Gender Studies

Gender Studies

episodes

Interviews with scholars of gender about their new books.

David Kroening Seitz, "A Different Trek: Radical Geographies of Deep Space Nine" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)

September 20, 2024

A Different Trek

David Kroening Seitz
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

A different kind of Star Trek television series debuted in 1993. Deep Space Nine was set not on a starship but a space station near a postcolonial pla…

Joanna Allan, "Silenced Resistance: Women, Dictatorships, and Genderwashing in Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea" (U Wisconsin Press, 2019)

September 20, 2024

Silenced Resistance

Joanna Allan
Hosted by Ari Barbalat

Spain's former African colonies-Equatorial Guinea and Western Sahara-share similar histories. Both are under the thumbs of heavy-handed, postcolonial …

Alexis Pauline Gumbs, "Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde" (FSG, 2024)

September 19, 2024

Survival Is a Promise

Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Hosted by Ari Barbalat

We remember Audre Lorde as an iconic writer, a quotable teacher whose words and face grace T-shirts, nonprofit annual reports, and campus diversity-ce…

Jennifer Redmond and Mary McAuliffe, "The Politics of Gender and Sexuality in Modern Ireland: A Reader" (Four Courts Press, 2024)

September 14, 2024

The Politics of Gender and Sexuality in Modern Ireland

Jennifer Redmond and Mary McAuliffe
Hosted by Aidan Beatty

Mary McAuliffe is a historian and lecturer in Gender Studies at UCD. Her latest publications include (is The Diaries of Kathleen Lynn co-authored with…

Lesbian Poetry in the Philippines

September 12, 2024

Lesbian Poetry in the Philippines

Naomi Cammayo
Hosted by Natali Pearson

Lesbian poetry as a form of socio-political praxis in the Philippine context. This episode’s guest argues that lesbian writing – by lesbians and about…

Jennifer Domino Rudolph, "Baseball as Mediated Latinidad: Race, Masculinity, Nationalism, and Performances of Identity" (Ohio State UP, 2020)

September 10, 2024

Baseball as Mediated Latinidad

Jennifer Domino Rudolph

In her incisive study Baseball as Mediated Latinidad: Race, Masculinity, Nationalism, and Performances of Identity (Ohio State University Press, 2020)…

Martha Rampton, "Trafficking with Demons: Magic, Ritual, and Gender from Late Antiquity to 1000" (Cornell UP, 2021)

September 9, 2024

Trafficking with Demons

Martha Rampton
Hosted by Jana Byars

Martha Rampton's book Trafficking with Demons: Magic, Ritual, and Gender from Late Antiquity to 1000 (Cornell University Press, 2021) explores how mag…

Kaitlin Sidorsky, "All Roads Lead to Power: The Appointed and Elected Paths to Public Office for US Women" (UP of Kansas, 2019)

September 9, 2024

All Roads Lead to Power

Kaitlin Sidorsky
Hosted by Lilly Goren

Kaitlin Sidorsky’s book, All Roads Lead to Power: The Appointed and Elected Paths to Public Office for US Women (University Press of Kansas, 2019), is…

Ana Stevenson, "The Woman as Slave in Nineteenth-Century American Social Movements" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)

September 8, 2024

The Woman as Slave in Nineteenth-Century American Social Movements

Ana Stevenson
Hosted by Chelsea Gibson

In The Woman as Slave in Nineteenth-Century American Social Movements (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), Ana Stevenson explores the ubiquity of what she term…

Alison Fragale, "Likeable Badass: The New Science of Successful Women" (Doubleday Books, 2024)

September 7, 2024

Likeable Badass

Alison Fragale
Hosted by Deidre Tyler

Behavioral scientist Alison Fragale offers powerful new insights and a practical playbook for women to advance in any workplace, full of tips, tricks,…

Chris Richardson, "Batman and the Joker: Contested Sexuality in Popular Culture" (Routledge, 2020)

September 3, 2024

Batman and the Joker

Chris Richardson
Hosted by Rebekah Buchanan

In Batman and The Joker: Contested Sexuality in Popular Culture (Routledge, 2020), Chris Richardson presents a cultural analysis of the ways gender, i…

Ronnie Grinberg, "Write like a Man: Jewish Masculinity and the New York Intellectuals" (Princeton UP, 2024)

August 30, 2024

Write like a Man

Ronnie Grinberg
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

In the years following World War II, the New York intellectuals became some of the most renowned critics and writers in the country. Although mostly m…

Matt Brim, "Poor Queer Studies: Confronting Elitism in the University" (Duke UP, 2020)

August 27, 2024

Poor Queer Studies

Matt Brim
Hosted by John Marszalek

In Poor Queer Studies: Confronting Elitism in the University (Duke UP, 2020), Matt Brim shifts queer studies away from its familiar sites of elite edu…

Joanna Wuest, "Born This Way: Science, Citizenship, and Inequality in the American LGBTQ+ Movement" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

August 27, 2024

Born This Way

Joanna Wuest
Hosted by Susan Liebell

Scholars often narrate the legal cases confirming LGBTQ+ rights as a huge success story. While it took 100 years to confirm the rights of Black Americ…

Francisca Yuenki Lai, "Maid to Queer: Asian Labor Migration and Female Same-Sex Desires" (Hong Kong UP, 2021)

August 25, 2024

Maid to Queer

Francisca Yuenki Lai
Hosted by Qing Shen

Maid to Queer: Asian Labor Migration and Female Same-Sex Desires (Hong Kong UP, 2021) is the first book about Asian female migrant workers who develop…

Wesley G. Phelps, "Before Lawrence v. Texas: The Making of a Queer Social Movement" (U Texas Press, 2023)

August 24, 2024

Before Lawrence v. Texas

Wesley G. Phelps
Hosted by Stephen Hausmann

In 2003, in a ruling that bordered on poetic, Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in Lawrence v. Texas that sexual behavior between consenting…

Ren Pepitone, "Brotherhood of Barristers: A Cultural History of the British Legal Profession, 1840–1940" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

August 22, 2024

Brotherhood of Barristers

Ren Pepitone
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

How did ideas of masculinity shape the British legal profession and the wider expectations of the white-collar professional? Brotherhood of Barristers…

Karen Patel, "Craft as a Creative Industry" (Routledge, 2024)

August 20, 2024

Craft as a Creative Industry

Karen Patel
Hosted by Dave O'Brien

How can we diversify the creative industries? In Craft as a Creative Industry (Routledge, 2024), Karen Patel, an Associate Professor in Media and Dir…

Jiří Hutečka, "Men Under Fire: Motivation, Morale, and Masculinity among Czech Soldiers in the Great War, 1914–1918" (Berghahn Books, 2019)

August 20, 2024

Men Under Fire

Jiří Hutečka
Hosted by Steven Seegel

In historical writing on World War I, Czech-speaking soldiers serving in the Austro-Hungarian military are typically studied as Czechs, rarely as sold…

Carole Ammann, "Women, Agency, and the State in Guinea: Silent Politics" (Routledge, 2020)

August 18, 2024

Women, Agency, and the State in Guinea

Carole Ammann
Hosted by Ari Barbalat

Women, Agency, and the State in Guinea: Silent Politics (Routledge, 2020) examines how women in Guinea articulate themselves politically within and ou…