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Women's History
Politics & Polemics February 4, 2023

Reclaiming a Lost Vision of Feminism

A Conversation with Erika Bachiochi

Erika Bachiochi

Hosted by Annika Nordquist
The overturning of Roe v. Wade has led to a flurry of commentary and wondering, "Where next?" But, it also begs deeper questions: what is the history of abortion and …

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European Politics February 3, 2023

And Then What?

Stories from Twenty-First-Century Diplomacy

Catherine Ashton

Hosted by Tim Jones
When she was chosen as the EU's first High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy (HR/VP) in 2009, Catherine Ashton admits she "felt no exhilaration", fearing she had "few …
Indian Religions February 2, 2023

Laughter, Creativity, and Perseverance

Female Agency in Buddhism and Hinduism

Ute Hüsken

Hosted by Raj Balkaran
In most mainstream traditions of Hinduism and Buddhism, women have for centuries largely been excluded from positions of religious and ritual leadership. However, as this volume shows, in an increasing …
Japanese Studies February 1, 2023

Sexual Abuse and Education in Japan

In the (Inter)National Shadows

Robert O'Mochain and Yuki Ueno

Hosted by Jingyi Li
Bringing together two voices, practice and theory, in a collaboration that emerges from lived experience and structured reflection upon that experience, O'Mochain and Ueno show how entrenched discursive forces exert …
Jewish Studies January 31, 2023

Gendering Modern Jewish Thought

Andrea Dara Cooper

Hosted by Lea Greenberg
The idea of brotherhood has been an important philosophical concept for understanding community, equality, and justice. In Gendering Modern Jewish Thought (Indiana UP, 2021), Andrea Dara Cooper offers a gendered …
Think About It January 30, 2023

Anne Fernald and Rajgopal Saikumar on Virginia Woolf's "Three Guineas" (1938)

Book Talk 57

Anne Fernald and Rajgopal Saikumar

Hosted by Uli Baer
Virginia Woolf’s 1938 provocative and polemical essay Three Guineas presents the iconic writer’s views on war, women, and the way the patriarchy at home oppresses women in ways that resemble …
Poetry January 29, 2023

Hereafter

The Telling Life of Ellen O'Hara

Vona Groarke

Hosted by Hal Coase
Ellen O'Hara was a young immigrant from Ireland at the end of the nineteenth century who, with courage and resilience, made a life for herself in New York while financially …
South Asian Studies January 28, 2023

The Vulgarity of Caste

Dalits, Sexuality, and Humanity in Modern India

Shailaja Paik

Hosted by Niharika Yadav
The Vulgarity of Caste: Dalits, Sexuality, and Humanity in Modern India (Stanford UP, 2022) offers the first social and intellectual history of Dalit performance of Tamasha—a popular form of public, secular …
Sports January 25, 2023

Break Point

Two Minnesota Athletes and the Road to Title IX

Sheri Brenden

Hosted by Rebekah Buchanan
In Break Point: Two Minnesota Athletes and the Road to Title IX (University of Minnesota Press, 2022), Sheri Brenden examines how two teenage girls in Minnesota jump-started a revolution in high school …
Women's History January 24, 2023

"Fame Is Not Just for the Fellas"

Female Renown and the Childhood of Famous Americans Series

Gregory M. Pfitzer

Hosted by Rebecca Turkington
In “Fame is Not Just for the Fellas”: Female Renown and the Childhood of Famous Americans Series (University of Massachusetts Press, 2022), Gregory Pfitzer examines the editorial and production choices …
Popular Culture January 24, 2023

Finding Jackie

The Second Act of America's First Lady

Oline Eaton

Hosted by Rebekah Buchanan
In her new book, Finding Jackie: A Life Reinvented (Diversion Books, 2023), scholar and writer Oline Eaton examines the story of an era's biggest "star of life," Jaqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, as …
International Horizons January 23, 2023

Contextualizing the Iranian Protests

The Role of Women in Leading the Change

Mahnaz Afkhami and Kelly Shannon

Hosted by International Horizons
Western sanctions have slowed Iran's economy, causing protests against the absence of freedom and opportunities -- teachers their lack of pay; farmers their lack of water; retirees their fear of …
Medieval History January 21, 2023

Marriage Litigation in the Western Church, 1215-1517

Wolfgang P. Müller

Hosted by Jana Byars
Wolfgang Muller, Marriage Litigation in the Western Church, 1215-1517 (Cambridge University Press, 2021). From the establishment of a coherent doctrine on sacramental marriage to the eve of the Reformation, late medieval …
African American Studies January 19, 2023

Consent in the Presence of Force

Sexual Violence and Black Women's Survival in Antebellum New Orleans

Emily A. Owens

Hosted by Katrina Anderson
In histories of enslavement and in Black women's history, coercion looms large in any discussion of sex and sexuality. At a time when sexual violence against Black women was virtually …
Almost Good Catholics January 18, 2023

We Shall Overcome

Sister Thea Bowman and the Black Catholic Experience

Father Maurice Nutt, CSsR

Hosted by Krzysztof Odyniec
Though we are all one—“there is neither Jew nor Greek,” St. Paul wrote to the Galatians—each of us brings a particular heritage to the mosaic of God’s universal pilgrim church …
Policing, Incarceration, and Reform January 18, 2023

The Healing Stage

Black Women, Incarceration, and the Art of Transformation

Lisa Biggs

Hosted by Deidre Tyler
Over the last five decades, Black women have been one of the fastest-growing segments of the global prison population, thanks to changes in policies that mandate incarceration for nonviolent offenses …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast January 17, 2023

The Wife of Bath

A Biography

Marion Turner

Hosted by Mark Klobas
Ever since her triumphant debut in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the Wife of Bath, arguably the first ordinary and recognisably real woman in English literature, has obsessed readers--from Shakespeare to James …
Anthropology January 16, 2023

Voices That Matter

Kurdish Women at the Limits of Representation in Contemporary Turkey

Marlene Schäfers

Hosted by Armanc Yildiz
“Raise your voice!” and “Speak up!” are familiar refrains that assume, all too easily, that gaining voice will lead to empowerment, healing, and inclusion for marginalized subjects. Marlene Schäfers’s Voices …
Southeast Asian Studies January 15, 2023

The Made-Up State

Technology, Trans Femininity, and Citizenship in Indonesia

Benjamin Hegarty

Hosted by Michele Ford
In The Made-Up State: Technology, Trans Femininity, and Citizenship in Indonesia (Cornell UP, 2022), Benjamin Hegarty contends that warias, one of Indonesia's trans feminine populations, have cultivated a distinctive way …
Almost Good Catholics January 15, 2023

Holy Paradox and St. Teresa of Ávila

Mysticism in Sixteenth-Century Spain

Carlos Eire

Hosted by Krzysztof Odyniec
Carlos Eire, author of The Life of Saint Teresa of Ávila: A Biography (Princeton UP, 2019) and professor of medieval and early modern European history and religion at Yale University, discusses …