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Ryan Tan Wander, "Settler Tenses: Queer Time and Literatures of the American West" (Texas Tech UP, 2024)
70 hours 7 mins; January 23, 2025
Danielle Bayard Jackson, "Fighting for Our Friendships: The Science and Art of Conflict and Connection in Women's Relationships" (Hachette, 2024)
75 hours 56 mins; January 21, 2025
Carol Cleaveland and Michele Waslin. "Private Violence: Latin American Women and the Struggle for Asylum" (NYU Press, 2024)
41 mins; January 20, 2025
Monica A. Hershberger, "Women in American Operas of The 1950s: Undoing Gendered Archetypes" (U Rochester Press, 2023)
67 hours 1 min; January 20, 2025
Eva Payne, "Empire of Purity: The History of Americans' Global War on Prostitution" (Princeton UP, 2024)
69 hours 3 mins; January 18, 2025
Amrita Narayanan, "Women's Sexuality and Modern India: In a Rapture of Distress" (Oxford UP, 2022)
55 mins; January 18, 2025
Emily Murdoch Perkins, "Regina: The Queens Who Could Have Been" (The History Press, 2024)
54 mins; January 14, 2025
Nancy Reddy, "The Good Mother Myth: Unlearning Our Bad Ideas About How to Be a Good Mom" (St. Martin's Press, 2025)
51 mins; January 13, 2025
James Malazita, "Enacting Platforms: Feminist Technoscience and the Unreal Engine" (MIT Press, 2024)
40 mins; January 12, 2025
Cordelia Fine, "Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society" (Norton, 2018)
75 hours 44 mins; January 11, 2025
Jennifer Greenburg, "At War with Women: Military Humanitarianism and Imperial Feminism in an Era of Permanent War" (Cornell UP, 2023)
46 mins; January 11, 2025
Sandy Ng, "Portrayals of Women in Early Twentieth-Century China" (Amsterdam UP, 2024)
48 mins; January 10, 2025
Lucas Wilson, "Shame-Sex Attraction: Survivors' Stories of Conversion Therapy" (Jessica Kingsley, 2025)
57 mins; January 09, 2025
Sarah B. Rodriguez, "The Love Surgeon: A Story of Trust, Harm, and the Limits of Medical Regulation" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
47 mins; January 07, 2025
Judith Giesberg, “Sex and the Civil War: Soldiers, Pornography, and the Making of American Morality” (UNC Press, 2017)
67 hours 48 mins; January 06, 2025
Amy Aronson, "Chrystal Eastman: A Revolutionary Life" (Oxford UP, 2019)
62 hours 54 mins; January 05, 2025
Lisa Doggett, "Up the Down Escalator: Medicine, Motherhood, and Multiple Sclerosis" (Health Communications, 2023)
35 mins; January 05, 2025
Nara Milanich, "Paternity: The Elusive Quest for the Father" (Harvard UP, 2019)
69 hours 2 mins; January 04, 2025
Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen, "Accidental Feminism: Gender Parity and Selective Mobility Among India’s Professional Elite" (Princeton UP, 2021)
72 hours 21 mins; January 03, 2025
Rachel Louise Moran, "Blue: A History of Postpartum Depression in America" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
57 mins; January 02, 2025
Joanna Mizielińska, "Queer Kinship on the Edge?: Families of Choice in Poland" (Routledge, 2024)
50 mins; January 01, 2025
Sara Lodge, "The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective" (Yale UP, 2024)
45 mins; December 29, 2024
James Welker, "Transfiguring Women in Late Twentieth-Century Japan: Feminists, Lesbians, and Girls' Comics Artists and Fans" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)
56 mins; December 28, 2024
Antoinette Denapoli and June McDaniel, "Gurus, Priestesses, Saints, Mediums and Yoginis: Holy Women as Influencers in Hindu Culture" (MDPI, 2024)
56 mins; December 26, 2024
Jennifer C. Nash, "How We Write Now: Living with Black Feminist Theory" (Duke UP, 2024)
41 mins; December 25, 2024
Matthew Chin, "Fractal Repair: Queer Histories of Modern Jamaica" (Duke UP, 2024)
60 hours 24 mins; December 22, 2024
Melissa Johnston, "Building Peace, Rebuilding Patriarchy: The Failure of Gender Interventions in Timor-Leste" (Oxford UP, 2023)
61 hours 48 mins; December 21, 2024
Sara Cantillon et al., "Feminist Political Economy: A Global Perspective" (Agenda, 2023)
