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1876
Jin Y. Park, "Women and Buddhist Philosophy: En...
Park offers an account of the Korean Buddhist nun, Kim Iryŏp’s life and philosophy, which takes place from 1896-1971...
58 min
1877
C. Wolbrecht and J. K. Corder, "A Century of Vo...
Wolbrecht and Corder weave together a variety of methodological frameworks to guide the reader through an understanding of both women and men as voters during the past hundred years...
44 min
1878
Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Parad...
According to Cook, a paradox paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick...
51 min
1879
Jessica Wilkerson, "To Live Here, You Have to F...
Wilkerson discusses the recent history of feminist social justice activism in Appalachia...
35 min
1880
Joana Cook, "A Woman's Place: US Counterterrori...
Cook investigates how and why women have developed the roles they have, and interrogates US counterterrorism practices in key countries like Iraq, Afghanistan, and Yemen...
44 min
1881
Great Books: Julie Carlson on Mary Shelley's "F...
Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus when she was nineteen years old on a bet...
50 min
1882
Norman A. Kutcher, "Eunuch and Emperor in the G...
Eunuchs. Nobody liked them, everybody seems to have hated them, but, even so, they were an essential part of many states – even in the Qing...
71 min
1883
Sukey Fontelieu, "The Archetypal Pan in America...
Fontelieu seeks to examine a collection of social and political traumas, both personal and collective...
60 min
1884
Melissa Kravetz, "Women Doctors in Weimar and N...
Kravetz examines how German women physicians gained a foothold in the medical profession during the Weimar and Nazi periods,..
57 min
1885
Dennis Baron, "What's Your Pronoun?: Beyond He ...
Baron addresses an important cultural question about women’s rights and the rights and identities of non-binary people, and reveals how we got from he and she to zie, hir, and singular they...
41 min
1886
Michael O’Sullivan, "Disruptive Power: Catholic...
How did Catholic mysticism shape politics and religion in 20th-century Germany?
75 min
1887
Melissa Walker and Giselle Roberts, "Women’s Di...
Walker and Roberts discuss the field of documentary editing and how the personal writings of southern women reveal the broader history of life in the U.S. South during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries...
40 min
1888
John Hardman, "Marie-Antoinette: The Making of ...
Who was the real Marie-Antoinette?
72 min
1889
Berry Grass, "Hall of Waters" (Operating System...
Grass’s aim is nothing less than to demythologize the American Midwest.
47 min
1890
M. Maloney, S. Roberts, and T. Graham, "Gender,...
What can online social spaces like Reddit’s r/gaming reveal about gender attitudes, masculinized spaces, and turning points in gamer communities?
36 min
1891
Kate Devlin, "Turned On: Science, Sex and Robot...
Devlin builds on the science and the philosophy surrounding our most intimate relationship with technology...
61 min
1892
Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren Klein, "Data Fem...
D'Ignazio and Klein call for changing the way we think about data and how it is communicated, particularly through visualization...
34 min
1893
Erika Engstrom, "Feminism, Gender, and Politics...
Engstrom analyzes the various ways the series presented feminism as a positive force, such as the satirical portrayal of patriarchy...
49 min
1894
Lynn Neal, "Religion in Vogue: Christianity and...
Christian imagery, symbols, and motifs have long been used and incorporated in fashion.,,
51 min
1895
Sher Banu Khan, "Sovereign Women in a Muslim Ki...
Khan provides a rare and empirically rich view of queenship in early modern maritime Southeast Asia...
43 min
1896
Emily E. LB. Twarog, "Politics of the Pantry: H...
Twarog examines how working- and middle-class American housewives used their identity as housewives to protest the high cost of food. In doing so, housewives' relationships with the state evolved over the course of the century...
37 min
1897
Kimberly Dark, "Fat, Pretty, and Soon to Be Old...
Dark's essays take on self-improvement, self-acceptance, sexual attraction, language, aging, queer visibility, fashion, family, femininity, feminism, yoga culture, airplane seats, and the vilifying of fatness in the name of good health, among other compelling topics...
55 min
1898
Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Bo...
How does the world of book reviews work?
39 min
1899
Franny Choi, "Soft Science" (Alice James Books,...
Choi explores queer, Asian American femininity through the lens of robots, cyborgs, and artificial intelligence...
52 min
1900
matthew heinz, "Entering Transmasculinity: The ...
heinz discusses the intersecting and overlapping discourses that shape the identities of people who were assigned the female sex at birth and do not identify with that designation...
55 min