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Interviews with scholars of gender about their new books.
November 27, 2024
The End of Love
More men than ever are refusing loving partnerships and commitment, and instead seeking out “situationships.” When these men deign to articulate what …
November 25, 2024
Virgin Territory
Women's virginity held tremendous significance in early Christianity and the Mediterranean world. Early Christian thinkers developed diverse definitio…
November 24, 2024
Reproductive Labor and Innovation
In Reproductive Labor and Innovation: Against the Tech Fix in an Era of Hype (Duke UP, 2024), Jennifer Denbow examines how the push toward technoscien…
November 21, 2024
Faux Feminism
After over 175 years, the feminist movement, now in its fourth wave, is at risk of collapsing on its eroding foundation. In Faux Feminism: Why We Fall…
November 20, 2024
Cosplay and the Dressing of Identity
Cosplay, born from the fusion of ‘costume’ and ‘play’, transcends mere dress-up by transforming enthusiasts of TV shows, movies, books or video games …
November 19, 2024
Radical Acts
In Radical Acts: HIV/AIDS Activism in Late Twentieth-Century England (Bloomsbury Academic, 2024), Dr George Severs draws on activist campaign literatu…
November 19, 2024
The State's Sexuality
The State's Sexuality: Prostitution and Postcolonial Nation Building in South Korea (University of California Press, 2024) by Dr. Park Jeong-Mi uncov…
November 17, 2024
Our Jackie
When Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis became First Lady of the United States over sixty years ago, she stepped into the public spotlight. Although Jackie is…
November 17, 2024
Self-Esteem
By the end of the twentieth century, the idea of self-esteem had become enormously influential. A staggering amount of psychological research and self…
November 16, 2024
Beyond the Binary
Saadia Yacoob’s excellent new book, Beyond the Binary: Gender and Legal Personhood in Islamic Law (U of California Press 2024), makes a compelling arg…
November 14, 2024
We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance
Today’s book is: We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance (Seal Press, 2024) by Dr. Kellie Carter Jackson. Black resistance to white suprema…
November 13, 2024
Merpeople
Vaughn Scribner joins Jana Byars on the occasion of the paperback edition of Merpeople: A Human History (Reaktion, 2024) People have been fascinated b…
November 12, 2024
What Are Children For?
Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman's book What Are Children For?: On Ambivalence and Choice (St. Martin's Press, 2024) presents a modern argument, grou…
November 12, 2024
Women on Philosophy of Art
Women on Philosophy of Art: Britain 1770-1900 (Oxford UP, 2024) is the first study of women's philosophies of art in long nineteenth-century Britain. …
November 11, 2024
Good Victims
In the latest edition of Ethnographic Marginalia, we talk with Roxani Krystalli about her new book Good Victims: The Political as a Feminist Question …
November 7, 2024
Care Activism
Care Activism: Migrant Domestic Workers, Movement-Building, and Communities of Care (U Illinois Press, 2023) challenges the stereotype of downtrodden …
November 4, 2024
Sex: Jewish Positions
Freelance curator Joanne Rosenthal joins Jana Byars to talk about Sex: Jewish Positions (Hirmer, 2024) and its concomitant exhibition at the Jewish mu…
November 3, 2024
Living Off the Government?
Who deserves public assistance from the government? This age-old question has been revived by policymakers, pundits, and activists following the massi…
November 2, 2024
Uncut
The “uncut” penis is viewed by some as attractive or erotic, and by others as ugly or undesirable. Secular parents of male infants worry about whether…
November 1, 2024
The Reparative Impulse of Queer Young Adult Literature
The Reparative Impulse of Queer Young Adult Literature (Routledge, 2024) is a provocative meditation on emotion, mood, history, and futurism in the cr…