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Marion Turner, "The Wife of Bath: A Biography" (Princeton UP, 2023)
44 mins; November 27, 2025
Amy Hughes, "An Actor's Tale: Theater, Culture, and Everyday Life in the Nineteenth-Century United States" (U Michigan Press, 2025)
64 hours 14 mins; November 24, 2025
Sarah Hoiland, "Righteous Sisterhood: The Politics and Power of an All-Women's Motorcycle Club" (Temple UP, 2025)
44 mins; November 23, 2025
Shatema Threadcraft, "Labors of Resurrection: Black Women, Necromancy, and Morrisonian Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2025)
58 mins; November 22, 2025
Emma Heaney, "This Watery Place: Four Essays on Gestation" (Pluto Press UK, 2025)
75 hours 49 mins; November 22, 2025
Eli Clare, "Unfurl: Survivals, Sorrows, and Dreaming" (Duke UP, 2025)
67 hours 38 mins; November 21, 2025
Can Feminism be African?: A Conversation with Minna Salami
34 mins; November 20, 2025
Emily Callaci, "Wages for Housework: The Feminist Fight Against Unpaid Labor" (Seal Press, 2025)
46 mins; November 20, 2025
Emily Winderman, "Back-Alley Abortion: A Rhetorical History (JHU Press, 2025)
32 mins; November 19, 2025
PĂĄraic Kerrigan, "LGBTQ Visibility, Media and Sexuality in Ireland" (Routledge, 2020)
73 hours 37 mins; November 16, 2025
Nayma Qayum, "Village Ties: Women, NGOs, and Informal Institutions in Rural Bangladesh" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
62 hours 46 mins; November 16, 2025
Jessica Catherine Reuther, "The Bonds of Kinship in Dahomey: Portraits of West African Girlhood, 1720â1940" (Indiana UP, 2025)
74 hours 1 min; November 15, 2025
Nerina Rustomji, "The Beauty of the Houri: Heavenly Virgins and Feminine Ideals" (Oxford UP, 2021)
49 mins; November 09, 2025
Michelle Christine Smith, "Utopian Genderscapes: Rhetorics of Women's Work in the Early Industrial Age" (Southern Illinois UP, 2021)
59 mins; November 09, 2025
Julie Fette, "Gender by the Book: 21st-Century French Children's Literature" (Routledge, 2025)
41 mins; November 07, 2025
Fang Yu Hu, "Good Wife, Wise Mother: Educating Han Taiwanese Girls Under Japanese Rule" (U Washington Press, 2024)
61 hours 17 mins; November 06, 2025
Carol Mason, "From the Clinics to the Capitol: How Opposing Abortion Became Insurrectionary" (U California Press, 2025)
57 mins; November 05, 2025
Mimi Abramovitz, "Regulating the Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy from Colonial Times to the Present" (Routledge, 2025)
29 mins; November 04, 2025
Rebecca L. Davis, "Fierce Desires: A New History of Sex and Sexuality in America" (Norton, 2024)
59 mins; November 03, 2025
Jennifer Barry, "Gender Violence in Late Antiquity: Male Fantasies and the Christian Imagination" (U California Press, 2025)
32 mins; October 27, 2025
Jennifer Barry, "Gender Violence in Late Antiquity: Male Fantasies and the Christian Imagination" (U California Press, 2025)
32 mins; October 27, 2025
What Do You Want Out of Life? A Philosophical Guide to Figuring Out What Matters
64 hours 41 mins; October 23, 2025
Kathryn Robson, "Beyond the Happy Ending: Imagining Happiness in Contemporary French Women's Writing and Film" (Liverpool UP, 2025)
47 mins; October 22, 2025
Anthony Valerio, "Semmelweis: The Women's Doctor" (Zantedeschi Books, 2019)
60 hours 44 mins; October 20, 2025
Rehan Abeyratne, "Courts and LGBTQ+ Rights in an Age of Judicial Retrenchment" (Oxford UP, 2025)
62 hours 17 mins; October 17, 2025
Hilary Holladay, "The Power of Adrienne Rich: A Biography" (Princeton UP, 2025)
57 mins; October 17, 2025
Najmeh Moradiyan-Rizi and Shilyh J. Warren eds., "Women and Global Documentary: Practices and Perspectives in the 21st Century" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2025)
33 mins; October 16, 2025
Chandra Chiara Ehm, "Queens Without a Kingdom Worth Ruling: Buddhist Nuns and the Process of Change in Tibetan Monastic Communities" (Vajra Books, 2024)
65 hours 34 mins; October 16, 2025
Emily Gee, "Hostel, House and Chambers: Accommodating the Victorian and Edwardian Working Woman" (Liverpool UP, 2025)
49 mins; October 15, 2025
Martin Austin Nesvig, "The Women Who Threw Corn: Witchcraft and Inquisition in Sixteenth-Century Mexico" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
