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The Women Who Transformed the National Gallery of Canada
40 mins; September 28, 2022
Beverly Weintraub, "Wings of Gold: The Story of the First Women Naval Aviators" (Lyons Press, 2021)
55 mins; September 28, 2022
Charisse Burden-Stelly and Jodi Dean, "Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women's Political Writing" (Verso, 2022)
45 mins; September 28, 2022
Julia Scheeres and Allison Gilbert, "Listen, World!: How the Intrepid Elsie Robinson Became America's Most-Read Woman" (Seal Press, 2022)
44 mins; September 27, 2022
Kirsti Niskanen and Michael J. Barany, "Gender, Embodiment, and the History of the Scholarly Persona" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
53 mins; September 26, 2022
Andrew Bomback, "Long Days, Short Years: A Cultural History of Modern Parenting" (MIT Press, 2022)
33 mins; September 23, 2022
Takkara K. Brunson, "Black Women, Citizenship, and the Making of Modern Cuba" (U Florida Press, 2021)
50 mins; September 22, 2022
Fiona Crawford and Lee McGowan, "Never Say Die: The Hundred-Year Overnight Success of Australian Women's Football" (NewSouth Books, 2019)
68 hours 21 mins; September 21, 2022
Mary J. Magoulick, "The Goddess Myth in Contemporary Literature and Popular Culture: A Feminist Critique" (UP of Mississippi, 2022)
43 mins; September 21, 2022
Aria S. Halliday, "Buy Black: How Black Women Transformed US Pop Culture" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
35 mins; September 16, 2022
Ethan Czuy Levine, "Rape by the Numbers: Producing and Contesting Scientific Knowledge about Sexual Violence" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
59 mins; September 13, 2022
Tamar Biala, "Dirshuni: Contemporary Women's Midrash" (Brandeis UP, 2022)
61 hours 12 mins; September 13, 2022
Book Talk 55: Courtney B. Hodrick and Amir Eshel on Hannah Arendt's "Rachel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewish Woman"
91 hours 6 mins; September 12, 2022
Elizabeth Quay Hutchison, "Workers Like All the Rest of Them: Domestic Service and the Rights of Labor in Twentieth-Century Chile" (Duke UP, 2022)
59 mins; September 12, 2022
Joanne Watson, "Empress Eugenie: A Footnote History, 1826-1920" (Grosvenor House, 2022)
92 hours 14 mins; September 12, 2022
Sarah Craze, "Atlantic Piracy in the Early Nineteenth Century: The Shocking Story of the Pirates and the Survivors of the Morning Star" (Boydell Press, 2022)
58 mins; September 09, 2022
Julia Margaret Zulver, "High-Risk Feminism in Colombia: Women's Mobilization in Violent Contexts" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
59 mins; September 08, 2022
Kate Mangino, "Equal Partners: Improving Gender Equality at Home" (St. Martin’s Press, 2022)
65 hours 39 mins; September 07, 2022
Marissa R. Moss, "Her Country: How the Women of Country Music Became the Success They Were Never Supposed to Be" (Henry Holt, 2022)
65 hours 26 mins; September 07, 2022
Aria S. Halliday, "Buy Black: How Black Women Transformed US Pop Culture" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
43 mins; September 01, 2022
John M. Kinder and Jason A. Higgins, "Service Denied: Marginalized Veterans in Modern American History" (U Massachusetts Press, 2022)
126 hours 21 mins; August 31, 2022
Jennifer Jill Fellows and Lisa Smith, "Gender, Sex, and Tech!: An Intersectional Feminist Guide" (Canadian Scholars, 2022)
50 mins; August 29, 2022
Wendy L. Rouse, "Public Faces, Secret Lives: A Queer History of the Women's Suffrage Movement" (NYU Press, 2022)
53 mins; August 29, 2022
