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Isabelle Held, "Atomic Bombshells: How Plastics Shaped Postwar Bodies" (Duke UP, 2026)

52 mins; April 03, 2026

The Club: Where American Artists Found Refuge in Belle Epoque Paris

51 mins; April 02, 2026

Lee Ann S. Wang, "The Violence of Protection: Policing, Immigration Law, and Asian American Women" (Duke UP, 2026)

70 hours 7 mins; April 01, 2026

Derek Krueger "Monastic Desires: Homoeroticism, Homophobia, and the Love of God in Medieval Constantinople" (Cambridge UP, 2026)

88 hours 54 mins; March 30, 2026

Megan Peiser, "British Women Novelists and the Review Periodical" (JHU Press, 2026)

35 mins; March 28, 2026

Tulasi Srinivas, "The Goddess in the Mirror: An Anthropology of Beauty" (Duke UP, 2025)

52 mins; March 26, 2026

How Authoritarians Exploit Gender

22 mins; March 25, 2026

Satya Shikha Chakraborty, "Colonial Caregivers: Ayahs and the Gendered History of Race and Caste in British India" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

63 hours 33 mins; March 25, 2026

Deirdre Flynn and Mary McGill eds., "Irish Digital Cultures: Identity, Contexts, Space" (Routledge, 2025)

42 mins; March 22, 2026

Martha Feldman, "Castrato Phantoms: Moreschi, Fellini, and the Sacred Vernacular in Rome" (Zone Books, 2026)

42 mins; March 22, 2026

⁠The Collective Cure: Upstream Solutions for Better Public Health⁠

54 mins; March 19, 2026

Karen McNally ed., "Women in Hollywood's Dream Factory: Tales of Inequality, Abuse, and Resistance" (U Illinois Press, 2026)

63 hours 21 mins; March 18, 2026

Yanshuo Zhang, "Creative Belonging: The Qiang and Multiethnic Imagination in Modern China" (U Michigan Press, 2026)

44 mins; March 14, 2026

Katelyn E. Stauffer, "The Politics of Perception: How Beliefs About Women’s Inclusion Shape Democratic Legitimacy in the U.S." (Oxford UP, 2025)

35 mins; March 12, 2026

What’s on Her Mind: The Mental Workload of Family Life

50 mins; March 12, 2026

Maud Anne Bracke, "Reproductive Rights in Modern France: Reproductive Rights in Modern France: Feminism, Contraception, and Abortion, 1950-1980 (Oxford UP, 2025)

71 hours 10 mins; March 09, 2026

Mattie Armstrong-Price, "Respectability on the Line: Gender, Race, and Labor along British and Colonial Indian Railways" (U California Press, 2026)

43 mins; March 07, 2026

Daniel Brook, "The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin" (W. W. Norton & Co, 2025)

50 mins; March 06, 2026

Jennifer Randles, "Living Diaper to Diaper: The Hidden Crisis of Poverty and Motherhood" (U California Press, 2026)

41 mins; March 05, 2026

Eleanor Gordon et al., "Working-Class Courtship, Marriage, and Divorce in Scotland, 1855–1939" (Oxford UP, 2025)

64 hours 16 mins; March 05, 2026

Jennifer Boum Make, "Decolonial Care: Reimagining Caregiving in the French Caribbean" (Rutgers UP, 2025)

50 mins; March 04, 2026

Lorraine Grimes, "Single Mothers in Twentieth-century Ireland and Britain: Pregnancy, Migration and Institutionalization" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

47 mins; March 04, 2026

Coming Out as Dalit with Yashica Dutt

57 mins; March 02, 2026

Joanna Bourke, "Five Evil Women: Hindley, West, Wuornos, Homolka, Tucker" (Reaktion, 2026)

61 hours 9 mins; March 01, 2026

Sophie Salvo, "Articulating Difference: Sex and Language in the German Nineteenth Century"(U Chicago Press, 2024)

