New Books in Gender
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1851
Stacy Wolf, "Beyond Broadway: The Pleasure and ...
From backstage moms to tiny divas to dinner theatres, Wolf demonstrates that this charming pastime of American culture that is anything but past...
64 min
1852
Jacqueline H. Fewkes, "Locating Maldivian Women...
What is a mosque? What are women's mosques specifically?
63 min
1853
Nancy Mattina, "Uncommon Anthropologist: Gladys...
Mattina offers the first full biography of Reichard, and examines her pathbreaking work in the ethnography of ritual and mythology; Wiyot, Coeur d’Alene, and Navajo linguistics; folk art, gender, and language; and her exceptional career of teaching, editing, publishing, and mentoring...
62 min
1854
Melissa R. Klapper, "Ballet Class: An American ...
For much of the last century, ballet class has been a rite of passage for millions of little girls in the United States.
36 min
1855
Victor Uribe-Urán, "Fatal Love: Spousal Killers...
Uribe-Urán compares the cases of Spain, and the late-colonial societies of Mexico and Colombia, in a historical moment characterized by corporate patriarchy and enlightened punishment...
64 min
1856
Rebecca J. Kissane and Sarah Winslow, "Whose Ga...
63 min
1857
Mythri Jegathesan, "Tea and Solidarity: Tamil W...
Jegathesan makes essential contributions to the fields of anthropology and gender studies but also to scholars interested in South Asia, decoloniality, and ethical research methods...
52 min
1858
Mallika Kaur, "Faith, Gender, and Activism in t...
Kaur unearths the stories of three people who found themselves at the center of Punjab’s human rights movement...
59 min
1859
M. R. Michelson and B. F. Harrison, "Transformi...
Michelson and Harrison examine what tactics are effective in changing public opinion regarding transgender people...
49 min
1860
Jyoti Puri, "Sexual States: Governance and the ...
Puri tracks the efforts to decriminalize homosexuality in India to show how the regulation of sexuality is fundamentally tied to the creation and enduring existence of the state...
52 min
1861
Katie Horowitz, "Drag, Interperformance, and th...
Horowitz argues that the radical (in)difference between kings and queens provides a window into the perennial rift between lesbians and gay men...
61 min
1862
Fiona Vera-Gray, "The Right Amount of Panic: Ho...
Have you ever thought about how much energy goes into avoiding sexual violence?
51 min
1863
Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: ...
How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?
56 min
1864
Martha Ackermann, "These Fevered Days: Ten Pivo...
After a life lived in obscurity, Emily Dickinson emerged after death as one of the greatest poets of her time...
53 min
1865
Le’Trice D. Donaldson, "Duty Beyond the Battlef...
Donaldson investigates how African American soldiers used their military service to challenge white notions of an African American second-class citizenry and forged a new identity as freedom fighters...
71 min
1866
Shonda Moralis, "Breathe, Empower, Achieve: 5-M...
Shonda believes that when women empower themselves and create life balance, they unleash the capacity for incredible accomplishments...
46 min
1867
Margaret Randall, "I Never Left Home: Poet, Fem...
Randall focuses in this memoir on recreating the communities and historical moments in which she lived. Randall especially emphasizes how her encounter with feminist thinking reshaped how she understood not only her own life, but also the Latin American revolutions she saw up from up close...
47 min
1868
Cynthia Orozco, "Agent of Change: Adela Sloss-V...
Orozco traces the life of Adela Sloss-Vento, a twentieth-century Mexican American woman civil rights activist in Texas...
61 min
1869
Miriam J. Abelson, "Men in Place: Trans Masculi...
Abelson and I discuss the various types of masculinity she identified in her study, such as hypermasculine men, regular guys, and men who seek to embody what Abelson calls “Golidlocks masculinity.”
59 min
1870
Cassia Roth, "A Miscarriage of Justice: Women’s...
Roth examines women's reproductive health in relation to legal and medical policy in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil...
69 min
1871
Shadaab Rahemtullah, "Qur'an of the Oppressed: ...
Rahemtullah offers a compelling comparative analysis of the works of four Muslim scholars of Islam – Asghar Ali Engineer, Farid Esack, Amina Wadud, and Asma Barlas...
39 min
1872
Amy Koerber, “From Hysteria to Hormones: A Rhet...
Koerber shows that the boundary between older, nonscientific ways of understanding women’s bodies and newer, scientific understandings is much murkier than we might expect...
61 min
1873
J. S. Hirsch and S. Khan, "Sexual Citizens: A L...
"Sexual Citizens" is based on years of research interviewing and observing college life—with students of different races, genders, sexual orientations, and socioeconomic backgrounds...
58 min
1874
V. Hudson, D. Bowen, P. Nielsen, "The First Pol...
The authors show that when steps are taken to reduce the hold of inequitable laws, customs, and practices, outcomes for all improve....
96 min
1875
Kimberly A. Hamlin, "Free Thinker: Sex, Suffrag...
Hamlin offers a fascinating biography of a little-known suffrage leader...
55 min