Monica De La Torre, "Feminista Frequencies: Community Building through Radio in the Yakima Valley" (U Washington Press, 2022)
57 mins; August 24, 2022
On Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein"
35 mins; August 24, 2022
Alicia Gutierrez-Romine, "From Back Alley to the Border: Criminal Abortion in California, 1920-1969" (U Nebraska Press, 2020)
67 hours 32 mins; August 24, 2022
Philip Nash, "Clare Boothe Luce: American Renaissance Woman" (Routledge, 2022)
65 hours 56 mins; August 23, 2022
Karen Bauer and Feras Hamza, "An Anthology of Qur'anic Commentaries (vol. 2): On Women" (Oxford UP, 2022)
77 hours 5 mins; August 19, 2022
Amy Von Lintel and Bonnie Roos, "Three Women Artists: Expanding Abstract Expressionism in the American West" (Texas A&M UP, 2022)
44 mins; August 17, 2022
Linda Connolly and Tina O’Toole, "Documenting Irish Feminisms: The Second Wave" (Arlen House, 2022)
58 mins; August 17, 2022
Meenal Shrivastava, "Amma’s Daughters: A Memoir" (Athabasca UP, 2018)
59 mins; August 15, 2022
Joanna Bourke, "Disgrace: Global Reflections on Sexual Violence" (Reaktion Books, 2022)
49 mins; August 12, 2022
Sevgi Adak, "Anti-Veiling Campaigns in Turkey: State, Society and Gender in the Early Republic" (I. B. Tauris, 2022)
81 hours 23 mins; August 12, 2022
Andrea Karnes, "Women Painting Women" (Delmonico Books, 2022)
33 mins; August 11, 2022
Jane Juffer, "Millennial Feminism at Work: Bridging Theory and Practice" (Cornell UP, 2021)
71 hours 2 mins; August 11, 2022
Carolyn J. Eichner, "Feminism's Empire" (Cornell UP, 2022)
83 hours 43 mins; August 10, 2022
Carolyn J. Eichner, "Feminism's Empire" (Cornell UP, 2022)
83 hours 43 mins; August 10, 2022
On Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God"
37 mins; August 09, 2022
Miriam Thaggert, "Riding Jane Crow: African American Women on the American Railroad" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
38 mins; August 08, 2022
Tara Nurin, "A Woman's Place Is in the Brewhouse: A Forgotten History of Alewives, Brewsters, Witches, and CEOs" (Chicago Review Press, 2021)
47 mins; August 08, 2022
John Callow, "The Last Witches of England: A Tragedy of Sorcery and Superstition" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
56 mins; August 05, 2022
John Callow, "The Last Witches of England: A Tragedy of Sorcery and Superstition" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
56 mins; August 05, 2022
Nina Rattner Gelbart, "Minerva's French Sisters: Women of Science in Enlightenment France" (Yale UP, 2021)
54 mins; August 04, 2022
Charlie Jeffries, "Teenage Dreams: Girlhood Sexualities in the U.S. Culture Wars" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
62 hours 10 mins; August 03, 2022
Book Talk 54: Anne Fernald on Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway"
95 hours 44 mins; August 03, 2022
Megan Threlkeld, "Citizens of the World: U. S. Women and Global Government" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
44 mins; August 02, 2022
Skye Cleary, "How to Be Authentic: Simone de Beauvoir and the Quest for Fulfillment" (St. Martin's Press, 2022)
49 mins; July 27, 2022
Margarita R. Ochoa and Sara V. Guengerich, "Cacicas: The Indigenous Women Leaders of Spanish America, 1492-1825" (U Oklahoma Press, 2021)
67 hours 31 mins; July 26, 2022
Erika Balsom and Hila Peleg, "Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image" (MIT Press, 2022)
43 mins; July 20, 2022
Gabrielle David, "Trailblazers: Black Women Who Helped Make America Great, American Firsts/American Icons" (2leaf Press, 2021)
43 mins; July 20, 2022
