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Irish Studies
August 17, 2022
Beyond Exclusion
Intersections of Ethnicity, Sex, and Society Under English Law in Medieval Ireland
Stephen Hewer
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Margaret Smith
Beyond Exclusion: Intersections of Ethnicity, Sex, and Society Under English Law in Medieval Ireland (Brepols, 2022) offers a fresh look at the legal status of minorities in English Ireland. Through …
Gender Studies
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Psychoanalysis
August 15, 2022
Circumcision on the Couch
The Cultural, Psychological, and Gendered Dimensions of the World's Oldest Surgery
Jordan Osserman
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Tracy Morgan
It is not terribly controversial to say that castration fear is one of the key conceptual engines driving the psychoanalytic project overall. Whether one thinks of it manifesting as a …
General History
August 12, 2022
Disgrace
Global Reflections on Sexual Violence
Joanna Bourke
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Jana Byars
Looking across time and the globe, a critical history of sexual violence--what causes it and how we overcome it. Disgrace: Global Reflections on Sexual Violence (Reaktion, 2022) is the first …
Middle Eastern Studies
August 12, 2022
Anti-Veiling Campaigns in Turkey
State, Society and Gender in the Early Republic
Sevgi Adak
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Reuben Silverman
The veiling and unveiling of women have been controversial issues in Turkey since the late-Ottoman period. It was with the advent of local campaigns against certain veils in the 1930s …
Dan Hill's EQ Spotlight
August 11, 2022
Women Painting Women
Andrea Karnes
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Dan Hill
Andrea Karnes' book Women Painting Women (Delmonico Books, 2022) documents a wide-ranging exhibit inclusive of women as both the makers and subjects of paintings. The artists hail from around the …
African American Studies
August 11, 2022
Or, on Being the Other Woman
Simone White
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Brittney Edmonds
In or, on being the other woman (Duke UP, 2022), Simone White considers the dynamics of contemporary black feminist life. Throughout this book-length poem, White writes through a hybrid of …
Gender Studies
August 11, 2022
Millennial Feminism at Work
Bridging Theory and Practice
Jane Juffer
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Iqra Shagufta Cheema
In Millennial Feminism at Work: Bridging Theory and Practice (Cornell UP, 2021), volume editor Jane Juffer brings together recently graduated students from across the US to reflect on the relevance of …
General History
August 10, 2022
Feminism's Empire
Carolyn J. Eichner
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Michael Vann
Feminism's Empire (Cornell UP, 2022) investigates the complex relationships between imperialisms and feminisms in the late nineteenth century and demonstrates the challenge of conceptualizing "pro-imperialist" and "anti-imperialist" as binary positions …
Popular Culture
August 8, 2022
A Woman's Place Is in the Brewhouse
A Forgotten History of Alewives, Brewsters, Witches, and Ceos
Tara Nurin
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Rebekah Buchanan
Tara Nurin explores women in all aspects of the brewing industry in A Women's Place is in the Brewhouse (Chicago Review Press, 2021). Women have brewed beer throughout most of human history. Their …
Anthropology
August 5, 2022
Sextarianism
Sovereignty, Secularism, and the State in Lebanon
Maya Mikdashi
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Alize Arıcan
The Lebanese state is structured through religious freedom and secular power sharing across sectarian groups. Every sect has specific laws that govern kinship matters like marriage or inheritance. Together with …
General History
August 5, 2022
The Last Witches of England
A Tragedy of Sorcery and Superstition
John Callow
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Miranda Melcher
On the morning of Thursday 29 June 1682, a magpie came rasping, rapping and tapping at the window of a prosperous Devon merchant. Frightened by its appearance, his servants and …
Anthropology
August 4, 2022
Academic Outsider
Stories of Exclusion and Hope
Victoria Reyes
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Reighan Gillam
In Academic Outsider: Stories of Exclusion and Hope (Stanford University Press, 2022), sociologist Victoria Reyes combines her personal experiences with research findings to examine how academia creates conditional citizenship for its …
Popular Culture
August 3, 2022
Teenage Dreams
Girlhood Sexualities in the U.S. Culture Wars
Charlie Jeffries
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Rebekah Buchanan
Utilizing a breadth of archival sources from activists, artists, and policymakers, Charlie Jeffries' Teenage Dreams: Girlhood Sexualities in the U.S. Culture Wars (Rutgers UP, 2022) examines the race- and class-inflected battles over …
African American Studies
August 1, 2022
My Seven Black Fathers
A Young Activist's Memoir of Race, Family, and the Mentors Who Made Him Whole
Will Jawando
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Ari Barbalat
Will Jawando tells a deeply affirmative story of hope and respect for men of color at a time when Black men are routinely stigmatized. As a boy growing up outside …
Gender Studies
July 29, 2022
Sex Is as Sex Does
Governing Transgender Identity
Paisley Currah
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Sohini Chatterjee
Every government agency in the United States, from Homeland Security to Departments of Motor Vehicles, has the authority to make its own rules for sex classification. Many transgender people find …
Middle Eastern Studies
July 27, 2022
Unknown Past
Layla Murad, the Jewish-Muslim Star of Egypt
Hanan Hammad
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Roberto Mazza
Layla Murad (1918-1995) was once the highest-paid star in Egypt, and her movies were among the top-grossing in the box office. She starred in 28 films, nearly all now classics …
Gender Studies
July 27, 2022
How to Be Authentic
Simone de Beauvoir and the Quest for Fulfillment
Skye Cleary
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Lilian Calles Barger
Skye C. Cleary is a philosopher, writer and university teacher. In her new book How to Be Authentic: Simone de Beauvoir and the Quest for Fulfillment (St. Martin’s Press, 2022) …
Gender Studies
July 26, 2022
Tying the Knot
A Feminist/Womanist guide to Muslim Marriage in America
Kecia Ali
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Iqra Shagufta Cheema
Are you a born, revert, or convert Muslim who is trying to navigate the puzzle that is Muslim marriage in America? Do you want an egalitarian and fair Muslim marriage …
Critical Theory
July 26, 2022
The Flexibility Paradox
Why Flexible Working Leads To (Self-)Exploitation
Heejung Chung
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Dave O'Brien
Why are we working harder? In The Flexibility Paradox: Why Flexible Working Leads To (Self-)Exploitation (Polity Press, 2022), Heejung Chung, a professor of sociology and social policy at the University of …
Women's History
July 26, 2022
Cacicas
The Indigenous Women Leaders of Spanish America, 1492-1825
Margarita R. Ochoa and Sara V. Guengerich
Hosted by
Jane Scimeca
The term cacica was a Spanish linguistic invention, the female counterpart to caciques, the Arawak word for male indigenous leaders in Spanish America. But the term’s meaning was adapted and …
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