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Jennifer D. Ortegren, "Middle-Class Dharma: Gender, Aspiration, and the Making of Contemporary Hinduism" (Oxford UP, 2023)

40 mins; September 21, 2023

Molly Ladd-Taylor, "Fixing the Poor: Eugenic Sterilization and Child Welfare in the Twentieth Century" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)

37 mins; September 20, 2023

Elyse Semerdjian, "Remnants: Embodied Archives of the Armenian Genocide" (Stanford UP, 2023)

84 hours 44 mins; September 20, 2023

Maria Smilios, "The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis" (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2023)

41 mins; September 19, 2023

Deanne Williams, "Girl Culture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance: Performance and Pedagogy" (Arden Shakespeare, 2023)

56 mins; September 18, 2023

Margaret Galvan, "In Visible Archives: Queer and Feminist Visual Culture in the 1980s" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)

54 mins; September 16, 2023

Gregory Cahill, "The Golden Voice: The Ballad of Cambodian Rock's Lost Queen" (Life Drawn, 2023)

77 hours 6 mins; September 14, 2023

Brides of Christ (with Sr Mary Josefa of the Eucharist)

48 mins; September 14, 2023

Jo Shaw and Ben Fletcher-Watson, "The Art of Being Dangerous: Exploring Women and Danger through Creative Expression" (Leuven UP, 2021)

26 mins; September 13, 2023

A Better Way to Buy Books

34 mins; September 12, 2023

Robyn Muir, "The Disney Princess Phenomenon: A Feminist Analysis" (Bristol UP, 2023)

70 hours 8 mins; September 11, 2023

Helen Hester and Nick Srnicek, "After Work: A History of the Home and the Fight for Free Time" (Verso, 2023)

48 mins; September 06, 2023

Tomaz Jardim, "Ilse Koch on Trial: Making the 'Bitch of Buchenwald'" (Harvard UP, 2023)

56 mins; September 06, 2023

Andrew Chan, "Why Mariah Carey Matters" (U Texas Press, 2023)

60 hours 33 mins; September 05, 2023

Kristal Brent Zook, "The Girl in the Yellow Poncho: A Memoir" (Duke UP, 2023)

33 mins; September 05, 2023

Suzy Kim, "Among Women Across Worlds: North Korea in the Global Cold War" (Cornell UP, 2023)

71 hours 35 mins; September 04, 2023

Diana W. Anselmo, "A Queer Way of Feeling: Girl Fans and Personal Archives of Early Hollywood" (U California Press, 2023)

64 hours 39 mins; September 02, 2023

Heike Bauer et al., "Jewish Women in Comics: Bodies and Borders" (Syracuse UP, 2022)

55 mins; September 02, 2023

Sarah Clegg, "Women's Lore: 4,000 Years of Sirens, Serpents and Succubi" (Apollo, 2023)

48 mins; September 01, 2023

Anna Kathryn Grau and Lisa Colton, "Female-Voice Song and Women's Musical Agency in the Middle Ages" (Brill, 2022)

61 hours 16 mins; September 01, 2023

Marion Holmes Katz, "Wives and Work: Islamic Law and Ethics Before Modernity" (Columbia UP, 2022)

104 hours 48 mins; September 01, 2023

Tomiko Brown-Nagin, "Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality" (Knopf Doubleday, 2023)

61 hours 43 mins; August 30, 2023

Donna J. Drucker, "Fertility Technology" (MIT Press, 2023)

30 mins; August 29, 2023

David Waldstreicher, "The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet's Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence" (FSG, 2023)

69 hours 43 mins; August 28, 2023

Chesya Burke, "Hero Me Not: The Containment of the Most Powerful Black, Female Superhero" (Rutgers UP, 2023)

57 mins; August 25, 2023

Corina Rodríguez Enríquez and Masaya Llavaneras Blanco, "Corporate Capture of Development: Public-Private Partnerships, Women’s Human Rights, and Global Resistance" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

35 mins; August 23, 2023

PostScript: The Barbie Movie: A Conversation about a Cinematic and Cultural Event

62 hours 55 mins; August 23, 2023

Brooke Kroeger, "Undaunted: How Women Changed American Journalism" (Knopf, 2023)

45 mins; August 21, 2023

Tanya Evans, "Family History, Historical Consciousness and Citizenship: A New Social History" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

44 mins; August 20, 2023

Jamila Rodrigues, "Sufi Women, Embodiment and the 'Self': Gender in Islamic Ritual" (Routledge, 2023)

58 mins; August 18, 2023

Sara Beam, "Trial of Jeanne Catherine: Infanticide in Early Modern Geneva" (U Toronto Press, 2020)

53 mins; August 14, 2023

Marsha Gordon, "Becoming the Ex-Wife: The Unconventional Life and Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott" (U California Press, 2023)

53 mins; August 13, 2023

Ashley Robertson Preston, "Mary Mcleod Bethune the Pan-Africanist" (UP of Florida, 2023)

