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Karen M. Dunak, "Our Jackie: Public Claims on a Private Life" (NYU Press, 2024)
37 mins; November 17, 2024
A. D. Bergin, "The Wicked of the Earth" (Northodox, 2024)
38 mins; November 17, 2024
Deborah Parker, "Becoming Belle Da Costa Greene: A Visionary Librarian Through Her Letters" (Villa I Tatti, 2024)
58 mins; November 16, 2024
Lucian Staiano-Daniels, "The War People: A Social History of Common Soldiers during the Era of the Thirty Years War" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
54 mins; November 15, 2024
We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance
55 mins; November 14, 2024
Alison Stone, "Women on Philosophy of Art: Britain 1770-1900" (Oxford UP, 2024)
59 mins; November 12, 2024
Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman, "What Are Children For?: On Ambivalence and Choice" (St. Martin's Press, 2024)
40 mins; November 12, 2024
Roxani Krystalli, "Good Victims: The Political as a Feminist Question" (Oxford UP, 2024)
60 hours 21 mins; November 11, 2024
Eve Dunbar, "Monstrous Work and Radical Satisfaction: Black Women Writing Under Segregation" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
46 mins; October 27, 2024
Margarette Lincoln, "Perfection: 400 Years of Women's Quest for Beauty" (Yale UP, 2024)
28 mins; October 26, 2024
Alexis Peri, "Dear Unknown Friend: The Remarkable Correspondence Between American and Soviet Women" (Harvard UP, 2024)
73 hours 44 mins; October 24, 2024
Arash Azizi, "What Iranians Want: Women, Life, Freedom" (Oneworld, 2024)
56 mins; October 23, 2024
Li-Hsiang Lisa Rosenlee, "Confucian Feminism: A Practical Ethic for Life" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
58 mins; October 20, 2024
Susan Grant, "Soviet Nightingales: Care Under Communism" (Cornell UP, 2022)
51 mins; October 19, 2024
Anne Higonnet, "Liberty Equality Fashion: The Women Who Styled the French Revolution" (Norton, 2024)
47 mins; October 18, 2024
Amy Reading, "The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at The New Yorker" (Mariner Books, 2024)
56 mins; October 18, 2024
Jennifer Lang, "Landed: A Yogi's Memoir in Pieces & Poses" (Vine Leaves Press, 2024)
44 mins; October 17, 2024
Meghana Joshi, "Children are Everywhere: Conspicuous Reproduction and Childlessness in Reunified Berlin" (Berghahn, 2024)
59 mins; October 15, 2024
Jackie Wang, "Alien Daughters Walk Into the Sun: An Almanac of Extreme Girlhood" (Semiotext(e), 2023)
78 hours 15 mins; October 14, 2024
Helena Taylor, "Women Writing Antiquity: Gender and Learning in Early Modern France" (Oxford UP, 2024)
61 hours 25 mins; October 12, 2024
Gretchen Sisson, "Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood" (St. Martin's Press, 2024)
69 hours 14 mins; October 12, 2024
Virginia Nicholson, "All the Rage: Power, Pain, Pleasure: Stories from the Frontline of Beauty 1860-1960" (Pegasus Books, 2024)
69 hours 40 mins; October 11, 2024
Aviva Dove-Viebahn, "There She Goes Again: Gender, Power, and Knowledge in Contemporary Film and Television Franchises" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
65 hours 55 mins; October 10, 2024
Christopher Paul Clohessy, "Half of My Heart: The Narratives of Zaynab, Daughter of AlĂź" (Gorgias Press, 2020)
40 mins; October 06, 2024
Iris Jamahl Dunkle, "Riding Like the Wind: The Life of Sanora Babb" (U California Press, 2024)
52 mins; October 06, 2024
Black Woman on Board: Claudia Hampton, the California State University, and the Fight to Save Affirmative Action
