Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchContextualizing the Iranian Protests: The Role of Women in Leading the Change
Episode 109
Western sanctions have slowed Iran's economy, causing protests against the absence of freedom and opportunities -- teachers their lack of pay; farmer…
3 years, 4 months ago
Wolfgang P. Müller, "Marriage Litigation in the Western Church, 1215-1517" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 23
Wolfgang Muller, Marriage Litigation in the Western Church, 1215- 1517 (Cambridge University Press, 2021). From the establishment of a coherent doctr…
3 years, 4 months ago
Emily A. Owens, "Consent in the Presence of Force: Sexual Violence and Black Women's Survival in Antebellum New Orleans" (UNC Press, 2023)
Episode 350
In histories of enslavement and in Black women's history, coercion looms large in any discussion of sex and sexuality. At a time when sexual violence…
3 years, 4 months ago
We Shall Overcome: Sister Thea Bowman and the Black Catholic Experience
Season 1 Episode 21
Though we are all one—“there is neither Jew nor Greek,” St. Paul wrote to the Galatians—each of us brings a particular heritage to the mosaic of God’…
3 years, 4 months ago
Marion Turner, "The Wife of Bath: A Biography" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 55
Ever since her triumphant debut in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the Wife of Bath, arguably the first ordinary and recognisably real woman in English l…
3 years, 4 months ago
Lisa Biggs, "The Healing Stage: Black Women, Incarceration, and the Art of Transformation" (Ohio State UP, 2022)
Episode 10
Over the last five decades, Black women have been one of the fastest-growing segments of the global prison population, thanks to changes in policies …
3 years, 5 months ago
Marlene Schäfers, "Voices That Matter: Kurdish Women at the Limits of Representation in Contemporary Turkey" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Episode 208
“Raise your voice!” and “Speak up!” are familiar refrains that assume, all too easily, that gaining voice will lead to empowerment, healing, and incl…
3 years, 5 months ago
Holy Paradox and St. Teresa of Ávila: Mysticism in Sixteenth Century Spain
Season 1 Episode 18
Carlos Eire, author of The Life of Saint Teresa of Ávila: A Biography (2019) and professor of medieval and early modern European history and religion…
3 years, 5 months ago
Benjamin Hegarty, "The Made-Up State: Technology, Trans Femininity, and Citizenship in Indonesia" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Episode 118
In The Made-Up State: Technology, Trans Femininity, and Citizenship in Indonesia (Cornell UP, 2022), Benjamin Hegarty contends that warias, one of In…
3 years, 5 months ago
Donna Stein, "Archaeology of Metaphor: The Art of Gilah Yelin Hirsch" (Skira, 2022)
Episode 130
Characterized by a search for meaning, Hirsch’s oeuvre connects psychological, scientific, and philosophical implications of form, bringing together …
3 years, 5 months ago