DoubleX Gabfest: The Office Wife Edition

In this week’s Gabfest, DoubleX editor Hanna Rosin joins New Republic staff writer Noreen Malone and Slate contributing writer Seth Stevenson to discuss the rise of the retro wife; Steubenville, Ohio, rape case; and how to find the perfect office wife.



Other items discussed in the show:

• Michael Winerip’s New York Times essay on how dudes can’t have it all either.
• Jessica Grose on “Cleaning: The Final Feminist Frontier.”
• Video of Steubenville football players bragging.
• Joan Didion’s “Sentimental Journeys” about the Central Park jogger rape case.
• Emily Bazelon’s New York Times story on the victims of child pornography.
• Seth Stevenson in GQ on how to find the perfect office wife.
• The 1987 David Owen piece that supposedly coined the term office wife

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