59 mins; October 03, 2024
Deepa Das Acevedo, "The Battle for Sabarimala: Religion, Law, and Gender in Contemporary India" (Oxford UP, 2024)
33 mins; October 03, 2024
Jennifer Mooney, "Feminist Discourse in Irish Literature: Gender and Power in Louise O'Neill's Young Adult Fiction" (Routledge, 2022)
59 mins; September 28, 2024
Inger Sigrun BredkjĂŠr Brodey, "Jane Austen and the Price of Happiness" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)
47 mins; September 28, 2024
Charmian Mansell, "Female Servants in Early Modern England" (Oxford UP, 2024)
49 mins; September 26, 2024
Karen Bauer and Feras Hamza, "Women, Households, and the Hereafter in the Qur'an: A Patronage of Piety" (Oxford UP/Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2023)
84 hours 49 mins; September 26, 2024
Jane Little Botkin, "The Pink Dress: A Memoir of a Reluctant Beauty Queen" (She Writes Press, 2024)
39 mins; September 24, 2024
Francis Stevens, "The Heads of Cerberus and Other Stories" (MIT Press, 2024)
40 mins; September 23, 2024
Emily Carman, "Independent Stardom: Freelance Women in the Hollywood Studio System" (U Texas Press, 2016)
75 hours 8 mins; September 22, 2024
Aideen O’Shaughnessy, "Embodying Irish Abortion Reform: Bodies, Emotions, and Feminist Activism" (Bristol UP, 2024)
47 mins; September 21, 2024
Felia Allum, "Women of the Mafia: Power and Influence in the Neapolitan Camorra" (Cornell UP, 2024)
53 mins; September 21, 2024
Joanna Allan, "Silenced Resistance: Women, Dictatorships, and Genderwashing in Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea" (U Wisconsin Press, 2019)
58 mins; September 20, 2024
Alexis Pauline Gumbs, "Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde" (FSG, 2024)
55 mins; September 19, 2024
Martha Rampton, "Trafficking with Demons: Magic, Ritual, and Gender from Late Antiquity to 1000" (Cornell UP, 2021)
56 mins; September 09, 2024
Kaitlin Sidorsky, "All Roads Lead to Power: The Appointed and Elected Paths to Public Office for US Women" (UP Kansas, 2019)
52 mins; September 09, 2024
Ana Stevenson, "The Woman as Slave in Nineteenth-Century American Social Movements" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
54 mins; September 08, 2024
Tracy Fessenden, “Religion Around Billie Holiday” (Penn State UP, 2018)
63 hours 19 mins; September 08, 2024
Alison Fragale, "Likeable Badass: The New Science of Successful Women" (Doubleday Books, 2024)
46 mins; September 07, 2024
Karen Ordahl Kupperman, "Pocahontas and the English Boys: Caught Between Cultures in Early Virginia" (NYU Press, 2019)
51 mins; September 01, 2024
Colette Brull-Ulmann et al., "Through the Morgue Door: One Woman’s Story of Survival and Saving Children in German-Occupied Paris" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
188 hours 45 mins; September 01, 2024
Steve Moriarty, "Mia Zapata and the Gits: A True Story of Art, Rock and Revolution" (Ferel House, 2024)
55 mins; August 26, 2024
Adam Zamoyski, "Izabela the Valiant: The Story of an Indomitable Polish Princess" (William Collins, 2024)
56 mins; August 24, 2024
Ren Pepitone, "Brotherhood of Barristers: A Cultural History of the British Legal Profession, 1840–1940" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
58 mins; August 22, 2024
Karen Patel, "Craft as a Creative Industry" (Routledge, 2024)
51 mins; August 20, 2024
Vanessa S. Oliveira, "Slave Trade and Abolition: Gender, Commerce, and Economic Transition in Luanda" (U Wisconsin Press, 2021)
67 hours 5 mins; August 18, 2024
