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Women's History May 25, 2022

The Queerness of Home

Gender, Sexuality, and the Politics of Domesticity After World War II

Stephen Vider

Hosted by Jane Scimeca
Stephen Vider uncovers how LGBTQ people reshaped domestic life in the postwar United States. From the Stonewall riots to the protests of ACT UP, histories of queer and trans politics …

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

Art May 23, 2022

Women in the Picture

What Culture Does with Female Bodies

Catherine McCormack

Hosted by Allison Leigh
Art historian Catherine McCormack challenges how culture teaches us to see and value women, their bodies, and their lives. Venus, maiden, wife, mother, monster—women have been bound so long by …
Biography May 20, 2022

You'll Never Find Us

A Memoir

Jeanne Baker Guy

Hosted by Jeannette Cockroft
In 1977, Jeanne’s German nationalist ex-husband, Klaus, tells her he’s gotten a new job and wants to take their three-year-old daughter and six-year-old son away for a long weekend …
Sports May 19, 2022

Eugenics and Physical Culture Performance in the Progressive Era

Watch Whiteness Workout

Shannon L. Walsh

Hosted by Keith Rathbone
Today we are joined by Dr. Shannon Walsh, Associate Professor of Theatre History, and author of Eugenics and Physical Culture Performance in the Progressive Era: Watch Whiteness Workout (Palgrave MacMillan …
Gender Studies May 18, 2022

Gender Politics at Home and Abroad

Protestant Modernity in Colonial-Era Korea

Hyaeweol Choi

Hosted by Ann Choi
Postcolonial feminist scholarship on the formation of gender relations primarily uses the analytic of colonizer-colonized dyad. In her new monograph, Gender Politics at Home and Abroad: Protestant Modernity in Colonial-Era …
Latin American Studies May 18, 2022

Affect, Ecofeminism, and Intersectional Struggles in Latin America

A Tribute to Berta Cáceres

Irune del Rio Gabiola

Hosted by Elize Mazadiego
In Affect, Ecofeminism, and Intersectional Struggles in Latin America: A Tribute to Berta Cáceres (Peter Lang, 2020), Irune del Rio Gabiola examines the power of affect in structuring decolonizing modes of resistance performed …
On Religion May 16, 2022

On Women of Color in American Islam

A Discussion with Sylvia Chan-Malik

Sylvia Chan-Malik

Hosted by Gregory Soden
Sylvia Chan-Malik is Associate Professor in the Departments of American and Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She talks, teaches, and writes about the intersections of race …
Nordic Asia Podcast May 13, 2022

The New Political Cry in South Korea?

The History of Feminist Activisms and Politics in South Korea

Ju Hui Judy Han

Hosted by Myunghee Lee
The anti-feminist movement in South Korea is gaining global attention. The story has been covered by many western mainstream news outlets including the New York Times, CNN, and BBC. Is …
Literature May 10, 2022

Lea

Ariela Freedman

Hosted by G. P. Gottlieb
Lea Roback was a feminist and labor activist who was raised in a large Jewish family in Quebec, Canada. In the novel Lea (Linda Leith Publishing, 2022), Ariela Freedman describes a …
Gender Studies May 4, 2022

Vulgar Beauty

Acting Chinese in the Global Sensorium

Mila Zuo

Hosted by Ann Choi
Yi’s eyes soften as he watches Jiazhi sing a Chinese folk song with subtle, feminine movements in the film, Lust, Caution. The room fills with laughter when Ali Wong unabashedly enacts …
General History May 4, 2022

Maria Theresa

The Habsburg Empress in Her Time

Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger

Hosted by Charles Coutinho
Maria Theresa (1717–1780) was once the most powerful woman in Europe. At the age of twenty-three, she ascended to the throne of the Habsburg Empire, a far-flung realm composed of …
Women's History May 3, 2022

Transforming Girls

The Work of Nineteenth-Century Adolescence

Julie Pfeiffer

Hosted by Renee Garris
Transforming Girls: The Work of Nineteenth-Century Adolescence (UP of Mississippi, 2021) explores the paradox of the nineteenth-century girls’ book. On the one hand, early novels for adolescent girls rely on gender …
Women's History May 2, 2022

Mutinous Women

How French Convicts Became Founding Mothers of the Gulf Coast

Joan DeJean

Hosted by Deidre Tyler
In 1719, a ship named La Mutine (the mutinous woman), sailed from the French port of Le Havre, bound for the Mississippi. It was loaded with urgently needed goods for …
Political Science May 2, 2022

Nowhere to Run

Race, Gender, and Immigration in American Elections

Christian Dyogi Phillips

Hosted by Susan Liebell
Why has the underrepresentation of women and racial minorities in elected office proved so persistent in American politics? In Nowhere to Run: Race, Gender, and Immigration in American Elections (Oxford UP …
Science April 29, 2022

Carbon Queen

The Remarkable Life of Nanoscience Pioneer Mildred Dresselhaus

Maia Weinstock

Hosted by Ana Georgescu
Carbon Queen: The Remarkable Life of Nanoscience Pioneer Mildred Dresselhaus (MIT Press, 2022) follows Mildred Dresselhaus (or Millie, as everyone calls her) from her childhood in New York City to her …
Women's History April 29, 2022

The Transformation of American Sex Education

Mary Calderone and the Fight for Sexual Health

Ellen S. More

Hosted by Jane Scimeca
Mid-century America had a problem talking about sex. Dr. Mary Calderone first diagnosed this condition and, in 1964, led the uphill battle to de-stigmatize sex education. Supporters hailed her as …
Women's History April 28, 2022

Building the Population Bomb

Emily Klancher Merchant

Hosted by Nicole Bourbonnais
Across the twentieth century, Earth's human population increased undeniably quickly, rising from 1.6 billion people in 1900 to 6.1 billion in 2000. As population grew, it also began to take …
Political Science April 28, 2022

The Wives of Western Philosophy

Gender Politics in Intellectual Labor

Jennifer Forestal and Menaka Philips

Hosted by Lilly Goren
The Wives of Western Philosophy: Gender Politics in Intellectual Labor (Routledge, 2020) fills in a rather large hole in the understanding and the substance of the generation of knowledge. This …
Economic and Business History April 27, 2022

Red Silk

Class, Gender, and Revolution in China's Yangzi Delta Silk Industry

Robert Cliver

Hosted by Ghassan Moazzin
Red Silk: Class, Gender, and Revolution in China's Yangzi Delta Silk Industry (Harvard UP, 2020) is a history of China's Yangzi Delta silk industry during the wars, crises, and revolutions …
East Asian Studies April 26, 2022

Feminisms with Chinese Characteristics

Ping Zhu and Hui Faye Xiao

Hosted by Linshan Jiang
Feminisms with Chinese Characteristics (Syracuse University Press, 2021), co-edited by Ping Zhu and Hui Faye Xiao, offers an examination of the ways in which Chinese feminist ideas have developed since the …