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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 …

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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 …
American West April 25, 2022

The Closet and the Cul-de-Sac

The Politics of Sexual Privacy in Northern California

Clayton Howard

Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
"I don't care what people do in their bedroom, but do they need to flaunt it?" This sentiment is a common refrain in American culture and politics when talking about …
Gender Studies March 31, 2022

Courting Desire

Litigating for Love in North India

Rama Srinivasan

Hosted by Shraddha Chatterjee
Inquiries into marital patterns can serve as an effective lens to analyze social structures and material cultures not only on the question of sexuality, but also on the nature of …
Caribbean Studies March 30, 2022

Creolized Sexualities

Undoing Heteronormativity in the Literary Imagination of the Anglo-Caribbean

Alison Donnell

Hosted by Alejandra Bronfman
By showing how a wide, and surprising, range of Caribbean writers have contributed to the crafting of a supple and inclusive erotic repertoire across the second half of the twentieth …
Science, Technology, and Society March 30, 2022

Vagina Obscura

An Anatomical Voyage

Rachel E. Gross

Hosted by Sine Yaganoglu
A camera obscura reflects the world back but dimmer and inverted. Similarly, science has long viewed woman through a warped lens, one focused narrowly on her capacity for reproduction. As …
Science March 28, 2022

Bitch

On the Female of the Species

Lucy Cooke

Hosted by Sine Yaganoglu
Bitch: On the Female of the Species (Basic Books, 2022) is a fierce, funny, and revolutionary look at the queens of the animal kingdom. Studying zoology made Lucy Cooke feel like …
Islamic Studies March 25, 2022

Revolutionary Bodies

Technologies of Gender, Sex, and Self in Contemporary Iran

K. S. Batmanghelichi

Hosted by Kristian Petersen
Gender and sexuality in modern Iran are frequently examined through the prisms of nationalist symbols and religious discourse. In Revolutionary Bodies: Technologies of Gender, Sex, and Self in Contemporary Iran …
African Studies March 24, 2022

Knowing Women

Same-sex Intimacy, Gender, and Identity in Postcolonial Ghana

Serena Owusua Dankwa

Hosted by Thomas Zuber
Knowing Women: Same-sex Intimacy, Gender, and Identity in Postcolonial Ghana (Cambridge UP, 2021) is a study of same-sex desire in West Africa, which explores the lives and friendships of working-class …
Political Science March 24, 2022

Bodies in Evidence

Race, Gender, and Science in Sexual Assault Adjudication

Heather R. Hlavka and Sameena Mulla

Hosted by Lilly Goren
Scholars Heather Hlavka (Marquette University) and Sameena Mulla (Emory University) have written a new book that examines and interrogates the place and space of the courtroom, the use of expertise …
Islamic Studies March 18, 2022

Half of Faith

American Muslim Marriage and Divorce in the Twenty-First Century

Kecia Ali

Hosted by Shehnaz Haqqani
In Half of Faith: American Muslim Marriage and Divorce in the Twenty-First Century, readers find a wide range of texts on Muslim Americans’ experiences with questions of marriage and divorce …
Education March 10, 2022

Dangerous Ideas on Campus

Sex, Conspiracy, and Academic Freedom in the Age of JFK

Matthew C. Ehrlich

Hosted by Thomas Discenna
In 1960, University of Illinois professor Leo Koch wrote a public letter condoning premarital sex. He was fired. Four years later, a professor named Revilo Oliver made white supremacist remarks …
LGBTQ+ Studies March 8, 2022

Playhouses

Sexuality and Fundamentalism

Sherry Scott

Hosted by Morris Ardoin
In this episode of Queer Voices of the South I talk to Dr. Sherry Scott about her new book Playhouses: Sexuality and Fundamentalism, released in February 2022 by Black Rose …
Critical Theory March 7, 2022

Sex, Consent and Justice

A New Feminist Framework

Tina Sikka

Hosted by Louisa Hann
Increasingly fraught debates about sex, consent, feminism, justice, law, and gender relations have taken centre stage in academic, journalistic and social media circles in recent years. This has resulted in …
Latino Studies February 23, 2022

Archiving Mexican Masculinities in Diaspora

Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández

Hosted by Jonathan Cortez
Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández once again engages in the fearless work of challenging structures of domination. In her most recent book, Archiving Mexican Masculinities in Diaspora (Duke University Press, 2021), Profesora …
Women's History February 16, 2022

Reproduction Reconceived

Family Making and the Limits of Choice After Roe V. Wade

Sara Matthiesen

Hosted by Nicole Bourbonnais
We tend to associate Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court decision that decriminalized abortion in 1973, with the choice not to have children. But Roe was equally transformative for …
French Studies February 16, 2022

Working Girls

Sex, Taste, and Reform in the Parisian Garment Trades, 1880-1919

Patricia Tilburg

Hosted by Roxanne Panchasi
Patricia Tilburg's Working Girls: Sex, Taste, and Reform in the Parisian Garment Trades, 1880-1919 (Oxford University Press, 2019) is at once a cultural, gender, urban, and labour history of the Belle Epoque era. The …
Art February 15, 2022

Designing Motherhood

Things that Make and Break Our Births

Michelle Millar Fisher and Amber Winick

Hosted by Holiday Powers
In Designing Motherhood: Things that Make and Break Our Births (MIT Press, 2021), Michelle Millar Fisher and Amber Winick along with more than fifty contributors consider over a hundred designs …
Critical Theory February 14, 2022

What Do Men Want?

Masculinity and Its Discontents

Nina Power

Hosted by Pierre d'Alancaisez
Something is definitely up with men. From millions online who engage with the manosphere to the #metoo backlash, from Men's Rights activists and incels to spiralling suicide rates, it's easy …
Burned by Books February 14, 2022

Anonymous Sex

Hillary Jordan and Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan

Hosted by Chris Holmes
An interview with Hillary Jordan and Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan, editors of Anonymous Sex, a collection of 27 explicit sex stories unattributed to the 27 writers listed in the byline. Cheryl, Hillary …