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Interviews with scholars of gender about their new books.
October 12, 2026
Realism After the Individual
The realist novel, so the story goes, isn’t really an American genre but a European and British one. And what the realist novel does—again, according …
October 8, 2026
Immoral Traffic An Ethnography of Law, NGOs, and the Governance of Prostitution in India
Immoral Traffic: An Ethnography of Law, NGOs, and the Governance of Prostitution in India (Cambridge UP, 2025) delves into the complex intersection of…
October 7, 2026
Notes from the Sex Worker Left
“If whores were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free” (ix). Notes from the Sex Worker Left: Lumpen Theory (Duke UP, 2026) open…
October 6, 2026
Egyptian Male Film Stars in the Nasser Era
Samar Abdel-Rahman's Egyptian Male Film Stars in the Nasser Era: Envisioning a National Identity (American University of Cairo Press, 2026) explores m…
October 6, 2026
Women in Comics
Susan E. Kirtley and Nhora Lucía Serrano's Women in Comics (Black Dog & Leventhal, 2026) is a richly illustrated, essential guide to the importanc…
October 1, 2026
How Girls Achieve
How Girls Achieve points out a simple and overlooked truth: most schools never had girls in mind to begin with. That is why the world needs what Dr. S…
September 27, 2026
Fitness for Freedom
Fitness for Freedom: Disability, Degeneration, and Modern Irish Writing (Syracuse UP, 2025) explores the legacy of intersectional stereotypes of disab…
September 26, 2026
Femmephilia
This episode’s centers on Sophie Lewis’s new book Femmephilia. A collection of essays published in various outlets over the last several years, this b…
September 26, 2026
Spies and Other Pigeons
Across Pakistan's rooftops, pigeon flyers devote enormous care and labor to birds that soar the skies, take part in competitions, and knit together co…
September 25, 2026
Wave Makers and the Rise of #MeToo in Taiwan
When the Taiwanese political drama Wave Makers appeared in April 2023, few anticipated its impact beyond the screen. Within weeks, survivors in politi…
September 24, 2026
Tsunami
Featuring personal essay, manifesto, creative nonfiction, and poetry, Tsunami: Women’s Voices From Mexico (Feminist Press, 2025) gathers the multiplic…
September 21, 2026
The Strange and Familiar History of Byzantine Art
Strange and Familiar History of Byzantine Art: Interpretation, Risk, and Empathy (ARC Humanities Press, 2026) represents a risky experiment in art-his…
September 19, 2026
Sociology of Gender in India
Sociology of Gender in India brings together feminist and queer scholarship to chart the changing landscape of gender debates in Indian sociology. Spa…
September 18, 2026
Dressays
The clothes we inherit, covet, purchase, borrow, wear, store, destroy, or give away are intricately woven into our ideas about who we are and how we r…
September 17, 2026
For Customers Only
Americans have nowhere to go. Nationwide, countless public spaces lack one crucial thing: bathrooms, never mind ones that are safe and functional. Yet…
September 16, 2026
Beauty and the Nation
During the interwar years, Vietnamese society witnessed a rapid change in the way women looked. Rejecting the model of a sequestered maiden with black…
September 16, 2026
Women, Gender, and Socialist Ideology in Soviet Russia
Women, Gender, and Socialist Ideology in Soviet Russia (Routledge, 2026) examines the place of women in Soviet Russia from the 1917 Revolution through…
September 13, 2026
Searching for Democracy
How can we achieve lasting social and political equality for women? Dr. Leda Pérez tackles this thorny question in Searching for Democracy: Women, Dom…
September 12, 2026
Urban Borderlands
Los Angeles in the late nineteenth century was bustling with the rise of industrialization, but the growing labor force that propelled it, mostly cons…
September 9, 2026
The Shipikisha Club
Kabwe, Zambia: Sali, a working mother of three, stands trial for the murder of her husband, Kasunga. The prosecutor claims Sali shot him after a heate…