The memoir Prozac Nation changed how we read women in the 90’s and early 00’s. Elizabeth Wurtzel was unrelentingly honest about her addiction to pharmaceutical and illegal drugs, and just how common their use was during the third wave of feminism. She was, arguably, the first literarily popular Riot Grrrl and she helped define her generation of feminists.
In this episode we discuss the effect of widespread prescription drug use, why there’s no magic pill to cure us of all of our ills, and how the third wave of feminism was really the first wave of feminism finally realized. Join us!
