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Caribbean Studies December 8, 2023

An American Icon in Puerto Rico

Barbie, Girlhood, and Colonialism at Play

Emily R. Aguiló-Pérez

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Since her debut in 1959, Barbie has transcended boundaries and transformed into a global symbol of femininity, capturing the imaginations of girls all around the world. An American Icon in …

Women's History

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

Academic Life December 7, 2023

Hidden No More

A Conversation with Space Suit Technician Sharon McDougle

Sharon McDougle

Hosted by Christina Gessler
Who dresses the astronauts for flight? Why are the suits orange? And how are they cared for? Sharon Caples McDougle joins us to talk about her work as a modern …
High Theory December 7, 2023

Self Help

A Discussion with Angela Hume

Angela Hume

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
In this episode of High Theory, Angela Hume tells us about Self Help, not the neoliberal strategy of self-actualization through consumer choices, but the radical political movement of gynecological self-help …
British Studies December 7, 2023

In the Service of Empire

Domestic Service and Mastery in Metropole and Colony

Fae Dussart

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Despite recent research, the 19th-century history of domestic service in empire and its wider implications is underexplored. In the Service of Empire: Domestic Service and Mastery in Metropole and Colony …
Asian Review of Books December 7, 2023

Bernardine's Shanghai Salon

The Story of the Doyenne of Old China

Susan Blumberg-Kason

Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
In 1929, Bernardine Szold Fritz left Paris on a train bound for China. She was on her way to her fourth wedding, and her fourth husband: An American investment banker …
General History December 6, 2023

Pockets

An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close

Hannah Carlson

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
It’s a subject that stirs up plenty of passion: Why do men’s clothes have so many pockets and women’s so few? In her captivating book Pockets: An Intimate History of …
LGBTQ+ Studies December 5, 2023

LGBT Victorians

Sexuality and Gender in the Nineteenth-Century Archives

Simon Joyce

Hosted by Morteza Hajizadeh
It has been decades since Michel Foucault urged us to rethink "the repressive hypothesis" and see new forms of sexual discourse as coming into being in the nineteenth century, yet …
Exchanges: A Cambridge UP Podcast December 5, 2023

Enough

Because We Can Stop Cervical Cancer

Linda Eckert

Hosted by Mark Klobas
Cervical cancer kills almost 350,000 women each year. What's more horrifying, is that millions have died of this disease that's nearly 100% preventable. It's no secret that healthcare is full …
Journalism December 4, 2023

How the News Feels

The Empathic Power of Literary Journalists

Jonathan D. Fitzgerald

Hosted by James Kates
In How the News Feels: The Empathic Power of Literary Journalists (University of Massachusetts Press, 2023), Jonathan D. Fitzgerald examines a mode of journalistic storytelling dating back nearly two centuries. Literary journalism …
Asian American Studies December 3, 2023

Adoption Fantasies

The Fetishization of Asian Adoptees from Girlhood to Womanhood

Kimberly D. McKee

Hosted by Julia Lee
In Adoption Fantasies: The Fetishization of Asian Adoptees from Girlhood to Womanhood (Ohio State UP, 2023), Kimberly D. McKee explores the ways adopted Asian women and girls are situated at …
African American Studies December 3, 2023

Merze Tate

The Global Odyssey of a Black Woman Scholar

Barbara D. Savage

Hosted by Omari Averette-Phillips
Born in rural Michigan during the Jim Crow era, the bold and irrepressible Merze Tate (1905–1996) refused to limit her intellectual ambitions, despite living in what she called a “sex …
Middle Eastern Studies November 28, 2023

Waiting for the Revolution to End

Syrian Displacement, Time and Subjectivity

Charlotte Al-Khalili

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
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Waiting for the Revolution to End: Syrian Displacement, Time and Subjectivity (UCL Press, 2023) by Dr. Charlotte Al-Khalili explores the Syrian revolution through the experiences of citizens in exile. Based on …
Medieval History November 26, 2023

Radegund

The Trials and Triumphs of a Merovingian Queen

E. T. Dailey

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
A princess born to the Thuringian royal house. A captive in war, forced to marry the Frankish king who killed her family. A queen, who renounced her position, received consecration …
Asian American Studies November 25, 2023

Nisei Radicals

The Feminist Poetics and Transformative Ministry of Mitsuye Yamada and Michael Yasutake

Diane Carol Fujino

Hosted by Donna Anderson
This episode, which is co-hosted with Michael Nishimura, features a conversation with Dr. Diane C. Fujino, the author of Nisei Radicals: The Feminist Poetics and Transformative Ministry of Mitsuye Yamada …
British Studies November 24, 2023

Inventing the Working Parent

Work, Gender, and Feminism in Neoliberal Britain

Sarah E. Stoller

Hosted by Deidre Tyler
Sarah E. Stoller, Inventing the Working Parent: Work, Gender, and Feminism in Neoliberal Britain (MIT Press, 2023) is the first historical examination of working parenthood in the late twentieth century--and …
Early Modern History November 24, 2023

Love Spells and Lost Treasure

Service Magic in England from the Later Middle Ages to the Early Modern Era

Tabitha Stanmore

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Magic is ubiquitous across the world and throughout history. Yet if witchcraft is acknowledged as a persistent presence in the medieval and early modern eras, practical magic by contrast – …
Higher Education November 23, 2023

When Will the Joy Come?

Black Women in the Ivory Tower

Robin Phylisia Chapdelaine, Abena Ampofoa Asare, and Michelle Dionne Thompson

Hosted by Deidre Tyler
How do Black women in higher education create, experience, and understand joy? What sustains them? While scholars have long documented sexism, racism, and classism in the academy, one topic has …
British Studies November 21, 2023

Being Single in Georgian England

Families, Households, and the Unmarried

Amy Harris

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Being Single in Georgian England: Families, Households, and the Unmarried (Oxford University Press, 2023) by Dr. Amy Harris is the first book-length exploration of what family life looked like, and …
Political Science November 16, 2023

Sex Trafficking and Human Rights

The Status of Women and State Responses

Heather Smith-Cannoy, Patricia C. Rodda, and Charles Anthony Smith

Hosted by Lamis Abdelaaty
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Human trafficking for the sex trade is a form of modern-day slavery that ensnares thousands of victims each year, disproportionately affecting women and girls. While the international community has developed …
Chinese Studies November 16, 2023

The Party Family

Revolutionary Attachments and the Gendered Origins of State Power in China

Kimberley Ens Manning

Hosted by Victoria Lupascu
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Kimberley Ens Manning's book The Party Family: Revolutionary Attachments and the Gendered Origins of State Power in China (Cornell UP, 2023) explores the formation and consolidation of the state in revolutionary …