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Interviews with scholars of gender about their new books.
April 18, 2026
I Will Not Abandon You
I Will Not Abandon You: Queer Women in Nazi Germany (Aevo UTP, 2026) brings to life the unrelenting defiance of queer women in fascist Germany. In hi…
April 16, 2026
Rape Fantasies
Political theorist Alisa Kessel (University of Puget Sound) has an important and impressive new book, Rape Fantasies: Rape Culture and the Persistence…
April 16, 2026
Borders, Citizenship, and Pregnancy
Using the analytical framework of reproductive justice, Borders, Citizenship, and Pregnancy: Migrant Women’s Experiences of Pregnancy and Maternity Ca…
April 14, 2026
Blackstar Rising and the Purple Reign
Blackstar Rising and the Purple Reign: The Sonic Afterlives of David Bowie and Prince (Duke UP, 2026) is the first critical anthology dedicated to exp…
April 13, 2026
Queer Indigenous Cinemas
In Queer Indigenous Cinemas, scholar Gabriel S. Estrada offers an analysis of queer Indigenous media from the Americas, the Pacific, and the Caribbean…
April 12, 2026
Under Western Eyes
Under Western Eyes: Vulnerable Minorities and the Russian State in New Cold War Cultures (Academic Studies Press, 2025) examines the New Cold War betw…
April 11, 2026
Sex Isn't Real
In Sex Isn’t Real: The Invention of an Incoherent Binary (Duke UP, 2026), Beans Velocci traces the history of current high stakes attempts to define s…
April 10, 2026
Faithful Transformations
Nurhaizatul Jamil’s Faithful Transformations: Islamic Self-Help in Contemporary Singapore (U Illinois Press, 2025) is a complex and meticulous ethnogr…
April 7, 2026
Sex Work in Southeast Asia
In Sex Work in Southeast Asia: Scenes of Ambivalence in Literature and Film (Edinburgh UP, 2025), Leslie Barnes examines the ambivalences that mark So…
April 6, 2026
Emotions of LGBT Rights
In this episode of High Theory, Saronik talks to Senthorun Raj about the Emotions of LGBT Rights. Emotions from disgust and fear to love and joy shape…
April 5, 2026
After Liberation
War offers opportunities for women to liberate their communities and build a better life for themselves. When women join rebel groups, they often take…
April 4, 2026
Women Will Vote
The book, Women Will Vote: Winning Suffrage in New York State (Cornell UP, 2017) is Susan Goodier and Karen Pastorello’s efforts to account for the or…
April 3, 2026
Atomic Bombshells
Bullet bras, bazookas, bombshells, bikinis. In Atomic Bombshells: How Plastics Shaped Postwar Bodies (Duke UP, 2026), Dr. Isabelle Held challenges the…
April 2, 2026
The Club
In Belle Époque Paris, the Eiffel Tower was newly built, France was experiencing remarkable political stability, and American women were painting the …
April 1, 2026
The Violence of Protection
The Violence of Protection: Policing, Immigration Law, and Asian American Women (Duke UP, 2026) examines U.S. laws designed to rescue immigrant surviv…
March 30, 2026
Monastic Desires
Derek Krueger Monastic Desires: Homoeroticism, Homophobia, and Love of God in Medieval Constantinople (Cambridge UP, 2026) The Byzantine Abbot Symeo…
March 28, 2026
British Women Novelists and the Review Periodical
At the turn of the nineteenth century, British women novelists were publishing more fiction than their male counterparts, yet their place in literary …
March 26, 2026
For the Love of Labor
My guest today is Cathryn J. Prince the author of For the Love of Labor: The Life of Pauline Newman (U Illinois Press, 2026). From her start as one of…
March 26, 2026
The Goddess in the Mirror
In The Goddess in the Mirror: An Anthropology of Beauty (Duke UP, 2025), Tulasi Srinivas offers a pathbreaking ethnography of contemporary Indian beau…
March 25, 2026
Colonial Caregivers
Colonial Caregivers: Ayahs and the Gendered History of Race and Caste in British India (Cambridge UP, 2025) offers a compelling cultural and social hi…