Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchKaren Bartlett, "Escape from Kabul: The Afghan Women Judges Who Fled the Taliban and Those They Left Behind" (New Press, 2025)
Episode 735
In this episode, New Books Network Host Nina Bo Wagner speaks with Karen Bartlett about The Escape From Kabul: A True Story of Sisterhood and Defianc…
1 year, 2 months ago
Kathleen B. Casey, "The Things She Carried: A Cultural History of the Purse in America" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Episode 734
For generations of Americans, the purse has been an essential and highly adaptable object, used to achieve a host of social, cultural, and political …
1 year, 2 months ago
Lucy Delap, "Feminisms: A Global History" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
Episode 743
Today Jana Byars talks to Lucy Delap, Reader in Modern British and Gender History at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge University, about her new book…
1 year, 2 months ago
Cordelia Fine, "Patriarchy Inc.: What We Get Wrong About Gender Equality – and Why Men Still Win at Work" (W.W. Norton, 2025)
Episode 733
Inequality in the workplace impacts all areas of our lives, from health and self-development to economic security and family life. But, despite the w…
1 year, 2 months ago
Diana Souhami, "No Modernism Without Lesbians" (Head of Zeus Book, 2020)
Episode 165
Diana Souhami talks about her new book No Modernism Without Lesbians, out 2020 with Head of Zeus books.
A Sunday Times Book of the Year 2020. This is …
1 year, 2 months ago
Patrice D. Douglass, "Engendering Blackness: Slavery and the Ontology of Sexual Violence" (Stanford UP, 2025)
Episode 730
In Engendering Blackness: Slavery and the Ontology of Sexual Violence (Stanford UP, 2025) Patrice D. Douglass interrogates the relationship between s…
1 year, 2 months ago
Vanessa Diaz, "Manufacturing Celebrity: Latino Paparazzi and Women Reporters in Hollywood" (Duke UP, 2020)
Episode 83
While Hollywood’s images present a veneer of fantasy for some, the work to create such images is far from escapism. In Manufacturing Celebrity: Latin…
1 year, 2 months ago
Aaron Hammes, "TransGenre" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Episode 728
TransGenre (Cambridge UP, 2025) is a reconsideration of genre theory in long-form fiction through transgender minor literature in the US and Canada. …
1 year, 2 months ago
Lucia Sorbera, "Biography of a Revolution: The Feminist Roots of Human Rights in Egypt" (U of California Press, 2025)
Episode 727
It is not Egypt's 2011 revolution that opened a space for women's and feminist activism, but—as Biography of a Revolution: The Feminist Roots of Huma…
1 year, 2 months ago
Barbara Vinick and Shulamit Reinharz, "100 Jewish Brides: Stories from Around the World" (Indiana UP, 2024)
Episode 724
100 Jewish Brides: Stories from Around the World (Indiana UP, 2024), is the result of a collaboration between two sociologists, Professor Shulamit Re…
1 year, 2 months ago