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Gender and Sexuality
Sex Work, Sexualities and Sex
April 16, 2021
Reinventing Licentiousness
Pornography and Modern China
Y. Yvon Wang
Hosted by Rachel Stuart
Y. Yvon Wang draws on previously untapped archives--ranging from police archives and surveys to ephemeral texts and pictures--to argue that pornography in China represents a unique configuration of power and …
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Van Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel
April 16, 2021
The End of Love
A Sociology of Negative Relations
Eva Illouz
Hosted by Renee Garfinkel
Western culture has endlessly represented the ways in which love miraculously erupts in people's lives, the mythical moment in which one knows someone is destined for us; the feverish waiting …
Literary Studies
April 16, 2021
Contingent Figure
Chronic Pain and Queer Embodiment
Michael D. Snediker
Hosted by Britton Edelen
In this episode, I interview Michael Snediker, professor of English at the University of Houston, about his book, Contingent Figure: Chronic Pain and Queer Embodiment, recently published by University of …
Sex Work, Sexualities and Sex
April 16, 2021
The Routledge Handbook of Male Sex Work, Culture, and Society
John Geoffrey Scott and Christian Grov
Hosted by Rachel Stuart
Panoramic and provocative in its scope, John Geoffrey Scott and Christian Grov's The Routledge Handbook of Male Sex Work, Culture, and Society (Routledge, 2021) is the definitive guide to contemporary issues …
Gender and Sexuality
April 15, 2021
Make Your Move
The New Science of Dating and Why Women Are in Charge
Jon Birger
Hosted by Elizabeth Cronin
Apps have transformed dating from a mysterious adventure into a daily chore. Young, single, college-educated women are sick and tired of competing for a shrinking supply of guys. And marriage-material …
Eastern European Studies
April 14, 2021
Survival As Victory
Ukrainian Women in the Gulag
Oksana Kis
Hosted by Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed
Oksana Kis’s Survival as Victory: Ukrainian Women in the Gulag (Harvard Series in Ukrainian Studies, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University Press, 2021) fundamentally contributes to the Gulag studies through its essential intervention …
Latin American Studies
April 13, 2021
Just Immigration in the Americas
A Feminist Account
Allison B. Wolf
Hosted by Ethan Fredrick
Allison B. Wolf's Just Immigration in the Americas: A Feminist Account (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020) proposes a pioneering, interdisciplinary, feminist approach to immigration justice, which defines immigration justice as being about identifying …
Japanese Studies
April 13, 2021
Flowering Tales
Women Exorcising History in Heian Japan
Takeshi Watanabe
Hosted by Jingyi Li
Telling stories: that sounds innocuous enough. But for the first chronicle in the Japanese vernacular, A Tale of Flowering Fortunes (Eiga monogatari), there was more to worry about than a …
History
April 12, 2021
Ireland's New Traditionalists
Fianna Fáil Republicanism and Gender, 1926-1938
Kenneth Shonk
Hosted by Jana Byars
Today on New Books in History, a channel on the New Books Network we are joined by Kenneth L. Shonk, Professor of History at University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse to talk about …
History
April 12, 2021
Mobilizing Black Germany
Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement
Tiffany N. Florvil
Hosted by Jennifer Davis Cline
In this globe-spanning work, Florvil uncovers the manifold activities Black German women undertook in the 1980s and 1990s to resist and challenge racism, sexism, and homophobia at home and abroad …
American West
April 9, 2021
Rodeo as Refuge, Rodeo as Rebellion
Gender, Race, and Identity in the American Rodeo
Elyssa Ford
Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
Imagine a rodeo rider atop a bucking bronco, hat in hand, straining to remain astride. Is the rider in your mind's eye white? Is the person male? Popular imaginings and high …
Sex Work, Sexualities and Sex
April 7, 2021
Criminalizing Sex
A Unified Liberal Theory
Stuart P. Green
Hosted by Rachel Stuart
Starting in the latter part of the 20th century, the law of sexual offenses, especially in the West, began to reflect a striking divergence. On the one hand, the law …
Gender and Sexuality
April 7, 2021
The Tenacity of the Couple-Norm
Intimate Citizenship Regimes in a Changing Europe
Sasha Roseneil and Isabel Crowhurst
Hosted by Jana Byars
Sasha Roseneil, Professor of Interdisciplinary Social Science at the Institute of Advanced Studies and Dean of the Faculty of Social and Historical Studies at University College London joins today to …
Russian and Eurasian Studies
April 7, 2021
Policing Prostitution
Regulating the Lower Classes in Late Imperial Russia
Siobhán Hearne
Hosted by Steven Seegel
Siobhán Hearne's Policing Prostitution: Regulating the Lower Classes in Late Imperial Russia (Oxford UP, 2021) examines the complex world of commercial sex in the late Russian Empire. From the 1840s until …
History
April 7, 2021
Embodying Geopolitics
Generations of Women’s Activism in Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon
Nicola Pratt
Hosted by Jennifer Davis Cline
Dina Hassan (Lecturer, Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, University of Oklahoma, USA) speaks with Nicola Pratt (Associate Professor, International Politics of the Middle East, University of Warwick, UK) about Pratt’s …
Journal of Asian American Studies Podcast
April 6, 2021
Roundtable on Asian Migrant Sex Work
Alison Clancey, Kelly Go, Lily Wong, and Yuri Doolan
Hosted by Christopher Patterson
This episode features three interviews with organizers and scholars concerned with Asian migrant sex work: SWAN Vancouver (Alison Clancey and Kelly Go), Dr. Lily Wong, and Dr. Yuri Doolan. On …
Indian Ocean World
April 5, 2021
Fleeting Agencies
A Social History of Indian Coolie Women in British Malaya
Arunima Datta
Hosted by Kelvin Ng
Fleeting Agencies: A Social History of Indian Coolie Women in British Malaya (Cambridge UP, 2021) disrupts the male-dominated narratives by focusing on gendered patterns of migration and showing how South …
Critical Theory
April 5, 2021
Warped
Gay Normality and Queer Anti-Capitalism
Peter Drucker
Hosted by Stephen Dozeman
The last several decades have seen tremendous political and cultural strides forward for the LGBTQ+ community with both the legislative and cultural recognition helping many secure a more safe and …
LGBTQ+ Studies
April 2, 2021
Poor Queer Studies
Confronting Elitism in the University
Matt Brim
Hosted by John Marszalek
In Poor Queer Studies: Confronting Elitism in the University (Duke UP, 2020), Matt Brim shifts queer studies away from its familiar sites of elite education toward poor and working-class people …
Psychology
April 2, 2021
Be Mighty
A Woman's Guide to Liberation from Anxiety, Worry, and Stress Using Mindfulness and Acceptance
Jill A. Stoddard
Hosted by Debbie Sorensen
In a culture where women are still paid less for doing the same jobs, expected to juggle family and career effortlessly, and faced with the harsh realities of misogyny …
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