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Latin American Studies October 26, 2021

La Güera Rodrígue

The Life and Legends of a Mexican Independence Heroine

Silvia Marina Arrom

Hosted by Rachel Newman
In La Guera Rodriguez: The Life and Legends of a Mexican Independence Heroine (U California Press, 2021), Silvia Marina Arrom traces the legends of María Ignacia Rodríguez de Velasco y …

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

Political Science October 25, 2021

Gendered Citizenship

The Original Conflict Over the Equal Rights Amendment, 1920-1963

Rebecca DeWolf

Hosted by Susan Liebell
In Political Science, we are very familiar with the work of scholars who try to unpack why the ERA failed to get the required states. But Gendered Citizenship: The Original …
Gender Studies October 22, 2021

Portraits of Wollstonecraft

Eileen Hunt Botting

Hosted by Lilian Calles Barger
Eileen Hunt Botting is a Professor political science at the University of Notre Dame. Dr. Botting is a widely published and cited scholar on the thought of Mary Wollstonecraft, the …
Latin American Studies October 22, 2021

Disruptive Archives

Feminist Memories of Resistance in Latin America's Dirty Wars

Viviana Beatriz MacManus

Hosted by Minni Sawhney
Today I talked to Viviana MacManus, author of Disruptive Archives: Feminist Memories of Resistance in Latin America’s Dirty Wars published by the University of Illinois Press in 2020. It has …
Van Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel October 21, 2021

Why Learn History (When It's Already on Your Phone)

Sam Wineburg

Hosted by Renee Garfinkel
We are surrounded by more readily available information than ever before. And a huge percentage of it is inaccurate. Some of the bad info is well-meaning but ignorant. Some of …
Political Science October 21, 2021

Hot Pants and Spandex Suits

Gender Representation in American Superhero Comic

Esther De Dauw

Hosted by Lilly Goren
Superman, Batman, Captain America, and Iron Man are names that are often connected to the expansive superhero genre, including the multi-billion-dollar film and television franchises. But these characters are older …
Philosophy October 20, 2021

The Politics of Black Joy

Zora Neale Hurston and Neo-Abolitionism

Lindsey Stewart

Hosted by Sarah Tyson
What can southern Black joy teach us about agency? What role does refusal have in liberation? What more might there be to root work than resistance? In The Politics of …
Japanese Studies October 19, 2021

Counting Dreams

The Life and Writings of the Loyalist Nun Nomura Bōtō

Roger K. Thomas

Hosted by Jingyi Li
Counting Dreams: The Life and Writings of the Loyalist Nun Nomura Bōtō (Cornell UP, 2021) tells the story of Nomura Bōtō, a Buddhist nun, writer, poet, and activist who joined the …
Critical Theory October 18, 2021

Digital Black Feminism

Catherine Knight Steele

Hosted by Dave O'Brien
How have Black women lead a digital revolution? In Digital Black Feminism (NYU Press, 2021), Catherine Knight Steele, an assistant professor of communication at the University of Maryland, places digital Black …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast October 15, 2021

Career and Family

Women’s Century-Long Journey toward Equity

Claudia Goldin

Hosted by Marshall Poe
A century ago, it was a given that a woman with a college degree had to choose between having a career and a family. Today, there are more female college …
African American Studies October 14, 2021

The Other Side of Terror

Black Women and the Culture of US Empire

Erica R. Edwards

Hosted by Brittney Edmonds
Dr. Erica R. Edwards's The Other Side of Terror: Black Women and the Culture of US Empire (New York University, 2021) reveals the troubling intimacy between Black women and the making of US …
Politics & Polemics October 12, 2021

The Rights of Women

Reclaiming a Lost Vision

Erika Bachiochi

Hosted by Hope J. Leman
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797) was one of the most important moral philosophers and political theorists ever. Her writings on liberty and equality have been embraced by thinkers both in her own …
Folklore October 12, 2021

Alabama Quilts

Wilderness Through World War II, 1682-1950

M. E. J. Huff and Carole Ann King

Hosted by Stephanie Khattak
Stephanie Khattak speaks with Carole Ann King, who, along with Mary Elizabeth “Sunshine” Johnson Huff, wrote Alabama Quilts: Wilderness Through World War II, 1682-1950 (UP of Mississippi, 2020). Alabama Quilts …
LGBTQ+ Studies October 8, 2021

Information Activism

A Queer History of Lesbian Media Technologies

Cait McKinney

Hosted by Sohini Chatterjee
For decades, lesbian feminists across the United States and Canada have created information to build movements and survive in a world that doesn't want them. In Information Activism: A Queer …
Film October 7, 2021

Phantom Lady

Hollywood Producer Joan Harrison, the Forgotten Woman Behind Hitchcock

Christina Lane

Hosted by Annie Berke
A platinum beauty with an ugly secret; a tall, dark, and handsome husband with murder in his eyes; starkly lit interiors that may or may not include the silhouette of …
Anthropology October 4, 2021

Black Women, Citizenship, and the Making of Modern Cuba

Takkara K. Brunson

Hosted by Reighan Gillam
In Black Women, Citizenship, and the Making of Modern Cuba (University of Florida Press, 2021), Dr. Takkara Brunson examines the political strategies used by Afro-Cuban women between 1886 and 195 …
Anthropology September 29, 2021

Can You Run Away from Sorrow?

Mothers Left Behind in 1990s Belgrade

Ivana Bajic-Hajdukovic

Hosted by Anna Domdey
How does emigration affect those left behind? The fall of Yugoslavia in the 1990s led citizens to look for a better, more stable life elsewhere. For the older generations, however …
African American Studies September 24, 2021

Surviving Southampton

African American Women and Resistance in Nat Turner's Community

Vanessa M. Holden

Hosted by Adam McNeil
The local community around the Nat Turner rebellion The 1831 Southampton Rebellion led by Nat Turner involved an entire community. Vanessa M. Holden rediscovers the women and children, free and …
General History September 24, 2021

Big and Little Histories

Sizing Up Ethics in Historiography

Marnie Hughes-Warrington and Anne Martin

Hosted by Alexandra Ortolja-Baird
Big and Little Histories: Sizing Up Ethics in Historiography (Routledge, 2021) introduces students to ethics in historiography through an exploration of how historians in different times and places have explained …
Anthropology September 17, 2021

Margaret Mead

Paul Shankman

Hosted by Adam Bobeck
Tracing Mead’s career as an ethnographer, as the early voice of public anthropology, and as a public figure, this elegantly written biography links the professional and personal sides of her …