Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchYue Du, "State and Family in China" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 62
In Imperial China, the idea of filial piety not only shaped family relations but was also the official ideology by which Qing China was governed. In …
2 years, 11 months ago
Anna Piela, "Wearing the Niqab: Muslim Women in the UK and the US" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Episode 306
In recent years the niqab has emerged as one of the most ubiquitous symbols of everything that is perceived to be wrong with Islam: barbarity, backwa…
3 years ago
Tanvi Srivastava, trans., "The War Diary of Asha-san: From Tokyo to Netaji's Indian National Army" (Harper Collins, 2022)
Episode 139
On a trip many years ago to New Delhi, I was struck by an official memorial to Subhas Chandra Bose, the wartime leader of the Indian National Army, t…
3 years ago
Judith Hicks Stiehm, "Janet Reno: A Life" (UP of Florida, 2023)
Episode 240
In this first full biography of former United States attorney general Janet Reno (1938–2016), Judith Hicks Stiehm describes the independent and uncon…
3 years ago
Alison S. Fell, "Warrior Women: The Cultural Politics of Armed Women, c.1850-1945" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 58
Alison S. Fell's book Warrior Women: The Cultural Politics of Armed Women, c.1850-1945 (Cambridge UP, 2023) examines women warriors as vehicles of mo…
3 years ago
Payal Arora et al., "Feminist Futures of Work: Reimagining Labour in the Digital Economy" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)
Episode 294
The future of work is at the centre of debates related to the emerging digital society. Concerns range from the inclusion, equity, and dignity of tho…
3 years ago
Jacqueline Beatty, "In Dependence: Women and the Patriarchal State in Revolutionary America" (NYU Press, 2023)
Episode 57
Patriarchal forces of law, finance, and social custom restricted women’s rights and agency in revolutionary America. Yet women in this period exploit…
3 years ago
Randy Grigsby, "This Labyrinth of Darkness and Light: Henrietta Szold, the Rescue of Children from Hitler's Europe and Her Palestine Experience" (Vallentine Mitchell, 2022)
Episode 53
Drawing on Henrietta Szold's letters and diary, extensive research, and historical sources of that time in Germany and Palestine, the book is a power…
3 years ago
Athene Donald, "Not Just for the Boys: Why We Need More Women in Science" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 127
Why are girls discouraged from doing science? Why do so many promising women leave science in early and mid-career? Why do women not prosper in the s…
3 years ago
Feminism Against Progress: A Conversation with Mary Harrington
Episode 77
Is feminism compatible with progress? Reactionary feminist Mary Harrington thinks not. In this interview, she discusses the history of feminism, her …
3 years ago