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African Studies December 6, 2021

Etre mère en situation coloniale

Gold Coast (années 1910-1950)

Anne Hugon

Hosted by Thomas Zuber
For a majority of African women, the “colonial encounter” occurred at the maternity ward, the health centre, or Maternal and Infant Welfare Centres. In Être mère en situation coloniale: Gold …

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Interviews with scholars of gender about their new books.

Gender Studies November 30, 2021

Pink Revolutions

Globalization, Hindutva, and Queer Triangles in Contemporary India

Nishant Shahani

Hosted by Shraddha Chatterjee
Pink Revolutions: Globalization, Hindutva, and Queer Triangles in Contemporary India (Northwestern UP, 2021) describes how queer politics in India occupies an uneasy position between the forces of neoliberal globalization, on …
Ethnographic Marginalia November 29, 2021

An Ethnography of Tourism and Globalization

In Conversation with Dr. Annie Hikido

Annie Hikido

Hosted by Alexander Diamond
How do Black women entrepreneurs in South Africa play off westerners’ fear and desire for impoverished townships through home-based tourist accommodations? This episode’s guest is Dr. Annie Hikido, Assistant Professor …
Popular Culture November 26, 2021

Chick TV

Antiheroines and Time Unbound

Yael Levy

Hosted by Rebekah Buchanan
Yael Levy examines the underexplored antiheroine of early twenty-first century television in Chick-TV: Antiheroines and Time Unbound (Syracuse UP, 2022). Levy advances antiheroines to the forefront of television criticism, revealing the varied and subtle …
LGBTQ+ Studies November 24, 2021

Queer As All Get Out

10 People Who've Inspired Me

Shelby Criswell

Hosted by Morris Ardoin
On this episode of Queer Voices of the South, I talk with Shelby Criswell, whose book Queer As All Get Out: 10 People Who've Inspired Me (Street Noise Books, 2021) …
Gender Studies November 24, 2021

The Work of Rape

Rana M. Jaleel

Hosted by Sohini Chatterjee
In The Work of Rape (Duke UP, 2021), Rana M. Jaleel argues that the redefinition of sexual violence within international law as a war crime, crime against humanity, and genocide …
African American Studies November 22, 2021

Imagining the Mulatta

Blackness in U. S. and Brazilian Media

Jasmine Mitchell

Hosted by Mickell Carter
Brazil markets itself as a racially mixed utopia. The United States prefers the term melting pot. Both nations have long used the image of the mulatta to push skewed cultural …
Critical Theory November 22, 2021

Homo Psyche

On Queer Theory and Erotophobia

Gila Ashtor

Hosted by Britton Edelen
In this episode, I interview Gila Ashtor, a practicing psychoanalyst and critical theorist, about her new book, Homo Psyche: On Queer Theory and Erotophobia (Fordham University Press, 2021). This book …
Women's History November 19, 2021

Her Cold War

Women in the U.S. Military, 1945–1980

Tanya L. Roth

Hosted by Jane Scimeca
Tanya L. Roth's Her Cold War: Women in the U.S. Military, 1945–1980 (University of North Carolina Press, 2021) explains that while Rosie the Riveter had fewer paid employment options after …
Caribbean Studies November 19, 2021

Birth Control in the Decolonizing Caribbean

Reproductive Politics and Practice on Four Islands, 1930–1970

Nicole C. Bourbonnais

Hosted by Alejandra Bronfman
Over the course of the twentieth century, campaigns to increase access to modern birth control methods spread across the globe and fundamentally altered the way people thought about and mobilized …
Anthropology November 18, 2021

Worlds of Care

The Emotional Lives of Fathers Caring for Children with Disabilities

Aaron J. Jackson

Hosted by Alize Arıcan
Vulnerable narratives of fatherhood are few and far between; rarer still is an ethnography that delves into the practical and emotional realities of intensive caregiving. Grounded in the intimate everyday …
Women's History November 18, 2021

Tunisia's Modern Woman

Nation-Building and State Feminism in the Global 1960s

Amy Aisen Kallander

Hosted by Rebecca Turkington
Following Tunisian independence in 1956, President Habib Bourguiba centered women’s liberation as part of the identity of the new nation. In Tunisia’s Modern Woman: Nation-Building and State Feminism in the …
Japanese Studies November 18, 2021

Invisibility by Design

Women and Labor in Japan's Digital Economy

Gabriella Lukács

Hosted by Jingyi Li
In the wake of labor market deregulation during the 2000s, online content sharing and social networking platforms were promoted in Japan as new sites of work that were accessible to …
Literature November 17, 2021

Motherhood

Facing and Finding Yourself

Lisa Marchiano

Hosted by Eric LeMay
Today I interview Lisa Marchiano. Marchiano is a mother of two children. She’s also a Jungian analyst and a host of the podcast called This Jungian Life. She brings these …
African Studies November 16, 2021

Emergent Masculinities

Gendered Power and Social Change in the Biafran Atlantic Age

Ndubueze L. Mbah

Hosted by Thomas Zuber
In Emergent Masculinities: Gendered Power and Social Change in the Biafran Atlantic Age (Ohio University Press, 2019), Ndubueze L. Mbah argues that the Bight of Biafra region’s Atlanticization—or the interaction between …
Gender Studies November 15, 2021

Prismatic Performances

Queer South Africa and the Fragmentation of the Rainbow Nation

April Sizemore-Barber

Hosted by Isabel Machado
At his 1994 inauguration, South African president Nelson Mandela announced the "Rainbow Nation, at peace with itself and the world." This national rainbow notably extended beyond the bounds of racial …
Gender Studies November 12, 2021

Sexual Citizenship and Disability

Understanding Sexual Support in Policy, Practice and Theory

Julia Bahner

Hosted by Sohini Chatterjee
What does ‘sexual citizenship’ mean in practice for people with mobility impairments who may need professional support to engage in sexual activity? Sexual Citizenship and Disability: Understanding Sexual Support in …
Latino Studies November 10, 2021

Border Women and the Community of Maclovio Rojas

Autonomy in the Spaces of Neoliberal Neglect

Michelle Téllez

Hosted by David-James Gonzales
Near Tijuana, Baja California, the autonomous community of Maclovio Rojas demonstrates what is possible for urban place-based political movements. More than a community, Maclovio Rojas is a women-led social movement …
Anthropology November 10, 2021

Being La Dominicana

Race and Identity in the Visual Culture of Santo Domingo

Rachel Afi Quinn

Hosted by Reighan Gillam
Dominican women being seen--and seeing themselves--in the media Rachel Afi Quinn investigates how visual media portray Dominican women and how women represent themselves in their own creative endeavors in response …
Gender Studies November 10, 2021

Politics of Rightful Killing

Civil Society, Gender, and Sexuality in Weblogistan

Sima Shakhsari

Hosted by Sohini Chatterjee
In the early 2000s, mainstream international news outlets celebrated the growth of Weblogistan—the online and real-life transnational network of Iranian bloggers—and depicted it as a liberatory site that gave voice …