About Patrícia Marcos

NBN Episodes hosted by Patrícia:

Jessica Hinchy, "Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India: The Hijra, c.1850-1900" (Cambridge UP, 2019)

January 5, 2024

Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India

Jessica Hinchy
Hosted by Patrícia Marcos

Until Jessica Hinchy’s latest book, Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India: The Hijra, c.1850-1900 (Cambridge University Press, 2019), there…

Cassia Roth, "A Miscarriage of Justice: Women’s Reproductive Lives and the Law in Early Twentieth-Century Brazil" (Stanford UP, 2020)

April 10, 2020

A Miscarriage of Justice

Cassia Roth
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While the negotiation of ideals of nationhood and citizenship have traditionally fallen under the purview of landmark court decisions, state reforms, …

Rachel Louise Moran, "Governing Bodies: American Politics and the Shaping of the Modern Physique" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2018)

January 14, 2020

Governing Bodies

Rachel Louise Moran
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How did the modern, American body come into being? According to Rachel Louise Moran this is a story to be told through the lens of the advisory state.…

Okezi Otovo, "Progressive Mothers, Better Babies: Race, Public Health, and the State in Brazil, 1850-1945" (U Texas Press, 2016)

July 30, 2019

Progressive Mothers, Better Babies

Okezi Otovo
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Okezi Otovo’s Progressive Mothers, Better Babies: Race, Public Health, and the State in Brazil, 1850-1945 (U Texas Press, 2016) explores the intersect…

Tita Chico, "The Experimental Imagination: Literary Knowledge and Science in the British Enlightenment" (Stanford UP, 2018)

July 22, 2019

The Experimental Imagination

Tita Chico
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Can science be seductive? According to Tita Chico, the answer is a resounding yes. In her new book, The Experimental Imagination: Literary Knowledge a…

Yuko Miki, "Frontiers of Citizenship: A Black and Indigenous History of Postcolonial Brazil" (Cambridge UP, 2018)

July 5, 2019

Frontiers of Citizenship

Yuko Miki
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Yuko Miki’s book, Frontiers of Citizenship: A Black and Indigenous History of Postcolonial Brazil (Cambridge University Press, 2018), was the recent r…

Greta LaFleur, "The Natural History of Sexuality in Early America" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2018)

July 4, 2019

The Natural History of Sexuality in Early America

Greta LaFleur
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In The Natural History of Sexuality in Early America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018), Greta LaFleur invites readers to consider a different bod…