New Books in Gender
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Paulo Drinot, "The Sexual Question: A History o...
Drinot studies the interplay of sexuality, society, and the state in Peru in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries...
59 min
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Theresa Kaminski, "Dr. Mary Walker's Civil War:...
Among the tens of thousands of Americans who volunteered their services during the Civil War was Mary Walker, a daring young woman who was one of the handful of female doctors in the nation at that time...
48 min
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Kathleen Bachynski, "No Game for Boys to Play: ...
Bachynski examines American football from its origins from the perspective of a public health specialist and an historian...
60 min
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R. K. Jefferson and H. B. Johnson, "Shortlisted...
Before Ronald Reagan appointed Sandra Day O’Connor to the Supreme Court in 1981, nine highly qualified women were on the shortlist. What do the stories of these women tell us about the judiciary? Gender? Feminism? Race?
57 min
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Patricia Zavella, "The Movement for Reproductiv...
Zavella shows how reproductive justice organizations' collaborative work across racial lines provides a compelling model for other groups to successfully influence change...
46 min
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Shahla Haeri, "The Unforgettable Queens of Isla...
Haeri offers a collection of captivating biographies of Muslim women rulers and political leaders...
68 min
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Thomas Bishop, "Every Home a Fortress: Cold War...
Bishop details the remarkable cultural history and personal stories behind an iconic figure of Cold War masculinity—the fallout shelter father...
25 min
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Aliya Hamid Rao, "Crunch Time: How Married Coup...
Traditionally gendered understandings of work—that it’s a requirement for men and optional for women—loom large in this process, even for marriages that had been not organized in gender-traditional ways...
56 min
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Laura S. Grillo, "An Intimate Rebuke: Female Ge...
What if the moral guardians of West African societies are postmenopausal women?
77 min
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Manuel Betancourt, "Judy Garland's Judy at Carn...
Betancourt explores what makes Judy Garland’s landmark album great, and why it holds such a central place in queer culture...
60 min
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Jennifer Domino Rudolph, "Baseball as Mediated ...
Rudolph analyzes major league baseball’s Latin/o American players—who now make up more than twenty-five percent of MLB...
59 min
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Raymond Winbush, "The Osiris Papers: Reflection...
"The Osiris Papers" Is intended to be the first of many treatises written to examine the life, theories, and contributions of Dr. Frances Cress Welsing...
44 min
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R. S. Dieng and A. O'Reilly, "Feminist Parentin...
How have the everyday practices of parenting been shaped by patriarchy and coloniality?
93 min
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Amanda L. Scott, "The Basque Seroras: Local Rel...
Scott focuses on the Basque seroras, a category of uncloistered religious women that were employed by parishes to perform a wide variety of functions...
75 min
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Nancy Thayer, "Girls of Summer: A Novel" (Balla...
Christina Gessler talks with her friend Nancy Thayer about "Girls of Summer: A Novel" (Ballantine Books), which was just chosen for O Magazine’s Summer Reading List...
63 min
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Mia Birdsong, "How We Show Up: Reclaiming Famil...
Birdsong returns us to our inherent connectedness where we find strength, safety, and support in vulnerability and generosity...
71 min
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L. L. Wynn, "Love, Sex, and Desire in Modern Eg...
Wynn offers an interrogation of urban life and gendered mobilities in Cairo, Egypt..
46 min
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Leslie Dorrough Smith, "Compromising Positions:...
Sex scandals are ubiquitous in American politics...
59 min
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Y. F. Niemann and G. Gutiérrez y Muhs, "Presume...
This book provides practical, specific, and insightful guidance to fight back, prevail, and thrive in challenging work environments...
78 min
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Suri Hustvedt, "Memories of the Future" (Simon ...
How Do We Write Our Personal History at the Same Time That It’s Written for Us?
40 min
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Virgie Tovar, "You Have the Right to Remain Fat...
Growing up as a fat girl, Virgie Tovar believed that her body was something to be fixed. But after two decades of dieting and constant guilt, she was over it...
64 min
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Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel, "Holiness and Transgre...
Drawing on anthropology and psychoanalytic theory, Kaniel enhances our understanding of the connection between female transgression and redemption...
69 min
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Sara Smith, "Intimate Geopolitics: Love, Territ...
Smith’s book centers intimacy in the consideration of geopolitics which is otherwise only seen as a game between nation states...
73 min
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Yuhang Li, "Becoming Guanyin: Artistic Devotion...
How did Buddhist women access religious experience and transcendence in a Confucian patriarchal system in imperial China?
56 min
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Sally Nuamah, "How Girls Achieve" (Harvard UP, ...
Nuamah makes the case for “feminist schools” that orient girls toward a lifetime of achievement...
67 min