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NBN Episodes hosted by Julie:

Nanxiu Qian, "Politics, Poetics, and Gender in Late Qing China: Xue Shaohui and the Era of Reform" (Stanford UP, 2015)

December 11, 2015

Politics, Poetics, and Gender in Late Qing China

Nanxiu Qian
Hosted by Julie Fette

Nanxiu Qian, professor at Rice University, discusses her new book Politics, Poetics, and Gender in Late Qing China: Xue Shaohui and the Era of Reform …

Melissa Dabakis, "A Sisterhood of Sculptors: American Artists in Nineteenth-Century Rome (Pennsylvania State UP, 2014)

April 20, 2015

A Sisterhood of Sculptors

Melissa Dabakis
Hosted by Julie Fette

In A Sisterhood of Sculptors: American Artists in Nineteenth-Century Rome (Penn State University Press, 2014), Melissa Dabakis takes readers on an une…

Jenny Kaminer, "Women with a Thirst for Destruction: The Bad Mother in Russian Culture" (Northwestern UP, 2014)

January 20, 2015

Women with a Thirst for Destruction

Jenny Kaminer
Hosted by Julie Fette

Jenny Kaminer's new book, Women with a Thirst for Destruction: The Bad Mother in Russian Culture (Northwestern University Press, 2014) analyzes Russia…

Amy Evrard, "The Moroccan Women's Rights Movement" (Syracuse UP, 2014)

October 30, 2014

The Moroccan Women's Rights Movement

Amy Evrard
Hosted by Julie Fette

Amy Evrard's first book, The Moroccan Women's Rights Movement (Syracuse University Press, 2014), examines women's attempts to change their patriarchal…

Cymene Howe, "Intimate Activism: The Struggle for Sexual Rights in Postrevolutionary Nicaragua" (Duke UP, 2013)

June 10, 2014

Intimate Activism

Cymene Howe
Hosted by Julie Fette

With Intimate Activism: The Struggle for Sexual Rights in Postrevolutionary Nicaragua (Duke University Press, 2013), Cymene Howe offers an ethnography…

Denise Brennan, "Life Interrupted: Trafficking into Forced Labor in the United States" (Duke UP, 2014)

May 20, 2014

Life Interrupted

Denise Brennan
Hosted by Julie Fette

Denise Brennan's second book, Life Interrupted: Trafficking into Forced Labor in the United States (Duke University Press, 2014), examines how individ…

Lynne Huffer, "Are the Lips a Grave? A Queer Feminist on the Ethics of Sex" (Columbia UP, 2013)

April 23, 2014

Are the Lips a Grave?

Lynne Huffer
Hosted by Julie Fette

In her fourth book, Lynne Huffer argues for a restored queer feminism to find new ways of thinking about sex and about ethics. Are the Lips a Grave? A…

Kathleen Wellman, "Queens and Mistresses of Renaissance France" (Yale UP, 2013)

January 21, 2014

Queens and Mistresses of Renaissance France

Kathleen Wellman
Hosted by Julie Fette

Queens and royal mistresses of the Renaissance were the Hollywood celebrities of their time, which explains their enduring magnetism for writers, arti…

Julie Berebitsky, "Sex and the Office: A History of Gender, Power and Desire" (Yale UP, 2012)

December 11, 2013

Sex and the Office

Julie Berebitsky
Hosted by Julie Fette

How to research the history of sexual harassment in the office, when the term sexual harassment was only invented in 1975 and it was long tabou to eve…