Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchShu Yang, "Untamed Shrews: Negotiating New Womanhood in Modern China" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Episode 526
If you are familiar with traditional Chinese literature, you have likely come across the figure of the “shrew,” a morally threatening woman who is ei…
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Renée Bergland, "Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 96
Emily Dickinson and Charles Darwin were born at a time when the science of studying the natural world was known as natural philosophy, a pastime for …
2 years, 1 month ago
Sarah A. Bendall, "Shaping Femininity: Foundation Garments, the Body and Women in Early Modern England" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Episode 70
In sixteenth and seventeenth-century England, the female silhouette underwent a dramatic change. This very structured form, created using garments ca…
2 years, 1 month ago
Leigh Gilmore, "The #MeToo Effect: What Happens When We Believe Women" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Episode 88
The #MeToo movement inspired millions to testify to the widespread experience of sexual violence. More broadly, it shifted the deeply ingrained respo…
2 years, 1 month ago
Stitching Freedom: Embroidery and Incarceration
Episode 211
Today’s book is: Stitching Freedom: Embroidery and Incarceration (Common Threads Press, 2024), by Dr. Isabella Rosner, which considers how for centur…
2 years, 1 month ago
Julie Peakman, "Libertine London: Sex in the Eighteenth-Century Metropolis" (Reaktion, 2024)
Episode 39
Libertine London: Sex in the Eighteenth-Century Metropolis (Reaktion, 2024) by Dr. Julie Peakman investigates the sex lives of women from 1680 to 183…
2 years, 1 month ago
Jessica Cox, "Confinement: The Hidden History of Maternal Bodies in Nineteenth-Century Britain" (The History Press, 2023)
Episode 119
Covering a fascinating period of population growth, high infant mortality and deep social inequality, rapid medical advances and pseudoscientific qua…
2 years, 1 month ago
Diana Chapman Walsh, "The Claims of Life: A Memoir" (MIT Press, 2023)
Episode 73
The engaging memoir of a legendary president of Wellesley College known for authentic and open-hearted leadership, who drove innovation with power an…
2 years, 1 month ago
Tanisha Ford, "Our Secret Society: Mollie Moon and the Glamour, Money, and Power Behind the Civil Rights Movement" (Amistad Press, 2024)
Episode 456
An engrossing social history of the unsinkable Mollie Moon, the stylish founder of the National Urban League Guild and fundraiser extraordinaire who …
2 years, 2 months ago
Eve Golden, "Strictly Dynamite: The Sensational Life of Lupe Velez" (UP of Kentucky, 2023)
Episode 87
Before Salma Hayek, Eva Longoria, and Penelope Cruz, there was Lupe Velez―one of the first Latin-American stars to sweep past the xenophobia of old H…
2 years, 2 months ago