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Back to SearchRebecca Ingram, "Women's Work: How Culinary Cultures Shaped Modern Spain" (Vanderbilt UP, 2022)
Episode 42
Sandie Holguín (Professor of History and Coeditor of the Journal of Women’s History, University of Oklahoma) speaks with Rebecca Ingram (Associate Pr…
3 years, 6 months ago
Ying-Chen Peng, "Artful Subversion: Empress Dowager Cixi's Image Making" (Yale UP, 2023)
Episode 48
Ying-chen Peng’s Artful Subversion: Empress Dowager Cixi’s Image Making is a beautiful new volume on late Qing imperial art practice from Yale Univer…
3 years, 6 months ago
Amanda Wangwright, "The Golden Key: Women Artists and Gender Negotiations in Republican China (1911-1949)" (Brill, 2020)
Episode 478
The first monograph devoted to women artists of the Republican period, The Golden Key: Women Artists and Gender Negotiations in Republican China (191…
3 years, 6 months ago
Natasha Lasky, "Britney Spears's Blackout" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Episode 176
Britney Spears barely survived 2007. She divorced her husband, lost custody of her kids, went to rehab, shaved her head and assaulted a paparazzo. In…
3 years, 6 months ago
Jane Stevenson, "Women and Latin in the Early Modern Period" (Brill, 2022)
Episode 23
Jane Stevenson’s newest book, Women and Latin in the Early Modern Period (Brill, 2022), tracks the history and historiography of women Latinists in t…
3 years, 6 months ago
On Virginia Woolf’s "Mrs Dalloway"
Episode 93
In the early 20th century, Europe and North America were undergoing a radical transformation. Scientific, technological, and political changes disrup…
3 years, 6 months ago
Inna Perheentupa, "Feminist Politics in Neoconservative Russia: An Ethnography of Resistance and Resources" (Policy Press, 2022)
Episode 262
Inna Perheentupa's book Feminist Politics in Neoconservative Russia: An Ethnography of Resistance and Resources (Policy Press, 2022) is a nuanced and…
3 years, 6 months ago
Barbara E. Mattick, "Teaching in Black and White: The Sisters of St. Joseph in the American South" (Catholic U of America Press
Episode 24
Teaching in Black and White: The Sisters of St. Joseph in the American South (Catholic University of America Press, 2022) discusses the work of the S…
3 years, 6 months ago
Virginia L. Summey, "The Life of Elreta Melton Alexander: Activism within the Courts" (U Georgia Press, 2022)
Episode 45
Virginia L. Summey's book The Life of Elreta Melton Alexander: Activism within the Courts (U Georgia Press, 2022) explores the life and contributions…
3 years, 6 months ago
Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell, "Skirts: Fashioning Modern Femininity in the Twentieth Century" (St. Martin's Press, 2022)
Episode 41
While the story of women’s liberation has often been framed by the growing acceptance of pants over the twentieth century, the most important and inf…
3 years, 6 months ago