New Books in Women's History
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Melissa Kravetz, "Women Doctors in Weimar and N...
Kravetz examines how German women physicians gained a foothold in the medical profession during the Weimar and Nazi periods,..
57 min
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Nancy Sinkoff, "From Left to Right: Lucy S. Daw...
Sinkoff offers s the first comprehensive biography of Dawidowicz (1915-1990), a pioneer historian in the field that is now called "Holocaust Studies"..
56 min
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Michael O’Sullivan, "Disruptive Power: Catholic...
How did Catholic mysticism shape politics and religion in 20th-century Germany?
75 min
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Melissa Walker and Giselle Roberts, "Women’s Di...
Walker and Roberts discuss the field of documentary editing and how the personal writings of southern women reveal the broader history of life in the U.S. South during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries...
40 min
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Erika Engstrom, "Feminism, Gender, and Politics...
Engstrom analyzes the various ways the series presented feminism as a positive force, such as the satirical portrayal of patriarchy...
49 min
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Sher Banu Khan, "Sovereign Women in a Muslim Ki...
Khan provides a rare and empirically rich view of queenship in early modern maritime Southeast Asia...
43 min
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Emily E. LB. Twarog, "Politics of the Pantry: H...
Twarog examines how working- and middle-class American housewives used their identity as housewives to protest the high cost of food. In doing so, housewives' relationships with the state evolved over the course of the century...
37 min
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Erika Denise Edwards, "Hiding in Plain Sight: B...
Edwards has produced the first comprehensive study in English of the history of African descendants outside of Buenos Aires in the late colonial and early republican periods...
69 min
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Megan Burke, "When Time Warps: The Lived Experi...
Burke considers the relationship of sexual violence to lived time by reexamining and building upon the work of Simone de Beauvoir, and in conversation with Judith Butler, María Lugones, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and many others...
55 min
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Robin Pickering-Iazzi, "Dead Silent: Life Stori...
Pickering-Iazzi literally “unburies” the identities of over two-hundred girls and women who lived in Italy between 1878 and 2018, and were killed by members of the organized crime from different regions of Italy,..
52 min
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S. Bergès, E. Hunt Botting, A. Coffee, "The Wol...
"The Wollstonecraftian Mind" is an extensive compendium of Mary Wollstonecraft as a writer, as an interlocutor, as a philosopher and political theorist, and as a feminist thinker...
61 min
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Roger Gilles, "Women on the Move: The Forgotten...
Gilles recovers the history of women’s cycle racing in the 1890s...
58 min
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Carol Gilligan and Naomi Snider, "Why Does Patr...
Carol Gilligan and Naomi Snider use psychoanalysis and psychology as frameworks for understanding the vexingly enduring power of this social structure...
40 min
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Blain Roberts, "Pageants, Parlors, and Pretty W...
Roberts talks about intersections of race, identity, and memory in the South in a wide-ranging discussion that starts in the segregated beauty parlors of the Jim Crow era...
35 min
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D. J. Taylor, "The Lost Girls: Love and Literat...
Who were the Lost Girls?
20 min
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Great Books: Catherine Stimpson on de Beauvior'...
51 min
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Helen Taylor, "Why Women Read Fiction: The Stor...
Why and how is fiction important to women?
29 min
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Carol Dyhouse, "Hearthrobs: A History of Women ...
What can a cultural history of the heartthrob teach us about women, desire, and social change?
28 min
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Rachel Chrastil, "How to Be Childless: A Histor...
Chrastil explores the most personal of women’s decisions from the 1500s on...
34 min
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Dr. Alice Collett, "Lives of Early Buddhist Nun...
Collett delves into the lives of six of the best-known nuns from the period of early Buddhism...
64 min
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Eileen Botting, "The Wollstonecraftian Mind" (R...
A political and moral thinker and a forerunner to modern feminism, Wollstonecraft has not received attention on par with the wide breath of her ideas...
66 min
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Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, "Sisters and Rebels: A Str...
Seeking their fortunes in the North, Grace and Katharine Lumpkin reinvented themselves as radical thinkers whose literary works and organizing efforts brought the nation’s attention to issues of region, race, and labor.
37 min
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Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, "Sisters and Rebels: A Str...
Seeking their fortunes in the North, Grace and Katharine Lumpkin reinvented themselves as radical thinkers whose literary works and organizing efforts brought the nation’s attention to issues of region, race, and labor.
37 min
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Ingrid Horrocks, "Women Wanderers and the Writi...
Ingrid Horrocks talks about the way women travelers, specifically women wanderers, are represented in late-eighteenth century literature, particularly in the work of women writers...
31 min
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Great Books: Jared Stark on Virginia Woolf's "T...
“On or around December 1910, human character changed.”
40 min