Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDan Archer, "Voices from Nepal: Uncovering Human Trafficking through Comics Journalism" (U Toronto Press, 2024)
Episode 24
How can we better protect survivors? How can we learn from their stories without causing further harm?
With a pen in one hand and watercolours in the …
1 year, 3 months ago
Wilton S. Wright, "Rewriting Resistance to Social Justice Pedagogies" (Lexington Books, 2024)
Episode 79
Resistance to feminist, queer, and antiracist pedagogies can take many forms in the composition class: silence during class discussion; tepid, bland …
1 year, 3 months ago
Matthew McCormack, "Shoes and the Georgian Man" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Episode 151
Shoes are everyday objects but they are loaded with meaning. Shoes and the Georgian Man (Bloomsbury, 2025) by Dr. Matthew McCormack reveals how shoes…
1 year, 4 months ago
Ryan Tan Wander, "Settler Tenses: Queer Time and Literatures of the American West" (Texas Tech UP, 2024)
Episode 179
In today’s cultural and political climate of relative LGBTQ+ inclusion, Settler Tenses: Queer Time and Literatures of the American West (Texas Tech U…
1 year, 4 months ago
Danielle Bayard Jackson, "Fighting for Our Friendships: The Science and Art of Conflict and Connection in Women's Relationships" (Hachette, 2024)
Episode 401
Why are women's friendships so deep yet so fragile? Friendship coach and educator Danielle Bayard Jackson unpacks the latest research about women's c…
1 year, 4 months ago
Carol Cleaveland and Michele Waslin. "Private Violence: Latin American Women and the Struggle for Asylum" (NYU Press, 2024)
Episode 229
How the US asylum process fails to protect against claims of gender-based violence.
Through eyewitness accounts of closed-court proceedings and powerf…
1 year, 4 months ago
Monica A. Hershberger, "Women in American Operas of The 1950s: Undoing Gendered Archetypes" (U Rochester Press, 2023)
Episode 265
The 1950s looks placid from the outside, but underneath that calm post-war exterior roiled the intellectual and activist beginnings of the political …
1 year, 4 months ago
Eva Payne, "Empire of Purity: The History of Americans' Global War on Prostitution" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 11
Between the 1870s and 1930s, American social reformers, working closely with the US government, transformed sexual vice into an international politic…
1 year, 4 months ago
Amrita Narayanan, "Women's Sexuality and Modern India: In a Rapture of Distress" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 250
Amrita Narayanan is a practicing Clinical Psychologist (Psy.D. 2007) and Psychoanalyst (Indian Psychoanalytic Society, 2019). She is the author of Wo…
1 year, 4 months ago
Emily Murdoch Perkins, "Regina: The Queens Who Could Have Been" (The History Press, 2024)
Episode 8
What queens would England have had if firstborn daughters, not firstborn sons, had inherited the throne? In Regina: The Queens Who Could Have Been (T…
1 year, 4 months ago