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January 20, 2021
Revolutionary Time
On Time and Difference in Kristeva and Irigaray
Fanny Söderbäck
Hosted by Sarah Tyson
What is the relationship between time and sexual difference? Are the categories of linearity and circularity that have so dominated conceptions of time sufficient for the emancipatory aims of feminist …
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Asian Review of Books
January 14, 2021
Three Asian Divas
Women, Art and Culture In Shiraz, Delhi and Yangzhou
David Chaffetz
Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
The “diva” is a common trope when we talk about culture. We normally think of the diva as a Western construction: the opera singer, the Broadway actress, the movie star …
Australian and New Zealand Studies
January 11, 2021
A Bridge Between
Spanish Benedictine Missionary Women in Australia
Katherine Massam
Hosted by Bede Haines
Katharine Massam's A Bridge Between: Spanish Benedictine Missionary Women in Australia (ANU Press, 2020) is the first book detailing the Benedictine women who worked at New Norcia, examining their life in the …
Islamic Studies
January 8, 2021
Say What Your Longing Heart Desires
Women, Prayer and Poetry in Iran
Niloofar Haeri
Hosted by Shobhana Xavier
Say What Your Longing Heart Desires: Women, Prayer & Poetry in Iran (Stanford University Press, 2020) by Niloofar Haeri is a stunning and absorbing ethnography of the lived ritual experiences …
Dan Hill's EQ Spotlight
January 7, 2021
Good Guys
How Men Can Be Better Allies for Women in the Workplace
David G. Smith and W. Brad Johnson
Hosted by Dan Hill
Today I talked to David Smith and Brad Johnson about their new book Good Guys: How Men Can Be Better Allies for Women in the Workplace (HBR Press, 2020). This episode addresses …
Gender Studies
January 7, 2021
Traffic in Asian Women
Laura Hyun Yi Kang
Hosted by Ann Choi
Can we ever overcome the epistemological barrier to conceptualizing Asian women not as particular cases but as theories, and can women of color academics be heard in this process? This is one …
Popular Culture
January 6, 2021
Laura's Ghost
Women Speak about Twin Peaks
Courtenay Stallings
Hosted by Miranda Corcoran
In this episode Miranda Corcoran speaks to Courtenay Stallings about her new book, Laura’s Ghost: Women Speak about Twin Peaks (Fayetteville Mafia Press, 2020). Laura’s Ghost is unique exploration of an iconic …
Mobilities and Methods
January 5, 2021
Coming Out to the Streets
LGBTQ Youth Experiencing Homelessness
Brandon Andrew Robinson
Hosted by Alize Arıcan
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) youth are disproportionately represented in the U.S. youth homelessness population. In Coming Out to the Streets, Brandon Andrew Robinson examines their lives.Based on …
History
January 4, 2021
Her Neighbor's Wife
A History of Lesbian Desire Within Marriage
Lauren Jae Gutterman
Hosted by Stephen Colbrook
Through interviews, diaries, memoirs, and letters, Her Neighbor's Wife: A History of Lesbian Desire Within Marriage (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019) traces the stories of hundreds of women, like Barbara Kalish, who …
LGBTQ+ Studies
January 4, 2021
Female Husbands
A Trans History
Jen Manion
Hosted by Leo Valdes
Long before people identified as transgender or lesbian, there were female husbands and the women who loved them. Female husbands - people assigned female who transed gender, lived as men …
Academic Life
December 31, 2020
The Self-Care Stuff: Considering Whether to Stay or Drop Out
A Discussion with Miriam Martin
Miriam Martin
Hosted by Christina Gessler
Welcome to The Academic Life. You are smart and capable, but you aren’t an island, and neither are we. So we reached across our mentor network to bring you podcasts …
Asian Review of Books
December 31, 2020
The Baddest Bitch in the Room
A Memoir
Sophia Chang
Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
Enter the Wu-Tang. Return to the 36 Chambers. People listening to these albums by the Wu-Tang Clan and its members likely never knew about Sophia Chang: a Korean-Canadian woman who …
South Asian Studies
December 30, 2020
Muscular India
Masculinity, Mobility & the New Middle Class
Michiel Baas
Hosted by Lakshita Malik
The gyms of urban ‘new India’ are intriguing spaces. While they cater largely to well-off clients, these shiny, modern institutions are also vehicles of upward mobility for the trainers and …
Chinese Studies
December 29, 2020
Queer Chinese Cultures and Mobilities
Kinship, Migration, and Middle Classes
John Wei
Hosted by Laurie Dickmeyer
John Wei’s book Queer Chinese Cultures and Mobilities: Kinship, Migration, and Middle Classes (Hong Kong University Press, 2020) studies queer cultures and social practices in China and Sinophone Asia. Young …
Sociology
December 28, 2020
Diagnosing Desire
Biopolitics and Femininity Into the Twenty-First Century
Alyson K. Spurgas
Hosted by Michael Johnston
In Diagnosing Desire: Biopolitics and Femininity into the Twenty-First Century (The Ohio State University Press, 2020), Alyson K. Spurgas, Ph.D. examines the “new science of female sexuality” from a critical, sociological …
Performing Arts
December 28, 2020
My Autobiography of Carson Mccullers
A Memoir
Jenn Shapland
Hosted by Andy Boyd
Jenn Shapland's My Autobiography of Carson McCullers (Tin House Books, 2020) is a fascinating cross-genre book that combines elements of traditional biography with Shapland's own personal narrative of researching McCullers …
Islamic Studies
December 24, 2020
The Routledge Handbook of Islam and Gender
Justine Howe
Hosted by Shehnaz Haqqani
The Routledge Handbook of Islam and Gender (Routledge, 2020), edited by Justine Howe, includes an excellent introduction to Islam and gender as well as to the volume and 31 content chapters …
Gender Studies
December 23, 2020
Rivers of Light
The Life of Claire Myers Owens
Miriam Kalman Friedman
Hosted by Christina Gessler
Growing up in a conservative, middle-class family in Texas, Claire Myers Owens sought adventure and freedom at an early age. At twenty years old, she left home and quickly found …
History
December 23, 2020
Debating Sex and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Spain
Marta V. Vicente
Hosted by Jana Byars
Today’s interview on New Books in History is with Dr. Marta Vicente, Professor of History at the University of Kansas to talk about her 2017 Cambridge University Press release, Debating …
Middle Eastern Studies
December 22, 2020
Sacrificial Limbs
Masculinity, Disability, and Political Violence in Turkey
Salih Can Aciksoz
Hosted by Reuben Silverman
Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability, and Political Violence in Turkey (University of California Press, 2020) is an exploration of “the ways in which . . .veterans’ gendered and classed experiences of warfare …
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