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Robert O'Mochain and Yuki Ueno, "Sexual Abuse and Education in Japan: In the (Inter)National Shadows" (Routledge, 2022)
57 mins; February 01, 2023
Andrea Dara Cooper, "Gendering Modern Jewish Thought" (Indiana UP, 2021)
62 hours 32 mins; January 31, 2023
Book Talk 57: Anne Fernald and Rajgopal Saikumar on Virginia Woolf's "Three Guineas" (1938)
69 hours 35 mins; January 30, 2023
Vona Groarke, "Hereafter: The Telling Life of Ellen O'Hara" (NYU Press, 2022)
48 mins; January 29, 2023
Shailaja Paik, "The Vulgarity of Caste: Dalits, Sexuality, and Humanity in Modern India" (Stanford UP, 2022)
63 hours 40 mins; January 27, 2023
Sheri Brenden, "Break Point: Two Minnesota Athletes and the Road to Title IX" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
48 mins; January 25, 2023
Oline Eaton, "Finding Jackie: The Second Act of America's First Lady" (Diversion Books, 2023)
57 mins; January 24, 2023
Gregory Pfitzer, "'Fame Is Not Just for the Fellas': Female Renown and the Childhood of Famous Americans Series" (U Massachusetts Press, 2022)
50 mins; January 23, 2023
Contextualizing the Iranian Protests: The Role of Women in Leading the Change
47 mins; January 23, 2023
Wolfgang P. Müller, "Marriage Litigation in the Western Church, 1215-1517" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
53 mins; January 21, 2023
Emily A. Owens, "Consent in the Presence of Force: Sexual Violence and Black Women's Survival in Antebellum New Orleans" (UNC Press, 2023)
92 hours 37 mins; January 19, 2023
We Shall Overcome: Sister Thea Bowman and the Black Catholic Experience
59 mins; January 18, 2023
Marion Turner, "The Wife of Bath: A Biography" (Princeton UP, 2023)
46 mins; January 17, 2023
Lisa Biggs, "The Healing Stage: Black Women, Incarceration, and the Art of Transformation" (Ohio State UP, 2022)
67 hours 32 mins; January 16, 2023
Marlene Schäfers, "Voices That Matter: Kurdish Women at the Limits of Representation in Contemporary Turkey" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
39 mins; January 16, 2023
Holy Paradox and St. Teresa of Ávila: Mysticism in Sixteenth Century Spain
54 mins; January 15, 2023
Benjamin Hegarty, "The Made-Up State: Technology, Trans Femininity, and Citizenship in Indonesia" (Cornell UP, 2022)
62 hours 33 mins; January 15, 2023
Donna Stein, "Archaeology of Metaphor: The Art of Gilah Yelin Hirsch" (Skira, 2022)
40 mins; January 14, 2023
Marxists and Mystics: A Vatican Journalist Discusses her Biography of Madeleine Delbrêl and the New Papal Constitution
54 mins; January 13, 2023
Kaiama L. Glover, "A Regarded Self: Caribbean Womanhood and the Ethics of Disorderly Being" (Duke UP, 2021)
60 hours 14 mins; January 13, 2023
Sarah Imhoff, "The Lives of Jessie Sampter: Queer, Disabled, Zionist" (Duke UP, 2022)
67 hours 21 mins; January 11, 2023
Poverty, Race, and Rural Sanitation
60 hours 49 mins; January 10, 2023
The History of Household Technology from Open Hearth to the Microwave
74 hours 12 mins; January 09, 2023
Zen Chaplaincy, Activism, and Scholarship
56 mins; January 09, 2023
Ellen Cassedy, "Working 9 to 5: A Women's Movement, a Labor Union, and the Iconic Movie" (Chicago Review Press, 2022)
49 mins; January 06, 2023
The 'Queens of the Arabs' during the Neo-Assyrian Period
72 hours 12 mins; January 03, 2023
Mairead Sullivan, "Lesbian Death: Desire and Danger Between Feminist and Queer" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
57 mins; January 01, 2023
Felicity M. Turner, "Proving Pregnancy: Gender, Law, and Medical Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century America" (UNC Press, 2022)
64 hours 39 mins; January 01, 2023
Divine Intoxication: A Discussion about Alcoholism, Grace, Sainthood, and Women in the Church
58 mins; January 01, 2023
Zachary Schrag, "The Princeton Guide to Historical Research" (Princeton UP, 2021)
42 mins; December 31, 2022
Samsi, Queen of the Arabs
27 mins; December 30, 2022
Eve Golden, "Jayne Mansfield: The Girl Couldn't Help It" (UP of Kentucky, 2021)
27 mins; December 25, 2022
Lauren N. Haumesser, "The Democratic Collapse: How Gender Politics Broke a Party and a Nation, 1856-1861" (UNC Press, 2022)
41 mins; December 23, 2022
Rumya Sree Putcha, "The Dancer's Voice: Performance and Womanhood in Transnational India" (Duke UP, 2022)
79 hours 1 min; December 22, 2022
Lyzette Wanzer, "Trauma, Tresses, and Truth: Untangling Our Hair Through Personal Narratives" (Chicago Review Press, 2022)
