New Books in Women's History
Discussions with scholars of women's history about their new books
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Courtenay Stallings, "Laura's Ghost: Women Spea...
An interview with Courtenay Stallings
48 min
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Lauren Jae Gutterman, "Her Neighbor's Wife: A H...
An interview with Lauren Jae Gutterman
34 min
1003
Robin Mitchell, "Vénus Noire: Black Women and C...
An interview with Robin Mitchell
60 min
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Jenn Shapland, "My Autobiography of Carson Mccu...
An interview Jenn Shapland
44 min
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Justine Howe, "The Routledge Handbook of Islam ...
An interview with Justine Howe
37 min
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Miriam Kalman Friedman, "Rivers of Light: The L...
An interview with Miriam Kalman Friedman.
56 min
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Kim T. Gallon, "Pleasure in the News: African A...
An interview with Kim T. Gallon
69 min
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Stanley J. Rabinowitz, "And Then Came Dance: Th...
An interview with Stanley Rabinowitz
79 min
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Michal S. Raucher, "Conceiving Agency: Reproduc...
Raucher explores the ways ultra-Orthodox Jewish women in Israel make decisions about their reproductive lives...
55 min
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Erica Armstrong Dunbar, "Never Caught: The Wash...
Dunbar offers a powerful narrative of Ona Judge, George and Martha Washington’s runaway slave who risked everything to escape the nation’s capital and reach freedom...,
59 min
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Martha S. Jones, "Vanguard: How Black Women Bro...
An interview with Martha S. Jones
60 min
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Mithu Sanyal, "Rape: From Lucretia to #MeToo" (...
Sanyal covers the history of rape as well as of our divergent and misguided conceptions for it...
36 min
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Stacie Taranto and Leandra Zarnow, "Suffrage at...
An interview with Stacie Taranto and Leandra Zarnow
53 min
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Nimisha Barton, "Reproductive Citizens: Gender,...
Barton shows how France welcomed foreign-born men and women, mobilizing naturalization, family law, social policy, and welfare assistance to ensure they would procreate, bearing French-assimilated children...
60 min
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Lessie Jo Frazier, "Desired States: Sex, Gender...
Lessie Jo Frazier contends that desire played a central role in the political culture of the modern Chilean state.,,,
72 min
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Carolyn Conley, "Debauched, Desperate, Deranged...
Conely examines the over 1400 trials of women accused of homicide in London from 1674-1913,..
31 min
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Melody E. Valdini, "The Inclusion Calculation: ...
Valdini outlines a clear calculus to evaluate the various dimensions of the costs and benefits in terms of integrating women...
47 min
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Amanda L. Scott, "The Basque Seroras: Local Rel...
Scott explores the lives of the devout laywomen who cared for and maintained churches and shrines in the Basque country...
49 min
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Samantha Langsdale and Elizabeth Rae Coody, "Mo...
This book the ways women are made monstrous in popular culture...
53 min
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Andrea Pető, "The Women of the Arrow Cross Part...
Pető analyses the actions, background, connections and the eventual trials of Hungarian female perpetrators in the Second World War through the concept of invisibility.
54 min
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Tabassum Fahim Ruby, "Muslim Women's Rights: Co...
Ruby follows the legal debates and public discussions that surrounded the proposed shari‘ah tribunals in Canada from 2003 to 2006...
69 min
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Elizabeth Son, "Embodied Reckonings: 'Comfort W...
In a bustling city-center of Seoul, women in yellow vests protesting over the “final” resettlement between the Japanese and Korean governments every Wednesday is an iconic sight, testifying to the strength and resilience of the “comfort women” movement...
42 min
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Victoria Phillips, "Martha Graham's Cold War: T...
Phillips adeptly tells the story of Martha Graham's role as diplomat, arts innovator, and dancer...
49 min
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Vanessa Diaz, "Manufacturing Celebrity: Latino ...
Vanessa Díaz examines the raced and gendered hierarchies and inequalities that are imbricated within the work of producing celebrity in Los Angeles...
47 min
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James Keating, "Distant Sisters: Australasian W...
In the 1890s Australian and New Zealand women became the first in the world to win the vote....
56 min