Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchKeja L. Valens, "Culinary Colonialism, Caribbean Cookbooks, and Recipes for National Independence" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
Episode 112
Women across the Caribbean have been writing, reading, and exchanging cookbooks since at least the turn of the nineteenth century. These cookbooks ar…
1 year, 11 months ago
Jennifer S. Clark, "Producing Feminism: Television Work in the Age of Women's Liberation" (U California Press, 2024)
Episode 465
How have women resisted sexism in TV? In Producing Feminism: Television Work in the Age of Women’s Liberation (U California Press, 2024), Jennifer S.…
1 year, 11 months ago
Johanna Oksala, "Feminism, Capitalism, and Ecology" (Northwestern UP, 2023)
Episode 345
Can capitalism be made ecologically sustainable? Can it be good for women? What theoretical approaches help us to grapple with these questions in way…
1 year, 11 months ago
Anahit Behrooz, "BFFs: The Radical Potential of Female Friendship" (404 Ink, 2023)
Episode 239
Friendships can be the foundation of our earliest memories and most formative moments. But why are they often seen as secondary to romantic, or famil…
1 year, 11 months ago
Lisa M. P. Munoz, "Women in Science Now: Stories and Strategies for Achieving Equity" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Episode 238
Women working in the sciences face obstacles at virtually every step along their career paths. From subtle slights to blatant biases, deep systemic p…
2 years ago
Jessica Calarco, "Holding It Together: How Women Became America's Safety Net" (Portfolio, 2024)
Episode 464
How do unequal societies function? In Holding It Together: How Women Became America's Safety Net (Portfolio, 2024), Jesscia Calarco, an Associate Pro…
2 years ago
Jared Stearns, "Pure: The Sexual Revolutions of Marilyn Chambers" (Headpress, 2024)
Episode 189
In Pure: The Sexual Revolutions of Marilyn Chambers (Headpress, 2024), Jared Stearns tells the untold story of the world's most famous X-rated star, …
2 years ago
Gale L. Kenny, "Christian Imperial Feminism: White Protestant Women and the Consecration of Empire" (NYU Press, 2024)
Episode 267
Amidst the global instability of the early twentieth century, white Christian American women embraced the idea of an “empire of Christ” that was raci…
2 years ago
Chloe Wigston Smith, "Novels, Needleworks, and Empire: Material Entanglements in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World" (Yale UP, 2024)
Episode 91
In the eighteenth century, women’s contributions to empire took fewer official forms than those collected in state archives. Their traces were record…
2 years ago
Bronagh Ann McShane, "Irish Women in Religious Orders, 1530-1700: Suppression, Migration and Reintegration" (Boydell & Brewer, 2022)
Episode 64
Irish Women in Religious Orders, 1530-1700: Suppression, Migration and Reintegration (Boydell & Brewer, 2022) by Dr. Bronagh Ann McShane investigates…
2 years ago