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Food January 17, 2022

Power Hungry

Women of the Black Panther Party and Freedom Summer and Their Fight to Feed a Movement

Suzanne Cope

Hosted by Carrie Helms Tippen
Today I talked to Suzanne Cope about her new book Power Hungry: Women of the Black Panther Party and Freedom Summer and Their Fight to Feed a Movement (Lawrence Hill Books, 2021)In …

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Interviews with scholars of women's history about their new books.

Children's Literature January 13, 2022

Making Their Voices Heard

The Inspiring Friendship of Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe

Vivian Kirkfield

Hosted by Mel Rosenberg
Today I talked to Vivian Kirkfield about her book Making Their Voices Heard: The Inspiring Friendship of Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe (Little Bee Books, 2020). Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe. On …
Art January 6, 2022

The Play in the System

The Art of Parasitical Resistance

Anna Watkins Fisher

Hosted by Pierre d'Alancaisez
What does artistic resistance look like in the twenty-first century, when disruption and dissent have been co-opted and commodified in ways that reinforce dominant systems? In The Play in the …
Music January 5, 2022

Chapel of Love

The Story of New Orleans Girl Group the Dixie Cups

Rosa Hawkins and Steve Bergsman

Hosted by Emily Ruth Allen
In 1963, sisters Barbara Ann and Rosa Hawkins and their cousin Joan Marie Johnson traveled from the segregated South to New York City under the auspices of their manager, former …
Art January 5, 2022

Tree of Pearls

The Extraordinary Architectural Patronage of the 13th-Century Egyptian Slave-Queen Shajar Al-Durr

D. Fairchild Ruggles

Hosted by Tanja Tolar
Shajar al-Durr--known as "Tree of Pearls"--began her remarkable career as a child slave, given as property to Sultan Salih of Egypt. She became his concubine, was manumitted, became his wife …
Latin American Studies December 29, 2021

Stories That Make History

Mexico through Elena Poniatowska’s Crónicas

Lynn Stephen

Hosted by Minni Sawhney
Elena Poniatowska is a legendary Mexican journalist who has chronicled popular celebrities, politicians as well as important social movements in Mexico since the 1968 Tlatelolco students massacre. Today I talked …
Gender Studies December 21, 2021

The Maternal Imprint

The Contested Science of Maternal-Fetal Effects

Sarah S. Richardson

Hosted by Sohini Chatterjee
The idea that a woman may leave a biological trace on her gestating offspring has long been a commonplace folk intuition and a matter of scientific intrigue, but the form …
Irish Studies December 21, 2021

The Golden Thread

Irish Women Playwrights (1716-2016)

David Clare, Fiona McDonagh, and Justine Nakase

Hosted by Colleen English
The 2015 #WakingTheFeminists Campaign for gender equality in Irish theatre highlighted the marginalization of women in this industry and led to several significant initiatives that interrogated existing theater practices …
Postscript December 17, 2021

Postscript

Abortion Extremism and Criminalization: Whatever Happened to Exceptions for Rape and Incest?

Michele Goodwin and Mary Ziegler

Hosted by Susan Liebell
This Postscript engages two of the country’s most celebrated legal scholars to discuss the criminalization of abortion and miscarriage, the elimination of exceptions for rape and incest, the political and …
African American Studies December 13, 2021

We Are Bridges

A Memoir

Cassandra Lane

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
When Cassandra Lane finds herself pregnant at thirty-five, the knowledge sends her on a poignant exploration of memory to prepare for her entry into motherhood. She moves between the twentieth-century …
Postscript December 10, 2021

Postscript

SB-8, Dobbs, and the Politics of Abortion

Rebecca Kreitzer, Andrew R. Lewis, and Joshua C. Wilson

Hosted by Susan Liebell
In this Postscript, Susan Liebell and Lilly Goren review this morning’s U.S. Supreme Court decision in Texas SB-8, the oral arguments in last week’s Mississippi abortion case, and the wider …
African Studies December 6, 2021

Etre mère en situation coloniale

Gold Coast (années 1910-1950)

Anne Hugon

Hosted by Thomas Zuber
For a majority of African women, the “colonial encounter” occurred at the maternity ward, the health centre, or Maternal and Infant Welfare Centres. In Être mère en situation coloniale: Gold …
Intellectual History January 18, 2022

The Marion Thompson Wright Reader

Edited and with a Biographical Introduction by Graham Russell Gao Hodges

Marion Thompson

Hosted by Hettie V. Williams
The Marion Thompson Wright Reader, edited by Graham Russell Gao Hodges, the George Dorland Langdon, Jr. Professor of History and Africana and Latin American Studies at Colgate University, and the author …
Japanese Studies January 17, 2022

Cultivating Femininity

Women and Tea Culture in Edo and Meiji Japan

Rebecca Corbett

Hosted by Takeshi Morisato
The overwhelming majority of tea practitioners in contemporary Japan are women, but there has been little discussion on their historical role in tea culture (chanoyu). In Cultivating Femininity: Women and …
American West January 10, 2022

Becoming Mary Sully

Toward an American Indian Abstract

Philip J. Deloria

Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
Mary Sully was many things: a Dakota woman, an artist, and an American living through a heyday of early celebrity culture in the United States. All of these facets of her …
Popular Culture January 7, 2022

Dressed for Freedom

The Fashionable Politics of American Feminism

Einav Rabinovitch-Fox

Hosted by Rebekah Buchanan
In Dressed for Freedom: The Fashionable Politics of American Feminism (University of Illinois Press, 2021), Einav Rabinovitch-Fox examines how clothes empowered women, and particularly women barred from positions of influence due …
Eastern European Studies December 24, 2021

Queer Roma

LUCIE. FREMLOVA

Hosted by Steven Seegel
Lucie Fremlova's book Queer Roma (Routledge, 2021) offers in-depth insight into the lives of queer Roma, thus providing rich evidence of the heterogeneity of Roma. The lived experiences of queer Roma …
Popular Culture December 24, 2021

The Sisters Are Alright, 2nd Edition

Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America

Tamara Winfrey Harris

Hosted by Rebekah Buchanan
In the second edition of her book, The Sisters Are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America (Berrett-Koehler, 2021), Tamara Winfrey Harris interviews over 100 diverse Black women …
Middle Eastern Studies December 20, 2021

Iranian Women and Gender in the Iran-Iraq War

Mateo Mohammad Farzaneh

Hosted by Amir Sayadabdi
Eighteen months after Iran’s Revolution in 1979, hundreds of thousands of the country’s women participated in the Iran-Iraq War (1980–88) in a variety of capacities. Iran was divided into women …
Women's History December 13, 2021

On Infertile Ground

Population Control and Women's Rights in the Era of Climate Change

Jade S. Sasser

Hosted by Nicole Bourbonnais
Since the turn of the millennium, American media, scientists, and environmental activists have insisted that the global population crisis is “back”—and that the only way to avoid catastrophic climate change …