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2076
Pamela S. Nadell, "America’s Jewish Women: A Hi...
Jewish women have consistently played a vital and significant role in American history more broadly, and American Jewish history specifically...
51 min
2077
Kelly J. Beard, "An Imperfect Rapture" (Zone 3 ...
In a new book, Beard describes growing up in a community that required its members to participate in excessive tithing, among other practices designed to prey on those who had the least to give...
51 min
2078
Leta Hong Fincher, "Betraying Big Brother: The ...
Hong Fincher makes the case that the subjugation of women is a key component of the authoritarian state...
47 min
2079
Jamila Lee-Johnson, and Ashley Gaskew, "Critica...
Jamila and Ashley talk to us about the importance of centering voices and perspectives that have been traditionally marginalized in the academy...
49 min
2080
Sally Nuamah, "How Girls Achieve" (Harvard UP, ...
What does it take for all girls to achieve?
24 min
2081
Anthony Nownes, "Organizing for Transgender Rig...
Hard won transgender rights have been under attack by the Trump administration...
21 min
2082
Christopher Herbert, "Gold Rush Manliness: Race...
Not all gold rushes are created equal, argues Christopher Herbert...
65 min
2083
Ward Keeler, "The Traffic in Hierarchy: Masculi...
Ward Keeler joins New Books in Southeast Asian Studies to discuss egalitarianism and autonomy, anthropology and audience, clientelism and communism, and how the study of Java and Bali informed his thinking about Burma...
48 min
2084
Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, "They Were Her Prope...
Bridging women’s history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes a bold argument about the role of white women in American slavery...
58 min
2085
A. Curtin and M. Skinta, "Mindfulness and Accep...
Gender and sexual minorities face unique concerns and, according to research, are actually more likely to want and seek therapeutic help due to greater levels of psychological distress...
63 min
2086
Brooke Newman, "A Dark Inheritance: Blood, Race...
In an empire built on racial slavery, what roles do blood purity and citizenship play in the creation of subject citizens?
63 min
2087
Michael Mario Albrecht, "Masculinity in Contemp...
Albrecht explores the ways in which popular cultural texts address widely circulating discourses of the ostensible ’crisis of masculinity’ in contemporary culture...
55 min
2088
Serene J. Khader, "Decolonizing Universalism: A...
Transnational feminist theory and practice is faced with a dilemma: how should we contest and resist gender-based oppression, while at the same time respecting cultural difference?
45 min
2089
Anne Cheng, "Second Skin: Josephine Baker and t...
Through Baker, Cheng invites us to reconsider the mutual imbrication of object/subject, surface/depth, and exploitation/fascination...
41 min
2090
Tina Sikka, "Climate Technology, Gender, and Ju...
How can feminist theory help address the climate crisis?
38 min
2091
Margaret Arnold, "The Magdalene in the Reformat...
Mary Magdalene’s story of conversion from sinner to saint is one of Christianity’s most compelling and controversial stories...
39 min
2092
Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Op...
In the information age, knowledge is power. Hence, facilitating the access to knowledge to wider publics empowers citizens and makes societies more democratic...
29 min
2093
Richa Kaul Padte, "Cyber Sexy: Rethinking Porno...
Parents, teachers, feminists, conservatives, lawyers, the concerned citizen – pornography raises everyone's hackles...
40 min
2094
Isobel O’Hare, "all this can be yours" (Univers...
Isobel O’Hare’s all this can be yours (University of Hell Press, 2019) presents a series of erasures crafted from celebrity sexual assault apologies...
55 min
2095
Elizabeth Todd-Breland, "A Political Education:...
By highlighting the activism of local Black women and Black teachers, Todd-Breland uncovers hidden histories of how Black women have been at the forefront of this fight from the 1960s to the present...
64 min
2096
Susan Carlile, "Charlotte Lennox: An Independen...
Though not as well known today as some of her literary contemporaries, Charlotte Lennox wrote numerous works during the mid-18th century that won her critical acclaim...
64 min
2097
Joyce Antler, "Jewish Radical Feminism: Voices ...
The book demonstrates the rich contribution of Jewish values and identity had on the women’s liberation movement and how in turn they changed Jewish life in America...
49 min
2098
Margaret Hennefeld, "Specters of Slapstick and ...
In the early days of film, female comedians appeared in films that included both strange activities and slapstick....
67 min
2099
Trent MacNamara, "Birth Control and American Mo...
MacNamara traces the multiple avenues in which birth control entered the lives of everyday Americans and gained social acceptance...
50 min
2100
Bernadete Barton, "Stripped: More Stories from ...
Women get into stripping for money, writes Dr. Bernadete Barton, and the experience the girls have throughout their career in exotic dancing varies...
56 min