New Books in Gender
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1726
Dana M. Malone, "From Single to Serious: Relati...
Malone shines a light on friendship, dating, and, sexuality, in both the ideals and the practical experiences of heterosexual students at U. S. evangelical colleges....
70 min
1727
Jennifer L. Morgan, "Laboring Women: Reproducti...
"Laboring Women" was the first historical text to focus on Black women’s reproductive labor under New World slavery in the early modern period...
75 min
1728
Wendy Moore, "No Man’s Land: The Trailblazing W...
A hospital run by two suffragette doctors, Louisa Garrett Anderson and Flora Murray...
54 min
1729
Postscript: Shirley Chisholm as Principled Poli...
What is the political and intellectual legacy of Shirley Chisholm?
54 min
1730
Rachel Mesch, "Before Trans: Three Gender Stori...
Mesch reads the biographies and work of three writers who did not conform to the gender norms of the period...
59 min
1731
Alicia M. Walker, "Chasing Masculinity: Men, Va...
Walker provides an insider glimpse of the experiences and perceptions that men have regarding their participation in infidelity...
29 min
1732
Kristin Kobez Du Mez, "Jesus and John Wayne: Ho...
One of the most perplexing elements of Donald Trumps’s 2016 electoral victory was the overwhelming support he received from white Evangelicals...
86 min
1733
Ronak K. Kapadia, "Insurgent Aesthetics: Securi...
Kapadia theorizes the world-making power of contemporary art responses to US militarism in the Greater Middle East....
46 min
1734
John F. Marszalek III, "Coming Out of the Magno...
Marszalek shares conversations with same-sex couples living in small-town and rural Mississippi...
28 min
1735
Marion Bower, "The Life and Work of Joan Rivier...
Joan Riviere (1883-1962) is best known for her role in promoting the ideas of others. She came to prominence in the world of psychoanalysis as Freud’s favorite translator and Melanie Klein’s earliest and most loyal supporter...
54 min
1736
Philip Nash, "Breaking Protocol: America's Firs...
Nash examines the history of the "Big Six" and how they carved out their rightful place in history..
64 min
1737
Paul Moyer, "Detestable and Wicked Arts: New En...
Witch hunts. Not the metaphorical kind. Real witch hunts. Learn all about it here...
43 min
1738
S. Grayzel and T. Proctor, "Gender and the Grea...
The centenary of the First World War from 2014 to 2018 offered an opportunity to reflect upon the role of gender history in shaping our understanding of this pivotal international event. From the moment of its outbreak...
36 min
1739
Jessica Marie Johnson, "Wicked Flesh: Black Wom...
Johnson explores the nature of these complicated intimate and kinship ties and how they were used by black women to construct freedom in the Atlantic world....
95 min
1740
Lisa Selin Davis, "Tomboy: The Surprising Histo...
Davis explores the evolution of tomboyism from a Victorian ideal to a twenty-first century fashion statement, honoring the girls and women-and those who identify otherwise-who stomp all over archaic gender norms...
65 min
1741
Arti Dhand, "Woman as Fire, Woman as Sage: Sexu...
The Hindu tradition has held conflicting views on womanhood from its earliest texts—holding women aloft as goddesses to be worshipped on the one hand and remaining deeply suspicious about women’s sexuality on the other...
38 min
1742
Kareem Khubchandani, "Ishtyle: Accenting Gay In...
Khubchandani follows queer South Asian men across borders into gay neighborhoods, nightclubs, bars, and house parties in Bangalore and Chicago...
47 min
1743
F. Henry and D. Plaza, "Carnival Is Woman: Femi...
Henry and Plaza examines the presence of women in contemporary Carnival by demonstrating not only their strength in numbers, but also the ways in which they participate in the festivities...
71 min
1744
Beth Pickens, "Your Art Will Save Your Life" (T...
As a teenager visiting the Andy Warhol Museum, Beth Pickens realized the importance of making art...
54 min
1745
Valerie Wayne, "Women’s Labour and the History ...
Wayne reveals the valuable work that women achieved in publishing, printing, writing and reading early modern English books...
47 min
1746
Elspeth H. Brown, "Work! A Queer History of Mod...
Brown traces the history of modeling from the advent of photographic modeling in the early twentieth century to the rise of the supermodel in the 1980s....
43 min
1747
Lisa Levenstein, "They Didn’t See Us Coming: Th...
Levenstein shows how American feminists joined a global women’s movement for women’s rights as human rights....
58 min
1748
Kimberly Brown Pellum, "Black Beauties: African...
Pellum explores the glamorous history of African American beauty queens by using the stories of former contestants to address colorism and racism still prevalent in the industry.
31 min
1749
Danielle Knafo, "The New Sexual Landscape and C...
Knafo and Lo Bosco survey modern sex culture and suggests ways psychoanalysis can update its theories and practice to meet the novel needs of today’s generations...
53 min
1750
Ghassan Moussawi, "Disruptive Situations: Fract...
Moussawi challenges representations of contemporary Beirut as an exceptional space for LGBTQ people by highlighting everyday life in a city where violence is the norm...
54 min