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Gender Studies November 26, 2012

Bolshevik Sexual Forensics

Diagnosing Disorder in the Clinic and Courtroom, 1917-1939

Dan Healey

Hosted by Elizabeth Heineman
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 revolutionary Russia and …
Gender Studies September 26, 2012

Bodies in Doubt

An American History of Intersex

Elizabeth Reis

Hosted by Elizabeth Heineman
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 and triumphant hand aloft," the …
Gender Studies June 29, 2012

The Female King of Colonial Nigeria

Ahebi Ugbabe

Nwando Achebe

Hosted by Elizabeth Heineman
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? Cool!" It turns out Ahebi Ugbabe …
Gender Studies June 8, 2012

Abina and the Important Men

A Graphic History

Trevor Getz

Hosted by Elizabeth Heineman
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 of men, some …
Gender Studies May 23, 2012

The Gender of Memory

Rural Women and China's Collective Past

Gail Hershatter

Hosted by Elizabeth Heineman
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 in a state where the government …
Gender Studies April 27, 2012

Soviet Women in Combat

A History of Violence on the Eastern Front

Anna Krylova

Hosted by Elizabeth Heineman
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 other in …
Gender Studies February 24, 2012

To Tell the Truth Freely

The Life of Ida B. Wells

Mia Bay

Hosted by Elizabeth Heineman
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 at the mangled black body …
Gender Studies February 3, 2012

The Queer Art of Failure

Judith Halberstam

Hosted by Elizabeth Heineman
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 *Chicken Run*) …
Gender Studies December 20, 2011

Women's Human Rights

Seeking Gender Justice in a Globalizing Age

Niamh Reilly

Hosted by Elizabeth Heineman
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 women in Iran, or Central …
Gender Studies December 2, 2011

Gay Fatherhood

Narratives of Family and Citizenship in America

Ellen Lewin

Hosted by Elizabeth Heineman
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 such "yucky people." Yes, that's …
Gender Studies November 15, 2011

The Politics of Fertility in Twentieth-Century Berlin

Annette Timm

Hosted by Elizabeth Heineman
Many of us know that Nazi regime tried to control Germans' fertility: some people should reproduce more, according to the National Socialists, and some should reproduce less or not at …
Gender Studies October 17, 2011

Women, War, and the Making of Bangladesh

Remembering 1971

Yasmin Saikia

Hosted by Elizabeth Heineman
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 victims of violence. In …
Gender Studies September 7, 2011

Unnatural Selection

Choosing Boys over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men

Mara Hvistendahl

Hosted by Elizabeth Heineman
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 topics: sex trafficking, domestic violence, mass …