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Back to SearchDeirdre F. Brady, "Literary Coteries and the Irish Women Writers' Club (1933-1958)" (Liverpool UP, 2021)
In this interview, Dr. Deirdre Brady discusses her recent book, Literary Coteries and the Irish Women Writers’ Club (1933-1958) (Liverpool UP, 2021).…
9 months ago
Jumping Through Hoops: Performing Gender in the 19th Century Circus
Episode 286
Jumping Through Hoops: Performing Gender in the 19th Century Circus, by Betsy Golden Kellem, reveals the hidden history of early female circus perfor…
9 months, 1 week ago
Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson, "Claire McCardell: The Designer Who Set Women Free" (Simon & Schuster, 2025)
Claire McCardell forever changed fashion—and most importantly, the lives of women. She shattered cultural norms around women’s clothes, and today muc…
9 months, 1 week ago
Nicole Nehrig, "With Her Own Hands: Women Weaving Their Stories" (W.W. Norton, 2025)
In this first of a series of episodes on healing, we speak with Nicole Nehrig, whose book With Her Own Hands: Women Weaving Their Stories (W.W. Nort…
9 months, 1 week ago
Steven Veerapen, "Witches: A King's Obsession" (Birlin, 2025)
Witches – whether broomstick-riding spell-casters or Wiccan earth-worshippers – have been culturally relevant for centuries. For centuries, too, beli…
9 months, 1 week ago
Cordelia Fine, "Patriarchy Inc.: What We Get Wrong About Gender Equality – and Why Men Still Win at Work" (W.W. Norton, 2025)
Inequality in the workplace impacts all areas of our lives, from health and self-development to economic security and family life. But, despite the w…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Diana Souhami, "No Modernism Without Lesbians" (Head of Zeus Book, 2020)
Episode 165
Diana Souhami talks about her new book No Modernism Without Lesbians, out 2020 with Head of Zeus books.
A Sunday Times Book of the Year 2020. This is …
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Lucy Delap, "Feminisms: A Global History" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
Episode 743
Today Jana Byars talks to Lucy Delap, Reader in Modern British and Gender History at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge University, about her new book…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Kathleen B. Casey, "The Things She Carried: A Cultural History of the Purse in America" (Oxford UP, 2025)
For generations of Americans, the purse has been an essential and highly adaptable object, used to achieve a host of social, cultural, and political …
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Amy Von Lintel and Bonnie Roos, "Three Women Artists: Expanding Abstract Expressionism in the American West" (Texas A&M UP, 2022)
Episode 113
Offering a fresh perspective on the influence of the American southwest—and particularly West Texas—on the New York art world of the 1950s, Three Wom…
9 months, 2 weeks ago