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1926
Girls Are Also People of the Holy Qur’an
An interview with Jun Akiba
10 min
1927
Ingrid Horrocks, "Women Wanderers and the Writi...
Ingrid Horrocks talks about the way women travelers, specifically women wanderers, are represented in late-eighteenth century literature, particularly in the work of women writers...
31 min
1928
Neil McArthur, "Robot Sex: Social and Ethical I...
Sexbots are coming...
68 min
1929
Meghan Daum, "The Problem With Everything: A Jo...
Feminist writer and author, Meghan Daum, says instead of following the crowd we need to think for ourselves...
28 min
1930
Alys Eve Weinbaum, "The Afterlife of Reproducti...
Weinbaum investigates the continuing resonances of Atlantic slavery in the cultures and politics of human reproduction that characterize contemporary biocapitalism...
53 min
1931
Maria Veri and Rita Liberti, "Gridiron Gourmet:...
Veri and Liberti the origins of tailgating in the United States, the way that tailgate gender roles changed throughout the 20th century; the interplay between the gender of tailgaters, cooking technologies, and food ways of tailgating; and the future possibilities and current limitations of the tailgating community...
53 min
1932
Adele Lindenmeyr, "Citizen Countess: Sofia Pani...
In the aftermath of the February Revolution in 1917 Panina served on the Petrograd city council and as an assistant cabinet minister—the first female cabinet member in world history...
42 min
1933
Andrew Israel Ross, "Public City/Public Sex: H...
Ross maps out the intersection between histories of sexualities and the urban history of Paris in the 1800s
36 min
1934
Jennifer Utrata, "Women without Men: Single Mot...
Utrata investigates what she calls a “quiet revolution” in the Russian family after the fall of the Soviet Union...
53 min
1935
Alex Lichtenstein, "Margaret Bourke-White and t...
"Life" published two photo-essays highlighting Bourke-White’s photographs, but much of her South African work remained unpublished until now...
35 min
1936
Adriel Trott, "Aristotle on the Matter of Form:...
Trott argues for understanding the relationship of matter and form in Aristotle’s work on the model of a Möbius strip...
55 min
1937
Talitha LeFlouria, "Chained in Silence: Black W...
LeFlouria discusses the lives, labors, and legacies of incarcerated black women and the convict lease system in the early 20th century South...
34 min
1938
Sidharthan Maunaguru, "Marrying for a Future: T...
Maunaguru sketches for us the journeys and scenes of transnational Sri Lankan Tamil marriage between Sri Lanka, India, the United Kingdom and Canada during the ‘wedding season’...
67 min
1939
Ayo Wahlberg, "Good Quality: The Routinization ...
From its crude and uneasy beginnings thirty years ago, Chinese sperm banking has become a routine part of China’s pervasive and restrictive reproductive complex...
67 min
1940
Zahra Ali, "Women and Gender in Iraq: Between N...
Ali presents a detailed and fascinating account of Muslim feminist discourses and politics in modern Iraq...
69 min
1941
Emilia Nielsen, "Disrupting Breast Cancer Narra...
Nielsen argues that the happy stories of breast cancer survivors are so common that any other types of narrative almost require an apology...
21 min
1942
Vicky Pryce, "Women vs. Capitalism: Why We Can'...
Free market capitalism has failed women...
27 min
1943
Donna Guy, "Creating Charismatic Bonds in Argen...
Using letters written by Argentine citizens to the Perón couple between 1946 and 1955, Guy offers a nuanced approach to understand charisma...
54 min
1944
Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter...
We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?
54 min
1945
Sally Holloway, "The Game of Love in Georgian E...
What was the role of love and courtship in eighteenth-century English culture?
38 min
1946
Caroline Wanjiku Kihato, "Migrant Women of Joha...
Kihato's book is about home and not-home, eloquently told about the hopes and dreams, fears and hardships of migrant women trying to make life and livelihoods in inner city Johannesburg....
42 min
1947
Kathleen Sheppard, "The Life of Margaret Alice ...
After Napoleon occupied Egypt, Europeans became obsessed with the ancient cultures of the Nile...
31 min
1948
Laura K. T. Stokes, "Fanny Hensel: A Research a...
Nineteenth-century composer Fanny Hensel is the subject of more published research than any other woman of the period, with the possible exception of Clara Schumann...
49 min
1949
Caroline Weber, “Proust’s Duchess” (Knopf, 2019)
Weber has done the painstaking research to find out who were the real-life people on whom Proust modeled some of the most memorable characters...
69 min
1950
Rebecca Scofield, "Outriders: Rodeo at the Frin...
Scofield argues that rodeo performance has also long-been a means of asserting “Western-ness” for people excluded from narratives about the region...
66 min