Carole Ammann, "Women, Agency, and the State in Guinea: Silent Politics" (Routledge, 2020)
92 hours 20 mins; August 18, 2024
Crystal Wilkinson, "Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks" (Clarkson Potter, 2023)
55 mins; August 14, 2024
Aimee Louise Middlemiss, "Invisible Labours: The Reproductive Politics of Second Trimester Pregnancy Loss in England" (Berghahn Books, 2024)
45 mins; August 12, 2024
Jessica Roda, "For Women and Girls Only: Reshaping Jewish Orthodoxy Through the Arts in the Digital Age" (NYU Press, 2024)
67 hours 43 mins; August 06, 2024
Alexandra Popoff, "Ayn Rand: Writing a Gospel of Success" (Yale UP, 2024)
60 hours 3 mins; August 06, 2024
Emily Cousens, "Trans Feminist Epistemologies in the US Second Wave" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
46 mins; August 06, 2024
Race, Gender, and the 2024 Presidential Election Cycle
51 mins; August 05, 2024
Anne Gray Fischer, "The Streets Belong to Us: Sex, Race, and Police Power from Segregation to Gentrification" (UNC Press, 2022)
74 hours 4 mins; August 05, 2024
Anna Bonnell Freidin, "Birthing Romans: Childbearing and Its Risks in Imperial Rome" (Princeton UP, 2024)
100 hours 23 mins; August 05, 2024
Nadirah Simmons, "First Things First: Hip-Hop Ladies Who Changed the Game" (Twelve, 2024)
77 hours 16 mins; August 04, 2024
Janine P. Holc, "The Weavers of Trautenau: Jewish Female Forced Labor in the Holocaust" (Brandeis UP, 2023)
55 mins; August 04, 2024
Yiman Wang, "To Be an Actress: Labor and Performance in Anna May Wong's Cross-Media World" (U California Press, 2024)
60 hours 16 mins; August 04, 2024
Susan Stryker, "When Monsters Speak: A Susan Stryker Reader" (Duke UP, 2024)
60 hours 15 mins; August 03, 2024
Iman Mersal, "Traces of Enayat" (Transit Books, 2023)
63 hours 13 mins; August 03, 2024
Tisha Brooks, "Spirit Deep: Recovering the Sacred in Black Women’s Travel" (U Virginia Press, 2023)
37 mins; August 02, 2024
Jane-Marie Collins, "Emancipatory Narratives & Enslaved Motherhood: Bahia, Brazil, 1830-1888" (Liverpool UP, 2023)
79 hours 6 mins; August 01, 2024
Justin B. Stein, "Alternate Currents: Reiki’s Circulation in the Twentieth-Century North Pacific" (U Hawaii Press, 2023)
56 mins; July 27, 2024
Daisy Dunn, "The Missing Thread: How Women Shaped the Course of Ancient History" (Viking, 2024)
24 mins; July 26, 2024
Sonia-Doris Andras, "The Women of 'Little Paris': Women’s Fashion in Interwar Bucharest" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
41 mins; July 26, 2024
Suzanne Scanlon, "Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen" (Vintage, 2024)
62 hours 34 mins; July 23, 2024
Tiffany Gill, "To Turn the Whole World Over: Black Women and Internationalism" (U Illinois Press, 2019)
40 mins; July 21, 2024
Breanne Fahs, "Burn It Down: Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution" (Verso, 2020)
58 mins; July 21, 2024
Stephanie Balkwill, "The Women Who Ruled China: Buddhism, Multiculturalism, and Governance in the Sixth Century" (U California Press, 2024)
66 hours 54 mins; July 20, 2024
Diana P. Parsell, "Eliza Scidmore: The Trailblazing Journalist Behind Washington's Cherry Trees" (Oxford UP, 2023)
60 hours 51 mins; July 18, 2024
Mahjabeen Dhala, "Feminist Theology and Social Justice in Islam: A Study on the Sermon of Fatima" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
74 hours 48 mins; July 17, 2024
Sarah Milton, "Ageing and New Intimacies: Gender, Sexuality and Temporality in an English Salsa Scene" (Manchester UP, 2024)
