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Back to SearchGeorge Severs, "Radical Acts: HIV/AIDS Activism in Late Twentieth-Century England" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Episode 143
In Radical Acts: HIV/AIDS Activism in Late Twentieth-Century England (Bloomsbury Academic, 2024), Dr George Severs draws on activist campaign literat…
1 year, 6 months ago
Ian Miller, "Self-Esteem: An American History" (Polity Press, 2024)
Episode 230
By the end of the twentieth century, the idea of self-esteem had become enormously influential. A staggering amount of psychological research and sel…
1 year, 6 months ago
Karen M. Dunak, "Our Jackie: Public Claims on a Private Life" (NYU Press, 2024)
Episode 104
When Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis became First Lady of the United States over sixty years ago, she stepped into the public spotlight. Although Jackie i…
1 year, 6 months ago
Saadia Yacoob, "Beyond the Binary: Gender and Legal Personhood in Islamic Law" (U California Press, 2024)
Episode 344
Saadia Yacoob’s excellent new book, Beyond the Binary: Gender and Legal Personhood in Islamic Law (U of California Press 2024), makes a compelling ar…
1 year, 6 months ago
We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance
Episode 241
Today’s book is: We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance (Seal Press, 2024) by Dr. Kellie Carter Jackson.
Black resistance to white supremac…
1 year, 6 months ago
Vaughn Scribner, "Merpeople: A Human History" (Reaktion Books, 2020)
Episode 1497
Vaughn Scribner joins Jana Byars on the occasion of the paperback edition of Merpeople: A Human History (Reaktion, 2024) People have been fascinated …
1 year, 6 months ago
Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman, "What Are Children For?: On Ambivalence and Choice" (St. Martin's Press, 2024)
Episode 131
Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman's book What Are Children For?: On Ambivalence and Choice (St. Martin's Press, 2024) presents a modern argument, gro…
1 year, 6 months ago
Alison Stone, "Women on Philosophy of Art: Britain 1770-1900" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 161
Women on Philosophy of Art: Britain 1770-1900 (Oxford UP, 2024) is the first study of women's philosophies of art in long nineteenth-century Britain.…
1 year, 6 months ago
Roxani Krystalli, "Good Victims: The Political as a Feminist Question" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 22
In the latest edition of Ethnographic Marginalia, we talk with Roxani Krystalli about her new book Good Victims: The Political as a Feminist Question…
1 year, 6 months ago
Ethel Tungohan, "Care Activism: Migrant Domestic Workers, Movement-Building, and Communities of Care" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
Episode 331
Care Activism: Migrant Domestic Workers, Movement-Building, and Communities of Care (U Illinois Press, 2023) challenges the stereotype of downtrodden…
1 year, 6 months ago