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Back to SearchLesley Nicole Braun, "Congo's Dancers: Women and Work in Kinshasa" (U Wisconsin Press, 2023)
Episode 172
Today I spoke with Lesley Nicole Braun to talk about her new book on Congo's dancers. Dance music plays a central role in the cultural, social, relig…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Brooke Kroeger, "Undaunted: How Women Changed American Journalism" (Knopf, 2023)
Episode 63
Undaunted: How Women Changed American Journalism (Knopf, 2023) is a representative history of the American women who surmounted every impediment put …
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Brooke Kroeger, "Undaunted: How Women Changed American Journalism" (Knopf, 2023)
Episode 63
Undaunted: How Women Changed American Journalism (Knopf, 2023) is a representative history of the American women who surmounted every impediment put …
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Megan Bryson and Kevin Buckelew eds., "Buddhist Masculinities" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Episode 109
While early Buddhists hailed their religion's founder for opening a path to enlightenment, they also exalted him as the paragon of masculinity. Accor…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Alison Stone, "Women Philosophers in Nineteenth-Century Britain" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 79
Many women wrote philosophy in nineteenth-century Britain, and they wrote across the full range of philosophical topics. Yet these important women th…
4 months, 3 weeks 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…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Jack Z. Bratich, "On Microfascism: Gender, War, and Death" (Common Notions, 2022)
In On Microfascism: Gender, War, and Death (Common Notions, 2022) Dr. Jack Z. Bratich explores the cultural elements in American society that support…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Ruby Oram, "Home Work: Gender, Child Labor, and Education for Girls in Urban America, 1870-1930" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
In Home Work: Gender, Child Labor, and Education for Girls in Urban America, 1870-1930 (U Chicago Press, 2025) historian Ruby Oram tells the story …
4 months, 4 weeks ago
Robin F. Hansen, "Prison Born: Incarceration and Motherhood in the Colonial Shadow" (U Regina Press, 2024)
With rigorous scrutiny and deep care, Robin Hansen's Prison Born: Incarceration and Motherhood in the Colonial Shadow (U Regina Press, 2024) offers c…
4 months, 4 weeks ago
Liberation & the Literature of the Women’s Movement with Bess Wohl and Honor Moore
Wednesday, December 17—“The best play I’ve seen this season,” says New York Magazine’s Sara Holdren about Liberation, Bess Wohl’s moving exploration …
5 months ago