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Back to SearchJulia Wagner, "Hester Street" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Episode 805
Joan Micklin Silver's groundbreaking debut feature film, Hester Street (1975), vividly portrays the immigrant experience through the eyes of Gitl (Ca…
11 months, 1 week ago
Carolyn J. Eichner, "Feminism's Empire" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Episode 1247
Feminism's Empire (Cornell UP, 2022) investigates the complex relationships between imperialisms and feminisms in the late nineteenth century and dem…
11 months, 1 week ago
Amanda Parrish Morgan, "Stroller" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Episode 340
Among the many things expectant parents are told to buy, none is a more visible symbol of status and parenting philosophy than a stroller. Although i…
11 months, 1 week ago
Patricia Anne Simpson, "Early Modern Women's Work: Kinship, Community, and Social Justice" (Routledge, 2025)
Episode 802
Patricia Anne Simpson joins Jana Byars to talk about Early Modern Women's Work: Kinship, Community, and Social Justice (Routledge, 2025). The book ex…
11 months, 1 week ago
Jacob Bloomfield, "Drag: A British History" (U California Press, 2023)
Episode 229
Drag: A British History (University of California Press, 2023) is a groundbreaking study of the sustained popularity and changing forms of male drag …
11 months, 1 week ago
Isabelle Guérin et. al., "The Indebted Woman: Kinship, Sexuality, and Capitalism" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Episode 800
In The Indebted Woman: Kinship, Sexuality, and Capitalism (Stanford UP, 2023), the authors Isabelle Guérin, Santosh Kumar and G. Venkatasubramanian c…
11 months, 1 week ago
Marion Turner, "The Wife of Bath: A Biography" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 143
Ever since her triumphant debut in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the Wife of Bath, arguably the first ordinary and recognisably real woman in English l…
11 months, 1 week ago
Karen Weingarten, "Pregnancy Test" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Episode 38
In the 1970s, the invention of the home pregnancy test changed what it means to be pregnant. For the first time, women could use a technology in the …
11 months, 1 week ago
Amy Hughes, "An Actor's Tale: Theater, Culture, and Everyday Life in the Nineteenth-Century United States" (U Michigan Press, 2025)
Episode 797
Harry Watkins was no one special. During a career that spanned four decades, this nineteenth-century actor yearned for fame but merely skirted the ed…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Sarah Hoiland, "Righteous Sisterhood: The Politics and Power of an All-Women's Motorcycle Club" (Temple UP, 2025)
Episode 796
A righteous sister identifies herself as a biker. She might wrench, or maintain, her own bike, and she prefers to ride with other righteous sisters. …
11 months, 2 weeks ago