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1826
R. Farrugia and K. D. Hay, "Women Rapping Revol...
The authors draw on seven years of fieldwork to illuminate the important role that women have played in mobilizing a grassroots response to political and social pressures at the heart of Detroit’s ongoing renewal and development project....
48 min
1827
Nora Haenn, "Marriage after Migration: An Ethno...
Haenn tells the stories of five women in rural Mexico, each navigating the tricky terrain that is men’s international migration...
50 min
1828
Kabria Baumgartner, "In Pursuit of Knowledge: B...
Baumgartner offers an intellectual and cultural history of the educational activism of African American women and girls in the long nineteenth century...
39 min
1829
Barbara J. Risman, "Where the Millennials Will ...
Risman uses her gender structure theory to tackle the question about whether today’s young people, Millennials, are pushing forward the gender revolution or backing away from it...
56 min
1830
Mona L. Siegel, "Peace on Our Terms: The Global...
Siegel explores the previously neglected history of a diverse group of women from around the world who fought for women’s rights as male politicians forged a new world order...
59 min
1831
Howard Philips Smith, "Southern Decadence in Ne...
Commonly referred to as “Gay Mardi Gras,” the Southern Decadence festival began in 1972 as a spontaneous end-of-the-summer celebration...
60 min
1832
Shauna L. Shames et al., "Good Reason to Run: W...
This book provides a wealth of information and analysis of the reasons why women (and men) choose to run for public office and what that path looks like in terms of training, support, obstacles, and advantages...
53 min
1833
Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir, "Valkyrie: The W...
"Valkyrie” is skillfully arranged around the skeleton of the life cycle of a woman—from birth through childhood, adolescence, marriage, and old age.
56 min
1834
A. D. Crosby and M. B. Lykes, "In Beyond Repair...
The authors draw on eight years of feminist participatory action research conducted with fifty-four Q’eqchi’, Kaqchikel, Chuj, and Mam women to explore Mayan women’s agency in their search for truth, justice, and reparation...
70 min
1835
Thomas John Lappas, "In League Against King Alc...
Lappas unearths the story of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union in Indian country...
56 min
1836
Jennifer Holland, "Tiny You: A Western History ...
Holland explores the development of the movement from the legalization of Roe v. Wade in 1973 to the present...
68 min
1837
Martina Cvajner, "Soviet Signoras: Personal and...
Cvajner focuses on a group of women who migrated from areas in the former Soviet Union to northern Italy...
47 min
1838
Taylor Petrey, "Tabernacles of Clay: Sexuality ...
A path-breaking work of religion and gender and sexuality, "Tabernacles of Clay" sets the agenda for a new generation of scholars interested in the recent Latter-day Saint past.
36 min
1839
Erica Bauermeister, "House Lessons: Renovating ...
This memoir is about the power of home, and the transformative act of restoring one house in particular...
58 min
1840
Breanne Fahs, "Burn It Down: Feminist Manifesto...
Fahs has curated a comprehensive collection of feminist manifestos from the nineteenth century to today...
52 min
1841
Javier Semper Vendrell, "The Seduction of Youth...
Vendrell writes the first study to focus on the League for Human Rights and its leader, Friedrich Radszuweit...
61 min
1842
Tanya Harmer, "Beatriz Allende: A Revolutionary...
Harmer explores how a young Chilean woman pursued her political commitments and navigated patriarchal strictures as a militant leftist...
53 min
1843
Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Mat...
Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...
117 min
1844
Amy Harris, "Siblinghood and Social Relations i...
Harris examines the impact sisters and brothers had on eighteenth-century English families and society...
81 min
1845
Anthony Valerio, "Semmelweis: The Women's Docto...
Though his advice has saved the lives of millions of people, the name Ignaz Semmelweis is not one commonly known today...
57 min
1846
Mary-Kate Lizotte, "Gender Differences in Publi...
LIzotte helps us to understand the concept of the gender gap in American politics and how this gap looks across a host of different policy areas....
47 min
1847
Pamela S. Nadell, "America’s Jewish Women: A Hi...
Nadell surveys varied experiences of Jewish women who made America their home. In elegant prose, she introduces readers to a fascinating cast of characters from the seventeenth century to the present day...
52 min
1848
Björn Krondorfer, "The Holocaust and Masculinit...
In recent decades, scholarship has turned to the role of gender in the Holocaust, but rarely has it critically investigated the experiences of men as gendered beings..
49 min
1849
Ashley Mears, "Very Important People: Status an...
The global party circuit. . . lifestyle that offers million-dollar birthday parties, megayachts on the French Riviera, and $40,000 bottles of champagne....
49 min
1850
Kathleen Gallagher Elkins, "Mary, Mother of Mar...
Elkins examines ancient representations of mothers and children in the context of sociopolitical violence....
53 min