Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchEsha Niyogi De, "Women's Transborder Cinema: Authorship, Stardom, and Filmic Labor in South Asia" (U Illinois Press, 2024)
Episode 228
Can we write women’s authorial roles into the history of industrial cinema in South Asia? How can we understand women’s creative authority and access…
1 year, 2 months ago
Gemma Hollman, "Women in the Middle Ages: Illuminating the World of Peasants, Nuns, and Queens" (Abbeville Press, 2024)
Episode 89
Medieval women ruled over kingdoms, abbeys, and households; produced stunning works of art and craft; and did the hard work that kept ordinary famili…
1 year, 3 months ago
Megan Moran, "Gender and Family Networks in Early Modern Italy" (Amsterdam UP, 2024)
Episode 95
Women from the Ricasoli and Spinelli families formed a wide variety of social networks within and beyond Florence through their letters as they negot…
1 year, 3 months ago
Kecia Ali, "The Woman Question in Islamic Studies" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 350
In The Woman Question in Islamic Studies (Princeton UP, 2024), the Introduction of which is available at the publisher's website, Kecia Ali delves in…
1 year, 3 months ago
Susan Tate Ankeny, "American Flygirl" (Citadel Press, 2024)
Episode 112
In 1931, Hazel Ying Lee, a nineteen-year-old American daughter of Chinese immigrants, sat in on a friend’s flight lesson. It changed her life. In les…
1 year, 3 months ago
Xian Wang, "Gendered Memories: An Imaginary Museum for Ding Ling and Chinese Female Revolutionary Martyrs" (U Michigan Press, 2025)
Episode 555
Gendered Memories: An Imaginary Museum for Ding Ling and Chinese Female Revolutionary Martyrs (U Michigan Press, 2025) takes readers on a journey thr…
1 year, 3 months ago
Jessica A. Brockmole, "Pink Cars and Pocketbooks: How American Women Bought Their Way Into the Driver's Seat" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2025)
Episode 111
Since the commercial introduction of the automobile, US automakers have always sought women as customers and advertised accordingly. How, then, did c…
1 year, 3 months ago
Briony Hannell, "Feminist Fandom: Media Fandom, Digital Feminisms, and Tumblr" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Episode 512
What is the connection between fan culture and feminism? In Media Fandom, Digital Feminisms, and Tumblr (Bloomsbury, 2023), Briony Hannell, a lecture…
1 year, 3 months ago
Patricia Owens, "Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Episode 239
The academic field of international relations presents its own history as largely a project of elite white men. And yet women played a prominent role…
1 year, 3 months ago
Sara Burdorff, "Maternity, Monstrosity, and Heroic (Im)mortality from Homer to Shakespeare" (Amsterdam UP, 2025)
Episode 1539
Sara Burdorff joins Jana Byars to talk about her new book, Maternity, Monstrosity and Heroic (Im)mortality from Homer to Shakespeare (Amsterdam Unive…
1 year, 3 months ago