Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBlanche Bendahan, "Mazaltob: A Novel" (Brandeis UP, 2024)
Episode 612
Raised in the Judería or Jewish quarter of Tetouan, Morocco, at the turn of the 20th-century, sixteen-year-old Mazaltob finds herself betrothed to Jo…
1 year, 3 months ago
Jenny Shaw, "The Women of Rendezvous: A Transatlantic Story of Family and Slavery" (UNC Press, 2024)
Episode 113
The Women of Rendezvous: A Transatlantic Story of Family and Slavery (UNC Press, 2024) is a dramatic transatlantic story about five women who birthed…
1 year, 3 months ago
Megan Moran, "Gender and Family Networks in Early Modern Italy" (Amsterdam UP, 2024)
Episode 95
Women from the Ricasoli and Spinelli families formed a wide variety of social networks within and beyond Florence through their letters as they negot…
1 year, 3 months ago
Susan Tate Ankeny, "American Flygirl" (Citadel Press, 2024)
Episode 112
In 1931, Hazel Ying Lee, a nineteen-year-old American daughter of Chinese immigrants, sat in on a friend’s flight lesson. It changed her life. In les…
1 year, 3 months ago
Xian Wang, "Gendered Memories: An Imaginary Museum for Ding Ling and Chinese Female Revolutionary Martyrs" (U Michigan Press, 2025)
Episode 555
Gendered Memories: An Imaginary Museum for Ding Ling and Chinese Female Revolutionary Martyrs (U Michigan Press, 2025) takes readers on a journey thr…
1 year, 3 months ago
Mary Frances Phillips, "Black Panther Woman: The Political and Spiritual Life of Ericka Huggins" (NYU Press, 2025)
Episode 494
In this groundbreaking biography, Mary Frances Phillips immerses readers in the life and legacy of Ericka Huggins, a revered Black Panther Party memb…
1 year, 4 months ago
Jessica A. Brockmole, "Pink Cars and Pocketbooks: How American Women Bought Their Way Into the Driver's Seat" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2025)
Episode 111
Since the commercial introduction of the automobile, US automakers have always sought women as customers and advertised accordingly. How, then, did c…
1 year, 4 months ago
Adam Pennington, "Henry VIII and the Plantagenet Poles: The Rise and Fall of a Dynasty" (Pen and Sword History, 2024)
Episode 154
The story of King Henry VIII, a man who married six times only to execute two of those wives, is part of Great Britain’s national and international i…
1 year, 4 months ago
Pamela Allen Brown, "The Diva's Gift to the Shakespearean Stage: Agency, Theatricality, and the Innamorata" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Episode 93
Pamela Allen Brown joins Jana Byars to talk about The Diva's Gift to the Shakespearean Stage (Oxford University Press, 2022), which traces the transn…
1 year, 4 months ago
Patricia Owens, "Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Episode 239
The academic field of international relations presents its own history as largely a project of elite white men. And yet women played a prominent role…
1 year, 4 months ago