New Books in Gender
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1701
Melissa Valentine, "The Names of All the Flower...
Melissa Valentine and her older brother Junior grow up running around the disparate neighborhoods of 1990s Oakland, two of six children to a white Quaker father and a black Southern mother.
56 min
1702
Jill Richards, "The Fury Archives: Female Citiz...
Richards radically rewrites our understanding of first-wave feminism by demonstrating its proximity to international avant-garde movements including surrealism,..
49 min
1703
Kristin J. Jacobson, "The American Adrenaline N...
52 min
1704
David Barash, "Threats: Intimidation and Its Di...
What are the similar ways in which animals and people try to intimidate others?
40 min
1705
Joshua Chambers-Letson, "After the Party: A Man...
Through this diverse cast of characters, Chambers-Letson highlights moments of immanent communism: collaborations, romantic relationships, and serendipitous collisions that point towards a liberated future which also exists in our troubled present...
58 min
1706
Abla Hasan, "Decoding the Egalitarianism of the...
Is it possible to interpret the Qur’an using the Qur’an alone? Is a feminist interpretation of controversial verses such as 4:34, the notorious “wife-beating” verse, possible?
61 min
1707
Laura J. Arata, "Race and the Wild West" (U Okl...
Arata provides a compelling biography of Sarah Bickford and the larger story of black life in the rural West....
42 min
1708
Michele Goodwin, "Policing the Womb: Invisible ...
Goodwin offers a brilliant but shocking account of the criminalization of all aspects of reproduction, pregnancy, abortion, birth, and motherhood in the United States...
60 min
1709
Gregory A. Daddis, "Pulp Vietnam: War and Gende...
Daddis explores how men's adventure magazines helped shape the attitudes of young, working-class Americans, the same men who fought and served in the long and bitter war in Vietnam...
54 min
1710
Diana Greene Foster, "The Turnaway Study: Ten Y...
What happens when a woman seeking an abortion is turned away?
63 min
1711
Neela Bhattacharya Saxena, "Absent Mother God o...
Saxena draws on her personal religious experiences and devotion to the Goddess Kali as a starting point to reflect on the absence of a Divine Feminine in Christianity and Judaism...
57 min
1712
Durba Mitra, "Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and th...
Mitra shows how deviant female sexuality, particularly the concept of the prostitute, became foundational to this knowledge project and became the primary way to think and write about Indian society...
43 min
1713
Karen E. H. Skinazi, "Women of Valor: Orthodox ...
Skinazi delves beyond this stereotype to identify a powerful tradition of feminist literary portrayals of Orthodox women, often created by Orthodox women themselves...
58 min
1714
Julia Sneeringer, "A Social History of Early Ro...
The Beatles’ sojourn in the St. Pauli district of Hamburg during the early 1960s is part of music legend....
68 min
1715
Ann-elise Lewallen, "The Fabric of Indigeneity:...
Combining ethnographic fieldwork in contemporary Ainu communities and organizations with museum and archival research, Dr. Lewallen shows how Ainu women engage in the “self-craft” of identities and cultural viability through clothwork...
72 min
1716
Anita Kurimay, "Queer Budapest, 1873-1961" (U C...
Kurimay tells the riveting story of nonnormative sexualities in Hungary as they were understood, experienced, and policed between the birth of the capital as a unified metropolis in 1873 and the decriminalization of male homosexual acts in 1961....
56 min
1717
Anne García-Romero, "The Fornes Frame" (U Arizo...
Playwright and theatre scholar Anne García-Romero traces the career and legacy of Maria Irene Fornes.
51 min
1718
Ellen M. Snyder-Grenier, "The House on Henry St...
Snyder-Grenier chronicles Henry Street’s sweeping history from 1893 to today...
67 min
1719
Sherry L. Smith, "Bohemians West: Free Love, Fa...
The opening years of the twentieth century saw a grand cast of radicals and reformers fighting for a new America, seeking change not only in labor picket lines and at women’s suffrage rallies but also in homes and bedrooms...
83 min
1720
Matty Weingast, "The First Free Women: Poems of...
A radical and vivid rendering of poetry from the first Buddhist nuns that brings a new immediacy to their voices...
49 min
1721
Frederick Luis Aldama, "Decolonizing Latinx Mas...
An early wave of research helped make visible the complex dynamics of sexuality and gender norms in Latino life, but a new generation of scholars is bringing renewed energy and curiosity to this field of inquiry...
31 min
1722
Meg Heckman, "Political Godmother: Nackey Scrip...
Despite her nearly two decades as the publisher of the largest newspaper in a politically pivotal state, the role of Nackey Scripps Loeb in American political and media history has been unjustly forgotten...
54 min
1723
Hettie V. Williams, "Bury My Heart in a Free La...
Black women intellectuals have traditionally been overlooked in the academic study of American intellectual history...
35 min
1724
Laura Westengard, "Gothic Queer Culture: Margin...
Westengard examines the intersection of queerness and the gothic...
60 min
1725
Roundtable Discussion of Jennifer Morgan's "Lab...
I enlisted a few #Blktwitterstorians to pull up to the pod and discuss the importance of Dr. Morgan’s Laboring Women to the field of slavery studies,
94 min