Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchGladys L. Mitchell-Walthour, "The Politics of Survival: Black Women Social Welfare Beneficiaries in Brazil and the United States" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Episode 232
Poor Black women who benefit from social welfare are marginalized in a number of ways by interlocking systemic racism, sexism, and classism. The medi…
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Amber Knight and Joshua Miller, "Prenatal Genetic Testing, Abortion, and Disability Justice" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 18
The routinization of non-invasive prenatal genetic testing (NIPT) raises urgent questions about disability rights and reproductive justice. Supporter…
3 years ago
Tazeen M. Ali, "The Women’s Mosque of America: Authority and Community in US Islam" (NYU Press, 2022)
Episode 201
The Women’s Mosque of America (WMA), a multiracial, women-only mosque in Los Angeles, is the first of its kind in the United States. Since 2015, the …
3 years ago
Michaela Chamberlain, "Misogyny in Psychoanalysis" (Phoenix Publishing House, 2022)
Episode 209
Today I talked to Michaela Chamberlain, author of Misogyny in Psychoanalysis (Phoenix Publishing House, 2022)
Chamberlain’s book is a product of “cumu…
3 years ago
Baba Padmanji, "Yamuna's Journey" (Speaking Tiger Books, 2022)
Episode 136
In 1856, the East India Company imposed the Hindu Widow Remarriage Act, allowing widows to remarry after their husband’s death. The Act was controver…
3 years ago
Heather Augustyn, "Rude Girls: Women in 2 Tone and One Step Beyond" (2023)
Episode 158
In her latest book, Rude Girls: Women in 2 Tone and One Step Beyond (Sally Brown Publishing, 2023), Heather Augustyn explores the ska revival in the …
3 years ago
Robert F. Trager and Joslyn N. Barnhart, "The Suffragist Peace: How Women's Votes Lead to Fewer Wars" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 56
In the modern age, some parts of the world are experiencing a long peace. Nuclear weapons, capitalism and the widespread adoption of democratic insti…
3 years ago
Sarah Mellors Rodriguez, "Reproductive Realities in Modern China: Birth Control and Abortion, 1911-2021" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 60
In Reproductive Realities in Modern China: Birth Control and Abortion, 1911-2021 (Cambridge UP, 2022), assistant professor of history at Missouri Sta…
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Amanda Parrish Morgan, "Stroller" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Episode 340
Among the many things expectant parents are told to buy, none is a more visible symbol of status and parenting philosophy than a stroller. Although i…
3 years ago
After the Pill: A Conversation with Mary Eberstadt
Episode 76
The pill has rocked our society to its core: but have we fully examined all its repercussions? Influential author and essayist Mary Eberstadt thinks …
3 years ago