reactionary feminism and advocated it in her 2023 book Feminism Against Progress.

As a child, Harrington attended a Waldorf school. After receiving a classical education at school, she first encountered critical theory as an undergraduate. She studied English literature at the University of Oxford.

She has been a contributor to UnHerd, most recently as contributing editor, since 2019.

In 2023, a book release event for Feminism Against Progress at the Georgia Room in New York City was cancelled after the venue received critical responses on social media regarding Harrington's opposition to surgeries for transgender youth.

Personal life

Harrington is married and has one daughter.

Books

References

  1. ↑ McBain, Sophie (8 March 2023). "Mary Harrington: "Make sex consequential again"". The New Statesman. Retrieved 30 September 2025.
  2. ↑ "Episode 83 Transcript". Progressing Towards Apocalypse. Beatrice Institute. Retrieved 30 September 2025.
  3. ↑ Kamman, Samantha (27 April 2023). "How did the sexual revolution overtake traditional feminism? Scholars discuss". The Christian Post. Retrieved 30 September 2025.
  4. ↑ Brown, Andrew (17 March 2023). "Mary Harrington interview: the failure of liberation". Church Times. Retrieved 30 September 2025.
  5. ↑ Hallberg, Beverly; Harrington, Mary (21 April 2023). "Mary Harrington: Why Modern Feminism Only Benefits the Elites". She Thinks Podcast. Independent Women's Forum. Retrieved 30 September 2025.
  6. ↑ Lewis, Helen (18 June 2023). "The Feminists Insisting That Women Are Built Differently". The Atlantic. Retrieved 30 September 2025.
  7. ↑ Harrington, Mary (1 June 2021). "Reactionary Feminism". First Things. Retrieved 30 September 2025.
  8. ↑ Moore, Suzanne (1 March 2023). "The 'reactionary feminist' who rails against progress – and the pill". The Daily Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 30 September 2025.
  9. 1 2 "Palladium Podcast 31: Towards a Healthy Postmodernism with Mary Harrington". Palladium Magazine. 9 April 2020. Retrieved 30 September 2025.
  10. ↑ Harrington, Mary (26 March 2020). "How to Find Meaning When Everything is Power". Palladium. Retrieved 22 April 2026.
  11. ↑ Harrington, Mary (11 September 2019). "Why conservatism is failing". UnHerd. Retrieved 22 April 2026.
  12. ↑ Kumar, Anugrah (17 April 2023). "NYC venue cancels event with a feminist writer who criticized gender reassignment surgeries". The Christian Post. Retrieved 30 September 2025.
  13. ↑ "Stop hedging, start marrying | New Social Covenant Unit". Retrieved 27 June 2026.