Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAnna Bonnell Freidin, "Birthing Romans: Childbearing and Its Risks in Imperial Rome" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 30
Across the vast expanse of the Roman Empire, anxieties about childbirth tied individuals to one another, to the highest levels of imperial politics, …
1 year, 10 months ago
Nadirah Simmons, "First Things First: Hip-Hop Ladies Who Changed the Game" (Twelve, 2024)
Episode 472
This enlightening book reframes the history of hip-hop—and this time, women are given credit for all their trailblazing achievements that have left a…
1 year, 10 months ago
Janine P. Holc, "The Weavers of Trautenau: Jewish Female Forced Labor in the Holocaust" (Brandeis UP, 2023)
Episode 539
Beginning in late 1940, over three thousand Jewish girls and young women were forced from their family homes in Sosnowiec, Poland, and its surroundin…
1 year, 10 months ago
Yiman Wang, "To Be an Actress: Labor and Performance in Anna May Wong's Cross-Media World" (U California Press, 2024)
Episode 87
Between 1919 and 1961, pioneering Chinese American actress Anna May Wong established an enduring legacy that encompassed cinema, theatre, radio, and …
1 year, 10 months ago
Susan Stryker, "When Monsters Speak: A Susan Stryker Reader" (Duke UP, 2024)
Episode 64
Susan Stryker is a foundational figure in trans studies. When Monsters Speak: A Susan Stryker Reader (Duke UP, 2024) showcases the development of Str…
1 year, 10 months ago
Iman Mersal, "Traces of Enayat" (Transit Books, 2023)
Episode 258
Traces of Enayat (Transit Books, 2023) is a work of creative nonfiction tracing the mysterious life and erasure of Egyptian literature’s tragic heroi…
1 year, 10 months ago
Tisha Brooks, "Spirit Deep: Recovering the Sacred in Black Women’s Travel" (U Virginia Press, 2023)
Episode 470
What would it mean for American and African American literary studies if readers took the spirituality and travel of Black women seriously?
With Spir…
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Jane-Marie Collins, "Emancipatory Narratives & Enslaved Motherhood: Bahia, Brazil, 1830-1888" (Liverpool UP, 2023)
Episode 469
Jane-Marie Collins's book Emancipatory Narratives & Enslaved Motherhood: Bahia, Brazil, 1830-1888 (Liverpool UP, 2023) examines three major currents …
1 year, 10 months ago
Justin B. Stein, "Alternate Currents: Reiki’s Circulation in the Twentieth-Century North Pacific" (U Hawaii Press, 2023)
Episode 159
In the second half of the twentieth century, Reiki went from an obscure therapy practiced by a few thousand Japanese and Japanese Americans to a glob…
1 year, 10 months ago
Daisy Dunn, "The Missing Thread: How Women Shaped the Course of Ancient History" (Viking, 2024)
Episode 99
Around four thousand years ago, the mysterious Minoans sculpted statues of topless women with snakes slithering on their arms. Over one thousand year…
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