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Helen Taylor, “Why Women Read Fiction: The Stories of Our Lives” (Oxford UP, 2020)

Helen Taylor
Why Women Read Fiction
The Stories of Our Lives
Oxford University Press, 2020

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Communications New Books in Critical Theory New Books in Gender Studies New Books in Literary Studies New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Sociology New Books Network January 27, 2020 Dave O'Brien

Why and how is fiction important to women? In Why Women Read Fiction: The Stories of Our Lives (Oxford University Press, 2020), Helen Taylor, Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Exeter, explores this question to give a detailed and engaging picture of fiction in women’s lives. The book... Read More

Rosine Jozef Perelberg
Psychic Bisexuality
A British-French Dialogue
Routledge, 2018

New Books in Gender Studies New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Psychoanalysis New Books in Science & Technology New Books Network January 27, 2020 Philip Lance

Psychic Bisexuality: A British-French Dialogue (Routledge, 2018), edited by Rosine Jozef Perelberg, clarifies and develops the Freudian conception according to which sexual identity is not reduced to the anatomical difference between the sexes, but is constructed as a psychic bisexuality that is inherent to all human beings. The book takes... Read More

Carol Dyhouse, “Heartthrobs: A History of Women and Desire” (Oxford UP, 2017)

Carol Dyhouse
Heartthrobs
A History of Women and Desire
Oxford University Press, 2017

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Film New Books in Gender Studies New Books in History New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Popular Culture January 24, 2020 Jana Byars

What can a cultural history of the heartthrob teach us about women, desire, and social change? From dreams of Prince Charming or dashing military heroes, to the lure of dark strangers and vampire lovers; from rock stars and rebels to soulmates, dependable family types or simply good companions, female fantasies... Read More

Rachel Chrastil, “How to Be Childless: A History and Philosophy of Life Without Children” (Oxford UP, 2019)

Rachel Chrastil
How to Be Childless
A History and Philosophy of Life Without Children
Oxford University Press, 2019

New Books in Anthropology New Books in Gender Studies New Books in History New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Psychology New Books in Sociology New Books Network January 21, 2020 Jana Byars

In this episode, Jana Byars talks with Rachel Chrastil, Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences and member of the history department at Xavier University, about her newest book, How to Be Childless: A History and Philosophy of Life Without Children (Oxford University Press, 2019). This book is, at its heart,... Read More

Eileen Hunt Botting
The Wollstonecraftian Mind

Routledge, 2019

New Books in Biography New Books in British Studies New Books in European Studies New Books in Gender Studies New Books in Intellectual History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network January 15, 2020 Lilian Calles Barger

Eileen Hunt Botting is Professor of Political Science at Notre Dame and co-editor with Sandrine Berges and Alan Coffee of the anthology The Wollstonecraftian Mind (Routledge, 2019). The collection presents thirty-nine essays from distinguished scholars in philosophy, religion, literature, intellectual history, and other fields who consider the work of the... Read More

Rachel Louise Moran, “Governing Bodies: American Politics and the Shaping of the Modern Physique” (U Penn Press, 2018)

Rachel Louise Moran
Governing Bodies
American Politics and the Shaping of the Modern Physique
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018

New Books in American Studies New Books in Gender Studies New Books in History New Books in Medicine New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Public Policy New Books in Science & Technology New Books Network January 14, 2020 Patricia Martins Marcos

How did the modern, American body come into being? According to Rachel Louise Moran this is a story to be told through the lens of the advisory state. In her book, Governing Bodies: American Politics and the Shaping of the Modern Physique (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018), she tracks the... Read More

Carol Gilligan
Great Books
Carol Gilligan on Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter"
Think About It, 2019

New Books in American Studies New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Gender Studies New Books in Literary Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society January 14, 2020 Uli Baer

Nathaniel Hawthorne‘s 1850 novel The Scarlet Letter tells the dramatic story of a woman cast out of society for adultery and condemned to wear a badge of shame in Puritan New England. Renowned psychologist Carol Gilligan identifies Hawthorne’s masterpiece as “the American novel” because (as Hawthorne puts it toward the... Read More