Gender Studies

Gender Studies

episodes

Interviews with scholars of gender about their new books.

Catherine Reyes-Housholder, "How Women Win Presidential Elections in Latin America" (Temple UP, 2026)

August 28, 2026

How Women Win Presidential Elections in Latin America

Catherine Reyes-Housholder
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Between 1990 and 2020, women candidates won only 6% of the world’s presidential races. How Women Win Presidential Elections in Latin America (Temple U…

Diego Galego, "Queering Public Policy: A Disruptive Yet Inclusive Framework for Policymaking" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2026)

August 28, 2026

Queering Public Policy

Diego Galego
Hosted by Nick Pozek

For years, LGBTQ+ policies worldwide have been crafted based on heteronormative views, needs, and practices. However, this has gradually changed over …

Niharika Pandit, "Occupying the Everyday: Militarisation and Gendered Politics of Living in Kashmir" (Oxford UP, 2026)

August 25, 2026

Occupying the Everyday

Niharika Pandit

Our recent conversation about Occupying the Everyday: Militarisation and Gendered Politics of Living in Kashmir (Oxford UP, 2026), with author Niharik…

Shelly Lundberg "How Economics Discovered Women: Bringing Gender Economics into the Twenty-First Century" (U California Press, 2026)

August 25, 2026

How Economics Discovered Women

Shelly Lundberg
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

In the 1970s, as women started to enter the labor force in unprecedented numbers, economists began to examine their roles as economic actors. The resu…

Jane Draycott, "Fulvia: The Woman Who Broke All the Rules in Ancient Rome" (Yale UP, 2025)

August 22, 2026

Fulvia

Jane Draycott

Fulvia was born into wealth, privilege, and prestige around the year 80 BCE, yet there was nothing inherently special about her—she was not a saint, a…

Sandip Roy, "Chapal Rani, the Last Queen of Bengal" (Seagull Books, 2026)

August 20, 2026

Chapal Rani, the Last Queen of Bengal

Sandip Roy
Hosted by Nicholas Gordon

Chapal Rani was one of India’s most famous performers of jatra, Bengal’s popular theater. Traditionally, all the roles, including female roles, were p…

Happy to Help: Adventures of a People Pleaser

August 20, 2026

Happy to Help

Amy Wilson

As a big sister, Girl Scout, personal assistant, sitcom sidekick, and, finally, mother of three, Amy believed it was her destiny to be a people please…

Linda Williams and eds. Christine Gledhill et al., "Melodrama As Provocateur" (Duke UP, 2026)

August 14, 2026

Melodrama As Provocateur

Linda Williams and Edited By Christine Gledhill, Laura Horak, and Elisabeth R Anker
Hosted by Alix Beeston

The centerpiece of Melodrama as Provocateur (Duke UP, 2026) is an essay by Linda Williams (1946–2025). Williams was Professor of Film Studies and Rhet…

Yulia Gradskova et al., "Good Mothers, Nations and Nationalisms: Cases from Lithuania, Russia and Sweden" (CEU Press, 2026)

August 13, 2026

Good Mothers , Nations and Nationalisms

Yulia Gradskova, Ieva Bisigirskaite, and Soheyla Yazdanpanah
Hosted by CEU Press

In this episode, host Andrea Talabér (CEU Press, 2026) talks with Yulia Gradskova and Ieva Bisigirskaitė, two of the three authors behind Good Mothers…

Julie Kliegman, "Finding Renée Richards: The Groundbreaking Story of Tennis’s Trans Pioneer" (HarperOne, 2026)

August 11, 2026

Finding Renée Richards

Julie Kliegman
Hosted by Paul Knepper

Fifty years ago, tennis player Renée Richards made international headlines in her fight to compete in the women’s draw of the 1977 US Open—marking the…

Carly Thomsen, "Reproductive Justice, Queerly" (U California Press, 2026)

August 5, 2026

Reproductive Justice, Queerly

Carly Thomsen
Hosted by Yining Pan

Queer theory and reproductive justice need each other—now more than ever. As liberals and leftists increasingly frame reproductive justice in terms of…

Valena Beety, "Pink Crime: Fighting Against the Criminalization of Motherhood, Pregnancy, and Queer Identity" (New Press, 2026)

August 4, 2026

Pink Crime

Valena Beety
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

A woman miscarries—and is charged with murder. A new mother tests positive for a drug her hospital administered—and loses custody of her newborn. Four…

Murat C. Yildiz, "The Ottoman World of Sports: Refashioning Bodies, Men, and Communities in Late Imperial Istanbul" (U Texas Press, 2026)

July 31, 2026

The Ottoman World of Sports

Murat C. Yildiz
Hosted by Reuben Silverman

The history of sports in Turkey is deeply contested. Over the decades, journalists, pundits, non-professional historians, sports scholars, and everyda…

The Letters of Emily Dickinson

July 30, 2026

The Letters of Emily Dickinson

Cristanne Miller and Domhnall Mitchell eds.

Emily Dickinson was a letter writer before she was a poet. And it was through letters that she shared prose reflections–alternately humorous, provocat…

Susannah Heschel and Sarah Imhoff, "The Woman Question in Jewish Studies" (Princeton UP, 2025)

July 29, 2026

The Woman Question in Jewish Studies

Susannah Heschel and Sarah Imhoff

The Woman Question in Jewish Studies (Princeton UP, 2025) is a critical look at the difficulties women face in the field of Jewish studies, drawing on…

Rahim Thawer and Maryam Khan eds., "Queer and Muslim: On Faith, Family, and Healing" (U Regina Press, 2026)

July 29, 2026

Queer and Muslim

Rahim Thawer and Maryam Khan eds.
Hosted by Shobhana Xavier

Rahim Thawer and Maryam Khan's new edited volume Queer and Muslim: On Faith, Family and Healing (U Regina Press, 2026) is a powerful anthology that br…

Steven K. Green, "American Infidelity: The Gilded Age Battle Over Freethought, Free Love, and Feminism" (Oxford UP, 2026)

July 29, 2026

American Infidelity

Steven K. Green
Hosted by Caleb Zakarin

Today I'm speaking with Steven K. Green, Fred H. Paulus Professor of Law and Affiliated Professor of History and Religious Studies at Willamette Unive…

Claire Hubbard-Hall, "Her Secret Service: The Forgotten Women of British Intelligence" (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2024)

July 27, 2026

Her Secret Service

Claire Hubbard-Hall
Hosted by Luca Trenta

Since the inception of the Secret Service Bureau back in 1909, women have worked at the very heart of British secret intelligence - yet their contribu…

Elisabeth van Houts, "Empress Matilda: Queen of the Romans, Ruler of the English" (Yale UP, 2026)

July 25, 2026

Elisabeth van Houts, "Empress Matilda: Queen of the Romans, Ruler of the English"

Elisabeth van Houts
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Born in 1102, Empress Matilda combined the blood of two dynasties: the house of Wessex and their conquerors, the dukes of Normandy. As a widowed Germa…

Galina Bogatova, "Casting War As Love: Russian Colonialism in Familial Terms" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2026)

July 25, 2026

Casting War As Love

Galina Bogatova
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Casting War As Love: Russian Colonialism in Familial Terms (Palgrave Macillan, 2026) by Dr. Galina Bogatova unpacks the hidden imperial logic behind R…