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1901
Erika Denise Edwards, "Hiding in Plain Sight: B...
Edwards has produced the first comprehensive study in English of the history of African descendants outside of Buenos Aires in the late colonial and early republican periods...
69 min
1902
Megan Burke, "When Time Warps: The Lived Experi...
Burke considers the relationship of sexual violence to lived time by reexamining and building upon the work of Simone de Beauvoir, and in conversation with Judith Butler, María Lugones, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and many others...
55 min
1903
James N. Green, "Exile Within Exiles: Herbert D...
Green tells the story of Herbert Daniel, a significant and complex figure in Brazilian leftist revolutionary politics and social activism from the mid-1960s until his death in 1992...
59 min
1904
Todd Shepard, "Sex, France, and Arab Men, 1962-...
Shepard offers a complex analysis of the lasting impact of the Algerian Revolution through the cultural politics of sex, gender, and power in France....
60 min
1905
Angela Jones, "Camming: Money, Power, and Pleas...
Jones engages readers in a five-year mixed-methods study she conducted on the erotic webcam industry where she tells a pornographic story about the multibillion-dollar online sex industry that is colloquially known as “camming.”
50 min
1906
Juliane Hammer, "Peaceful Families: American Mu...
How do Muslim Americans respond to domestic violence?
47 min
1907
Robin Pickering-Iazzi, "Dead Silent: Life Stori...
Pickering-Iazzi literally “unburies” the identities of over two-hundred girls and women who lived in Italy between 1878 and 2018, and were killed by members of the organized crime from different regions of Italy,..
52 min
1908
S. Bergès, E. Hunt Botting, A. Coffee, "The Wol...
"The Wollstonecraftian Mind" is an extensive compendium of Mary Wollstonecraft as a writer, as an interlocutor, as a philosopher and political theorist, and as a feminist thinker...
61 min
1909
Roger Gilles, "Women on the Move: The Forgotten...
Gilles recovers the history of women’s cycle racing in the 1890s...
58 min
1910
Carol Gilligan and Naomi Snider, "Why Does Patr...
Carol Gilligan and Naomi Snider use psychoanalysis and psychology as frameworks for understanding the vexingly enduring power of this social structure...
40 min
1911
Blain Roberts, "Pageants, Parlors, and Pretty W...
Roberts talks about intersections of race, identity, and memory in the South in a wide-ranging discussion that starts in the segregated beauty parlors of the Jim Crow era...
35 min
1912
Kate Lockwood Harris, "Beyond the Rapist: Title...
"Beyond the Rapists" asks how and to what end scholars of communication and the public at large might look “beyond the rapist”--beyond the individuals who perpetuate violence and toward the organizations through whom violence is authorized and distributed
60 min
1913
David S. Cohen and Carole Joffe, "Obstacle Cour...
It seems unthinkable that citizens of one of the most powerful nations in the world must risk their lives and livelihoods in the search for access to necessary health care...
34 min
1914
Roberto Strongman, "Queering Black Atlantic Rel...
Strongman reveals the many non-heteronormative texts, practices and beliefs though which Black Atlantic religious practices in Haiti, Cuba and Brazil were constituted...
41 min
1915
D. J. Taylor, "The Lost Girls: Love and Literat...
Who were the Lost Girls?
20 min
1916
K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alt...
If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change...
36 min
1917
Great Books: Catherine Stimpson on de Beauvior'...
51 min
1918
Helen Taylor, "Why Women Read Fiction: The Stor...
Why and how is fiction important to women?
29 min
1919
Rosine Jozef Perelberg, "Psychic Bisexuality: A...
"Psychic Bisexuality" clarifies and develops the Freudian conception according to which sexual identity is not reduced to the anatomical difference between the sexes, but is constructed as a psychic bisexuality that is inherent to all human beings...
51 min
1920
Carol Dyhouse, "Hearthrobs: A History of Women ...
What can a cultural history of the heartthrob teach us about women, desire, and social change?
28 min
1921
Emily Colbert Cairns, "Esther in Early Modern I...
Colbert Cairns traces the biblical figure of Esther, the secret Jewish Queen, as she is reinvented as the patron saint for the early modern Sephardic community....
51 min
1922
Rachel Chrastil, "How to Be Childless: A Histor...
Chrastil explores the most personal of women’s decisions from the 1500s on...
34 min
1923
Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, "Sisters and Rebels: A Str...
Seeking their fortunes in the North, Grace and Katharine Lumpkin reinvented themselves as radical thinkers whose literary works and organizing efforts brought the nation’s attention to issues of region, race, and labor.
37 min
1924
Great Books: Carol Gilligan on Nathaniel Hawtho...
The Scarlet Letter tells the dramatic story of a woman cast out of society for adultery and condemned to wear a badge of shame in Puritan New England...
71 min
1925
Rachel Louise Moran, "Governing Bodies: America...
How did the modern, American body come into being?
47 min