New Books Network
Gender Studies
Politics & Polemics September 17, 2021

Sensuous Knowledge

A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone

Minna Salami

Hosted by Lee Pierce
Minna Salami's book Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone (Amistad/HarperCollins, 2021) is a collection of thought provoking essays that explore questions central to how we see ourselves, our history, and …

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Academic Life September 16, 2021

Feminism, Race, and Transnationalism

A Discussion with Ginetta Candelario

Ginetta Candelario

Hosted by Christina Gessler
Welcome to The Academic Life. You are smart and capable, but you aren’t an island and neither are we. So we are reaching across our mentor network to bring you …
Poetry September 13, 2021

The Things We Are Not Talking About

Shlomit Naim Naor

Hosted by Yakir Englander
Shlomit Naim Naor’s poetry is a unique voice in Israel. She is inviting the readers to delve deeper and engage in a dialogue with the Jewish religion and texts …
Performing Arts September 10, 2021

Starring Women

Celebrity, Patriarchy, and American Theater, 1790-1851

Sara E. Lampert

Hosted by Andy Boyd
Women performers played a vital role in the development of American and transatlantic entertainment, celebrity culture, and gender ideology. In Starring Women: Celebrity, Patriarchy, and American Theater, 1790-1851 (U Illinois Press, 2020), Sara …
Dan Hill's EQ Spotlight September 6, 2021

She Made It

The Toolkit for Female Founders in the Digital Age

Angelica Malin

Hosted by Dan Hill
Today I talked to Angelica Malin about her new book She Made It: The Toolkit for Female Founders in the Digital Age (Kogan Page, 2021). Female entrepreneurs don’t tend to receive …
Japanese Studies September 6, 2021

Maiko Masquerade

Crafting Geisha Girlhood in Japan

Jan Bardsley

Hosted by Emily Ruth Allen
Maiko Masquerade: Crafting Geisha Girlhood in Japan (University of California Press, 2021) explores Japanese representations of the maiko, or apprentice geisha, in films, manga, and other popular media as an icon of …
Gender Studies September 3, 2021

In Between Subjects

A Critical Genealogy of Queer Performance

Amelia Jones

Hosted by Isabel Machado
In Between Subjects: A Critical Genealogy of Queer Performance (Routledge, 2021) is a study of the connected ideas of "queer" and "gender performance" or "performativity" over the past several decades …
Public Policy September 1, 2021

The Feminist and the Sex Offender

Confronting Sexual Harm, Ending State Violence

Judith Levine and Erica Meiners

Hosted by Zalman Newfield
There are two problems that are typically siloed in the era of #MeToo and mass incarceration: sexual and gender violence, on the one hand, and the state’s unjust, ineffective, and …
Gender Studies August 31, 2021

Entitled

How Male Privilege Hurts Women

Kate Manne

Hosted by Allison Leigh
In Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women (Penguin Random House, 2021), Cornell philosopher Kate Manne offers a radical new framework for understanding misogyny. Ranging widely across the culture, from Harvey …
Political Science August 26, 2021

Why We Lost the Sex Wars

Sexual Freedom in the #MeToo Era

Lorna N. Bracewell

Hosted by Lilly Goren
Why We Lost the Sex Wars: Sexual Freedom in the #MeToo Era (University of Minnesota Press, 2021) helps us to understand not only the history of the “sex wars” in …
LGBTQ+ Studies August 26, 2021

Queering Femininity

Sexuality, Feminism and the Politics of Presentation

Hannah McCann

Hosted by Sohini Chatterjee
In Queering Femininity: Sexuality, Feminism and the Politics of Presentation (Routledge, 2019), Hannah McCann asks, “how can we consider femininity in a way that best attends to people’s experiences of, and …
Dan Hill's EQ Spotlight August 26, 2021

Our Separate Ways

Black and White Women and the Struggle for Professional Identity

Ella L. J. Bell Smith and Stella M. Nkomo

Hosted by Dan Hill
Ella L. J. Bell Smith and Stella M. Nkomo, Our Separate Ways: Black and White Women and the Struggle for Professional Identity (Harvard Business Press, 2021)Ella Bell Smith is a …
Gender Studies August 23, 2021

Foucault`s Strange Eros

Lynne Huffer

Hosted by Jana Byars
Lynne Huffer, the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Womens and Gender Studies at Emory University to speaks widely about the body of her work, including her new book, Foucault’s Strange …
Gender Studies August 23, 2021

Gender Politics in Turkey and Russia

From State Feminism to Authoritarian Rule

Gökten Huriye Dogangün

Hosted by Diana Dukhanova
Both Russia and Turkey were pioneering examples of feminism in the early 20th Century, when the Bolshevik and Republican states embraced an ideology of women's equality. Yet now these countries …
Architecture August 20, 2021

The Filing Cabinet

A Vertical History of Information

Craig Robertson

Hosted by Nushelle de Silva
The history of how a deceptively ordinary piece of office furniture transformed our relationship with information The ubiquity of the filing cabinet in the twentieth-century office space, along with its …
Indian Religions August 19, 2021

Women, Religion and the Body in South Asia

Living With Bengali Bauls

Kristin Hanssen

Hosted by Raj Balkaran
Noted for their haunting melodies and enigmatic lyrics, Bauls have been portrayed as spiritually enlightened troubadours traveling around the countryside in West Bengal in India and in Bangladesh. As emblems …
General History August 19, 2021

Modernity, Domesticity and Temporality in Russia

Time at Home

Rebecca Friedman

Hosted by Rozzmery Palenzuela Vicente
From the nostalgic landed estate with its backward gaze to the present-focused and efficient urban apartment to the utopian communal dreams of a Soviet future, the idea of time was …
Gender Studies August 18, 2021

Tastes Like War

A Memoir

Grace M. Cho

Hosted by Ann Choi
The US military camptowns were established shortly after the Second World War in 1945, appropriating the Japanese comfort stations. The Korean government actively supported the creation of camptowns for its …
Sex, Sexuality, and Sex Work August 17, 2021

Capitalism's Sexual History

Nicola J. Smith

Hosted by Victoria Holt
As ongoing controversies over commercial sex attest, the relationship between capitalism and sexuality is deeply contentious. Economic and sexual practices are assumed to be not only separable but antithetical, hence …
Gender Studies August 16, 2021

Translocas

The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance

Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes

Hosted by Isabel Machado
Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance (U Michigan Press, 2021) focuses on drag and transgender performance and activism in Puerto Rico and its diaspora. Arguing for …