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Popular Culture June 25, 2021

Typical Girls

The Rhetoric of Womanhood in Comic Strips

Susan E. Kirtley

Hosted by Rebekah Buchanan
In her new book Typical Girls: The Rhetoric of Womanhood in Comic Strips (Ohio State Press, 2021) Susan Kirtley examines female-created comics that were nationally syndicated starting in the late 1970s-2010. Kirtley uncovers …

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Performing Arts June 25, 2021

From Aphra Behn to Fun Home

A Cultural History of Feminist Theater

Carey Purcell

Hosted by Andy Boyd
Theatre has long been considered a feminine interest for which women consistently purchase the majority of tickets, while the shows they are seeing typically are written and brought to the …
Cover Story June 22, 2021

No Choice: Why Is It So Hard to Get an Abortion in the South?

A Discussion with Journalist Becca Andrews

Becca Andrews

Hosted by Agata Popeda
Today we are talking with Becca Andrews, a journalist at Mother Jones, where she writes about reproductive rights and gender. The story we discuss is “When Choice is 221 Miles …
Sex, Sexuality, and Sex Work June 22, 2021

Bad Girls, Dirty Bodies

Sex, Performance and Safe Femininity

Gemma Commane

Hosted by Pierre d'Alancaisez
What makes a woman 'bad' is commonly linked to certain 'qualities' or behaviours seen as morally or socially corrosive, dirty and disgusting. Bad Girls, Dirty Bodies: Sex, Performance and Safe …
Gender Studies June 22, 2021

The Tragedy of Heterosexuality

Jane Ward

Hosted by Jana Byars
Heterosexuality is in crisis. Reports of sexual harassment, misconduct, and rape saturate the news in the era of #MeToo. Straight men and women spend thousands of dollars every day on …
Indian Religions June 21, 2021

Feminine Journeys of the Mahabharata

Hindu Women in History, Text, and Practice

Lavanya Vemsani

Hosted by Raj Balkaran
The Mahabharata preserves powerful journeys of women recognized as the feminine divine and the feminine heroic in the larger culture of India. Each journey upholds the unique aspects of women's …
History June 17, 2021

Reframing Japonisme

Women and the Asian Art Market in Nineteenth-Century France, 1853–1914

Elizabeth Emery

Hosted by Jennifer Davis Cline
Erin Duncan O’Neill (Assistant Professor, University of Oklahoma) speaks with Elizabeth Emery (Professor, Montclair State University) about Emery’s recent book, Reframing Japonisme: Women and the Asian Art Market in Nineteenth-Century …
History June 17, 2021

Laboring for the State

Women, Family, and Work in Revolutionary Cuba, 1959-1971

Rachel Hynson

Hosted by Rozzmery Palenzuela Vicente
Contrary to claims that socialism opposed the family unit, in Laboring for the State: Women, Family, and Work in Revolutionary Cuba, 1959-1971 (Cambridge University Press, 2020) Rachel Hynson argues that the revolutionary …
Communications June 17, 2021

Rebirthing a Nation

White Women, Identity Politics, and the Internet

Wendy K. Z. Anderson

Hosted by Lee Pierce
In Rebirthing a Nation: White Women, Identity Politics, and the Internet (U Mississippi Press, 2021), author Wendy K. Z. Anderson details how white nationalist and alt-right women refine racist rhetoric …
Academic Life June 17, 2021

The Social Constructions of Race

A Discussion with Brigitte Fielder

Brigette Fielder

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 reached across our mentor network to bring you podcasts …
Journalism June 16, 2021

On Heels in the Middle East

Xenia Svetlova

Hosted by Yakir Englander
On Heels in the Middle East (Pardes Publishing, 2020) is the first book of Ksenia Svetlova, an Israeli journalist of Russian origin who covered the Middle East extensively during the last …
Medicine June 15, 2021

Challenging Choices

Canada's Population Control in the 1970s

Erika Dyck and Maureen Lux

Hosted by Claire Clark
Between the decriminalization of contraception in 1969 and the introduction of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982, a landmark decade in the struggle for women's rights, public discourse …
Art June 14, 2021

Fierce Poise

Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York

Alexander Nemerov

Hosted by Allison Leigh
At the dawn of the 1950s, a promising and dedicated young painter named Helen Frankenthaler, fresh out of college, moved back home to New York City to make her name …
Gender Studies June 11, 2021

We Are Not Born Submissive

How Patriarchy Shapes Women's Lives

Manon Garcia

Hosted by Jana Byars
We are here today with Manon Garcia, the author of We Are Not Born Submissive: How Patriarchy Shapes Women’s Lives, published this year, 2021, by Princeton University Press. The book …
Art June 9, 2021

The Empress and I

How an Ancient Empire Collected, Rejected and Rediscovered Modern Art

Donna Stein

Hosted by Kirstin Ellsworth
In the 1970s, American curator Donna Stein served as an art advisor to Empress Farah Diba Pahlavi, the Shahbanu of Iran. Together, Stein and Pahlavi generated an art market in …
Mobilities and Methods June 8, 2021

Working Out Desire

Women, Sport, and Self-Making in Istanbul

Sertaç Sehlikoglu

Hosted by Alize Arıcan
Working Out Desire: Women, Sport, and Self-Making in Istanbul (Syracuse UP, 2020) examines spor merakı as an object of desire shared by a broad and diverse group of Istanbulite women. Sehlikoglu …
Literary Studies June 8, 2021

Elizabeth Bishop and the Literary Archive

Bethany Hicok

Hosted by Duncan McCargo
What more can we learn about legendary American writer Elizabeth Bishop (1911-79), dubbed by Bethany Hicok “the most stunning poet of the twentieth century”, by exploring the wonderful archives of her …
Art June 8, 2021

Artemisia Gentileschi and Feminism in Early Modern Europe

Mary D. Garrard

Hosted by Allison Leigh
Artemisia Gentileschi is by far the most famous woman artist of the premodern era. Her art addressed issues that resonate today, such as sexual violence and women’s problematic relationship to …
History June 8, 2021

Heroines, Harpies, and Housewives

Imaging Women of Consequence in the Dutch Golden Age

Martha Moffitt Peacock

Hosted by Jana Byars
Today we are joined by Martha Moffitt Peacock, Professor of Art History at Brigham Young University about her new book, Heroines, Harpies, and Housewives: Imaging Women of Consequence in the …
Performing Arts June 7, 2021

Deviant Opera

Sex, Power, and Perversion on Stage

Axel Englund

Hosted by Andy Boyd
In Deviant Opera: Sex, Power, and Perversion on Stage (University of California Press, 2020), Axel Englund examines an increasingly common trope in opera direction: the use of imagery associated with the kink …