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About Jeannette Cockroft

I am an associate professor of history and political science at Schreiner University, a small liberal arts school in South Texas. My research interests deal with American women's political activity in the mid-20th century and especially dealing with the career of US Senator Margaret Chase Smith. I am also incredibly interested in China-I have a BA in Chinese language and culture and did a Fulbright in China in 2016.

Jeannette Cockroft is an associate professor of history and political science at Schreiner University.

NBN Episodes hosted by Jeannette:

Women's History November 11, 2023

White House Wild Child

How Alice Roosevelt Broke All the Rules and Won the Heart of America

Shelley Fraser Mickle

Hosted by Jeannette Cockroft
“I can do one of two things, I can be President of the United States or I can control Alice. I cannot possibly do both.”—Theodore Roosevelt During Theodore Roosevelt’s presidency—from …
Sex, Sexuality, and Sex Work September 18, 2023

Child Sex Abuse

Power, Profit, Perversion

Beverley Chalmers

Hosted by Jeannette Cockroft
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Children of all ages are abused in every country in the world, by members of every society, culture, religion, and socio-economic class. About 120 million children under twenty, or one …
Women's History August 6, 2023

Quiet Revolutionaries

The Married Women's Association and Family Law

Sharon Thompson

Hosted by Jeannette Cockroft
This book tells the untold story of the Married Women's Association. Unlike more conventional histories of family law, which focus on legal actors, it highlights the little-known yet indispensable work …
Women's History May 21, 2023

From Back Alley to the Border

Criminal Abortion in California, 1920-1969

Alicia Gutierrez-Romine

Hosted by Jeannette Cockroft
In From Back Alley to the Border: Criminal Abortion in California, 1920-1969 (U Nebraska Press, 2020), Alicia Gutierrez-Romine examines the history of criminal abortion in California and the role abortion providers …
Women's History March 27, 2023

Edith

The Rogue Rockefeller McCormick

Andrea Friederici Ross

Hosted by Jeannette Cockroft
Young Edith and her siblings had access to the best educators in the world, but the girls were not taught how to handle the family money; that responsibility was reserved …
Genocide Studies December 15, 2022

Betrayed

Child Sex Abuse in the Holocaust

Beverley Chalmers

Hosted by Jeannette Cockroft
Beverley Chalmers's book Betrayed: Child Sex Abuse in the Holocaust (Grosvenor House, 2020) exposes a taboo aspect of Holocaust history; the sexual abuse of children. Children were sexually assaulted in ghettos …
Women's History July 15, 2022

Birth, Sex and Abuse

Women's Voices Under Nazi Rule

Beverley Chalmers

Hosted by Jeannette Cockroft
Birth, Sex and Abuse: Women's Voices Under Nazi Rule (Grosvenor House, 2015) is a fascinating and gripping examination of birth, sex and abuse during the Nazi era. Dr Chalmers’ unique …
Women's History July 1, 2022

Institutional Sexual Abuse in the #metoo Era

Jason D. Spraitz and Kendra N. Bowen

Hosted by Jeannette Cockroft
In Institutional Sexual Abuse in the #metoo Era (Southern Illinois UP, 2021), editors Jason D. Spraitz and Kendra N. Bowen bring together the work of contributors in the fields of …
Biography May 20, 2022

You'll Never Find Us

A Memoir

Jeanne Baker Guy

Hosted by Jeannette Cockroft
In 1977, Jeanne’s German nationalist ex-husband, Klaus, tells her he’s gotten a new job and wants to take their three-year-old daughter and six-year-old son away for a long weekend …
General History February 21, 2022

Utopian Genderscapes

Rhetorics of Women's Work in the Early Industrial Age

Michelle Christine Smith

Hosted by Jeannette Cockroft
Utopian Genderscapes: Rhetorics of Women's Work in the Early Industrial Age (Southern Illinois UP, 2021) focuses on three prominent yet understudied intentional communities—Brook Farm, Harmony Society, and the Oneida Community—who …