Melanie Bell, "Movie Workers: The Women Who Made British Cinema" (U Illinois Press, 2021)
38 mins; July 19, 2022
Caryn Rose, "Why Patti Smith Matters" (U of Texas Press, 2022)
58 mins; July 19, 2022
Joy Wiltenburg, "Laughing Histories: From the Renaissance Man to the Woman of Wit" (Routledge, 2022)
51 mins; July 18, 2022
Beverley Chalmers, "Birth, Sex and Abuse: Women's Voices Under Nazi Rule" (Grosvenor House, 2015)
60 hours 28 mins; July 15, 2022
Hugh Ryan, "The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison" (Bold Type Books, 2022)
50 mins; July 14, 2022
Karen Offen, "Debating the Woman Question in the French Third Republic, 1870-1920" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
58 mins; July 14, 2022
Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman, "Second-Class Daughters: Black Brazilian Women and Informal Adoption as Modern Slavery" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
51 mins; July 13, 2022
John F. Sears, "Refuge Must Be Given: Eleanor Roosevelt, the Jewish Plight, and the Founding of Israel" (Purdue UP, 2021)
102 hours 2 mins; July 12, 2022
Alexandra Apolloni, "Freedom Girls: Voicing Femininity in 1960s British Pop" (Oxford UP, 2021)
63 hours 10 mins; July 11, 2022
Jennifer J. Hill, "Birthing the West: Mothers and Midwives in the Rockies and Plains" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)
50 mins; July 11, 2022
Penny Jane Burke et al., "Gender in an Era of Post-truth Populism: Pedagogies, Challenges and Strategies" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
49 mins; July 11, 2022
Shannen Dee Williams, "Subversive Habits: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle" (Duke UP, 2022)
54 mins; July 10, 2022
B. J. Crawford and E. G. Waldman, "Menstruation Matters: Challenging the Law's Silence on Periods" (NYU Press, 2022)
47 mins; July 08, 2022
H. H. Leonards, "Rosa Parks Beyond the Bus: Life, Lessons, and Leadership" (R. H. Boyd, 2022)
34 mins; July 08, 2022
Sarah Fox, "Giving Birth in Eighteenth-Century England" (U London Press, 2022)
39 mins; July 07, 2022
Ashley Remer and Tiffany Isselhardt, "Exploring American Girlhood through 50 Historic Treasures" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2021)
65 hours 50 mins; July 06, 2022
Jason D. Spraitz and Kendra N. Bowen, "Institutional Sexual Abuse in the #metoo Era" (Southern Illinois UP, 2021)
57 mins; July 01, 2022
Jasmina Tumbas, "I Am Jugoslovenka!: Feminist Performance Politics During and After Yugoslav Socialism" (Manchester UP, 2022)
69 hours 17 mins; July 01, 2022
Shannen Dee Williams, "Subversive Habits: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle" (Duke UP, 2022)
51 mins; June 30, 2022
Susan H. Brandt, "Women Healers: Gender, Authority, and Medicine in Early Philadelphia" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
60 hours 58 mins; June 29, 2022
Kirstin L. Squint ed., "Conversations with LeAnne Howe" (UP of Mississippi, 2022)
64 hours 29 mins; June 28, 2022
Claire Bellerjeau and Tiffany Yecke Brooks, "Espionage and Enslavement in the Revolution: The True Story of Robert Townsend and Elizabeth" (Lyons Press, 2021)
47 mins; June 28, 2022
Teresa Palomo Acosta, "Tejanaland: A Writing Life in Four Acts" (Texas A&M UP, 2021)
30 mins; June 24, 2022
Anne Gray Fischer, "The Streets Belong to Us: Sex, Race, and Police Power from Segregation to Gentrification" (UNC Press, 2022)
73 hours 4 mins; June 23, 2022
Natalie Lira, "Laboratory of Deficiency: Sterilization and Confinement in California, 1900-1950s" (U California Press, 2021)
56 mins; June 22, 2022
