Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchKaren Patel, "Craft as a Creative Industry" (Routledge, 2024)
Episode 477
How can we diversify the creative industries? In Craft as a Creative Industry (Routledge, 2024), Karen Patel, an Associate Professor in Media and Dir…
1 year, 9 months ago
Vanessa S. Oliveira, "Slave Trade and Abolition: Gender, Commerce, and Economic Transition in Luanda" (U Wisconsin Press, 2021)
Episode 1470
Well into the early nineteenth century, Luanda, the administrative capital of Portuguese Angola, was one of the most influential ports for the transa…
1 year, 10 months ago
Carole Ammann, "Women, Agency, and the State in Guinea: Silent Politics" (Routledge, 2020)
Episode 196
Women, Agency, and the State in Guinea: Silent Politics (Routledge, 2020) examines how women in Guinea articulate themselves politically within and o…
1 year, 10 months ago
Crystal Wilkinson, "Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks" (Clarkson Potter, 2023)
Episode 473
Poet Laureate of Kentucky Crystal Wilkinson’s food memoir, Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Coun…
1 year, 10 months ago
Aimee Louise Middlemiss, "Invisible Labours: The Reproductive Politics of Second Trimester Pregnancy Loss in England" (Berghahn Books, 2024)
Episode 130
Tracing women’s experiences of miscarriage and termination for foetal anomaly in the second trimester, before legal viability, shows how such events …
1 year, 10 months ago
Jessica Roda, "For Women and Girls Only: Reshaping Jewish Orthodoxy Through the Arts in the Digital Age" (NYU Press, 2024)
Episode 541
Mainstream portrayals of ultra-Orthodox religious women often frame their faith as oppressive: they are empowered only when they leave their communit…
1 year, 10 months ago
Alexandra Popoff, "Ayn Rand: Writing a Gospel of Success" (Yale UP, 2024)
Episode 257
Ayn Rand is a provocative and polarizing figure. Strongly pro-capitalist and anti-communist, Rand was a dogmatic preacher of her moral philosophy. Ba…
1 year, 10 months ago
Emily Cousens, "Trans Feminist Epistemologies in the US Second Wave" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
Episode 65
Why do "second wave" and "trans feminism" rarely get considered together? Challenging the idea that trans feminism is antagonistic to, or arrived aft…
1 year, 10 months ago
Race, Gender, and the 2024 Presidential Election Cycle
Episode 28
Vice President Kamala Harris is poised to become the Democratic Party’s nominee for president. The path to this nomination and the generation electio…
1 year, 10 months ago
Anne Gray Fischer, "The Streets Belong to Us: Sex, Race, and Police Power from Segregation to Gentrification" (UNC Press, 2022)
Episode 7
Anne Gray Fischer speaks about her path to and through research, including how sex workers informed her analysis of policing and state violence, the …
1 year, 10 months ago