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

42 mins; May 18, 2023

America & Democracy Ep. 3: Carol A. Stabile on the Red Scare

42 mins; May 17, 2023

Victoria Bateman, "Naked Feminism: Breaking the Cult of Female Modesty" (Polity Press, 2023)

66 hours 40 mins; May 16, 2023

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

28 mins; May 15, 2023

Claudia Liebelt, "Istanbul Appearances: Beauty and the Making of Middle-Class Femininities in Urban Turkey" (Syracuse UP, 2023)

31 mins; May 13, 2023

Leyla Jagiella, "Among the Eunuchs: A Muslim Transgender Journey" (Hurst, 2022)

79 hours 57 mins; May 12, 2023

Naomi McDougall Jones, "The Wrong Kind of Women: Inside Our Revolution to Dismantle the Gods of Hollywood" (Beacon, 2020)

64 hours 24 mins; May 12, 2023

Leah Phillips, "Female Heroes in Young Adult Fantasy Fiction: Reframing Myths of Adolescent Girlhood" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

60 hours 13 mins; May 11, 2023

The Everyday Feminist with Latanya Mapp Frett

46 mins; May 11, 2023

Oded Zinger, "Living with the Law: Gender and Community Among the Jews of Medieval Egypt" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)

54 mins; May 11, 2023

Supurna Banerjee et al., "The Violent Domestic Law: Its Practice and Strategies of Survival" (Zubaan Academic, 2022)

46 mins; May 08, 2023

Samantha Pickette, "Peak TV's Unapologetic Jewish Woman: Exploring Jewish Female Representation in Contemporary Television Comedy" (Lexington, 2022)

66 hours 9 mins; May 07, 2023

Jack Parlett, "Fire Island" (Hanover Square Press, 2022)

69 hours 35 mins; May 07, 2023

Elisabeth B. Armstrong, "Bury the Corpse of Colonialism: The Revolutionary Feminist Conference of 1949" (U California Press, 2023)

52 mins; May 06, 2023

Rupal Oza, "Semiotics of Rape: Sexual Subjectivity and Violation in Rural India" (Duke UP, 2022)

49 mins; May 06, 2023

Sita Balani, "Deadly and Slick: Sexual Modernity and the Making of Race" (Verso, 2023)

48 mins; May 05, 2023

Eva Haifa Giraud, "What Comes After Entanglement?: Activism, Anthropocentrism, and an Ethics of Exclusion" (Duke UP, 2019)

38 mins; May 05, 2023

Shenila Khoja-Moolji, "Rebuilding Community: Displaced Women and the Making of a Shia Ismaili Muslim Sociality" (Oxford UP, 2023)

39 mins; May 05, 2023

Stéfanie von Hlatky, "Deploying Feminism: The Role of Gender in NATO Military Operations" (Oxford UP, 2022)

64 hours 38 mins; May 01, 2023

Jo Littler, "Left Feminisms: Conversations on the Personal and Political" (Lawrence Wishart, 2023)

34 mins; May 01, 2023

Annie Zaleski, "Lady Gaga: Applause" (Palazzo Editions, 2022)

52 mins; April 30, 2023

The History of Contraception

15 mins; April 27, 2023

Nancy K. Miller and Tahneer Oksman. "Feminists Reclaim Mentorship" (SUNY Press, 2023)

76 hours 58 mins; April 26, 2023

Haunted Bauhaus: Occult Spirituality, Gender Fluidity, Queer Identities, and Radical Politics

32 mins; April 25, 2023

Susan Stryker and Dylan McCarthy Blackston, "The Transgender Studies Reader Remix" (Routledge, 2022)

59 mins; April 24, 2023

Catherine Grant, "A Time of One's Own: Histories of Feminism in Contemporary Art" (Duke UP, 2022)

57 mins; April 22, 2023

Kerri Lynn Stone, "Panes of the Glass Ceiling: The Unspoken Beliefs Behind the Law's Failure to Help Women Achieve Professional Parity" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

47 mins; April 21, 2023

Kaitlin Sidorsky and Wendy J. Schiller, "Inequality across State Lines: How Policymakers Have Failed Domestic Violence Victims in the United States" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

50 mins; April 16, 2023

Mina Roces, "Gender in Southeast Asia" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

31 mins; April 15, 2023

Gregory J. Kaliss, "Beyond the Black Power Salute: Athlete Activism in an Era of Change" (U Illinois Press, 2023)

60 hours 34 mins; April 14, 2023

Hearts of Men: How Should Progressives React to Masculinity Influencers like Andrew Tate?