28 mins; August 12, 2023

Michell D. Jones and Elisabeth A. Nelson, "Besides, Who Would Believe a Prisoner?: Indiana Women's Carceral Institutions, 1848-1920" (New Press, 2023)

64 hours 24 mins; August 09, 2023

Sharon Thompson, "Quiet Revolutionaries: The Married Women's Association and Family Law" (Hart Publishing, 2022)

56 mins; August 06, 2023

Michèle Miller Sigg, "Birthing Revival: Women and Mission in Nineteenth-Century France" (Baylor UP, 2022)

96 hours 35 mins; August 05, 2023

Falguni A. Sheth, "Unruly Women: Race, Neocolonialism, and the Hijab" (Oxford UP, 2022)

43 mins; August 04, 2023

Olivier Burtin, "A Nation of Veterans: War, Citizenship, and the Welfare State in Modern America" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)

43 mins; August 03, 2023

Alix Beeston and Stefan Solomon, "Incomplete: The Feminist Possibilities of the Unfinished Film" (U California Press, 2023)

59 mins; August 02, 2023

Courtney Adams Wooten, "Childfree and Happy: Transforming the Rhetoric of Women's Reproductive Choices" (Utah State UP, 2023)

43 mins; August 02, 2023

Breaking Out: An Indian Woman's American Journey

15 mins; July 31, 2023

Petra Bueskens, "Modern Motherhood and Women’s Dual Identities: Rewriting the Sexual Contract" (Routledge, 2018)

69 hours 0 mins; July 27, 2023

Michelle Dowd, "Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult--A Memoir" (Algonquin, 2023)

53 mins; July 26, 2023

Melissa Shew and Kimberly Garchar, "Philosophy for Girls: An Invitation to the Life of Thought" (Oxford UP, 2020)

71 hours 58 mins; July 25, 2023

Nicole Evelina, "America's Forgotten Suffragists: Virginia and Francis Minor" (Two Dot Books, 2023)

44 mins; July 24, 2023

Postscript: Is it Unconstitutional to Take Guns Away from Domestic Abusers?

54 mins; July 24, 2023

Kathleen Lubey, "What Pornography Knows: Sex and Social Protest Since the Eighteenth Century" (Stanford UP, 2022)

71 hours 14 mins; July 24, 2023

Robert Payne, "Reimagining the Family: Lesbian Mothering in Contemporary French Literature" (Peter Lang, 2021)

55 mins; July 23, 2023

Howard Fishman, "To Anyone Who Ever Asks: The Life, Music, and Mystery of Connie Converse" (Dutton, 2023)

54 mins; July 22, 2023

Monica Liu, "Seeking Western Men: Email-Order Brides Under China's Global Rise" (Stanford UP, 2022)

48 mins; July 19, 2023

Miranda Corcoran, "Witchcraft and Adolescence in American Popular Culture: Teen Witches" (U Wales Press, 2022)

60 hours 19 mins; July 19, 2023

African American Women on the American Railroad: A Conversation with Miriam Thaggert

56 mins; July 17, 2023

Michele Meek, "Consent Culture and Teen Films: Adolescent Sexuality in US Movies" (Indiana UP, 2023)

47 mins; July 17, 2023

Brianna Holt, "In Our Shoes: On Being a Young Black Woman in Not-So 'Post-Racial' America" (Plume Books, 2023)

43 mins; July 16, 2023

Jenna Grant, "Fixing the Image: Ultrasound and the Visuality of Care in Phnom Penh" (U Washington Press, 2022)

44 mins; July 15, 2023

Sara Moslener, "Virgin Nation: Sexual Purity and American Adolescence" (Oxford UP, 2015)

56 mins; July 15, 2023

Nikki M. Taylor, "Brooding over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women's Lethal Resistance" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

30 mins; July 15, 2023

Dana Rubin, "Speaking While Female: 75 Extraordinary Speeches by American Women" (RealClear, 2023)

49 mins; July 13, 2023

Robin Steedman, "Creative Hustling: Women Making and Distributing Films from Nairobi" (MIT Press, 2023)

37 mins; July 06, 2023

Kristina Horn Sheeler and Karrin Vasby Anderson, "Woman President: Confronting Postfeminist Political Culture" (Texas A&M Press, 2013)

61 hours 42 mins; July 06, 2023

Sarah Banet-Weiser and Kathryn C. Higgins, "Believability: Sexual Violence, Media, and the Politics of Doubt" (Polity Press, 2023)

52 mins; July 05, 2023

Peggy O'Donnell Heffington, "Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother" (Seal Press, 2023)

50 mins; July 02, 2023

Anna Müller, "An Ordinary Life?: The Journeys of Tonia Lechtman, 1918-1996" (Ohio UP, 2023)

73 hours 50 mins; June 30, 2023

Lynsey Black, "Gender and Punishment in Ireland: Women, Murder and the Death Penalty, 1922-64" (Manchester UP, 2022)

38 mins; June 27, 2023

Rebecca Whiteley, "Birth Figures: Early Modern Prints and the Pregnant Body" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

