Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLindy McDougall, "The Perfect Vagina: Cosmetic Surgery in the Twenty-First Century" (Indiana UP, 2021)
Episode 171
Today on New Books in Gender Studies Jana Byars talks with Lindy McDougall, of Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia about her new book, The Perf…
5 years, 3 months ago
Nafiseh Ghafournia, "Faith in Freedom: Muslim Immigrant Women Experiences of Domestic Violence" (Melbourne UP, 2019)
Episode 236
In Faith in Freedom: Muslim Immigrant Women’s Experiences of Domestic Violence (Melbourne University Press, 2019), Nafiseh Ghafournia explores questi…
5 years, 3 months ago
Rowena Lennox, "Dingo Bold: The Life and Death of K'gari Dingoes" (Sydney UP, 2021)
Episode 61
Australia and dingos - we have a past and future, and not without controversy.
Dingo Bold: The Life and Death of K'gari Dingoes (Sydney UP, 2021) exa…
5 years, 4 months ago
Building Bridges Across the Seas: A Discussion of Australia-Indonesia Cooperation for the Preservation of Underwater Cultural Heritage
Episode 34
Indonesia is the world’s largest archipelagic state, its waters home to hundreds, if not thousands, of shipwrecks. As maritime neighbours with both a…
5 years, 4 months ago
Mark Mordue, "Boy On Fire: The Young Nick Cave" (HarperCollins, 2020)
Episode 103
Boy On Fire: The Young Nick Cave (HarperCollins, 2020) is the first volume of a long-awaited, near-mythical biography of Nick Cave by award-winning w…
5 years, 4 months ago
Laura Moran, "Belonging and Becoming in a Multicultural World: Refugee Youth and the Pursuit of Identity" (Rutgers UP, 2019)
Episode 106
Children and youth are front and center in the context of global mass migration and the social discord around questions of multicultural inclusion th…
5 years, 4 months ago
Geoff Lindsay and Wayne Hudson, "Australian Jurists and Christianity" (Federation Press, 2020)
Episode 59
Professor Wayne Hudson knows a lot - a whole lot - about religion and society. In Australian Jurists and Christianity (The Federation Press, 2021) Wa…
5 years, 5 months ago
Erin Stewart, "The Missing Among Us: Stories of Missing Persons and Those Left Behind" (NewSouth, 2020)
Episode 58
'To be missing, you must be missed'. Erin Stewart's 2021 book examines missing for just about every point of view.
In Australia 38,000 people are rep…
5 years, 5 months ago
Opening Australia's Multilingual Archives to Rethink Australian Identity in the Asia-Pacific
Episode 28
Australia has always been multilingual. Yet English language sources have dominated political and popular discourses over the last few centuries, ove…
5 years, 5 months ago
Henry Reynolds, "Truth Telling: History, Sovereignty and the Uluru Statement" (NewSouth, 2021)
Episode 98
What if the sovereignty of the First Nations was recognised by European international law in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries? What if the aud…
5 years, 6 months ago