60 hours 47 mins; October 15, 2025
Cassandra S. Tully de Lope, "Masculinity and Identity in Irish Literature: Heroes, Lads, and Fathers" (Routledge, 2024)
51 mins; October 14, 2025
Utopia is Boring with Evie Kendal
33 mins; October 14, 2025
Justine De Young, "The Art of Parisian Chic: Modern Women and Modern Artists in Impressionist Paris" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
71 hours 17 mins; October 06, 2025
Jill Elaine Hasday, "We the Men: How Forgetting Women's Struggles for Equality Perpetuates Inequality" (Oxford UP, 2025)
24 mins; October 05, 2025
David M. Whitford, "The Making of a Reformation Man: Martin Luther and the Construction of Masculinity" (Routledge, 2025)
57 mins; October 05, 2025
Vincent Pak, "Queer Correctives: Discursive Neo-homophobia, Sexuality and Christianity in Singapore" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
53 mins; October 03, 2025
Kathleen B. Casey, "The Things She Carried: A Cultural History of the Purse in America" (Oxford UP, 2025)
52 mins; October 02, 2025
Katharine Jenkins, "Feminist Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2025)
58 mins; October 01, 2025
Disco Sucks
61 hours 40 mins; September 30, 2025
Branka Bogdan, "The New Yugoslav Woman: Reproductive Regulation in Socialist Yugoslavia" (Indiana UP, 2025)
50 mins; September 30, 2025
Gina Vale, "The Unforgotten Women of the Islamic State" (Oxford UP, 2024)
56 mins; September 29, 2025
Rosemary Admiral, "Living Law: Women and Legality in Marinid Morocco" (Syracuse UP, 2025)
49 mins; September 29, 2025
Jennifer Barry, "Gender Violence in Late Antiquity: Male Fantasies and the Christian Imagination" (U California Press, 2025)
51 mins; September 29, 2025
Ashleigh Wade on How Black Girls Use Social Media
80 hours 13 mins; September 29, 2025
Karen Stollznow, "Bitch: The Journey of a Word" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Laurian R. Bowles, "Headstrong: Women Porters, Blackness, and Modernity in Accra" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)
63 hours 2 mins; September 24, 2025
Kate Haulman, "The Mother of Washington in Nineteenth-Century America" (Oxford UP, 2025)
39 mins; September 23, 2025
Katherine L. French, "Household Goods and Good Households in Late Medieval London: Consumption and Domesticity After the Plague" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)
52 mins; September 23, 2025
Kenja McCray, "Essential Soldiers: Women Activists and Black Power Movement Leadership" (NYU Press, 2025)
69 hours 54 mins; September 22, 2025
Aaron L. Miller, "Basketball in Japan: Shooting for the Stars" (Routledge, 2024)
63 hours 34 mins; September 21, 2025
Masaya Llavaneras Blanco and Damien P. Gock eds., "Pandemic Policies and Resistance: Southern Feminist Critiques in Times of Covid-19" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
43 mins; September 20, 2025
Victoria Bateman, "Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth and Power" (Seal Press, 2025)
56 mins; September 20, 2025
Susan D. Stewart. "On the Rocks: Straight Talk about Women and Drinking" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
28 mins; September 20, 2025
Celene Reynolds, "Unlawful Advances: How Feminists Transformed Title IX" (Princeton UP, 2025)
45 mins; September 16, 2025
Night at the Baths
59 mins; September 16, 2025
Katherine Eva Maich, "Bringing Law Home: Gender, Race, and Household Labor Rights" (Stanford UP, 2025)
48 mins; September 15, 2025
Simon James Copland, "The Male Complaint: The Manosphere and Misogyny Online" (Polity, 2025)
71 hours 32 mins; September 12, 2025
From Stonewall to Studio 54
47 mins; September 10, 2025
Averill Earls, "Love in the Lav: A Social Biography of Same-Sex Desire in Ireland, 1922-1972" (Temple UP, 2025)
33 mins; September 10, 2025
Jumping Through Hoops: Performing Gender in the 19th Century Circus
34 mins; September 09, 2025
May Friedman, "Fat Studies: The Basics" (Routledge, 2025)
23 mins; September 08, 2025
Karen Bartlett, "Escape from Kabul: The Afghan Women Judges Who Fled the Taliban and Those They Left Behind" (New Press, 2025)
61 hours 3 mins; September 05, 2025
Kathleen B. Casey, "The Things She Carried: A Cultural History of the Purse in America" (Oxford UP, 2025)
