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Gender Studies
Sociology December 8, 2022

Feminist Politics in Neoconservative Russia

An Ethnography of Resistance and Resources

Inna Perheentupa

Hosted by Rituparna Patgiri
Inna Perheentupa's book Feminist Politics in Neoconservative Russia: An Ethnography of Resistance and Resources (Policy Press, 2022) is a nuanced and compelling analysis of grassroots feminist activism in Russia in the politically …

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Women's History December 5, 2022

Anti-Fascism, Gender, and International Communism

The Comité Mondial Des Femmes Contre la Guerre Et Le Fascisme, 1934-1941

Jasmine Calver

Hosted by Rebecca Turkington
Women played an essential role in the international struggle against fascism during the interwar period, though their work has been neglected in broader historiography. In Anti-Fascism, Gender, and International Communism …
Women's History December 5, 2022

Skirts

Fashioning Modern Femininity in the Twentieth Century

Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell

Hosted by Jane Scimeca
While the story of women’s liberation has often been framed by the growing acceptance of pants over the twentieth century, the most important and influential female fashions of the era …
Early Modern History December 5, 2022

The Art of Childbirth

A Seventeenth-Century Midwife's Epistolary Treatise to Doctor Vallant

Cathy McClive

Hosted by Jana Byars
Cathy McClive (Florida State University) offers the first full-length bilingual edition of an extraordinary treatise on childbirth written by a seventeenth-century French midwife in The Art of Childbirth: A Seventeenth-Century Midwife's Epistolary …
Popular Culture December 4, 2022

Wandering Games

Melissa Kagen

Hosted by Rebekah Buchanan
In Wandering Games (MIT Press, 2022), Melissa Kagen analyzes wandering within different game worlds, viewed through the lenses of work, colonialism, gender, and death. Wandering in games can be a theme, a …
Iberian Studies December 3, 2022

Women, Mysticism, and Hysteria in Fin-De-Siècle Spain

Jennifer Smith

Hosted by Carmen Gomez-Galisteo
Women, Mysticism, and Hysteria in Fin-De-Siècle Spain (Vanderbilt UP, 2021) argues that the reinterpretation of female mysticism as hysteria and nymphomania in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Spain was …
Japanese Studies December 2, 2022

Ryokan

Mobilizing Hospitality in Rural Japan

Chris McMorran

Hosted by John Traphagan
Today I talked to Chris McMorran about his new book Ryokan: Mobilizing Hospitality in Rural Japan (U Hawaii Press, 2022). Amid the decline of many of Japan’s rural communities, the hot springs …
Russian and Eurasian Studies December 2, 2022

Amanat

Women's Writing from Kazakhstan

Zaure Batayeva and Shelley Fairweather-Vega

Hosted by Agathe Guy
A man is arrested for a single typo, a woman gets on buses at random, and two friends reunite in a changed world.... Diverse in form, scope and style, Amanat …
Literary Studies November 28, 2022

Queer Velocities

Time, Sex, and Biopower on the Early Modern Stage

Jennifer Eun-Jung Row

Hosted by John Yargo
In a pathbreaking new book, today’s guest, Jennifer Eun-Jung Row, asks how delay and haste in early modern French theater subverts the temporality of heteronormative politics and sexuality. Professor Row …
African Studies November 28, 2022

Many Black Women of this Fortress

Graça, Mónica and Adwoa, Three Enslaved Women of Portugal's African Empire

Kwasi Konadu

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
Kwasi Konadu's book Many Black Women of this Fortress: Graça, Mónica and Adwoa, Three Enslaved Women of Portugal's African Empire (Hurst, 2022) presents rare evidence about the lives of three African women …
African American Studies November 25, 2022

Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson

Tara T. Green

Hosted by Adam McNeil
Born in New Orleans in 1875 to a mother who was formerly enslaved and a father of questionable identity, Alice Dunbar-Nelson was a pioneering activist, writer, suffragist, and educator. Until …
Islamic Studies November 25, 2022

Once in a Lifetime

Amina Wadud

Hosted by Shehnaz Haqqani
In this interview, we speak with Dr. amina wadud about her latest book Once in a Lifetime (Kantara Press, 2022), a book that started out as a blog for her …
Gender Studies November 24, 2022

Gendering the GOP

Intraparty Politics and Republican Women's Representation in Congress

Catherine N. Wineinger

Hosted by Deidre Tyler
In Gendering the GOP: Intraparty Politics and Republican Women's Representation in Congress (Oxford UP, 2022), Catherine N. Wineinger argues that to truly understand the evolution of women's congressional representation, it …
Disability Studies November 24, 2022

Queer Silence

On Disability and Rhetorical Absence

J. Logan Smilges

Hosted by Sohini Chatterjee
In queer culture, silence has been equated with voicelessness, complicity, and even death. Queer Silence: On Disability and Rhetorical Absence (U Minnesota Press, 2022) insists, however, that silence can be …
Gender Studies November 24, 2022

Cistem Failure

Essays on Blackness and Cisgender

Marquis Bey

Hosted by Sohini Chatterjee
In Cistem Failure: Essays on Blackness and Cisgender (Duke UP, 2022), Marquis Bey meditates on the antagonistic relationship between blackness and cisgender. Bey asks, What does it mean to have …
Sociology November 23, 2022

The End of Love

A Sociology of Negative Relations

Eva Illouz

Hosted by Rituparna Patgiri
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 …
Literature November 22, 2022

Hysterical

A Memoir

Elissa Bassist

Hosted by G. P. Gottlieb
Today I talked to Elissa Bassist about her memoir Hysterical: A Memoir (Hachette, 2022) For two years author Elissa Bassist saw over twenty medical specialists for pain that none of them …
African Studies November 21, 2022

Social Justice at Apartheid's Dawn

African Women Intellectuals and the Quest to Save the Nation

Dawne Y. Curry

Hosted by Amanda Joyce Hall
Dawne Y. Curry’s Social Justice at Apartheid’s Dawn: African Women Intellectuals and the Quest to Save the Nation (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022), which examines the role of African women in the conversation …
Critical Theory November 18, 2022

Abolish the Family

A Manifesto for Care and Liberation

Sophie Lewis

Hosted by Oana Uiorean
What if family were not the only place you might hope to feel safe, loved, cared for and accepted? What if we could do better than the family? We need …
Psychoanalysis November 17, 2022

Hatred of Sex

Oliver Davis and Tim Dean

Hosted by Matthew Pieknik
Hatred of Sex (U Nebraska Press, 2022) links Jacques Rancière’s political philosophy of the constitutive disorder of democracy with Jean Laplanche’s identification of a fundamental perturbation at the heart of …