New Books in Gender
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Oluwakemi M. Balogun, "Beauty Diplomacy: Embody...
Balogun takes us inside the world of Nigerian beauty contests...
45 min
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Melody E. Valdini, "The Inclusion Calculation: ...
Valdini outlines a clear calculus to evaluate the various dimensions of the costs and benefits in terms of integrating women...
47 min
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Transforming Breast Cancer Diagnosis in Vietnam...
Globally, breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in women, with over 1 million cases detected annually. The disease is particularly worrisome in Vietnam...
23 min
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Samantha Langsdale and Elizabeth Rae Coody, "Mo...
This book the ways women are made monstrous in popular culture...
53 min
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Tom Rastrelli, "Confessions of a Gay Priest: A ...
Restrelli divulges the clandestine inner workings of the seminary, providing an intimate and unapologetic look into the psychosexual and spiritual dynamics of celibacy...
58 min
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Jim Downs, "Stand by Me: The Forgotten History ...
Downs rewrites the history of gay life in the 1970s, arguing that the decade was about much more than sex and marching in the streets...
30 min
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Tabassum Fahim Ruby, "Muslim Women's Rights: Co...
Ruby follows the legal debates and public discussions that surrounded the proposed shari‘ah tribunals in Canada from 2003 to 2006...
69 min
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Jennifer M. Randles, "Essential Dads: The Inequ...
Randles shares the stories of more than 60 marginalized men as they sought to become more engaged parents through a government-supported “responsible” fatherhood program...
57 min
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Andrea Pető, "The Women of the Arrow Cross Part...
Pető analyses the actions, background, connections and the eventual trials of Hungarian female perpetrators in the Second World War through the concept of invisibility.
54 min
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Chris Richardson, "Batman and the Joker: Contes...
Richardson presents a cultural analysis of the ways gender, identity, and sexuality are negotiated in the rivalry of Batman and The Joker...
48 min
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Elizabeth Son, "Embodied Reckonings: 'Comfort W...
In a bustling city-center of Seoul, women in yellow vests protesting over the “final” resettlement between the Japanese and Korean governments every Wednesday is an iconic sight, testifying to the strength and resilience of the “comfort women” movement...
42 min
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Ellen Lamont, "The Mating Game: How Gender Stil...
Lamont offers an in-depth analysis of how gender shapes dating practices...
45 min
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Emily J. H. Contois, "Diners, Dudes, and Diets:...
Contois argues that the figure of The Dude was invented (or perhaps only capitalized on) by marketing and advertising firms to combat “gender contamination” and sell what may be perceived as “feminine” foods to men...
64 min
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Vanessa Diaz, "Manufacturing Celebrity: Latino ...
Vanessa Díaz examines the raced and gendered hierarchies and inequalities that are imbricated within the work of producing celebrity in Los Angeles...
47 min
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Sharon T. Strocchia, "Forgotten Healers: Women ...
Strocchia continues the work of her career: recentering the discourse to include the formative contributions of women in the Italian Renaissance...
28 min
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James Keating, "Distant Sisters: Australasian W...
In the 1890s Australian and New Zealand women became the first in the world to win the vote....
56 min
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Pip Gordon, "Gay Faulkner: Uncovering a Homosex...
Gordon explores the intimate friendships Faulkner maintained with gay men...
63 min
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Kat D. Williams, "Isabel 'Lefty' Alvarez: The I...
For many of its participants, the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) offered them an opportunity to change their lives, yet few were as transformed as that of Isabel “Lefty” Alvarez...
42 min
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Terry Baum, "One Dyke’s Theater: Selected Plays...
The plays range from outlandish comedies like Bride of Lesbostein to the historical drama Hick: A Love Story...
50 min
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Gina Rippon, "Gender and our Brains: How New Ne...
Are there any meaningful neurological differences between men and women? And if so, what are they?
36 min
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Amy Stanley, "Stranger in the Shogun's City: A ...
Stanley Tsuneno’s life, from growing up in a rural community through her escape to the city of Edo, where she lives in the final decades of the Tokugawa Shogunate....
38 min
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Jill Massino, "Ambiguous Transitions: Gender, t...
People did suffer under the Eastern European socialist regimes, the author says, and not only in prison and labour camps, but also juggling careers and family responsibilities, witnessing the gulf between the state’s delusional propaganda and reality...
72 min
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Kevin Leo Nadal, "Queering Law and Order: LGBTQ...
Nadal examines the state of LGBTQ people within the criminal justice system. Intertwining legal cases, academic research, and popular media,..
33 min
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Kelly Underman, "Feeling Medicine: How the Pelv...
Underman gives us a look inside these gynecological teaching programs, showing how they embody the tension between scientific thought and human emotion in medical education...
39 min
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Steven M. Ortiz, "The Sport Marriage: Women Who...
Ortiz offers an in-depth analysis of and perceive insight into what is means to be an athlete’s wife in a male-dominated institution of professional sports...
54 min