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Social Sciences
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Sonia C. Gomez, "Picture Bride, War Bride: The ...
58 min
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Andréa Becker, "Get It Out: On the Politics of ...
26 min
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Juliet Rix, "London's Statues of Women" (SafeHa...
44 min
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Tom Waidzunas et al., "Out Doing Science: LGBTQ...
61 min
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Phil Tiemeyer, "Women and the Jet Age: A Global...
47 min
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Susan L. Carruthers, "Making Do: Britons and th...
65 min
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Elana Levine, "Her Stories: Daytime Soap Opera ...
An interview with Elana Levine
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Margaret Cook Andersen, "Fertile Expectations: ...
39 min
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Kevin Guyan, "Rainbow Trap: Queer Lives, Classi...
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A Queer Etymology of Punk
In the fifth episode of Soundscapes N.Y.C., host Ryan Purcell talks with British music critic Jon Savage about how LGBTQ resistance shaped American popular music from the 1950s to the 1980s. Savage discusses the curious and queer roots of the word punk stretching back to the time of Shakespeare when it was used to connote ambiguous and transgressive gender and sexuality. Those meanings carried through to the 1970s though their origins may have been obscured by popular culture. Jon Savag...
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Enrique Fernández and Darlene Abreu-Ferreira, "...
40 min
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Daanika Kamal, "Domestic Violence in Pakistan: ...
48 min
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How Punk Broke the Binary
When singer Debbie Harry helped form Blondie in 1974 she developed a unique stage persona to front the band. Though she may have appeared to fans as a hyper-femme caricature, Harry recalls her role as androgynous or "transexual" in her 2019 memoir Face It. In the third episode of Soundscapes N.Y.C., host Ryan Purcell talks with Cornell University professor of music Judith Peraino, and University of Iowa cultural studies professor Kembrew McLeod about the stylistic and social forces that...
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Angela Katrina Lewis-Maddox ed., "Disrupting Po...
47 min
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Gender Crisis N.Y.C.
In the premiere episode of Soundscapes N.Y.C., host Ryan Purcell talks with celebrated writer Lucy Sante about the landscape of gender logics within the New York rock scene. It was a nebulous soundscape of counterculture formed around gender explorations and social upheaval set to the soundtrack of an aggressive style of rock ’n’ roll that critics would identify as punk rock by the end of the seventies. Lucy Sante is the author of Low Life, Evidence, The Factory of Facts, Kill All Your...
45 min
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Jade Elizabeth French, "Modernist Poetics of Ag...
56 min
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Sarah Gold McBride "Whiskerology: The Culture o...
65 min
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Maya J. Berry, "Defending Rumba in Havana: The ...
80 min
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Amin Ghaziani, "Long Live Queer Nightlife: How ...
48 min
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Claire Pierson, "Women's Troubles: Gender and F...
53 min
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Yasmine Motawy, "Children’s Picture Books and C...
44 min
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Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, "Misbehaving at the Cr...
40 min
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Trans Technologies
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Anna Gjika, "When Rape Goes Viral: Youth and Se...
44 min
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Soma Chaudhuri and Jane Ward, "The Witch Studie...
44 min