90 hours 23 mins; April 12, 2023

Abortion and the Law

111 hours 59 mins; April 12, 2023

Akiko Takeyama, "Staged Seduction: Selling Dreams in a Tokyo Host Club" (Stanford UP, 2016)

67 hours 30 mins; April 11, 2023

Bettina Judd, "Feelin: Creative Practice, Pleasure, and Black Feminist Thought" (Northwestern UP, 2022)

46 mins; April 08, 2023

Greta LaFleur et al., "Trans Historical: Gender Plurality Before the Modern" (Cornell UP, 2021)

53 mins; April 05, 2023

Monica Liu, "Seeking Western Men: Email-Order Brides Under China's Global Rise" (Stanford UP, 2022)

42 mins; April 02, 2023

Gender and Climate Change Adaptation in Bangladesh

22 mins; March 31, 2023

School Authority, Parents' Rights: Rita Koganzon on Early Modern Education

60 hours 31 mins; March 30, 2023

School Authority, Parents' Rights: Rita Koganzon on Early Modern Education

60 hours 31 mins; March 30, 2023

Laurah E. Klepinger, "Transnational Yoga at Work: Spiritual Tourism and Its Blind Spots" (Lexington Books, 2022)

39 mins; March 30, 2023

Elizabeth Bronwyn Boyd, "Southern Beauty: Race, Ritual, and Memory in the Modern South" (U Georgia Press, 2022)

64 hours 40 mins; March 27, 2023

Uddipana Goswami, "Gendering Peace in Violent Peripheries: Marginality, Masculinity, and Feminist Agency" (Routledge, 2022)

57 mins; March 26, 2023

Robin M. Morris, "Goldwater Girls to Reagan Women: Gender, Georgia, and the Growth of the New Right" (U Georgia Press, 2022)

44 mins; March 23, 2023

Leigh Goodmark, "Imperfect Victims: Criminalized Survivors and the Promise of Abolition Feminism" (U California Press, 2023)

59 mins; March 22, 2023

Julia Kowalski, "Counseling Women: Kinship Against Violence in India" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)

36 mins; March 22, 2023

Melanie Heath, "Forbidden Intimacies: Polygamies at the Limits of Western Tolerance" (Stanford UP, 2023)

48 mins; March 21, 2023

Marissa A. Harrison, "Just as Deadly: The Psychology of Female Serial Killers" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

35 mins; March 20, 2023

Giusi Russo, "Women, Empires, and Body Politics at the United Nations, 1946-1975" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)

70 hours 55 mins; March 18, 2023

Kate Sylvester, "Women and Martial Art in Japan" (Routledge, 2022)

64 hours 17 mins; March 18, 2023

Mejdulene Bernard Shomali, "Between Banat: Queer Arab Critique and Transnational Arab Archives" (Duke UP, 2023)

47 mins; March 17, 2023

Book Talk 58: Vivian Gornick on Emma Goldman

64 hours 10 mins; March 17, 2023

Jessica Wilson, "It's Always Been Ours: Rewriting the Story of Black Women's Bodies" (Hachette Go, 2023)

59 mins; March 17, 2023

Dalia Nassar and Kristin Gjesdal, "Women Philosophers in the Long Nineteenth Century: The German Tradition" (Oxford UP, 2021)

63 hours 16 mins; March 16, 2023

The Role of Global South Women in Shaping Global Governance

49 mins; March 13, 2023

Ke Li, "Marriage Unbound: State Law, Power, and Inequality in Contemporary China" (Stanford UP, 2022)

59 mins; March 13, 2023

Richard Thompson Ford, "Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History" (Simon & Schuster, 2021)

63 hours 48 mins; March 11, 2023

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

56 mins; March 11, 2023

Marion Turner, "The Wife of Bath: A Biography" (Princeton UP, 2023)

45 mins; March 10, 2023

Can we Engage in Public Scholarship with Feminist and Accessible Communication?

61 hours 2 mins; March 09, 2023

Measure for Measure Episode 7: Kinsey

23 mins; March 08, 2023

H. Yumi Kim, "Madness in the Family: Women, Care, and Illness in Japan" (Oxford UP, 2022)

61 hours 20 mins; March 08, 2023

Jacqueline Broad, "Women Philosophers of Seventeenth-Century England: Selected Correspondence" (Oxford UP, 2019)

65 hours 57 mins; March 08, 2023

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

74 hours 4 mins; March 07, 2023

Book Chat: "Women Migrants in Southern China and Taiwan" (Routledge, 2021)

46 mins; March 07, 2023

Ulrike Krause, "Difficult Life in a Refugee Camp: Gender, Violence, and Coping in Uganda" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

52 mins; March 06, 2023

Melanie Heath et al., "Global Feminist Autoethnographies During COVID-19: Displacements and Disruptions" (Routledge, 2022)

44 mins; March 04, 2023

Caroline Rusterholz, "Women's Medicine: Family Planning and British Female Doctors in Transnational Perspective, 1920-70" (Manchester UP, 2021)

32 mins; March 04, 2023

Charlie Samuelson, "Courtly and Queer: Deconstruction, Desire, and Medieval French Literature" (Ohio State UP, 2022)

