New Books in Gender
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Melissa Faliveno, "Tomboyland: Essays" (Topple ...
Faliveno examines a vast array of intersecting (and intersectional!) human experiences...
64 min
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Alice Connor, "Fierce: Women of the Bible and T...
Women in the Bible aren't shy or retiring; they're fierce and funny and demanding and relevant to 21st-century people...
75 min
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Post Script: Kamala Harris as Vice President
Today’s podcast – recorded on Wednesday, August 12th (less than 24 hours after Democratic candidate Joe Biden announced Senator Kamala Harris as his Vice Presidential pick) – cuts through the hype of “veep stakes” by providing a deep dive....
57 min
1754
Maile Arvin, "Possessing Polynesians: The Scien...
From their earliest encounters with Indigenous Pacific Islanders, white Europeans and Americans saw Polynesians as almost racially white...
62 min
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Annette Joseph-Gabriel, "Reimagining Liberation...
Centering the experiences and stories of Black women as ‘political protagonists,’ the book considers questions of race, gender, and political agency.
59 min
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Sasha Abramsky, "Little Wonder: The Fabulous St...
Lottie Dod was the greatest female athlete of all time. And you've never heard of her...
63 min
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Caron Gentry, "Disordered Violence: How Gender,...
Gentry argues that mainstream Terrorism Studies must contend with the growing misogynist and racialized violence against women...
52 min
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Polly E. Bugros McLean, "Remembering Lucile: A ...
McLean depicts the rise of the African American middle class through the historical journey of Lucile and her family from slavery in northern Virginia to life in the American West...
64 min
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Amy Von Lintel, "Georgia O'Keeffe's Wartime Tex...
In 1912, at age 24, Georgia O’Keeffe boarded a train in Virginia and headed west, to the prairies of the Texas Panhandle...
39 min
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Nwando Achebe, "Female Monarchs and Merchant Qu...
Nwando Achebe considers the diverse forms and systems of female leadership in both the physical and spiritual worlds, as well as the complexities of female power in a multiplicity of distinct African societies...
61 min
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Monica Coleman, "Bipolar Faith: A Black Woman’s...
Monica A. Coleman's great-grandfather asked his two young sons to lift him up and pull out the chair when he hanged himself, and that noose stayed in the family shed for years...
47 min
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Alyssa Gabbay, "Gender and Succession in Mediev...
Gabbay shows that contrary to assumptions about Islam’s patrilineal nature, there is in fact precedent in pre-modern Islamic history of Muslims' recognition of bilateral descent...
66 min
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Donna Drucker, "Contraception: A Concise Histor...
Drucker traces the history of modern contraception, outlining the development, manufacturing, and use of contraceptive methods from the opening of Dr. Jacobs's clinic to the present...
21 min
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N. Achebe and C. Robertson, "Holding the World ...
The contributors explore everything from issues of representation in novels and cinema, to political organizing, religious fundamentalism, slavery, love, and sexuality....
61 min
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Kim Adrian, "Dear Knausgaard: Karl Ove Knausgaa...
In 2009, a novel was released in Norway with a fairly simple premise; the author would simply write about himself, his life and his attempts to write...
65 min
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Natalia Milanesio, "¡Destape! Sex, Democracy, a...
With the return to democracy in 1983, Argentines experienced new freedoms, including sexual freedoms...
61 min
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Lesly-Marie Buer, "RX Appalachia: Stories of Tr...
Buer explores the gendered inequalities that situate women’s encounters with substance abuse treatment as well as additional state interventions targeted at women who use drugs in one of the most impoverished regions in the US....
42 min
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Melissa J. Wilde, "Birth Control Battles: How R...
Wilde shows that support for contraception among some of America’s most prominent religious groups was tied to white supremacist views of race, immigration, and manifest destiny....
62 min
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Asma Barlas, "Believing Women in Islam: Unreadi...
Barlas demonstrates how a Muslim believer can fully adopt an antipatriarchal reading of the Qur’anic text while maintaining belief in its Divine Providence...
36 min
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Gabriel Dattatreyan, "The Globally Familiar: Di...
Dattatreyan focuses on non-elite, urban, lower caste/class embodiments of masculinity, in the context of globally familiar soundscpaes, images and aesthetics...
52 min
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Aya Gruber, "The Feminist War on Crime: The Une...
Gruber explains how the women’s movement in America has shaped the law on domestic violence and sexual assault...
63 min
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Sunny Stalter-Pace, "Imitation Artist: Gertrude...
Gertrude Hoffman is one of many entertainers who were big stars in vaudeville before World War I, but whose celebrity faded as the American public was seduced by radio and film after the Great War.
54 min
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Olivia Weisser, "ll Composed: Sickness, Gender,...
This book sits right at the intersection of all three of these subfields and contributes to our understanding of the lived experience of religion, the lived experience of gender, ideas about ‘nature,’ and, of course, the history of medicine...
39 min
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Sarah B. Rodriguez, "The Love Surgeon: A Story ...
Dr. James Burt believed women’s bodies were broken, and only he could fix them....
41 min
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Vanita Reddy, "Fashioning Diaspora: Beauty, Fem...
Central to Reddy's project is upending the male-centric understanding of the relationship between the diaspora and the “nation”.
40 min