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1976
Nora Jaffary, "Reproduction and its Discontents...
Jaffary tracks how medical ideas, practices, and policies surrounding reproduction changed between the late eighteenth and early twentieth centuries in Mexico...
67 min
1977
Benjamin Kahan, "The Book of Minor Perverts: Se...
The conversation covers major changes in the cultural discourse around sexual identity, but still makes time for conversation about sexual magicians and wanderlust...
42 min
1978
Emily Skidmore, "True Sex: The Lives of Trans M...
Skidmore weaves in a vibrant discussion on how trans men created community and crafted their lives in rural America at the turn of the twentieth century...
60 min
1979
Zahra Ayubi, "Gendered Morality: Classical Isla...
How are notions of justice and equality constructed in Islamic virtue ethics (akhlaq)?
64 min
1980
Melissa E. Sanchez, "Queer Faith: Reading Promi...
Sanchez provides an overview of feminist discourse on sex trafficking...
64 min
1981
Tammy R. Vigil, "Moms in Chief: The Rhetoric of...
Vigil’s analysis is particularly interesting and informative in how we think about the role of public women in our country, especially in relation to the White House and their unelected roles within the political sphere...
43 min
1982
Elizabeth D. Carney, "Eurydice and the Birth of...
As the wife of a Macedonian king and the mother of three sons who would succeed him, Eurydice played an important role in Macedonia at an important moment in the kingdom’s history...
54 min
1983
Chelene Knight, "Dear Current Occupant" (Book*h...
"Dear Current Occupant" is also a letter to Knight’s younger selves, to the girl and eventually young woman who lived in these places and who struggled to discover who she was and who she could be...
44 min
1984
Charles King, "Gods of the Upper Air: How A Cir...
King's book is a reminder of the central ideas of Boasian anthropology: a recognition that gender roles and racial assumptions are cultural constructions and not biological facts...
59 min
1985
Katie Jarvis, "Politics in the Marketplace: Wor...
The king’s guards became increasingly nervous as they watched nearly 7,000 individuals march on Versailles on October 5, 1789...
47 min
1986
David Doddington, "Contesting Slave Masculinity...
Doddington demonstrates the significance of internal divisions, comparison, and conflict in shaping gender and status in slave communities of the American South...
36 min
1987
Patricia Marino, "Philosophy of Sex and Love" (...
For those who think that philosophy must speak to everyday experience and ordinary life, it would seem that philosophical questions occasioned by love and sex should take center stage...
60 min
1988
Cecilia Caballero et al. "The Chicana M(other)w...
The editors bring together a diverse collective of Women of Color Mother-Scholars to end the silence experienced by Mothers of Color in academia....
63 min
1989
Brett Krutzsch, "Dying to Be Normal: Gay Martyr...
Krutzsch argues that gay activists memorialized people like Shepard as part of a political strategy to present gays as similar to the country's dominant class of white, straight Christians...
43 min
1990
Suzanne Scott, "Fake Geek Girls: Fandom, Gender...
Scott provides an overview of the convergence culture industry and the world of fandom while examining the role that gender and misogyny has played in understanding who is and is not considered an “authentic” fan...
37 min
1991
Nancy Lough and Andrea N. Geurin, "Routledge Ha...
Lough and Guerin bring together forty different authors to survey the status of women's sports in 2019.
75 min
1992
Belinda Stillion Southard, "How to Belong: Wome...
Southard examines the discourse of international women leaders seeking agency for women, the traditional subjects of violence across the global south...
51 min
1993
Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi, "For Black Trans Girl...
Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi is an African, Cuban, Indigenous, American Trans performance artist, author, and playwright among many different titles...
54 min
1994
Mary-Elizabeth Murphy, "Jim Crow Capital: Women...
Though women’s roles in the black freedom struggle remain under-acknowledged, scholars continue to make their importance clear...
50 min
1995
Lisa Greenwald, "Daughters of 1968: Redefining ...
May ’68 marked a watershed moment in French society, culture, and political life...
50 min
1996
Cyril Ghosh, "De-Moralizing Gay Rights: Some Qu...
Ghosh interrogates three arenas of debate over LGBT+ rights in the contemporary American landscape...
35 min
1997
Harshita M. Kamath, "The Artifice of Brahmin Ma...
This book features an investigation of men donning a women’s guises to impersonate female characters...
47 min
1998
Kaitlin Sidorsky, "All Roads Lead to Power: The...
Sidorsky combines qualitative and quantitative research to examine appointed and elected state positions...
46 min
1999
Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz, "Reciting the Godd...
This book represents the very first study of a fascinating Hindu phenomenon: the Svasthanivratakatha (SVK), a sixteenth-century narrative textual tradition native to Nepal surrounding the Goddess, Svasthānī...
58 min
2000
Elizabeth Otto, "Haunted Bauhaus: Occult Spirit...
Otto “liberates Bauhaus history” with this work, drawing the focus from the handful of male artists like Klee and Breuer outward as she considers the other 1200 odd Bauhäusler...
71 min