61 hours 46 mins; March 03, 2023

Who Do You Think You Are?: Thorny Questions about Sex, Identity, and Catholic Doctrine

76 hours 44 mins; March 02, 2023

Veena R. Howard et al., "The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Philosophy and Gender" (Bloomsbury, 2019)

47 mins; March 02, 2023

Celeste Vaughan Curington et al., "The Dating Divide: Race and Desire in the Era of Online Romance" (U California Press, 2021)

49 mins; March 01, 2023

Saida Grundy, "Respectable: Politics and Paradox in Making the Morehouse Man" (U California Press, 2022)

61 hours 6 mins; February 28, 2023

Affective Masculinities

19 mins; February 27, 2023

Britni de la Cretaz and Lyndsey D'Arcangelo, "Hail Mary: The Rise and Fall of the National Women's Football League" (Bold Type Books, 2021)

68 hours 19 mins; February 25, 2023

Leonard C. Spitale, "Victorine Du Pont: The Force Behind the Family" (U Delaware Press, 2022)

49 mins; February 24, 2023

Ashley Brown, "Serving Herself: The Life and Times of Althea Gibson" (Oxford UP, 2023)

45 mins; February 24, 2023

Shannon Philip, "Becoming Young Men in a New India: Masculinities, Gender Relations and Violence in the Postcolony" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

37 mins; February 22, 2023

Elora Halim Chowdhury, "Ethical Encounters: Transnational Feminism, Human Rights, and War Cinema in Bangladesh" (Temple UP, 2022)

54 mins; February 22, 2023

Jane Lasonder, "Red Alert: The Inside Story of Prostitution and Human Trafficking" (Scholten Uitgeverij BV, 2016)

62 hours 39 mins; February 22, 2023

Patrick Bixby, "Unaccompanied Traveler: The Writings of Kathleen M. Murphy" (Syracuse UP, 2021)

54 mins; February 18, 2023

Hadia Mubarak, "Rebellious Wives, Neglectful Husbands: Controversies in Modern Qur'anic Commentaries" (Oxford UP, 2022)

82 hours 56 mins; February 17, 2023

Women and the History of the Vote in the Prairie Provinces

31 mins; February 17, 2023

Mary C. Flannery, "Practicing Shame: Female Honour in Later Medieval England" (Manchester UP, 2019)

43 mins; February 15, 2023

Rhiannon Graybill, "Texts After Terror: Rape, Sexual Violence, and the Hebrew Bible" (Oxford UP, 2021)

51 mins; February 15, 2023

The Lives of Canada’s War Women

22 mins; February 14, 2023

Lauron J. Kehrer, "Queer Voices in Hip Hop: Cultures, Communities, and Contemporary Performance" (U Michigan Press, 2022)

56 mins; February 14, 2023

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

51 mins; February 12, 2023

Shailaja Paik, "The Vulgarity of Caste: Dalits, Sexuality, and Humanity in Modern India" (Stanford UP, 2022)

48 mins; February 12, 2023

Rolf Nolasco, "Hearts Ablaze: Parables for the Queer Soul" (Morehouse Publishing, 2022)

45 mins; February 12, 2023

Lesly Deschler Canossi and Zoraida Lopez-Diago, "Black Matrilineage, Photography, and Representation: Another Way of Knowing" (Leuven UP, 2022)

53 mins; February 12, 2023

Dianne M. Stewart, "Black Women, Black Love: America's War on African-American Marriage" (Seal Press, 2020)

65 hours 3 mins; February 08, 2023

Gloria Coppola et al., "Women Standing Strong Together: Stories of Surrendering to Your Authentic Self" (2019)

57 mins; February 07, 2023

Erin in the Morning: A Interview with Erin Reed, LGBTQ+ Activist and Substacker

50 mins; February 06, 2023

Gendered Labor, Food Security, and Technology in 20th Century Mali

61 hours 6 mins; February 06, 2023

Rachel Adelman, "The Female Ruse: Women's Deception and Divine Sanction in the Hebrew Bible" (Sheffield Press, 2017)

29 mins; February 05, 2023

Reclaiming a Lost Vision of Feminism: A Conversation with Erika Bachiochi

55 mins; February 04, 2023

Broken Pathways: Women’s Political Leadership in Sri Lanka

34 mins; February 03, 2023

Ute Hüsken, "Laughter, Creativity, and Perseverance: Female Agency in Buddhism and Hinduism" (Oxford UP, 2022)

47 mins; February 02, 2023

Robert O'Mochain and Yuki Ueno, "Sexual Abuse and Education in Japan: In the (Inter)National Shadows" (Routledge, 2022)

57 mins; February 01, 2023

Clare Forstie, "Queering the Midwest: Forging LGBTQ Community" (NYU Press, 2022)

74 hours 18 mins; February 01, 2023

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