New Books in Gender
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2051
Nara Milanich, "Paternity: The Elusive Quest fo...
Milanich explains how fatherhood, long believed to be impossible to know with certainty, became a biological “fact” that could be ascertained with scientific testing...
61 min
2052
Megan Bryson, “Goddess on the Frontier: Religio...
Bryson’s research explores the various social and historical contexts of the Dali region in Southwest China where the deity was shaped by local expressions of the Buddhist tradition...
56 min
2053
Jeevan Sharma, "Crossing the Border to India: Y...
Sharma sheds light on the migration decisions and experiences of young Nepali men from the western district of Palpa who migrate to India to take up jobs as security guards, domestic workers, or restaurant and hotel workers...
60 min
2054
Jennifer Helgren, "American Girls and Global Re...
Jennifer Helgren traces the creation of a new internationalist girl citizenship in the first two decades following World War II by uncovering the activism of girls organizations including Camp Fire Girls, YWCA Y-Teens, and the Girl Scouts...
59 min
2055
Anne Balay, "Semi Queer: Inside the World of Ga...
Among many topics, Balay details how racism, sexism, homophobia, and transphobia are a part, and not a part, of truck drivers’ interactions with customers, shippers, and receivers...
53 min
2056
Cindy Yik-Yi Chu, "The Chinese Sisters of the P...
Cindy Yik-Yi Chu opens up an important new archive in Hong Kong to illuminate the complex and challenging story of the only entirely indigenous congregation of Chinese Catholic sisters...
38 min
2057
Barbara K. Gold, "Perpetua: Athlete of God" (Ox...
One of the first and most famous of Christian martyrs was Perpetua, who died in Carthage in the early 3rd century CE.
53 min
2058
Jennifer Fluri and Rachel Lehr, "The Carpetbagg...
For most people, geopolitics is something that happens out there, in boardrooms and on battlefields. But critical geographers, and feminist political geographers in particular, have in recent years shown how the geopolitical is something that comes into being in the intimate and the everyday...
61 min
2059
Linda M. Grasso, "Equal under the Sky: Georgia ...
Grasso provides an in-depth look at O'Keeffe's ambivalent relationship with feminism from her early beginnings as a New Woman of the 1910s, to the support she received from women to become a national icon for feminism...
61 min
2060
Zachary Kramer, "Outsiders: Why Difference is t...
Kramer outlines the way that a right to personality, combined with an accommodation-focused inquiry, could update and refresh our approach to civil rights...
54 min
2061
Jinhua Dai (ed. Lisa Rofel), "After the Post-Co...
Dai interrogates the truly historic events unfolding in today’s China to ask what these mean for history itself...
60 min
2062
Heike Bauer, "The Hirschfeld Archives: Violence...
Influential sexologist and activist Magnus Hirschfeld founded Berlin's Institute of Sexual Sciences in 1919 as a home and workplace to study homosexual rights activism and support transgender people...
39 min
2063
Anne A. Cheng, "Ornamentalism" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Anne A. Cheng illustrates the longstanding relationship between the ‘oriental’ and the ‘ornamental’...
33 min
2064
Jerry T. Watkins III, "Queering the Redneck Riv...
Watkins re-queers this North Florida tourist destination showing how people who defied gender and sexual normalcy found their space in the “Sunshine State” after the Second World War...
51 min
2065
Diane Tober, "Romancing the Sperm: Shifting Bio...
The development of a whole suite of new reproductive technologies in recent decades has contributed to broad cultural conversations and controversies over the meaning of family in the United States...
50 min
2066
Heather R. White, "Reforming Sodom: Protestants...
White argues that today's antigay Christian traditions originated in the 1920s when a group of liberal Protestants began to incorporate psychiatry and psychotherapy into Christian teaching...
32 min
2067
J Mase III, "And Then I Got Fired: One Transque...
J Mase III takes on themes of the messiness of grief, Black trans spirituality, and what it means to be an independent artist...
28 min
2068
Robin Truth Goodman, "The Bloomsbury Handbook o...
The Bloomsbury Handbook is is the most comprehensive available survey of the state of the art of contemporary feminist thought...
55 min
2069
E. M. Levintova and A. K. Staudinger, "Gender i...
Ekaterina M. Levintova and Alison K. Staudinger have brought together, into this volume, a variety of fascinating and important perspectives on political science as a discipline and how it is taught, studied, pursued and understood...
48 min
2070
Carrie Baker, "Fighting the US Youth Sex Trade:...
Campaigns against prostitution of young people in the United States have surged and ebbed multiple times over the last fifty years...
61 min
2071
Clayton Whisnant, "Queer Identities and Politic...
Germany in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries witnessed key developments in LGBT history...
66 min
2072
Erin M. Kempker, "Big Sister: Feminism, Conserv...
The author examines how 1970s right-wing women activists in the state of Indiana combined earlier political conspiracy theories, Cold War anti-communism and anti-ERA sentiment to cast feminism as threat to American democracy, free enterprise, and the family.
51 min
2073
Ann Gleig, "American Dharma: Buddhism Beyond Mo...
Gleig focuses on meditation-based convert Buddhist lineages in North America, and in particular she is interested in the generational changes underway in these groups...
86 min
2074
René Weis, "The Real Traviata: The Song of Mari...
Though she died in 1847 at a young age, Marie Duplessis inspired one of the greatest operas ever composed...
46 min
2075
Naomi Pullin, "Female Friends and the Making of...
Pullin reconstructs the Meetings that monitored the lives of Quaker women...
32 min