19 mins; December 21, 2022
Jane Freeland, "Feminist Transformations and Domestic Violence Activism in Divided Berlin, 1968-2002" (Oxford UP, 2022)
57 mins; December 20, 2022
Sonya Y. Ramsey, "Bertha Maxwell-Roddey: A Modern-Day Race Woman and the Power of Black Leadership" (UP of Florida, 2022)
61 hours 11 mins; December 18, 2022
Neil Baldwin, "Martha Graham: When Dance Became Modern" (Knopf, 2022)
63 hours 31 mins; December 17, 2022
Rebecca Ingram, "Women's Work: How Culinary Cultures Shaped Modern Spain" (Vanderbilt UP, 2022)
56 mins; December 16, 2022
Ying-Chen Peng, "Artful Subversion: Empress Dowager Cixi's Image Making" (Yale UP, 2023)
60 hours 44 mins; December 15, 2022
Amanda Wangwright, "The Golden Key: Women Artists and Gender Negotiations in Republican China (1911-1949)" (Brill, 2020)
47 mins; December 14, 2022
Natasha Lasky, "Britney Spears's Blackout" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
76 hours 20 mins; December 11, 2022
Jane Stevenson, "Women and Latin in the Early Modern Period" (Brill, 2022)
55 mins; December 10, 2022
On Virginia Woolf’s "Mrs Dalloway"
37 mins; December 08, 2022
Inna Perheentupa, "Feminist Politics in Neoconservative Russia: An Ethnography of Resistance and Resources" (Policy Press, 2022)
31 mins; December 08, 2022
Barbara E. Mattick, "Teaching in Black and White: The Sisters of St. Joseph in the American South" (Catholic U of America Press
45 mins; December 07, 2022
Virginia L. Summey, "The Life of Elreta Melton Alexander: Activism within the Courts" (U Georgia Press, 2022)
56 mins; December 07, 2022
Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell, "Skirts: Fashioning Modern Femininity in the Twentieth Century" (St. Martin's Press, 2022)
41 mins; December 05, 2022
Cathy McClive, "The Art of Childbirth: A Seventeenth-Century Midwife's Epistolary Treatise to Doctor Vallant" (Iter Press, 2022)
54 mins; December 05, 2022
Jasmine Calver, "Anti-Fascism, Gender, and International Communism: The Comité Mondial Des Femmes Contre la Guerre et Le Fascisme, 1934-1941" (Routledge, 2022)
68 hours 37 mins; December 05, 2022
Jennifer Smith, "Women, Mysticism, and Hysteria in Fin-De-Siècle Spain" (Vanderbilt UP, 2021)
30 mins; December 03, 2022
On Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre"
37 mins; December 02, 2022
Zaure Batayeva and Shelley Fairweather-Vega, "Amanat: Women's Writing from Kazakhstan" (Gaudy Boy, 2022)
35 mins; December 02, 2022
Kwasi Konadu, "Many Black Women of this Fortress: Graça, Mónica and Adwoa, Three Enslaved Women of Portugal's African Empire" (Hurst, 2022)
115 hours 36 mins; November 28, 2022
Cornelia Spelman, "Missing" (Jackleg Press, 2022)
40 mins; November 28, 2022
Gregory Nobles, "The Education of Betsey Stockton: An Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
57 mins; November 25, 2022
Tara T. Green, "Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
52 mins; November 25, 2022
Amina Wadud, "Once in a Lifetime" (Kantara Press, 2022)
66 hours 59 mins; November 25, 2022
Stephen Galloway, "Truly, Madly: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, and the Romance of the Century" (Grand Central, 2022)
56 mins; November 25, 2022
Catherine N. Wineinger, "Gendering the GOP: Intraparty Politics and Republican Women's Representation in Congress" (Oxford UP, 2022)
43 mins; November 24, 2022
Jeanne Theoharis, "The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks" (Beacon Press, 2015)
62 hours 30 mins; November 23, 2022
Dawne Y. Curry, "Social Justice at Apartheid's Dawn: African Women Intellectuals and the Quest to Save the Nation" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
81 hours 7 mins; November 21, 2022
Sophie Lewis, "Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation" (Verso, 2022)
60 hours 23 mins; November 18, 2022
Riché Richardson, "Emancipation's Daughters: Re-Imagining Black Femininity and the National Body" (Duke UP, 2020)
69 hours 9 mins; November 17, 2022
Michael Frank, "One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World" (Simon and Schuster, 2022)
60 hours 3 mins; November 17, 2022
Sisi Sung, "The Economics of Gender in China: Women, Work and the Glass Ceiling" (Routledge, 2022)
25 mins; November 16, 2022
Rachael Hanel, "Not the Camilla We Knew: One Woman's Life from Small-Town America to the Symbionese Liberation Army" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
46 mins; November 11, 2022
