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Gender Studies December 11, 2015

Politics, Poetics, and Gender in Late Qing China

Xue Shaohui and the Era of Reform

Nanxiu Qian

Hosted by Julie Fette
Nanxiu Qian, professor at Rice University, discusses her new book Politics, Poetics, and Gender in Late Qing China: Xue Shaohui and the Era of Reform (Stanford University Press, 2015). Qian …
Gender Studies April 20, 2015

A Sisterhood of Sculptors

American Artists in Nineteenth-Century Rome

Melissa Dabakis

Hosted by Julie Fette
In A Sisterhood of Sculptors: American Artists in Nineteenth-Century Rome (Penn State University Press, 2014), Melissa Dabakis takes readers on an unexpected journey from Boston to Rome to discover multiple …
Gender Studies January 20, 2015

Women with a Thirst for Destruction

The Bad Mother in Russian Culture

Jenny Kaminer

Hosted by Julie Fette
Jenny Kaminer's new book, Women with a Thirst for Destruction: The Bad Mother in Russian Culture (Northwestern University Press, 2014) analyzes Russian myths of motherhood over time and in particular …
Gender Studies October 30, 2014

The Moroccan Women's Rights Movement

Amy Evrard

Hosted by Julie Fette
Amy Evrard's first book, The Moroccan Women's Rights Movement (Syracuse University Press, 2014), examines women's attempts to change their patriarchal society via their movement for equality and rights. At …
Gender Studies June 10, 2014

Intimate Activism

The Struggle for Sexual Rights in Postrevolutionary Nicaragua

Cymene Howe

Hosted by Julie Fette
With Intimate Activism: The Struggle for Sexual Rights in Postrevolutionary Nicaragua (Duke University Press, 2013), Cymene Howe offers an ethnography of activism. Woven into Nicaragua's political history of revolution and …
Gender Studies May 20, 2014

Life Interrupted

Trafficking into Forced Labor in the United States

Denise Brennan

Hosted by Julie Fette
Denise Brennan's second book, Life Interrupted: Trafficking into Forced Labor in the United States (Duke University Press, 2014), examines how individuals who were trafficked into forced labor go about rebuilding …
Gender Studies April 23, 2014

Are the Lips a Grave?

A Queer Feminist on the Ethics of Sex

Lynne Huffer

Hosted by Julie Fette
In her fourth book, Lynne Huffer argues for a restored queer feminism to find new ways of thinking about sex and about ethics. Are the Lips a Grave? A Queer …
Gender Studies January 21, 2014

Queens and Mistresses of Renaissance France

Kathleen Wellman

Hosted by Julie Fette
Queens and royal mistresses of the Renaissance were the Hollywood celebrities of their time, which explains their enduring magnetism for writers, artists, and the public. Historians and scholars, however, have …
Gender Studies December 11, 2013

Sex and the Office

A History of Gender, Power and Desire

Julie Berebitsky

Hosted by Julie Fette
How to research the history of sexual harassment in the office, when the term sexual harassment was only invented in 1975 and it was long tabou to even use the …