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1801
Jennifer L. Holland, "Tiny You: A Western Histo...
Holland tells the story of one of the most successful political movements of the twentieth century in the United States: the grassroots campaign against legalized abortion...
59 min
1802
Alyson McGregor, "Sex Matters: How Male-Centric...
The facts surrounding how male-centric medicine impacts women's health every day are chilling...
54 min
1803
Pernilla Myrne, "Female Sexuality in the Early ...
Contrary to popular and even scholarly expectations, medieval erotic literature emphasized female sexual satisfaction...
50 min
1804
Hafsa Lodi, "Modesty: A Fashion Paradox" (Neem ...
Modest fashion is a growing, global multi-billion-dollar market...
43 min
1805
Mia Fischer, "Terrorizing Gender: Transgender V...
Mia Fischer traces how media and state actors collude in the violent disciplining of trans women...
50 min
1806
J-B. Tchouta Mougoué, "Gender, Separatist Polit...
Tchouta Mougoue illuminates how issues of ideal womanhood shaped the Anglophone Cameroonian nationalist movement in the first decade of independence in Cameroon...
64 min
1807
Jean Halley, "Horse Crazy: Girls and the Lives ...
Part memoir, part heavy-hitting theoretical exploration, this delightfully readable book explores the relationship between horses and humans...
49 min
1808
Sarah Knott, "Mother is a Verb: An Unconvention...
Mothering is as old as human existence. But how has this most essential experience changed over time and cultures?
37 min
1809
M. A. Weitekamp and M. Delaney, "Smithsonian Am...
"Smithsonian American Women" is an inspiring and surprising celebration of U.S. women's history told through Smithsonian artifacts...
76 min
1810
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, "The Age of Phillis" (...
Jeffers draws on fifteen years of research in archives and locations across America, Europe and Africa to envision the world of Phillis Wheatley Peters...
51 min
1811
Lucy Delap, "Feminisms: A Global History" (U Ch...
Delap takes a thematic approach to the topic of global feminist history to provide a unified vision that maintains appropriate nuance...
49 min
1812
Zerlina Maxwell, "The End of White Politics: Ho...
Maxwell shows exactly how and why progressives can lean into identity politics, empowering marginalized groups, and uniting under a common vision that will benefit us all...
72 min
1813
Tsedale Melaku, "You Don’t Look Like a Lawyer: ...
What kind of discrimination do Black women face in the legal profession?
49 min
1814
Josh Cerretti, "Abuses of the Erotic: Militariz...
Cerretti argue that a project of militarizing sexuality succeeded in the 1990s United States...
58 min
1815
François Clemmons, "Officer Clemmons: A Memoir"...
Clemmons offers a touching coming of age story that reveals what it felt like to be young, gifted, black, and gay during a time of intense racism and homophobia....
78 min
1816
Anya Jabour, "Sophonisba Breckinridge: Champion...
Jabour's rediscovers this groundbreaking American figure...
63 min
1817
Mara Benjamin, "The Obligated Self: Maternal Su...
Benjamin contends that the physical and psychological work of caring for children presents theologically fruitful but largely unexplored terrain for feminists...
74 min
1818
Laura A. Dean, "Diffusing Human Trafficking Pol...
Dean analyzes the development and effectiveness of anti-trafficking policies and institutions in Latvia, Russia, and Ukraine...
61 min
1819
Natalie Kimball, "An Open Secret: The History o...
Kimball argues that, despite stigma and continued legal prohibitions, practices and attitudes surrounding abortion have changed in urban Bolivia since the 1950s..
68 min
1820
Rebecca Hanson and Patricia Richards, "Harassed...
The authors argue that the androcentric, racist, and colonialist epistemological foundations of ethnographic methodology contribute to the silence surrounding sexual harassment...
59 min
1821
Mariann Hardey, "The Culture of Women in Tech: ...
What is the culture of the tech industry?
40 min
1822
B. L. Johnson and M. M. Quinlan, "You’re Doing ...
Johnson and Quinlan investigates the storied history of mothering advice in the media...
79 min
1823
Teresa Bergman, "The Commemoration of Women in ...
Bergman examines the public memorialization of women in the US over the past century, with a particular focus on the late twentieth century and early twenty first...
64 min
1824
Hilde Løvdal Stephens, "Family Matters: James D...
Stephens shows how Dr. James Dobson reached millions of American evangelical households and shaped the cultural sensibilities and political attitudes of the U.S. culture wars...
33 min
1825
Sa’ed Atshan, "Queer Palestine and the Empire o...
Atshan explores the Palestinian LGBTQ movement and offers a window into the diverse community living both in historic Palestine and in diaspora...
52 min