Carol A. Lipscomb, "The Lady Makes Boots: Enid Justin & the Nocona Boot Company" (Texas Tech UP, 2021)
65 hours 16 mins; June 21, 2022
Joshua Prager, "The Family Roe: An American Story" (W. W. Norton, 2021)
60 hours 28 mins; June 20, 2022
Elena Tajima Creef, "Shadow Traces: Seeing Japanese/American and Ainu Women in Photographic Archives" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
51 mins; June 17, 2022
Marga Vicedo, "Intelligent Love: The Story of Clara Park, Her Autistic Daughter, and the Myth of the Refrigerator Mother" (Beacon Press, 2021)
57 mins; June 17, 2022
James Uden, "Worlds of Knowledge in Women's Travel Writing" (Ilex Foundation, 2022)
44 mins; June 16, 2022
Lilianne Milgrom, "L' Origine: The Secret Life of the World's Most Erotic Masterpiece" (Girl Friday Books, 2021)
47 mins; June 15, 2022
Mary Sarah Bilder, "Female Genius: Eliza Harriot and George Washington at the Dawn of the Constitution" (U Virginia Press, 2022)
42 mins; June 15, 2022
Wanda M. Corn, "Georgia O'Keeffe: Living Modern" (Prestel Publishing, 2017)
63 hours 27 mins; June 14, 2022
Brandi Clay Brimmer, "Claiming Union Widowhood: Race, Respectability, and Poverty in the Post-Emancipation South" (Duke UP, 2020)
45 mins; June 14, 2022
Denisa NesƄåkovå and Katja Grosse-Sommer, "If This Is a Woman: Studies on Women and Gender in the Holocaust" (Academic Studies Press, 2021)
49 mins; June 13, 2022
Treva B. Lindsey, "America, Goddam: Violence, Black Women, and the Struggle for Justice" (U California Press, 2022)
51 mins; June 09, 2022
Melissa Ford, "A Brick and a Bible: Black Women's Radical Activism in the Midwest During the Great Depression" (Southern Illinois UP, 2022)
52 mins; June 06, 2022
Marc Raboy, "Looking for Alicia: The Unfinished Life of an Argentinian Rebel" (Oxford UP, 2022)
71 hours 24 mins; June 02, 2022
Mary Franklin and Hannah Burton, "She Being Dead Yet Speaketh: The Franklin Family Papers" (Iter Press, 2019)
42 mins; June 01, 2022
Andrew Leon Hanna, "25 Million Sparks: The Untold Story of Refugee Entrepreneurs" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
43 mins; June 01, 2022
Shelley Puhak, "The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
46 mins; May 31, 2022
Tracey Deutsch, "Building a Housewife's Paradise: Gender, Politics, and American Grocery Stores in the Twentieth Century" (UNC Press, 2010)
56 mins; May 31, 2022
Katherine Pangonis, "Queens of Jerusalem: The Women Who Dared to Rule" (Pegasus Books, 2022)
66 hours 6 mins; May 30, 2022
Stephen Vider, "The Queerness of Home: Gender, Sexuality, and the Politics of Domesticity After World War II" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
79 hours 38 mins; May 25, 2022
Catherine McCormack, "Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies" (Norton, 2021)
58 mins; May 23, 2022
Jeanne Baker Guy, "You'll Never Find Us: A Memoir" (She Writes Press, 2021)
62 hours 8 mins; May 20, 2022
Shannon L. Walsh, "Eugenics and Physical Culture Performance in the Progressive Era: Watch Whiteness Workout" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020)
71 hours 50 mins; May 19, 2022
Hyaeweol Choi, "Gender Politics at Home and Abroad: Protestant Modernity in Colonial-Era Korea" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
64 hours 27 mins; May 18, 2022
Irune Gabiola, "Affect, Ecofeminism, and Intersectional Struggles in Latin America: A Tribute to Berta CĂĄceres" (Peter Lang, 2020)
65 hours 7 mins; May 18, 2022
On Women of Color in American Islam
61 hours 31 mins; May 16, 2022
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