53 mins; July 17, 2024
Nuria Silleras-Fernandez, "The Politics of Emotion: Love, Grief, and Madness in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia" (Cornell UP, 2024)
60 hours 17 mins; July 17, 2024
Kristen R. Ghodsee, "Second World, Second Sex: Socialist Women's Activism and Global Solidarity during the Cold War" (Duke UP, 2019)
71 hours 29 mins; July 14, 2024
Heidi Honeycutt, "I Spit on Your Celluloid: The History of Women Directing Horror Movies" (Headpress, 2024)
49 mins; July 12, 2024
Kellie Carter Jackson, "We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance" (Seal Press, 2024)
57 mins; July 10, 2024
Benjamin J. B. Lipscomb, "The Women Are Up to Something: How Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch Revolutionized Ethics" (Oxford UP, 2021)
43 mins; July 09, 2024
Paige Reynolds, "Modernism in Irish Women's Contemporary Writing: The Stubborn Mode" (Oxford UP, 2023)
58 mins; July 09, 2024
Donna Drucker, "Contraception: A Concise History" (The MIT Press, 2020)
23 mins; July 08, 2024
Darshana Sreedhar Mini, "Rated A: Soft-Porn Cinema and Mediations of Desire in India" (U California Press, 2024)
82 hours 10 mins; July 07, 2024
Elizabeth Storr Cohen and Marlee J. Couling, "Non-Elite Women's Networks Across the Early Modern World" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)
47 mins; July 06, 2024
Marsha Gordon, "Becoming the Ex-Wife: The Unconventional Life and Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott" (U California Press, 2024)
67 hours 33 mins; July 05, 2024
Elizabeth Aislinn O'Brien, "Surgery and Salvation: The Roots of Reproductive Injustice in Mexico, 1770-1940" (UNC Press, 2023)
53 mins; July 05, 2024
Michelle T. King, "Chop Fry Watch Learn: Fu Pei-Mei and the Making of Modern Chinese Food" (Norton, 2024)
45 mins; July 03, 2024
Sigrid Schönfelder, "'Gold Fever' and Women: Transformations in Lives, Health Care and Medicine in the 19th Century American West" (Transcript, 2023)
45 mins; July 03, 2024
Oneka LaBennett, "Global Guyana: Shaping Race, Gender, and Environment in the Caribbean and Beyond" (NYU Press, 2024)
53 mins; July 03, 2024
Holly Ashford, "Development and Women's Reproductive Health in Ghana, 1920-1982" (Routledge, 2022)
54 mins; July 02, 2024
Maryna Shevtsova, "Feminist Perspective on Russia’s War in Ukraine: Hear Our Voices" (Lexington Books, 2024)
45 mins; June 30, 2024
Nancy Woloch, "Women and the American Experience: A Concise History" (Routledge, 2024)
50 mins; June 29, 2024
Nicola Clark, "The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens" (Norton, 2024)
59 mins; June 28, 2024
Ann Powers, "Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell" (Dey Street Books, 2024)
51 mins; June 24, 2024
Nina Edwards, "The Virtues of Underwear: Modesty, Flamboyance, and Filth (Reaktion Books, 2024)
31 mins; June 23, 2024
Allison Elias, "The Rise of Corporate Feminism: Women in the American Office, 1960-1990" (Columbia UP, 2022)
49 mins; June 22, 2024
Paula Marie Seniors, "Mae Mallory, the Monroe Defense Committee, and World Revolutions: African American Women Radical Activists" (U Georgia Press, 2024)
46 mins; June 22, 2024
Keja L. Valens, "Culinary Colonialism, Caribbean Cookbooks, and Recipes for National Independence" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
64 hours 40 mins; June 22, 2024
Jennifer S. Clark, "Producing Feminism: Television Work in the Age of Women's Liberation" (U California Press, 2024)
48 mins; June 21, 2024
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