The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Fem...

Each week a pair of writers and guests talk through one news story we can’t stop thinking about, and unpack what gender has to do with it.

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DoubleX Gabfest: The Mom-in-Chief Edition
Listen to Slate’s show about Michelle Obama’s Democratic Convention speech; Hanna Rosin’s upcoming book, The End of Men; and the new film, Bachelorette.
49 min
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DoubleX Gabfest: The P90X Edition
Listen to Slate’s show about the Todd Akin rape controversy, Paul Ryan’s hot bod, and Augusta National admitting its first two female members.
34 min
428
DoubleX Gabfest: The Circumspect Circumference ...
Listen to Slate’s show about prenatal depression, hot Olympic bodies, and cosmetic surgery for teenage girls.
49 min
429
DoubleX Gabfest: The We Wish We Were Talking Ab...
Listen to Slate’s show about the Aurora shooting heroes, outing rapists on Twitter, and women’s boxing.
38 min
430
DoubleX Gabfest: The Un-Retouched Edition
Listen to Slate’s show about young women getting their tubes tied, last week’s date rape episode of Louie, and Seventeen magazine’s new photo touch-up policy.
44 min
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DoubleX Gabfest: The Still Not Having It All Ed...
Listen to Slate’s show about Anne-Marie Slaughter’s Atlantic cover story, the new Pixar movie Brave, and spoiled American kids.
52 min
432
DoubleX Gabfest: The Muppet Show Edition
Listen to Slate’s show about subversive commencement speeches, a new study on gay parenting, and Muppet chaos theory.
49 min
433
DoubleX Gabfest: Itty Bitty Cheapo Rock Edition
DoubleX editors talk about Mark Zuckerberg’s new wife Pricilla Chan, Wired’s GeekDad cover, and women in combat.
41 min
434
DoubleX Gabfest: The Bare-Chested Edition
Listen to Slate’s show about attachment parenting, president Obama’s college love letters and child psychopaths.
49 min
435
DoubleX Gabfest: The Your Baby’s Name is Brand...
Listen to Slate’s show about homophobic homosexuals, celebrity baby bumps and the war over workplace lunches.
42 min
436
DoubleX Gabfest: The Alone in the Tub Edition
Listen to Slate’s show about HBO’s Girls, doltish dads in commercials and Katie Roiphe’s Newsweek cover story on submissive sex and working women
52 min
437
DoubleX Gabfest: The Coregasm Edition
Listen to Slate’s show about new research on sibling rivalry, the legacy of the sexual revolution, and a study showing women can get orgasms from exercise.
41 min
438
Live from New York with Samantha Bee Edition
Listen to Slate’s show about Sarah Palin in HBO’s Game Change, billionaire Spanx founder Sara Blakeley, and the war on women, with special guest star Daily Show correspondent Samantha Bee.
52 min
439
DoubleX Gabfest: The Glamour Beard Edition
Hanna Rosin, Jessica Grose, and Noreen Malone discuss Rush Limbaugh's tirade, the "unschooling" movement, and the uptick in men with beards.
45 min
440
DoubleX Gabfest: The Reindeer Sweater Edition
Listen to Slate’s show about Virginia’s proposed ultrasound law, the rise in single moms under 30, and the growth of the “mancessory.”
43 min
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DoubleX Gabfest: The Power-Pinners and Pink Han...
Listen to Slate’s show about the Komen Foundation vs. Planned Parenthood, the new parenting book Bringing Up Bebe, and the social site Pinterest.
41 min
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DoubleX Gabfest: The Weasel Face Edition
Listen to Slate’s show about how much looks matter in politics, how small group dynamics affect women, and the blogger Dooce’s separation.
35 min
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DoubleX Gabfest: The Kitten Calendar Edition
Listen to Slate’s show about Caitlin Flanagan’s Girl Land, Rick Santorum’s anti-abortion rhetoric and Babyonce.
41 min
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DoubleX Gabfest: The Bland, Fertile and Protest...
Listen to Slate’s show about the ideal length of maternity leave, new revelations about Newt Gingrich’s personal life, and the year’s celebrity marriages and divorces.
39 min
445
Slate's DoubleX Gabfest: The Robo Panda Edition
Listen to Slate’s show about marriage and generosity, childless women on TV, and the strangest gifts we’ve ever received.
38 min
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DoubleX Gabfest: The Redlines Edition
Slate editors Emily Bazelon, Kate Julian and Hanna Rosin discuss why we care more about Herman Cain's extramarital affair than his sexual harassment history, a new kind of pleasure based sex-ed and Cyber Monday and American shopping habits.
34 min
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DoubleX Gabfest: The Gluten-Free Thanksgiving E...
Listen to Slate’s show about Elizabeth Warren’s Senate campaign, Emily Yoffe’s piece on how readers are surviving the Great Recession, public hostility toward small children on airplanes, and gluten-free Thanksgivings.
39 min
448
DoubleX Gabfest: The Roving Eye Edition
Slate editors interview Susan Orlean about Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend, discuss the sexual harassment charges against Herman Cain and Stephen Pinker’s new book The Better Angels of Our Nature.
39 min
449
DoubleX Gabfest: The Hungry for Glory Edition
Listen to Slate’s show about the Jill Abramson profile in The New Yorker, “The Kids Are Actually Sort of Alright” in New York, and the new crop of GOP wives.
36 min
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DoubleX Gabfest: The Jessica Rabbit Edition
Our editors discuss Amanda Knox, whether women care about their “number,” and Katie Roiphe’s essay about being a single mom.
32 min