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Back to SearchBlack Women, Ivory Tower: Revealing the Lies of White Supremacy in American Education
Episode 199
Today’s book is: Black Women, Ivory Tower: Revealing the Lies of White Supremacy in American Education (Broadleaf Books, 2024), by Dr. Jasmine L. Har…
2 years, 4 months ago
Emma Bridges, "Warriors' Wives: Ancient Greek Myth and Modern Experience" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 22
Epic poetry and tragic drama provide us with some of the richest ancient Greek depictions of women who are married to soldiers. In tales of the Troja…
2 years, 4 months ago
Why are there more women in parliament than ever before, and does it matter?
Episode 8
Why do some countries do better than others in advancing women as political leaders and in promoting women’s rights? And what difference does this ma…
2 years, 4 months ago
Why are there more women in parliament than ever before, and does it matter?
Episode 8
Why do some countries do better than others in advancing women as political leaders and in promoting women’s rights? And what difference does this ma…
2 years, 4 months ago
Eviane Leidig, "The Women of the Far Right: Social Media Influencers and Online Radicalization" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Episode 247
On mainstream social media platforms, far-right women make extremism relatable. They share Instagram stories about organic foods that help pregnant w…
2 years, 4 months ago
Holly A. Baggett, "Making No Compromise: Margaret Anderson, Jane Heap, and the Little Review" (Northern Illinois UP, 2023)
Episode 80
Holly A. Baggett's Making No Compromise: Margaret Anderson, Jane Heap, and the Little Review (Northern Illinois UP, 2023) is the first book-length ac…
2 years, 4 months ago
Caitlin Killian, "Failing Moms: Social Condemnation and Criminalization of Mothers" (Polity Press, 2023)
Episode 702
The role of mother is often celebrated in the United States as the most important job in the world but Dr. Caitlin Killian argues that American mothe…
2 years, 4 months ago
Elinor Cleghorn, "Unwell Women: A Journey Through Medicine and Myth in a Man-Made World" (Dutton, 2022)
Episode 211
Medicine carries the burden of its own troubling history. Over centuries, women’s bodies have been demonised and demeaned until we feared them, felt …
2 years, 4 months ago
Genevieve Alva Clutario, "Beauty Regimes: A History of Power and Modern Empire in the Philippines, 1898-1941" (Duke UP, 2023)
Episode 232
Beauty is often dismissed as superfluous and frivolous cultural consumption. In her book, Beauty Regimes: A History of Power and Modern Empire in the…
2 years, 4 months ago
Eugenio Refini, "Staging the Soul: Allegorical Drama as Spiritual Practice in Baroque Italy" (Legenda, 2022)
Episode 26
As per William Shakespeare, ‘all the world’s a stage’. But what if the human soul was a stage too? What if the stage of the world and the stage of th…
2 years, 4 months ago