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Social Sciences
1626
The Self-Care Stuff: Considering Whether to Sta...
In this episode you’ll hear about: navigating academia as a STEM student, getting pregnant and parenting while still a student, and difficult decisions about dropping out or staying in academia...
50 min
1627
Sophia Chang, "The Baddest Bitch in the Room" (...
An interview with Sophia Chang
38 min
1628
Michiel Baas, "Muscular India: Masculinity, Mob...
An interview with Michiel Baas
56 min
1629
John Wei, "Queer Chinese Cultures and Mobilitie...
An interview with John Wei
30 min
1630
Jenn Shapland, "My Autobiography of Carson Mccu...
An interview Jenn Shapland
44 min
1631
Alyson K. Spurgas, "Diagnosing Desire: Biopolit...
An interview with Alyson K. Spurgas
79 min
1632
Justine Howe, "The Routledge Handbook of Islam ...
An interview with Justine Howe
37 min
1633
Miriam Kalman Friedman, "Rivers of Light: The L...
An interview with Miriam Kalman Friedman.
56 min
1634
Marta V. Vicente, "Debating Sex and Gender in E...
An interview with Marta V. Vicente
47 min
1635
Salih Can Açıksöz, "Sacrificial Limbs: Masculin...
An interview with Salih Can Açıksöz
67 min
1636
Kim T. Gallon, "Pleasure in the News: African A...
An interview with Kim T. Gallon
69 min
1637
Stanley J. Rabinowitz, "And Then Came Dance: Th...
An interview with Stanley Rabinowitz
79 min
1638
Michal S. Raucher, "Conceiving Agency: Reproduc...
Raucher explores the ways ultra-Orthodox Jewish women in Israel make decisions about their reproductive lives...
55 min
1639
Martha S. Jones, "Vanguard: How Black Women Bro...
An interview with Martha S. Jones
60 min
1640
Erica Armstrong Dunbar, "Never Caught: The Wash...
Dunbar offers a powerful narrative of Ona Judge, George and Martha Washington’s runaway slave who risked everything to escape the nation’s capital and reach freedom...,
59 min
1641
Sexuality, Gender, and Race in the Middle Ages:...
An interview with Roland Betancourt
68 min
1642
Steven Fabian, "Making Identity on the Swahili ...
Fabian combines extensive archival sources from African and European archives alongside fieldwork in Bagamoyo to move beyond the category of 'Swahili' as it has been traditionally understood....
102 min
1643
Mithu Sanyal, "Rape: From Lucretia to #MeToo" (...
Sanyal covers the history of rape as well as of our divergent and misguided conceptions for it...
36 min
1644
Jack Drescher, "Psychotherapeutic Engagements W...
In this interview, the author discusses the concept of minority stress and its relationship with mental health conditions...
51 min
1645
Stacie Taranto and Leandra Zarnow, "Suffrage at...
An interview with Stacie Taranto and Leandra Zarnow
53 min
1646
Jiří Hutečka, "Men Under Fire: Motivation, Mora...
In historical writing on World War I, Czech-speaking soldiers serving in the Austro-Hungarian military are typically studied as Czechs, rarely as soldiers, and never as men...
58 min
1647
Nimisha Barton, "Reproductive Citizens: Gender,...
Barton shows how France welcomed foreign-born men and women, mobilizing naturalization, family law, social policy, and welfare assistance to ensure they would procreate, bearing French-assimilated children...
60 min
1648
Lessie Jo Frazier, "Desired States: Sex, Gender...
Lessie Jo Frazier contends that desire played a central role in the political culture of the modern Chilean state.,,,
72 min
1649
Carl R. Trueman, "The Rise and Triumph of the M...
“My aim is to explain how and why a certain notion of the self has come to dominate the culture of the West,..."
122 min
1650
Carolyn Conley, "Debauched, Desperate, Deranged...
Conely examines the over 1400 trials of women accused of homicide in London from 1674-1913,..
31 min