35 mins; March 01, 2026

Clarissa E. Francis, "Black Women's Bodily Autonomy, Sexual Freedom, and Pleasure: Explorations of the Hot Girl Movement" (Routledge, 2025)

66 hours 47 mins; February 28, 2026

Cynthia Miller-Idriss, "Man Up: The New Misogyny and the Rise of Violent Extremism" (Princeton UP, 2025)

47 mins; February 27, 2026

Sarah Jones Weicksel, "A Nation Unraveled: Clothing, Culture, and Violence in the American Civil War Era" (UNC Press, 2026)

55 mins; February 27, 2026

Andrea Mansker, "Matchmaking and the Marriage Market in Postrevolutionary France" (Cornell UP, 2024)

50 mins; February 24, 2026

Michèle Schaal, "Grrrl Writing: Virginie Despentes's Authorial Politics" (Peter Lang, 2026)

35 mins; February 24, 2026

Lynda Nead, "British Blonde: Women, Desire and the Image in Post-War Britain" (Yale UP, 2025)

56 mins; February 22, 2026

Jessica Martin, "Feminisms and Domesticity in Times of Crisis: The Rise of the Austerity Celebrity" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

36 mins; February 21, 2026

Feminism and Critical Hindu Studies with Shreena Gandhi, Harshita Kamath, Sailaja Krishnamurt, and Shana Sippy

61 hours 13 mins; February 16, 2026

Lynneth Miller Renberg, "Women, Dance and Parish Religion in England, 1300-1640: Negotiating the Steps of Faith" (Boydell & Brewer, 2022)

43 mins; February 14, 2026

The Power of the State: Madres de la Plaza de Mayo, and Minneapolis

52 mins; February 12, 2026

Kristin Roebuck, "Japan Reborn: Race and Eugenics from Empire to Cold War" (Columbia UP, 2025)

58 mins; February 10, 2026

Linda Connolly and Tina O’Toole, "Documenting Irish Feminisms: The Second Wave" (Arlen House, 2022)

57 mins; February 08, 2026

Wisdom of the Goddess: The Divine Feminine in South Asian, Southeast Asian, and Himalayan Art

49 mins; February 05, 2026

Jacqueline Couti and Anny Dominique Curtius, "Women, Theory, Praxis, and Performativities: Transoceanic Entanglements in Francophone Settings" (Liverpool UP, 2025)

77 hours 31 mins; February 03, 2026

Allison Caine, "Restless Ecologies: Climate Change and Socioecological Futures in the Peruvian Highlands" (U Arizona Press, 2025)

49 mins; February 02, 2026

Mark Gallagher, "Cosmosexuals: Screen Acting, Stardom, and Male Sex Appeal" (U Texas Press, 2025)

70 hours 34 mins; January 30, 2026

Debra Kaplan and Elisheva Carlebach, "A Woman Is Responsible for Everything: Jewish Women in Early Modern Europe" (Princeton UP, 2025)

60 hours 11 mins; January 29, 2026

Mark Anthony Neal, "New Black Man" (Routledge, 2015)

33 mins; January 28, 2026

Toby Green, "The Heretic of Cacheu: Crispina Peres and the Struggle over Life in Seventeenth-Century West Africa" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

44 mins; January 27, 2026

Misty L. Heggeness, "Swiftynomics: How Women Mastermind and Redefine Our Economy" (U California Press, 2026)

45 mins; January 27, 2026

Lesly-Marie Buer, "RX Appalachia: Stories of Treatment and Survival in Rural Kentucky" (Haymarket, 2020)

44 mins; January 26, 2026

Kong Pheng Pha, "Queering the Hmong Diaspora: Racial Subjectivity and the Myth of Hyperheterosexuality" (U Washington Press, 2025)

55 mins; January 25, 2026

Nena Vandeweerdt, "Women and Work Through a Comparative Lens: Gender and the Urban Labor Markets of Premodern Brabant and Biscay" (Leuven UP, 2025)