32 mins; December 16, 2024
Alissa Klots, "Domestic Service in the Soviet Union; Women's Emancipation and the Gendered Hierarchy of Labor" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
66 hours 31 mins; December 15, 2024
Antoinette Burton, "Gender History: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2024)
37 mins; December 15, 2024
Katya Motyl, "Embodied Histories: New Womanhood in Vienna, 1894–1934" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
53 mins; December 14, 2024
Carrie M. Lane, "More Than Pretty Boxes: How the Rise of Professional Organizing Shows Us the Way We Work Isn't Working" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
40 mins; December 14, 2024
Shehnaz Haqqani, "Feminism, Tradition and Change in Contemporary Islam: Negotiating Islamic Law and Gender" (Oneworld, 2024)
84 hours 54 mins; December 13, 2024
Meanings of Identity of the Post-2000s Inland Tibet Class
28 mins; December 13, 2024
Reem Hilu, "Digitizing Domesticity in the 1980s: The Intimate Life of Computers" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
29 mins; December 10, 2024
Voices Part 2: The Sound of My Voice
54 mins; December 09, 2024
Elyse Ona Singer, "Lawful Sins: Abortion Rights and Reproductive Governance in Mexico" (Stanford UP, 2022)
50 mins; December 06, 2024
Carrie N. Baker, "Abortion Pills: US History and Politics" (Amherst College Press, 2024)
64 hours 2 mins; December 03, 2024
Sam Langsdale, "Searching for Feminist Superheroes: Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Marvel Comics" (U Texas Press, 2024)
56 mins; November 30, 2024
Fatima Rajina, "British Bangladeshi Muslims in the East End: The Changing Landscape of Dress and Language" (Manchester UP, 2024)
61 hours 40 mins; November 30, 2024
Mary Ellen Curtin, "She Changed the Nation: Barbara Jordan's Life and Legacy in Black Politics" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
72 hours 57 mins; November 28, 2024
Sabrina Strings, "The End of Love: Racism, Sexism, and the Death of Romance" (Beacon Press, 2024)
37 mins; November 27, 2024
Julia Kelto Lillis, "Virgin Territory: Configuring Female Virginity in Early Christianity" (U California Press, 2022)
64 hours 3 mins; November 25, 2024
Jennifer Denbow, "Reproductive Labor and Innovation: Against the Tech Fix in an Era of Hype" (Duke UP, 2024)
59 mins; November 24, 2024
Serene Khader, "Faux Feminism: Why We Fall for White Feminism and How We Can Stop" (Beacon Press, 2024)
64 hours 33 mins; November 21, 2024
Vivian Asimos, "Cosplay and the Dressing of Identity" (Reaktion, 2024)
51 mins; November 20, 2024
Park Jeong-Mi, "The State's Sexuality: Prostitution and Postcolonial Nation Building in South Korea" (U California Press, 2024)
63 hours 30 mins; November 19, 2024
George Severs, "Radical Acts: HIV/AIDS Activism in Late Twentieth-Century England" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
50 mins; November 19, 2024
Ian Miller, "Self-Esteem: An American History" (Polity Press, 2024)
42 mins; November 17, 2024
Karen M. Dunak, "Our Jackie: Public Claims on a Private Life" (NYU Press, 2024)
37 mins; November 17, 2024
Saadia Yacoob, "Beyond the Binary: Gender and Legal Personhood in Islamic Law" (U California Press, 2024)
90 hours 24 mins; November 16, 2024
We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance
55 mins; November 14, 2024
Vaughn Scribner, "Merpeople: A Human History" (Reaktion Books, 2020)
50 mins; November 13, 2024
Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman, "What Are Children For?: On Ambivalence and Choice" (St. Martin's Press, 2024)
40 mins; November 12, 2024
Alison Stone, "Women on Philosophy of Art: Britain 1770-1900" (Oxford UP, 2024)
59 mins; November 12, 2024
Roxani Krystalli, "Good Victims: The Political as a Feminist Question" (Oxford UP, 2024)
60 hours 21 mins; November 11, 2024
Ethel Tungohan, "Care Activism: Migrant Domestic Workers, Movement-Building, and Communities of Care" (U Illinois Press, 2023)