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Gender and Sexuality
Sex Work, Sexualities and Sex April 16, 2021

Reinventing Licentiousness

Pornography and Modern China

Y. Yvon Wang

Hosted by Rachel Stuart
Y. Yvon Wang draws on previously untapped archives--ranging from police archives and surveys to ephemeral texts and pictures--to argue that pornography in China represents a unique configuration of power and …

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Van Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel April 16, 2021

The End of Love

A Sociology of Negative Relations

Eva Illouz

Hosted by Renee Garfinkel
Western culture has endlessly represented the ways in which love miraculously erupts in people's lives, the mythical moment in which one knows someone is destined for us; the feverish waiting …
Literary Studies April 16, 2021

Contingent Figure

Chronic Pain and Queer Embodiment

Michael D. Snediker

Hosted by Britton Edelen
In this episode, I interview Michael Snediker, professor of English at the University of Houston, about his book, Contingent Figure: Chronic Pain and Queer Embodiment, recently published by University of …
Sex Work, Sexualities and Sex April 16, 2021

The Routledge Handbook of Male Sex Work, Culture, and Society

John Geoffrey Scott and Christian Grov

Hosted by Rachel Stuart
Panoramic and provocative in its scope, John Geoffrey Scott and Christian Grov's The Routledge Handbook of Male Sex Work, Culture, and Society (Routledge, 2021) is the definitive guide to contemporary issues …
Gender and Sexuality April 15, 2021

Make Your Move

The New Science of Dating and Why Women Are in Charge

Jon Birger

Hosted by Elizabeth Cronin
Apps have transformed dating from a mysterious adventure into a daily chore. Young, single, college-educated women are sick and tired of competing for a shrinking supply of guys. And marriage-material …
Eastern European Studies April 14, 2021

Survival As Victory

Ukrainian Women in the Gulag

Oksana Kis

Hosted by Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed
Oksana Kis’s Survival as Victory: Ukrainian Women in the Gulag (Harvard Series in Ukrainian Studies, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University Press, 2021) fundamentally contributes to the Gulag studies through its essential intervention …
Latin American Studies April 13, 2021

Just Immigration in the Americas

A Feminist Account

Allison B. Wolf

Hosted by Ethan Fredrick
Allison B. Wolf's Just Immigration in the Americas: A Feminist Account (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020) proposes a pioneering, interdisciplinary, feminist approach to immigration justice, which defines immigration justice as being about identifying …
Japanese Studies April 13, 2021

Flowering Tales

Women Exorcising History in Heian Japan

Takeshi Watanabe

Hosted by Jingyi Li
Telling stories: that sounds innocuous enough. But for the first chronicle in the Japanese vernacular, A Tale of Flowering Fortunes (Eiga monogatari), there was more to worry about than a …
History April 12, 2021

Ireland's New Traditionalists

Fianna Fáil Republicanism and Gender, 1926-1938

Kenneth Shonk

Hosted by Jana Byars
Today on New Books in History, a channel on the New Books Network we are joined by Kenneth L. Shonk, Professor of History at University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse to talk about …
History April 12, 2021

Mobilizing Black Germany

Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement

Tiffany N. Florvil

Hosted by Jennifer Davis Cline
In this globe-spanning work, Florvil uncovers the manifold activities Black German women undertook in the 1980s and 1990s to resist and challenge racism, sexism, and homophobia at home and abroad …
American West April 9, 2021

Rodeo as Refuge, Rodeo as Rebellion

Gender, Race, and Identity in the American Rodeo

Elyssa Ford

Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
Imagine a rodeo rider atop a bucking bronco, hat in hand, straining to remain astride. Is the rider in your mind's eye white? Is the person male? Popular imaginings and high …
Sex Work, Sexualities and Sex April 7, 2021

Criminalizing Sex

A Unified Liberal Theory

Stuart P. Green

Hosted by Rachel Stuart
Starting in the latter part of the 20th century, the law of sexual offenses, especially in the West, began to reflect a striking divergence. On the one hand, the law …
Gender and Sexuality April 7, 2021

The Tenacity of the Couple-Norm

Intimate Citizenship Regimes in a Changing Europe

Sasha Roseneil and Isabel Crowhurst

Hosted by Jana Byars
Sasha Roseneil, Professor of Interdisciplinary Social Science at the Institute of Advanced Studies and Dean of the Faculty of Social and Historical Studies at University College London joins today to …
Russian and Eurasian Studies April 7, 2021

Policing Prostitution

Regulating the Lower Classes in Late Imperial Russia

Siobhán Hearne

Hosted by Steven Seegel
Siobhán Hearne's Policing Prostitution: Regulating the Lower Classes in Late Imperial Russia (Oxford UP, 2021) examines the complex world of commercial sex in the late Russian Empire. From the 1840s until …
History April 7, 2021

Embodying Geopolitics

Generations of Women’s Activism in Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon

Nicola Pratt

Hosted by Jennifer Davis Cline
Dina Hassan (Lecturer, Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, University of Oklahoma, USA) speaks with Nicola Pratt (Associate Professor, International Politics of the Middle East, University of Warwick, UK) about Pratt’s …
Journal of Asian American Studies Podcast April 6, 2021

Roundtable on Asian Migrant Sex Work

Alison Clancey, Kelly Go, Lily Wong, and Yuri Doolan

Hosted by Christopher Patterson
This episode features three interviews with organizers and scholars concerned with Asian migrant sex work: SWAN Vancouver (Alison Clancey and Kelly Go), Dr. Lily Wong, and Dr. Yuri Doolan. On …
Indian Ocean World April 5, 2021

Fleeting Agencies

A Social History of Indian Coolie Women in British Malaya

Arunima Datta

Hosted by Kelvin Ng
Fleeting Agencies: A Social History of Indian Coolie Women in British Malaya (Cambridge UP, 2021) disrupts the male-dominated narratives by focusing on gendered patterns of migration and showing how South …
Critical Theory April 5, 2021

Warped

Gay Normality and Queer Anti-Capitalism

Peter Drucker

Hosted by Stephen Dozeman
The last several decades have seen tremendous political and cultural strides forward for the LGBTQ+ community with both the legislative and cultural recognition helping many secure a more safe and …
LGBTQ+ Studies April 2, 2021

Poor Queer Studies

Confronting Elitism in the University

Matt Brim

Hosted by John Marszalek
In Poor Queer Studies: Confronting Elitism in the University (Duke UP, 2020), Matt Brim shifts queer studies away from its familiar sites of elite education toward poor and working-class people …
Psychology April 2, 2021

Be Mighty

A Woman's Guide to Liberation from Anxiety, Worry, and Stress Using Mindfulness and Acceptance

Jill A. Stoddard

Hosted by Debbie Sorensen
In a culture where women are still paid less for doing the same jobs, expected to juggle family and career effortlessly, and faced with the harsh realities of misogyny …