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America & Democracy Ep. 3: Carol A. Stabile on the Red Scare
Episode 77
In this series of interviews from The MIT Press Podcast, we'll be drawing on the research of various authors to reflect on some of the issues shaping…
3 years, 1 month ago
Catherine Russell, "The Cinema of Barbara Stanwyck: Twenty-Six Short Essays on a Working Star" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
Episode 166
From The Lady Eve, to The Big Valley, Barbara Stanwyck played parts that showcased her multidimensional talents but also illustrated the limits impos…
3 years, 1 month ago
Elaine Farrell and Leanne McCormick, "Bad Bridget: Crime, Mayhem and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Women" (Sandycove, 2023)
Episode 44
Child abandonment, theft, kidnapping, prostitution, bigamy, and murder! Bad Bridget is a must-read examination of crime and Irish emigrant women in t…
3 years, 1 month ago
Victoria Bateman, "Naked Feminism: Breaking the Cult of Female Modesty" (Polity Press, 2023)
Episode 169
Is it right that, despite the promises of feminism, women’s bodies remain at the mercy of state, society and religion? Should a scantily clad woman, …
3 years, 1 month ago
Kate Clancy, "Period: The Real Story of Menstruation" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 63
Menstruation is something half the world does for a week at a time, for months and years on end, yet it remains largely misunderstood. Scientists onc…
3 years, 1 month ago
Kim E. Nielsen, "Money, Marriage, and Madness: The Life of Anna Ott" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
Episode 16
Anna Ott died in the Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane in 1893. She had enjoyed status and financial success first as a physician's wife and th…
3 years, 1 month ago
Naomi McDougall Jones, "The Wrong Kind of Women: Inside Our Revolution to Dismantle the Gods of Hollywood" (Beacon, 2020)
Episode 165
The Wrong Kind of Women: Inside Our Revolution to Dismantle the Gods of Hollywood (Beacon, 2020) by Naomi McDougall Jones is a brutally honest look a…
3 years, 1 month ago
The Everyday Feminist with Latanya Mapp Frett
Episode 120
Equality between the sexes has long been recognized as a fundamental moral and legal objective of the UN, and more recently of many governments and i…
3 years, 1 month ago
Leah Phillips, "Female Heroes in Young Adult Fantasy Fiction: Reframing Myths of Adolescent Girlhood" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Episode 222
The heroic romance is one of the West's most enduring narratives, found everywhere, from religion and myth to blockbuster films and young adult liter…
3 years, 1 month ago
Timothy Sandefur, "Freedom's Furies: How Isabel Paterson, Rose Wilder Lane, and Ayn Rand Found Freedom in an Age of Darkness" (Cato Institute, 2022)
Episode 222
In 1943, three books appeared that changed American politics forever: Isabel Paterson's The God of the Machine, Rose Wilder Lane's The Discovery of F…
3 years, 1 month ago