42 mins; January 25, 2026

Damon Scott, "The City Aroused: Queer Places and Urban Redevelopment in Postwar San Francisco" (U Texas Press, 2024)

69 hours 59 mins; January 24, 2026

Susannah Wilson, "A Most Quiet Murder: Maternity, Affliction, and Violence in Late Nineteenth-Century France" (Cornell UP, 2025)

46 mins; January 23, 2026

Cross-Border Intimacies: Affect and Emotions in Marriage Migration Between China and Taiwan

33 mins; January 23, 2026

Abortion and Reproductive Justice: An Essential Guide for Resistance

61 hours 33 mins; January 22, 2026

Lauren D. Sawyer, "Growing Up Pure: White Girls, Queer Teens, and the Racial Foundations of Purity Culture" (NYU Press, 2025)

44 mins; January 22, 2026

Sara Petrosillo, "Hawking Women: Falconry, Gender, and Control in Medieval Literary Culture" (Ohio State UP, 2023)

50 mins; January 20, 2026

Anne Sokolsky ed., "Bold Breaks: Japanese Women and Literary Narratives of Divorce" (U Hawaii Press, 2025)

63 hours 10 mins; January 20, 2026

Ryan Donovan, "Broadway Bodies: A Critical History of Conformity" (Oxford UP, 2023)

73 hours 4 mins; January 19, 2026

Min Joo Lee, "Finding Mr. Perfect: K-Drama, Pop Culture, Romance, and Race" (Rutgers UP, 2025)

30 mins; January 18, 2026

Lottie Whalen, "Radicals & Rogues: The Women Who Made New York Modern" (Reaktion, 2023)

38 mins; January 16, 2026

Everything Is Fine, I'll Just Work Harder: Confessions of a Former Badass

39 mins; January 16, 2026

Zoë McGee, "Courting Disaster: Reading Between the Lines of the Regency Novel" (Manchester UP, 2025)

63 hours 57 mins; January 15, 2026

Sam Fullerton, "Sexual Politics in Revolutionary England" (Manchester UP, 2026)

53 mins; January 15, 2026

Ambika Kamath and Melina Packer, "Feminism in the Wild: How Human Biases Shape Our Understanding of Animal Behavior" (MIT Press, 2025)

71 hours 42 mins; January 13, 2026

Julia H. Meszaros, "Economies of Gender: Masculinity, "Mail Order Brides," and Women’s Labor" (Rutgers UP, 2025)

40 mins; January 12, 2026

Linda Eckert, "Enough: Because We Can Stop Cervical Cancer" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

24 mins; January 11, 2026

Heather Smith-Cannoy et al., "Sex Trafficking and Human Rights: The Status of Women and State Responses" (Georgetown UP, 2022)

58 mins; January 11, 2026

Re-examining the Women’s Movement in Cold War South Korea and Beyond

26 mins; January 09, 2026

Chris Dietz, "Self-Declaration in the Legal Recognition of Gender" (Routledge, 2022)

73 hours 23 mins; January 06, 2026

Susanna Elm, "The Importance of Being Gorgeous: Gender and Christian Imperial Rule in Late Antiquity" (U California Press, 2025)

81 hours 11 mins; January 06, 2026

Lesley Nicole Braun, "Congo's Dancers: Women and Work in Kinshasa" (U Wisconsin Press, 2023)

47 mins; January 05, 2026

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

45 mins; January 03, 2026

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

45 mins; January 03, 2026

Megan Bryson and Kevin Buckelew eds., "Buddhist Masculinities" (Columbia UP, 2023)

55 mins; January 02, 2026

Alison Stone, "Women Philosophers in Nineteenth-Century Britain" (Oxford UP, 2023)

55 mins; December 31, 2025

Kate Clancy, "Period: The Real Story of Menstruation" (Princeton UP, 2023)