36 mins; September 02, 2025
Lucy Delap, "Feminisms: A Global History" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
52 mins; September 01, 2025
Cordelia Fine, "Patriarchy Inc.: What We Get Wrong About Gender Equality â and Why Men Still Win at Work" (W.W. Norton, 2025)
69 hours 31 mins; September 01, 2025
Diana Souhami, "No Modernism Without Lesbians" (Head of Zeus Book, 2020)
38 mins; August 31, 2025
Patrice D. Douglass, "Engendering Blackness: Slavery and the Ontology of Sexual Violence" (Stanford UP, 2025)
79 hours 39 mins; August 29, 2025
Aaron Hammes, "TransGenre" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
59 mins; August 26, 2025
Vanessa Diaz, "Manufacturing Celebrity: Latino Paparazzi and Women Reporters in Hollywood" (Duke UP, 2020)
50 mins; August 26, 2025
Lucia Sorbera, "Biography of a Revolution: The Feminist Roots of Human Rights in Egypt" (U of California Press, 2025)
43 mins; August 23, 2025
Barbara Vinick and Shulamit Reinharz, "100 Jewish Brides: Stories from Around the World" (Indiana UP, 2024)
65 hours 22 mins; August 20, 2025
Shennette Garrett-Scott, "Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal" (Columbia UP, 2019)
41 mins; August 20, 2025
David Commins, "Saudi Arabia: A Modern History" (Yale UP, 2025)
29 mins; August 20, 2025
Mariam F. Ayad ed., "Coptic Culture and Community: Daily Lives, Changing Times" (American University in Cairo Press, 2024)
80 hours 25 mins; August 19, 2025
Peter Hart-Brinson, "The Gay Marriage Generation: How the LGBTQ Movement Transformed American Culture" (NYU Press, 2018)
David Theo Goldberg, "The War on Critical Race Theory: Or, The Remaking of Racism" (Polity Press, 2023)
75 hours 23 mins; August 14, 2025
Domale Dube, "Ogoni Women's Activism: The Transnational Struggle for Justice" (University of Illinois Press, 2025)
33 mins; August 12, 2025
Stephanie McCurry, "Women's War: Fighting and Surviving the Civil War" (Harvard UP, 2019)
72 hours 50 mins; August 09, 2025
Kit W. Myers, "The Violence of Love: Race, Family, and Adoption in the United States"(U California Press, 2025)
77 hours 50 mins; August 07, 2025
William Marx, "Libraries of the Mind" (Princeton UP, 2025)
65 hours 38 mins; August 03, 2025
Hannah Charnock, "Teenage intimacies: Young Women, Sex and Social Life in England, 1950-80" (Manchester UP, 2025)
42 mins; August 02, 2025
Camilla Fitzsimons, "Rethinking Feminism in Ireland" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
33 mins; August 02, 2025
Anthony Michael Petro, "Provoking Religion: Sex, Art, and the Culture Wars" (Oxford UP, 2025)
79 hours 52 mins; August 01, 2025
Christa Kuljian, "Our Science, Ourselves: How Gender, Race, and Social Movements Shaped the Study of Science" (U Massachusetts Press, 2024)
65 hours 3 mins; July 30, 2025
Foluke Taylor, "Unruly Therapeutic: Black Feminist Writings and Practices in Living Room" (Norton, 2023)
66 hours 33 mins; July 29, 2025
Marion Bower, "The Life and Work of Joan Riviere: Freud, Klein and Female Sexuality" (Routledge, 2018)
60 hours 8 mins; July 27, 2025
Joseph O. Jewell, "White Manâs Work: Race and Middle-Class Mobility into the Progressive Era" (UNC Press, 2023)
42 mins; July 25, 2025
Regina Kazyulina, "Women Under Suspicion: Fraternization, Espionage, and Punishment in the Soviet Union During World War II" (U Wisconsin Press, 2025)
49 mins; July 23, 2025
Lost Women of Disco
49 mins; July 22, 2025
Rene Almeling, Lisa Campo-Engelstein, Brian T. Nguyen eds., "Seminal: On Sperm, Health, and Politics" (NYU Press, 2025)
42 mins; July 22, 2025
Ela Przybylo, "Ungendering Menstruation" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
41 mins; July 21, 2025
Susan Shapiro Barash, "Estranged: How Strained Female Friendships Are Mended Or Ended" (Meridian Editions, 2025)
30 mins; July 19, 2025
David E. Campbell and Christina Wolbrecht, "See Jane Run: How Women Politicians Matter for Young People" (U of Chicago Press, 2025)
59 mins; July 17, 2025
Phyu Phyu Oo, "Conflict-related Sexual Violence in Myanmar: The Role of the State" (De Gruyter, 2025)
44 mins; July 17, 2025
Volha Bartash, Tomasz Kamusella, and Viktor Shapoval eds., "Papusza/Bronislawa Wajs. Tears of Blood: A Poet's Witness Account of the Nazi Genocide of Roma" (Brill, 2024)