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Women's History
Interviews with scholars of women's history about their new books.
August 4, 2026
Pink Crime
A woman miscarries—and is charged with murder. A new mother tests positive for a drug her hospital administered—and loses custody of her newborn. Four…
July 29, 2026
American Infidelity
Today I'm speaking with Steven K. Green, Fred H. Paulus Professor of Law and Affiliated Professor of History and Religious Studies at Willamette Unive…
July 27, 2026
Her Secret Service
Since the inception of the Secret Service Bureau back in 1909, women have worked at the very heart of British secret intelligence - yet their contribu…
July 25, 2026
Elisabeth van Houts, "Empress Matilda: Queen of the Romans, Ruler of the English"
Born in 1102, Empress Matilda combined the blood of two dynasties: the house of Wessex and their conquerors, the dukes of Normandy. As a widowed Germa…
July 22, 2026
A Jurisprudence of Conversations
Grounded in empirical studies, this book is both a history of the emergence of feminist jurisprudence in post-colonial India and a model of innovative…
July 20, 2026
Art and Citizenship in Conflict
Art and Citizenship in Conflict: British Women War Artists, 1939-45 (Manchester UP, 2026) by Dr. Lucy Curzon examines the work of women war artists in…
July 19, 2026
Watching the Girls Go By
Molly Brookfield’s book, Watching the Girls Go By: A History of Street Harassment in the United States (University of North Carolina Press, 2026) expl…
July 19, 2026
Female Art and Agency in Yugoslavia, 1971–2001
In Female Art and Agency in Yugoslavia, 1971–2001 (Bloomsbury, 2024), Anja Foerschner offers a compelling exploration of the women artists, curators, …
July 15, 2026
This Is Rhythm
Ella Jenkins (1924–2024) was one of the most influential musicians of the twentieth century, although many people have never heard of her. A pioneer i…
July 15, 2026
Recipes for the Melting Pot
In 1901, Lizzie Black Kander put together a cookbook based on the classes she taught at the Milwaukee Jewish Mission. “I was trying to teach a g…
July 11, 2026
Winning Women’s Hearts and Minds
In this episode, Alisa interviews Dr. Diana Cucuz about her book, Winning Women’s Hearts and Minds: Selling Cold War Culture in the US and the USSR (U…
July 8, 2026
Cookstove Chronicles
Stove improvers have been designing and promoting “clean” or “efficient” biomass cookstoves in India since the 1940s and have been frustrated to …
July 6, 2026
The Home Front
What was it like to live in a city experiencing occupation by a foreign army? What did it mean when a family had to quarter an officer in their home? …
July 4, 2026
The Art of Living in Avant-Garde Paris
With The Art of Living in Avant-Garde Paris: Ethics and Self-Making in Dada, Simultanism, and Surrealism (University of Chicago Press, 2026), Rachel…
July 2, 2026
The Book That Taught the World to Orgasm and Then Disappeared
Despite being one of the leading thinkers of the second wave feminist movement, today Shere Hite is little known, little written about, and, unsurpris…
June 30, 2026
Fashion in Late Ottoman Istanbul
Over the 19th century, the women of Istanbul gradually transformed their appearance, adopting European dress and new modes of self-fashioning, includi…
June 30, 2026
Domestic Nationalism
In her most recent publication, Domestic Nationalism: Muslim Women, Health, and Modernity in Indonesia (Stanford UP, 2025), Chiara Formichi argues tha…
June 22, 2026
Real Men on Top
In Real Men on Top: How Patriarchy Shapes Our Reality (Oxford University Press, 2026), Robin Dembroff shows us that we don't just live in a patriarcha…
June 14, 2026
For Better and Worse
Marriage rates have fallen dramatically since the 1970s. Yet far from devaluing marriage, people still overwhelmingly describe marriage as the highest…
June 11, 2026
Ybor City
Decades before Miami became Havana USA, a wave of leftist, radical, working-class women and men from prerevolutionary Cuba crossed the Florida Straits…