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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:
September 24, 2024
The Pink Dress
Growing up in West Texas, Jane Little Botkin didn’t have designs on becoming a beauty queen. But not long after joining a pageant on a whim in college…
April 17, 2024
Strictly Dynamite
Before Salma Hayek, Eva Longoria, and Penelope Cruz, there was Lupe Velez―one of the first Latin-American stars to sweep past the xenophobia of old Ho…
March 21, 2024
Fritzie
One January day in 1923, a young boy came across the dead body of a twenty-year-old woman on a San Diego beach. When the police arrived on the scene, …
December 14, 2023
Season to Taste
Between 2000 and 2010, many contemporary US-American women writers were returning to the private space of the kitchen, writing about their experiences…
November 11, 2023
White House Wild Child
“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 …
September 18, 2023
Child Sex Abuse
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 m…
August 6, 2023
Quiet Revolutionaries
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…
May 21, 2023
From Back Alley to the Border
In From Back Alley to the Border: Criminal Abortion in California, 1920-1969 (U Nebraska Press, 2020), Alicia Gutierrez-Romine examines the history of…
March 27, 2023
Edith
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 respons…
December 15, 2022
Betrayed
Beverley Chalmers's book Betrayed: Child Sex Abuse in the Holocaust (Grosvenor House, 2020) exposes a taboo aspect of Holocaust history; the sexual ab…
July 15, 2022
Birth, Sex and Abuse
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 …
July 1, 2022
Institutional Sexual Abuse in the #metoo Era
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…
May 20, 2022
You'll Never Find Us
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-o…
February 21, 2022
Utopian Genderscapes
Utopian Genderscapes: Rhetorics of Women's Work in the Early Industrial Age (Southern Illinois UP, 2021) focuses on three prominent yet understudied i…