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Catherine R. Stimpson
Great Books
Catherine Stimpson on de Beauvior's 'The Second Sex'
Think About It, 2019

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in French Studies New Books in Gender Studies New Books in Intellectual History New Books in Literary Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network January 28, 2020 Uli Baer

“Woman is not born but made.” This is only one of the powerful sentences in Simone de Beauvoir’s magisterial The Second Sex (1949). It means that there’s nothing natural about the fact that 50% of humanity has been oppressed by the other half for millennia. There’s nothing natural about the... Read More

Mark Katz, “Build: The Power of Hip Hop Diplomacy in a Divided World” (Oxford UP, 2019)

Mark Katz
Build
The Power of Hip Hop Diplomacy in a Divided World
Oxford University Press, 2019

New Books in African American Studies New Books in American Studies New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Music New Books in National Security New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Political Science New Books in Politics & Society January 28, 2020 Kristen M. Turner

In April 2014, a cohort of twenty-five hip hop artists assembled in Washington, D.C. for the first orientation meeting of a new cultural diplomacy program sponsored by the United States State Department. Next Level brings hip hop practitioners from the United States to other countries where they collaborate with local... Read More

Lowell Mick White
Burnt House

Buffalo Times Press, 2018

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Literature New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in the American South January 28, 2020 GP Gottlieb

After her parents’ divorce, Jackie Stalnaker is sent to her grandmother’s dilapidated house in a tiny town in West Virginia. It’s a hot, mid 1970’s summer in Burnt House, where the only thing to look forward to is a weekly old movie shown at the library. But Jackie is grateful... Read More

Helen Taylor, “Why Women Read Fiction: The Stories of Our Lives” (Oxford UP, 2020)

Helen Taylor
Why Women Read Fiction
The Stories of Our Lives
Oxford University Press, 2020

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Communications New Books in Critical Theory New Books in Gender Studies New Books in Literary Studies New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Sociology New Books Network January 27, 2020 Dave O'Brien

Why and how is fiction important to women? In Why Women Read Fiction: The Stories of Our Lives (Oxford University Press, 2020), Helen Taylor, Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Exeter, explores this question to give a detailed and engaging picture of fiction in women’s lives. The book... Read More

Keri Holt, “Reading These United States: Federal Literacy in the Early Republic, 1776-1830” (U Georgia Press, 2019)

Keri Holt
Reading These United States
Federal Literacy in the Early Republic, 1776-1830
University of Georgia Press, 2019

New Books in American Studies New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Communications New Books in History New Books in Intellectual History New Books in Literary Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network January 27, 2020 Derek Litvak

Keri Holt is the author of Reading These United States: Federal Literacy in the Early Republic, 1776-1830, published by the University of Georgia Press in 2019. Reading These United States explores how Americans read, saw, and understood the federal structure of the country in its early years. Drawing on a... Read More

Carol Dyhouse, “Heartthrobs: A History of Women and Desire” (Oxford UP, 2017)

Carol Dyhouse
Heartthrobs
A History of Women and Desire
Oxford University Press, 2017

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Film New Books in Gender Studies New Books in History New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Popular Culture January 24, 2020 Jana Byars

What can a cultural history of the heartthrob teach us about women, desire, and social change? From dreams of Prince Charming or dashing military heroes, to the lure of dark strangers and vampire lovers; from rock stars and rebels to soulmates, dependable family types or simply good companions, female fantasies... Read More

Christina Adams, “Camel Crazy” (New World Library, 2019)

Christina Adams
Camel Crazy
A Quest for Miracles in the Mysterious World of Camels
New World Library, 2019

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Literature New Books in Medicine New Books in Psychology New Books in Science & Technology January 23, 2020 Eric LeMay

Today I’m speaking with author Christina Adams, and Adams has something of a surprising muse: camels. That’s right, camels. One hump, two humps, crossing the Egyptian desert or the Siberian tundra. Adams’ muse is surprising, because she lives, like many of us, in North America—Orange County, California, to be exact.... Read More