Sofi Thanhauser, "Worn: A People's History of Clothing" (Vintage, 2022)
52 mins; November 11, 2022
John Darnell and Colleen Darnell, "Egypt's Golden Couple: When Akhenaten and Nefertiti Were Gods on Earth" (St. Martin's Press, 2022)
58 mins; November 11, 2022
Nancy Woloch, "The Insider: A Life of Virginia C. Gildersleeve" (Columbia UP, 2022)
86 hours 29 mins; November 09, 2022
On Toni Morrison's "Beloved"
28 mins; November 09, 2022
Katie Hickman, "Brave Hearted: The Women of the American West" (Spiegel & Grau, 2022)
66 hours 3 mins; November 09, 2022
Sarah Ifft Decker, "The Fruit of Her Hands: Jewish and Christian Women's Work in Medieval Catalan Cities" (Pennsylvania State, 2022)
46 mins; November 07, 2022
Elizabeth Schroeder Schlabach, "Dream Books and Gamblers: Black Women's Work in Chicago's Policy Game" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
49 mins; November 07, 2022
Alma Zaragoza-Petty, "Chingona: Owning Your Inner Badass for Healing and Justice" (Broadleaf Books, 2022)
63 hours 45 mins; November 02, 2022
Annalisa Berta and Susan Turner, "Rebels, Scholars, Explorers: Women in Vertebrate Paleontology" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)
39 mins; October 28, 2022
Krystale E. Littlejohn, "Just Get on the Pill: The Uneven Burden of Reproductive Politics" (U California Press, 2021)
62 hours 23 mins; October 27, 2022
Saskia Warren, "British Muslim Women in the Cultural and Creative Industries" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
43 mins; October 26, 2022
Mallory Lewis and Nat Segaloff, "Shari Lewis and Lamb Chop: The Team That Changed Children's TV" (UP of Kentucky, 2022)
31 mins; October 26, 2022
Kelisha B. Graves, ed., "Nannie Helen Burroughs: A Documentary Portrait of an Early Civil Rights Pioneer, 1900-1959" (U Notre Dame Press, 2019)
51 mins; October 26, 2022
Rachel Schreiber, "Elaine Black Yoneda: Jewish Immigration, Labor Activism, and Japanese American Exclusion and Incarceration" (Temple UP, 2021)
84 hours 47 mins; October 25, 2022
Jennifer Lillian Lodine-Chaffey, "A Weak Woman in a Strong Battle: Women and Public Execution in Early Modern England" (U Alabama Press, 2022)
41 mins; October 25, 2022
On Simone de Beauvoir's "The Second Sex"
39 mins; October 25, 2022
Miglena S. Todorova, "Unequal under Socialism: Race, Women, and Transnationalism in Bulgaria" (U Toronto Press, 2021)
75 hours 44 mins; October 24, 2022
Tracy Adams and Christine Adams, "The Creation of the French Royal Mistress: From Agnès Sorel to Madame Du Barry" (Penn State UP, 2020)
60 hours 59 mins; October 21, 2022
Sabine Frühstück, "Gender and Sexuality in Modern Japan" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
153 hours 8 mins; October 21, 2022
Kirsty Loehr, "A Short History of Queer Women" (Oneworld Publications, 2022)
33 mins; October 17, 2022
Peace A. Medie, "Global Norms and Local Action: The Campaigns to End Violence Against Women in Africa" (Oxford UP, 2020)
63 hours 6 mins; October 17, 2022
Radicalism, Humility, and Racism in America
65 hours 22 mins; October 17, 2022
Sherry Boschert, "37 Words: Title IX and Fifty Years of Fighting Sex Discrimination" (New Press, 2022)
75 hours 13 mins; October 14, 2022
Siobhan Lambert-Hurley et al., "Three Centuries of Travel Writing by Muslim Women" (Indiana UP, 2022)
64 hours 32 mins; October 14, 2022
On Hannah Arendt's "Origins of Totalitarianism"
31 mins; October 11, 2022
Pamela Robertson Wojcik, "Gidget: Origins of a Teen Girl Transmedia Franchise" (Routledge, 2022)
68 hours 13 mins; October 06, 2022
On the Life and Legacy of Queen Elizabeth II
17 mins; October 06, 2022
Judy Tzu-Chun Wu and Gwendolyn Mink, "Fierce and Fearless: Patsy Takemoto Mink, First Woman of Color in Congress" (NYU Press, 2022)
63 hours 9 mins; October 05, 2022
Martha Rampton, "Trafficking with Demons: Magic, Ritual, and Gender from Late Antiquity to 1000" (Cornell UP, 2021)
54 mins; October 05, 2022
Alison Melnick Dyer, "The Tibetan Nun Mingyur Peldrön: A Woman of Power and Privilege" (U Washington Press, 2022)
38 mins; October 04, 2022
Cinema’s First Nasty Women
77 hours 3 mins; October 04, 2022
Usha Iyer, "Dancing Women: Choreographing Corporeal Histories of Hindi Cinema" (Oxford UP, 2020)
66 hours 14 mins; September 30, 2022
Johanna O. Zulueta, "Okinawan Women's Stories of Migration: From War Brides to Issei" (Routledge, 2022)
46 mins; September 30, 2022
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