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Back to SearchElissa Bassist, "Hysterical: A Memoir" (Hachette, 2022)
Episode 293
Today I talked to Elissa Bassist about her memoir Hysterical: A Memoir (Hachette, 2022)
For two years author Elissa Bassist saw over twenty medical sp…
3 years, 6 months ago
Dawne Y. Curry, "Social Justice at Apartheid's Dawn: African Women Intellectuals and the Quest to Save the Nation" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
Episode 147
Dawne Y. Curry’s Social Justice at Apartheid’s Dawn: African Women Intellectuals and the Quest to Save the Nation (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022), which e…
3 years, 6 months ago
Sophie Lewis, "Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation" (Verso, 2022)
Episode 333
What if family were not the only place you might hope to feel safe, loved, cared for and accepted? What if we could do better than the family? We nee…
3 years, 6 months ago
Oliver Davis and Tim Dean, "Hatred of Sex" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)
Episode 187
Hatred of Sex (U Nebraska Press, 2022) links Jacques Rancière’s political philosophy of the constitutive disorder of democracy with Jean Laplanche’s…
3 years, 6 months ago
Riché Richardson, "Emancipation's Daughters: Re-Imagining Black Femininity and the National Body" (Duke UP, 2020)
Episode 334
In Emancipation's Daughters: Re-Imagining Black Femininity and the National Body (Duke UP, 2020), Riché Richardson examines iconic black women leader…
3 years, 6 months ago
Ruth Vanita, "The Dharma of Justice in the Sanskrit Epics" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Episode 222
Ruth Vanita's book The Dharma of Justice in the Sanskrit Epics (Oxford UP, 2021) shows that many characters in the Sanskrit epics - men and women of …
3 years, 6 months ago
Sisi Sung, "The Economics of Gender in China: Women, Work and the Glass Ceiling" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 215
Alongside rapid socio-economic development, China has achieved remarkable gains in gender equality on metrics like health, education, and labor force…
3 years, 6 months ago
Women In Art Magazine: A Conversation with Laureline Latour
Episode 125
Laureline Latour founded Women In Art Magazine in July 2022 from a desire to bring together artists from different countries. She studied German and …
3 years, 6 months ago
Howard Chiang, "Transtopia in the Sinophone Pacific" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Episode 45
As a broad category of identity, “transgender” has given life to a vibrant field of academic research since the 1990s. Yet the Western origins of the…
3 years, 6 months ago
Todd Meyers, "All That Was Not Her" (Duke UP, 2022)
Episode 180
While studying caregiving and chronic illness in families living in situations of economic and social insecurity in Baltimore, anthropologist Todd Me…
3 years, 6 months ago