38 mins; June 26, 2023

The Singer Sewing Machine in Spain and Mexico: Multinational Business, Gender, and Technologies

80 hours 33 mins; June 26, 2023

Svetlana Kochkina, "Frances Burney’s 'Evelina': The Book, its History, and its Paratext" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)

53 mins; June 25, 2023

Lisabeth During, "The Chastity Plot" (U Chicago Press, 2021)

38 mins; June 21, 2023

Yue Du, "State and Family in China" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

75 hours 0 mins; June 19, 2023

Anna Piela, "Wearing the Niqab: Muslim Women in the UK and the US" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

54 mins; June 16, 2023

Tanvi Srivastava, trans., "The War Diary of Asha-san: From Tokyo to Netaji's Indian National Army" (Harper Collins, 2022)

44 mins; June 15, 2023

Judith Hicks Stiehm, "Janet Reno: A Life" (UP of Florida, 2023)

23 mins; June 14, 2023

Alison S. Fell, "Warrior Women: The Cultural Politics of Armed Women, c.1850-1945" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

30 mins; June 14, 2023

Payal Arora et al., "Feminist Futures of Work: Reimagining Labour in the Digital Economy" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)

40 mins; June 12, 2023

Jacqueline Beatty, "In Dependence: Women and the Patriarchal State in Revolutionary America" (NYU Press, 2023)

51 mins; June 11, 2023

Randy Grigsby, "This Labyrinth of Darkness and Light: Henrietta Szold, the Rescue of Children from Hitler's Europe and Her Palestine Experience" (Vallentine Mitchell, 2022)

54 mins; June 08, 2023

Athene Donald, "Not Just for the Boys: Why We Need More Women in Science" (Oxford UP, 2023)

36 mins; June 07, 2023

Feminism Against Progress: A Conversation with Mary Harrington

50 mins; June 06, 2023

Gladys L. Mitchell-Walthour, "The Politics of Survival: Black Women Social Welfare Beneficiaries in Brazil and the United States" (Columbia UP, 2023)

90 hours 34 mins; June 04, 2023

Amber Knight and Joshua Miller, "Prenatal Genetic Testing, Abortion, and Disability Justice" (Oxford UP, 2023)

38 mins; June 01, 2023

Tazeen M. Ali, "The Women’s Mosque of America: Authority and Community in US Islam" (NYU Press, 2022)

33 mins; May 28, 2023

Michaela Chamberlain, "Misogyny in Psychoanalysis" (Phoenix Publishing House, 2022)

63 hours 56 mins; May 27, 2023

Baba Padmanji, "Yamuna's Journey" (Speaking Tiger Books, 2022)

40 mins; May 25, 2023

Heather Augustyn, "Rude Girls: Women in 2 Tone and One Step Beyond" (2023)

57 mins; May 25, 2023

Robert F. Trager and Joslyn N. Barnhart, "The Suffragist Peace: How Women's Votes Lead to Fewer Wars" (Oxford UP, 2022)

66 hours 5 mins; May 25, 2023

Sarah Mellors Rodriguez, "Reproductive Realities in Modern China: Birth Control and Abortion, 1911-2021" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

66 hours 0 mins; May 24, 2023

Amanda Parrish Morgan, "Stroller" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

49 mins; May 24, 2023

After the Pill: A Conversation with Mary Eberstadt

48 mins; May 23, 2023

Reclaiming a Lost Vision of Feminism: A Conversation with Erika Bachiochi

54 mins; May 23, 2023

Full Version: Lauren Fournier and McKenzie Wark on Autotheory

95 hours 28 mins; May 23, 2023

Rebecca Brückmann, "Massive Resistance and Southern Womanhood: White Women, Class, and Segregation" (U Georgia Press, 2021)

70 hours 42 mins; May 22, 2023

Srila Roy, "Changing the Subject: Feminist and Queer Politics in Neoliberal India" (Duke UP, 2022)

77 hours 10 mins; May 22, 2023

Muse, Odalisque, Handmaiden: A Girl's Life in the Incredible String Band

64 hours 55 mins; May 22, 2023

Alicia Gutierrez-Romine, "From Back Alley to the Border: Criminal Abortion in California, 1920-1969" (U Nebraska Press, 2020)

55 mins; May 21, 2023

Christopher H. Evans, "Do Everything: The Biography of Frances Willard" (Oxford UP, 2022)

59 mins; May 21, 2023

Julia Serano, "Sexed Up: How Society Sexualizes Us, and How We Can Fight Back" (Seal Press, 2022)

59 mins; May 20, 2023

Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism

44 mins; May 19, 2023

Ithell Colquhoun: Genius of The Fern Loved Gully

57 mins; May 19, 2023

America & Democracy Ep. 3: Carol A. Stabile on the Red Scare

42 mins; May 18, 2023

Catherine Russell, "The Cinema of Barbara Stanwyck: Twenty-Six Short Essays on a Working Star" (U Illinois Press, 2023)

42 mins; May 17, 2023

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