New Books in Gender
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2001
Jessica Starling, "Guardians of the Buddha’s Ho...
Starling invites us into the daily lives of the bōmori, the spouses of priests in the Japanese Jōdo Shinshū, or True Pure Land, tradition...
56 min
2002
Anne O’Brien, "Women, Inequality and Media Work...
How do women experience gender inequality in film and television production industries?
40 min
2003
Sharra L. Vostral, "Toxic Shock: A Social Histo...
In 1978, doctors in Denver, Colorado observed several healthy children who suddenly and mysteriously developed a serious, life-threatening illness with no visible source...
20 min
2004
A. Lakhtikova, A. Brintlinger, and I. Glushchen...
Food plays a pivotal role throughout Russian history, but perhaps no more so than during the Soviet era, when the perennial Russian cycle of feast and famine took on a highly political aspect...
59 min
2005
Katharina Karcher, "Sisters in Arms: Militant F...
Karcher examines a critical time in the history and development of the feminist movement in Germany...
52 min
2006
Amy Collier Artman, "The Miracle Lady: Kathryn ...
Artman tells the story of Kuhlman’s life and, in the process, relates the larger story of charismatic Christianity, particularly how it moved from the fringes of American society to the mainstream...
57 min
2007
Howard Philips Smith, "Unveiling the Muse: The ...
Howard Philips Smith has been investigating and writing about the gay history of New Orleans for over two decades...
61 min
2008
Okezi Otovo, "Progressive Mothers, Better Babie...
Otovo explores the intersecting histories of race, gender, and class in modern Brazil...
71 min
2009
Celeste Watkins-Hayes, "Remaking a Life: How Wo...
How do women -- especially poor and low-income women with histories of childhood sexual trauma and drug addiction -- respond to and deal with an HIV/AIDS diagnosis?
25 min
2010
Ashley Robertson, "Mary McLeod Bethune in Flori...
Mary McLeod Bethune was often called the "First Lady of Negro America," but she made significant contributions to the political climate of Florida as well...
37 min
2011
Courtney Pace, "Freedom Faith: The Womanist Vis...
Pace examines Hall’s life and philosophy, particularly through the lens of her civil rights activism, her teaching career, and her ministry as a womanist preacher...
53 min
2012
E. Danto and A. Steiner-Strauss, "Freud/Tiffany...
When we imagine Anna Freud, how does she appear to us?
58 min
2013
Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, "This Is Really War: T...
Lucchesi presents the largely unknown story of the US Navy nurses captured by the Japanese in the Philippines during World War II...
62 min
2014
Thomas A. Foster, "Rethinking Rufus: Sexual Vio...
"Rethinking Rufus" is the first book-length study of sexual violence against enslaved men...
39 min
2015
Maria Cotera, "Chicana Movidas: New Narratives ...
The editors have formulated a landmark anthology illustrating Chicana feminism and activism that spread in the Southwest, Midwest, and Pacific Northwest during the Chicana/o movement era...
57 min
2016
Melissa McCormick, "The Tale of Genji: A Visual...
The Genji Album (1510) in the Harvard Art Museums is the oldest dated set of Genji illustrations known to exist...
54 min
2017
Ann Powers, "Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black an...
Powers explores the rich and, at times, unexpected intersections of love, sex, race, gender, sexuality, and American popular music...
60 min
2018
jayy dodd, "The Black Condition Ft. Narcissus" ...
jayy dodd offers her own brilliant reflections on so many things: the contemporary moment, dystopia, her transition, and more...
44 min
2019
Katie Batza, "Before AIDS: Gay Health Politics ...
Katie Batza demonstrates in this path-breaking book, there was already a well-developed network of gay-health clinics in American cities when the epidemic struck, and these clinics served as the first responders to the disease...
30 min
2020
Susan Brownell, "The Anthropology of Sport: Bod...
In The Anthropology of Sport, understandably, the authors enlighten us about what the subfield entails, how anthropology is well suited to dissect the nature of sport, and provide us with ample anecdotes and observations of the world of sport through an ‘anthropological gaze.’
51 min
2021
Marc Stein, "Sexual Injustice: Supreme Court De...
Stein shows how a diverse set of influential journalists, judges, and scholars translated the Court's language about marital and reproductive rights into bold statements about sexual freedom and equality...
34 min
2022
Chinyere K. Osuji, "Boundaries of Love: Interra...
The increasing presence of interracial relationships is often read as an antidote to racism or as an indicator of the decreasing significance of race...
52 min
2023
Donald Reid, "Opening the Gates: The Lip Affair...
Throughout the book, Don plays close attention the interplay between the local story of Lip and the broader national and international contexts of the era...
59 min
2024
Tanisha C. Ford, "Dressed in Dreams: A Black Gi...
Ford investigates Afros and dashikis, go-go boots and hotpants of the sixties, hip hop's baggy jeans and bamboo earrings, and the #BlackLivesMatter-inspired hoodies of today...
66 min
2025
Sophia Shalmiyev, "Mother Winter: A Memoir" (Si...
For writer Sophia Shalmiyev, the question was never “who is my mother,” but rather, “where has she gone?”
37 min