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Sports May 19, 2022

Eugenics and Physical Culture Performance in the Progressive Era

Watch Whiteness Workout

Shannon L. Walsh

Hosted by Keith Rathbone
Today we are joined by Dr. Shannon Walsh, Associate Professor of Theatre History, and author of Eugenics and Physical Culture Performance in the Progressive Era: Watch Whiteness Workout (Palgrave MacMillan …

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Latin American Studies May 18, 2022

Affect, Ecofeminism, and Intersectional Struggles in Latin America

A Tribute to Berta Cáceres

Irune del Rio Gabiola

Hosted by Elize Mazadiego
In Affect, Ecofeminism, and Intersectional Struggles in Latin America: A Tribute to Berta Cáceres (Peter Lang, 2020), Irune del Rio Gabiola examines the power of affect in structuring decolonizing modes of resistance performed …
Gender Studies May 18, 2022

Gender Politics at Home and Abroad

Protestant Modernity in Colonial-Era Korea

Hyaeweol Choi

Hosted by Ann Choi
Postcolonial feminist scholarship on the formation of gender relations primarily uses the analytic of colonizer-colonized dyad. In her new monograph, Gender Politics at Home and Abroad: Protestant Modernity in Colonial-Era …
On Religion May 16, 2022

On Women of Color in American Islam

A Discussion with Sylvia Chan-Malik

Sylvia Chan-Malik

Hosted by Gregory Soden
Sylvia Chan-Malik is Associate Professor in the Departments of American and Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She talks, teaches, and writes about the intersections of race …
Postscript May 13, 2022

Postscript

Post-Roe Politics

Lilly J. Goren, Rebecca Kreitzer, Andrew R. Lewis, Candis Watts Smith, and Joshua C. Wilson

Hosted by Susan Liebell
Today’s Postscript uniquely engages abortion politics by addressing structural political issues (voter suppression, gerrymandering, dilutions of minority voting, obstacles to women registering their positions politically), inconsistencies in Justice Samuel Alito’s …
Nordic Asia Podcast May 13, 2022

The New Political Cry in South Korea?

The History of Feminist Activisms and Politics in South Korea

Ju Hui Judy Han

Hosted by Myunghee Lee
The anti-feminist movement in South Korea is gaining global attention. The story has been covered by many western mainstream news outlets including the New York Times, CNN, and BBC. Is …
Indian Religions May 12, 2022

Holy Science

The Biopolitics of Hindu Nationalism

Banu Subramaniam

Hosted by Raj Balkaran
In Holy Science: The Biopolitics of Hindu Nationalism (University of Washington Press, 2019), Banu Subramaniam examines how science and religion have come together to propel a vision of the modern Indian nation …
Anthropology May 10, 2022

Suspicion

Vaccines, Hesitancy, and the Affective Politics of Protection in Barbados

Nicole Charles

Hosted by Reighan Gillam
In 2014 Barbados introduced a vaccine to prevent certain strains of the human papillomavirus (HPV) and reduce the risk of cervical cancer in young women. Despite the disproportionate burden of …
Anthropology May 9, 2022

The Sound of Salvation

Voice, Gender, and the Sufi Mediascape in China

Guangtian Ha

Hosted by Irene Promodh
The Jahriyya Sufis—a primarily Sinophone order of Naqshbandiyya Sufism in northwestern China—inhabit a unique religious soundscape. The hallmark of their spiritual practice is the “loud” (jahr) remembrance of God in …
Nordic Asia Podcast May 6, 2022

Deities and Divas

Queer Ritual Specialists in Myanmar, Thailand and Beyond

Peter A. Jackson and Benjamin Baumann

Hosted by Nordic Asia Podcast
How does queer life fit into Buddhism and ritual? What role do gay men and trans women play in the practice of spirit mediumship and how do queer spirit mediums …
African American Studies May 5, 2022

Elite Capture

How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (and Everything Else)

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

Hosted by Brittney Edmonds
“Identity politics” is everywhere, polarizing discourse from the campaign trail to the classroom and amplifying antagonisms in the media, both online and off. But the compulsively referenced phrase bears little …
Gender Studies May 4, 2022

Vulgar Beauty

Acting Chinese in the Global Sensorium

Mila Zuo

Hosted by Ann Choi
Yi’s eyes soften as he watches Jiazhi sing a Chinese folk song with subtle, feminine movements in the film, Lust, Caution. The room fills with laughter when Ali Wong unabashedly enacts …
Women's History May 3, 2022

Transforming Girls

The Work of Nineteenth-Century Adolescence

Julie Pfeiffer

Hosted by Renee Garris
Transforming Girls: The Work of Nineteenth-Century Adolescence (UP of Mississippi, 2021) explores the paradox of the nineteenth-century girls’ book. On the one hand, early novels for adolescent girls rely on gender …
Political Science May 2, 2022

Nowhere to Run

Race, Gender, and Immigration in American Elections

Christian Dyogi Phillips

Hosted by Susan Liebell
Why has the underrepresentation of women and racial minorities in elected office proved so persistent in American politics? In Nowhere to Run: Race, Gender, and Immigration in American Elections (Oxford UP …
Jewish Studies May 2, 2022

Fighter, Worker, and Family Man

German-Jewish Men and Their Gendered Experiences in Nazi Germany, 1933-1941

Sebastian Huebel

Hosted by Amber Nickell
When the Nazis came to power, they used various strategies to expel German Jews from social, cultural, and economic life. Fighter, Worker, and Family Man (U Toronto Press, 2022) focuses …
High Theory April 29, 2022

Intersectionality

A Discussion with Kim Adams

Kim Adams

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Saronik interviews Kim about intersectionality, a concept developed by Kimberlé Crenshaw. Kim references two essays by Crenshaw in the episode: one that she read, and one that our previous podcast …
Women's History April 29, 2022

The Transformation of American Sex Education

Mary Calderone and the Fight for Sexual Health

Ellen S. More

Hosted by Jane Scimeca
Mid-century America had a problem talking about sex. Dr. Mary Calderone first diagnosed this condition and, in 1964, led the uphill battle to de-stigmatize sex education. Supporters hailed her as …
Gender Studies April 26, 2022

Woman

The American History of an Idea

Lillian Faderman

Hosted by Lilian Calles Barger
Lillian Faderman is professor emerita at California State University, Fresno. An award-winning author Dr Faderman, widely known as the mother of lesbian history, has authored many books on women, gender …
East Asian Studies April 26, 2022

Feminisms with Chinese Characteristics

Ping Zhu and Hui Faye Xiao

Hosted by Linshan Jiang
Feminisms with Chinese Characteristics (Syracuse University Press, 2021), co-edited by Ping Zhu and Hui Faye Xiao, offers an examination of the ways in which Chinese feminist ideas have developed since the …
Human Rights April 26, 2022

Banning Transgender Conversion Practices

A Legal and Policy Analysis

Florence Ashley

Hosted by Rine Vieth
NB: This interview contains explicit language. In Banning Transgender Conversion Practices: A Legal and Policy Analysis (U British Columbia Press, 2022), bioethicist and jurist Florence Ashley historicizes recent developments in …