28 mins; December 30, 2025

Jack Z. Bratich, "On Microfascism: Gender, War, and Death" (Common Notions, 2022)

65 hours 45 mins; December 28, 2025

Ruby Oram, "Home Work: Gender, Child Labor, and Education for Girls in Urban America, 1870-1930" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

57 mins; December 27, 2025

Robin F. Hansen, "Prison Born: Incarceration and Motherhood in the Colonial Shadow" (U Regina Press, 2024)

40 mins; December 26, 2025

Liberation & the Literature of the Women’s Movement with Bess Wohl and Honor Moore

56 mins; December 23, 2025

Leila Hudson, "Lines of Flight, Assemblages of Home: Syrian Women Displaced" (Syracuse UP, 2025)

52 mins; December 19, 2025

Leila Hudson, "Lines of Flight, Assemblages of Home: Syrian Women Displaced" (Syracuse UP, 2025)

52 mins; December 19, 2025

Alexandra Ghiț, "Welfare Work Without Welfare: Women and Austerity in Interwar Bucharest" (De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2025)

44 mins; December 18, 2025

Amy Erdman Farrell, "Intrepid Girls: The Complicated History of the Girl Scouts of the USA" (UNC Press, 2025)

57 mins; December 18, 2025

Amber Day, "Caught in the Crosshairs: Feminist Comedians and the Culture Wars" (Indiana UP, 2025)

49 mins; December 16, 2025

Amber Day, "Caught in the Crosshairs: Feminist Comedians and the Culture Wars" (Indiana UP, 2025)

49 mins; December 16, 2025

Hannah Frydman, "Between the Sheets: Sexuality, Classified Advertising, and the Moral Threat to Press Freedom in France" (Cornell UP, 2025)

45 mins; December 16, 2025

Caitlin Wiesner, "Between the Street and the State: Black Women’s Anti-Rape Activism Amid the War on Crime" (U Pennsylvania, 2025)

75 hours 8 mins; December 11, 2025

Dainy Bernstein, "Artifacts of Orthodox Jewish Childhoods" (Ben Yehuda Press, 2022)

72 hours 19 mins; December 08, 2025

Peace A. Medie, "Global Norms and Local Action: The Campaigns to End Violence Against Women in Africa" (Oxford UP, 2020)

62 hours 6 mins; December 08, 2025

Gloria Browne-Marshall, "A Protest History of the United States" (Beacon Press, 2026)

66 hours 22 mins; December 08, 2025

J.D. Sargan, "Trans Histories of the Medieval Book: An Experiment in Bibliography" (Arc Humanities Press, 2025)

58 mins; December 07, 2025

Ayoush Lazikani, "The Medieval Moon: A History of Haunting and Blessing" (Yale UP, 2025)

37 mins; December 06, 2025

The Nursing Clio Editorial Collective, "The Nursing Clio Reader: Histories of Sex, Reproduction, and Justice" (Rutgers UP, 2025)

50 mins; December 06, 2025

Margaretha Geertsema-Sligh, "Journalism and Gender: Global Perspectives" (Routledge, 2025)

51 mins; December 06, 2025

Grace Kessler Overbeke, "First Lady of Laughs: The Forgotten Story of Jean Carroll" (NYU Press, 2024)

44 mins; December 05, 2025

Anna Shadrina, "The Babushka Phenomenon: Older Women and the Political Sociology of Ageing in Russia" (UCL Press, 2025)

44 mins; December 04, 2025

Black Girls and How We Fail Them

47 mins; December 04, 2025

Julia Wagner, "Hester Street" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

40 mins; December 02, 2025

Carolyn J. Eichner, "Feminism's Empire" (Cornell UP, 2022)

82 hours 43 mins; December 01, 2025

Patricia Anne Simpson, "Early Modern Women's Work: Kinship, Community, and Social Justice" (Routledge, 2025)

59 mins; November 30, 2025

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

49 mins; November 30, 2025

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