Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAmy 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
Shatema Threadcraft, "Labors of Resurrection: Black Women, Necromancy, and Morrisonian Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Episode 794
Western democracies are haunted. Michael Hanchard suggests that the specter of race is what haunts our democracies, but it may be more accurate to su…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Emma Heaney, "This Watery Place: Four Essays on Gestation" (Pluto Press UK, 2025)
Episode 795
What does it feel like to experience your body cleaving into two while public discussion of reproductive healthcare centers around the viability line…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Eli Clare, "Unfurl: Survivals, Sorrows, and Dreaming" (Duke UP, 2025)
Episode 793
A transcript of this interview is available [here]
A queer disabled love song to trees and beavers, tremors and dreams, Unfurl: Survivals, Sorrows, a…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Emily Callaci, "Wages for Housework: The Feminist Fight Against Unpaid Labor" (Seal Press, 2025)
Episode 792
Across the globe in the 1970s, a network of feminists distilled their struggles into a single demand: Wages for Housework! Today, it remains a provoc…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Can Feminism be African?: A Conversation with Minna Salami
Episode 791
Transcript of the interview
Minna Salami is a writer, social critic, and thought leader on feminism, knowledge production, and the aesthetics and str…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Emily Winderman, "Back-Alley Abortion: A Rhetorical History (JHU Press, 2025)
Episode 790
How did three words come to carry the weight of America's abortion debates? In Back-Alley Abortion: A Rhetorical History (JHU Press, 2025), Dr. Emily…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Nayma Qayum, "Village Ties: Women, NGOs, and Informal Institutions in Rural Bangladesh" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
Episode 196
Across the global South, poor women’s lives are embedded in their social relationships and governed not just by formal institutions – rules that exis…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Páraic Kerrigan, "LGBTQ Visibility, Media and Sexuality in Ireland" (Routledge, 2020)
Episode 3
“We know what we want, and one day, our prince will come,” says Toby, the bicycle-shorts-wearing, double ententre-making, unacknowledgely-gay neighbo…
11 months, 3 weeks ago