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Emotions of LGBT Rights
Episode 902
In this episode of High Theory, Saronik talks to Senthorun Raj about the Emotions of LGBT Rights. Emotions from disgust and fear to love and joy shap…
7 months ago
Hilary Matfess, "After Liberation: Women and the Politics of Expectations in Rebel-to-Party Transitions" (Stanford UP, 2026)
Episode 901
War offers opportunities for women to liberate their communities and build a better life for themselves. When women join rebel groups, they often tak…
7 months ago
Susan Goodier and Karen Pastorello, "Women Will Vote: Winning Suffrage in New York State" (Cornell UP, 2017)
Episode 900
The book, Women Will Vote: Winning Suffrage in New York State (Cornell UP, 2017) is Susan Goodier and Karen Pastorello’s efforts to account for the …
7 months ago
Isabelle Held, "Atomic Bombshells: How Plastics Shaped Postwar Bodies" (Duke UP, 2026)
Episode 899
Bullet bras, bazookas, bombshells, bikinis. In Atomic Bombshells: How Plastics Shaped Postwar Bodies (Duke UP, 2026), Dr. Isabelle Held challenges th…
7 months ago
The Club: Where American Artists Found Refuge in Belle Epoque Paris
Episode 898
In Belle Époque Paris, the Eiffel Tower was newly built, France was experiencing remarkable political stability, and American women were painting the…
7 months, 1 week ago
Lee Ann S. Wang, "The Violence of Protection: Policing, Immigration Law, and Asian American Women" (Duke UP, 2026)
Episode 897
The Violence of Protection: Policing, Immigration Law, and Asian American Women (Duke UP, 2026) examines U.S. laws designed to rescue immigrant survi…
7 months, 1 week ago
Derek Krueger "Monastic Desires: Homoeroticism, Homophobia, and the Love of God in Medieval Constantinople" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Episode 896
Derek Krueger Monastic Desires: Homoeroticism, Homophobia, and Love of God in Medieval Constantinople (Cambridge UP, 2026)
The Byzantine Abbot Symeon…
7 months, 1 week ago
Megan Peiser, "British Women Novelists and the Review Periodical" (JHU Press, 2026)
Episode 895
At the turn of the nineteenth century, British women novelists were publishing more fiction than their male counterparts, yet their place in literary…
7 months, 1 week ago
Tulasi Srinivas, "The Goddess in the Mirror: An Anthropology of Beauty" (Duke UP, 2025)
Episode 894
In The Goddess in the Mirror: An Anthropology of Beauty (Duke UP, 2025), Tulasi Srinivas offers a pathbreaking ethnography of contemporary Indian be…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
How Authoritarians Exploit Gender
Episode 892
Gender is becoming a central battleground in contemporary authoritarian politics, but how do autocrats manipulate these debates to their own advantag…
7 months, 2 weeks ago