Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSusan L. Carruthers, "Making Do: Britons and the Refashioning of the Postwar World" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Imagine a world in which clothing wasn't superabundant – cheap, disposable, indestructible – but perishable, threadbare and chronically scarce. Eight…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Elana Levine, "Her Stories: Daytime Soap Opera and US Television History" (Duke UP, 2020)
Episode 217
Since the debut of These Are My Children in 1949, the daytime television soap opera has been foundational to the history of the medium as an economic…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Margaret Cook Andersen, "Fertile Expectations: The Politics of Involuntary Childlessness in Twentieth-Century France" (Manchester UP, 2025)
An engaging history of motherhood, demography, and infertility in twentieth-century France, Fertile expectations: The politics of involuntary childle…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Kevin Guyan, "Rainbow Trap: Queer Lives, Classifications and the Dangers of Inclusion" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Rainbow Trap: Queer Lives, Classifications and the Dangers of Inclusion (Bloomsbury, 2025) by Dr. Kevin Guyan reveals how the fight for LGBTQ equalit…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
S1.E5. A Queer Etymology of Punk
Season 1 Episode 5
In the fifth episode of Soundscapes N.Y.C., host Ryan Purcell talks with British music critic Jon Savage about how LGBTQ resistance shaped American p…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Daanika Kamal, "Domestic Violence in Pakistan: The Legal Construction of 'Bad' and 'Mad' Women" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Pakistani women are increasingly pursuing legal avenues against acts of domestic violence. Their claims, however, are often dismissed through charact…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Enrique Fernández and Darlene Abreu-Ferreira, "Death and Gender in the Early Modern Period" (Brill, 2024)
Enrique Fernández and Darlene Abreu-Ferreira, eds. Death and Gender in Early Modern Europe (Brill, 2024). In premodern Europe, the gender identity of…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Angela Katrina Lewis-Maddox, "Disrupting Political Science: Black Women Reimagining the Discipline" (SUNY Press, 2025)
Political Scientist Angela K. Lewis-Maddox has pulled together an important and useful edited volume focusing on black women political scientists and…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
S1.E3. How Punk Broke the Binary
Season 1 Episode 3
When singer Debbie Harry helped form Blondie in 1974 she developed a unique stage persona to front the band. Though she may have appeared to fans as …
10 months, 3 weeks ago
S1.E1. Gender Crisis N.Y.C.
Season 1 Episode 1
In the premiere episode of Soundscapes N.Y.C., host Ryan Purcell talks with celebrated writer Lucy Sante about the landscape of gender logics within …
10 months, 3 weeks ago