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About Elizabeth Heineman
NBN Episodes hosted by Elizabeth:
November 26, 2012
Bolshevik Sexual Forensics
I have long been an admirer of Dan Healey's work. His research has opened the world of homosexual desire and the establishment of the gay community in…
September 26, 2012
Bodies in Doubt
In August of 2009, the South African runner Caster Semenya won the 800 meter final in the world Championship leading by one minute. "Muscles bulging a…
June 29, 2012
The Female King of Colonial Nigeria
When I saw Nwando Achebe's book The Female King of Colonial Nigeria: Ahebi Ugbabe (Indiana University Press, 2011), I thought: "Really? A female king?…
June 8, 2012
Abina and the Important Men
Imagine this: a young African girl, barefoot but wearing a dress and head wrap, clenches her fists and looks you in the eye. Behind her a semi-circle …
May 23, 2012
The Gender of Memory
When I teach my course on gender, sexuality, and human rights, my students invariably want to talk about China's one-child policy. They imagine living…
April 27, 2012
Soviet Women in Combat
We're all familiar with the film cliche of the little band of soldiers who in ordinary life never would have had met, but who learn to appreciate each…
February 24, 2012
To Tell the Truth Freely
I can't remember when I first saw one of those horrible photographs of a lynching, with crowds of white people, kids included, laughing and pointing a…
February 3, 2012
The Queer Art of Failure
Tell me, who can resist a book called The Queer Art of Failure? Not me. Especially once I learned that its heroines are the likes of Ginger (of *Chick…
December 20, 2011
Women's Human Rights
Today, you can open your newspaper and find stories about mass rape in the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, death sentences for adulterous wom…
December 2, 2011
Gay Fatherhood
When anthropologist Ellen Lewin gave a preliminary report on her research on gay fathers, a member of the audience asked how she could write about suc…
November 15, 2011
The Politics of Fertility in Twentieth-Century Berlin
Many of us know that Nazi regime tried to control Germans' fertility: some people should reproduce more, according to the National Socialists, and som…
October 17, 2011
Women, War, and the Making of Bangladesh
It's almost a cliche to say that war dehumanizes those who participate in it - the organizers of violence, those who commit violent acts, and the vict…
September 7, 2011
Unnatural Selection
The students in my undergraduate class on gender, sexuality, and human rights are a pretty tough bunch. They know they're in for some unpleasant topic…