Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAnna Gjika, "When Rape Goes Viral: Youth and Sexual Assault in the Digital Age" (Univ of California Press, 2023)
Episode 675
Stories of teen sexting scandals, cyberbullying, and image-based sexual abuse have become commonplace fixtures of the digital age, with many adults s…
1 year, 4 months ago
Soma Chaudhuri and Jane Ward, "The Witch Studies Reader" (Duke UP, 2025)
Episode 674
Soma Chaudhuri and Jane Ward, eds. The Witch Studies Reader. (Duke University Press, 2025). Stories about witches are by their nature stories about t…
1 year, 4 months ago
Mary A. Armstrong and Susan L. Averett, "Disparate Measures: The Intersectional Economics of Women in STEM Work" (MIT Press, 2024)
Episode 672
An exploration of workplace participation and earnings patterns for diverse women in US STEM professions that upends the myth that STEM work benefits…
1 year, 4 months ago
Carolyn Wolf-Gould et al., "A History of Transgender Medicine in the United States" (SUNY Press, 2025)
Episode 673
A History of Transgender Medicine in the United States (SUNY Press, 2025) takes an empathic approach to an embattled subject. Sweeping in scope and d…
1 year, 4 months ago
Alexandria Russell, "Black Women Legacies: Public History Sites Seen and Unseen" (University of Illinois Press, 2024)
Episode 671
From Black clubwomen to members of preservation organizations, African American women have made commemoration a central part of Black life and cultur…
1 year, 4 months ago
Kevin B. Anderson, "The Late Marx's Revolutionary Roads: Colonialism, Gender, and Indigenous Communism" (Verso, 2025)
Episode 670
Kevin Anderson’s The Late Marx's Revolutionary Roads: Colonialism, Gender, and Indigenous Communism (Verso, 2025) encourages to look again at the int…
1 year, 5 months ago
Harrison Browne and Rachel Browne, "Let Us Play: Winning the Battle for Gender Diverse Athletes" (Beacon Press, 2025)
Episode 669
The debate over the inclusion of gender diverse people in sport has become the latest battleground in the fight for basic human rights and equality. …
1 year, 5 months ago
Paola De Santo and Caterina Mongiat Farina, (eds. and trans.) Isabella Andreini, "Letters" (Iter Press, 2023)
Episode 668
Isabella Andreini, Letters, ed. and trans. Paola De Santo and Caterina Mongiat Farina. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. Iter Press of the Univ…
1 year, 5 months ago
Tamar R. Shirinian, "Survival of a Perverse Nation: Morality and Queer Possibility in Armenia" (Duke UP, 2024)
Episode 667
Tamar Shirinian is Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Her new book, Survival of a Perverse Natio…
1 year, 5 months ago
Agustín Fuentes, "Sex Is a Spectrum: The Biological Limits of the Binary" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Episode 666
Being human entails an astonishingly complex interplay of biology and culture, and while there are important differences between women and men, there…
1 year, 5 months ago