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Sex, Sexuality, and Sex Work
Interviews with scholars of sex, sexuality and sex work about their new books.
April 16, 2026
Rape Fantasies
Political theorist Alisa Kessel (University of Puget Sound) has an important and impressive new book, Rape Fantasies: Rape Culture and the Persistence…
April 14, 2026
Blackstar Rising and the Purple Reign
Blackstar Rising and the Purple Reign: The Sonic Afterlives of David Bowie and Prince (Duke UP, 2026) is the first critical anthology dedicated to exp…
April 7, 2026
Sex Work in Southeast Asia
In Sex Work in Southeast Asia: Scenes of Ambivalence in Literature and Film (Edinburgh UP, 2025), Leslie Barnes examines the ambivalences that mark So…
April 3, 2026
Atomic Bombshells
Bullet bras, bazookas, bombshells, bikinis. In Atomic Bombshells: How Plastics Shaped Postwar Bodies (Duke UP, 2026), Dr. Isabelle Held challenges the…
March 25, 2026
Colonial Caregivers
Colonial Caregivers: Ayahs and the Gendered History of Race and Caste in British India (Cambridge UP, 2025) offers a compelling cultural and social hi…
March 9, 2026
Reproductive Rights in Modern France
The introduction of the principle of women's reproductive liberty in France, tentatively by the family planning movement after 1960 and explicitly by …
March 7, 2026
Respectability on the Line
Respectability on the Line: Gender, Race, and Labor along British and Colonial Indian Railways (U California Press, 2026) by Dr. Mattie Armstrong-Pric…
March 5, 2026
The Einstein of Sex
More than a century ago, Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, dubbed the "Einstein of Sex," grew famous (and infamous) for his liberating theory of sexual relativit…
February 28, 2026
Black Women's Bodily Autonomy, Sexual Freedom, and Pleasure
Black Women's Bodily Autonomy, Sexual Freedom, and Pleasure: Explorations of the Hot Girl Movement (Routledge, 2025) explores scholarship, practice, a…
February 21, 2026
Moral Storytelling in 1920s New York, Odessa, and Bombay
Using public storytelling as a driving force, Moral Storytelling in 1920s New York, Odessa, and Bombay: Sex, Crime, Violence, and Nightlife in the Mod…
January 30, 2026
Cosmosexuals
In Cosmosexuals: Screen Acting, Stardom, and Male Sex Appeal (U Texas Press, 2025), Dr. Mark Gallagher presents an examination of male screen sex appe…
January 30, 2026
By the Power Vested in Me
In both the United States and France, each side of the legal battle over same-sex marriage and parenthood relied heavily on experts. Despite the simil…
January 28, 2026
The Dreaded Pox
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, venereal disease, or the 'pox,' was a dreaded diagnosis throughout Europe. Its ghastly marks, along with …
January 28, 2026
The Brothel and Beyond
Saundra Weddle joins fellow Venetianist Jana Byars to talk about her pathbreaking new release, The Brothel and Beyond: An Urban History of the Sex Tra…
January 25, 2026
Queering the Hmong Diaspora
This episode features Dr. Kong Pheng Pha discussing his recently published book, Queering the Hmong Diaspora: Racial Subjectivity and the Myth of Hype…
January 22, 2026
Growing Up Pure
Gaining mass popularity in the mid-1990s with the True Love Waits rally on the Washington Mall, purity culture began as an urge from evangelical conse…
January 17, 2026
The Business of Pleasure
Elwin Hofman joins Jana Byars to talk about the volume he edited with Magaly Rodríguez García & Pieter Vanhees, The Business of Pleasure: A History of…
January 15, 2026
Sexual Politics in Revolutionary England
Samuel Fullerton joins Jana Byars to talk about Sexual Politics in Revolutionary England (Manchester UP 2024) to celebrate its paperback release. It r…
January 15, 2026
Everything Is Fine, I'll Just Work Harder: Confessions of a Former Badass
In Everything Is Fine, I’ll Just Work Harder: Confessions of A Former Badass (Street Noise Books, 2025), Professor Cara Gormally draws us into the fam…
January 15, 2026
Courting Disaster
What do #MeToo and Jane Austen have in common? More than you might think. Ever since the novel was invented, women have used it as a platform for sha…