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Tingting Hu, "Victims, Perpetrators and Professionals: The Representation of Women in Chinese Crime Films" (Liverpool UP, 2021)

33 mins; September 09, 2023

Shai M. Dromi and Samuel D. Stabler, "Moral Minefields: How Sociologists Debate Good Science" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

50 mins; September 08, 2023

Earthsea, and Other Realms: Ursula Le Guin as Social Inactivist (EF, JP, [UKL])

50 mins; September 07, 2023

Altman Yuzhu Peng, "A Feminist Reading of China’s Digital Public Sphere" (Palgrave Pivot, 2020)

27 mins; September 06, 2023

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

56 mins; September 06, 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

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

33 mins; September 05, 2023

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

55 mins; September 02, 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

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

48 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

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

Bonnie Gordon, "Voice Machines: The Castrato, the Cat Piano, and Other Strange Sounds" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

57 mins; August 31, 2023

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

30 mins; August 29, 2023

Karima K. Jeffrey-Legette, "Speculative Film and Moving Images by or about Black Women and Girls" (Lexington Books, 2022)

108 hours 12 mins; August 27, 2023

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

73 hours 23 mins; August 26, 2023

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

57 mins; August 25, 2023

Managing your Mental Health During Your PhD

52 mins; August 24, 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

Romit Chowdhury, "City of Men: Masculinities and Everyday Morality on Public Transport" (Rutgers UP, 2023)

41 mins; August 22, 2023

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

45 mins; August 21, 2023

Kalani Adolpho et al., "Trans and Gender Diverse Voices in Libraries" (Library Juice Press, 2021)

49 mins; August 20, 2023

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

58 mins; August 18, 2023

Whisper Networks: A Discussion with Carrie Ann Johnson

57 mins; August 17, 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

Sophie Bjork-James, "The Divine Institution: White Evangelicalism's Politics of the Family" (Rutgers UP, 2021)

55 mins; August 12, 2023

Kris Marsh, "The Love Jones Cohort: Single and Living Alone in the Black Middle Class" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

64 hours 57 mins; August 12, 2023

Charlotte Karem Albrecht, "Possible Histories: Arab Americans and the Queer Ecology of Peddling" (U California Press, 2023)

67 hours 45 mins; August 11, 2023

Postscript: Protecting the Public? Guns, Intimate Partner Violence, and the US Supreme Court

46 mins; August 07, 2023

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

56 mins; August 06, 2023

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

43 mins; August 04, 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

Matthew Bentley and John D. Bloom, "The Imperial Gridiron: Manhood, Civilization, and Football at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)

61 hours 41 mins; July 30, 2023

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

69 hours 0 mins; July 27, 2023

Rahil Roodsaz, "Sexual Self-Fashioning: Iranian Dutch Narratives of Sexuality and Belonging" (Berghahn Books, 2022)

36 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

Oyman Başaran, "Circumcision and Medicine in Modern Turkey" (U Texas Press, 2023)

41 mins; July 23, 2023

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

55 mins; July 23, 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

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

30 mins; July 15, 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

Stephen Davies, "Adornment: What Self-Decoration Tells Us About Who We Are" (Bloomsbury, 2020)

31 mins; July 10, 2023

Jessica P. Cerdeña, "Pressing Onward: The Imperative Resilience of Latina Migrant Mothers" (U California Press, 2023)

58 mins; July 10, 2023

Robert Mills, "Seeing Sodomy in the Middle Ages" (U Chicago Press, 2015)

53 mins; July 09, 2023

Dinah Hannaford, "Aid and the Help: International Development and the Transnational Extraction of Care" (Stanford UP, 2023)

52 mins; July 07, 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

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

37 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

Tilly Bridges, "Begin Transmission: The Trans Allegories of The Matrix" (BearManor Media, 2023)

33 mins; July 04, 2023

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

50 mins; July 02, 2023

Rose Hackman, "Emotional Labor: The Invisible Work Shaping Our Lives and How to Claim Our Power" (Flatiron Books, 2023)

23 mins; June 29, 2023

Avgi Saketopoulou and Ann Pellegrini, "Gender Without Identity" (Unconscious in Translation, 2023)

77 hours 53 mins; June 27, 2023

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

38 mins; June 27, 2023

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

80 hours 33 mins; June 26, 2023

Yvette Taylor, "Working-Class Queers: Time, Place, and Politics" (Pluto Press, 2022)

41 mins; June 24, 2023

Thomas Arentzen, et al., "Orthodox Tradition and Human Sexuality" (Fordham UP, 2022)

55 mins; June 24, 2023

Amy Tooth Murphy et al., "New Directions in Queer Oral History: Archives of Disruption" (Routledge, 2022)

52 mins; June 23, 2023

Ngaire Naffine, "Criminal Law and the Man Problem" (Bloomsbury, 2020)

33 mins; June 23, 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

Orit Avishai, "Queer Judaism: LGBT Activism and the Remaking of Jewish Orthodoxy in Israel" (NYU Press, 2023)

52 mins; June 18, 2023

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

54 mins; June 16, 2023

Grace Elisabeth Lavery, "Pleasure and Efficacy: Of Pen Names, Cover Versions, and Other Trans Techniques" (Princeton UP, 2023)

33 mins; June 15, 2023

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

30 mins; June 14, 2023

Nate G. Hilger, "The Parent Trap: How to Stop Overloading Parents and Fix Our Inequality Crisis" (MIT Press, 2023)

58 mins; June 13, 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

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

Felipe Valencia, "The Melancholy Void: Lyric and Masculinity in the Age of Góngora" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)

35 mins; June 05, 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

Anna Fishzon and Emma Lieber, "The Queerness of Childhood: Essays from the Other Side of the Looking Glass" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)

54 mins; June 03, 2023

Gender and Equality in Art and Exploration

13 mins; June 03, 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

The Gentrification of Queer Desire

58 mins; May 27, 2023

Missing: Men at Work — A Conversation with Nick Eberstadt

50 mins; May 26, 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

Full Version: Lauren Fournier and McKenzie Wark on Autotheory

95 hours 28 mins; May 23, 2023

Girls Against God

47 mins; May 23, 2023

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

77 hours 10 mins; May 22, 2023

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

70 hours 42 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

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

Meredith Broussard, "More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech" (MIT Press, 2023)

42 mins; May 18, 2023

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