Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJoanne Rosenthal, "Sex: Jewish Positions" (Hirmer Verlag, 2024)
Episode 564
Freelance curator Joanne Rosenthal joins Jana Byars to talk about Sex: Jewish Positions (Hirmer, 2024) and its concomitant exhibition at the Jewish m…
1 year, 6 months ago
Anne M. Whitesell, "Living Off the Government?: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Welfare" (NYU Press, 2024)
Episode 193
Who deserves public assistance from the government? This age-old question has been revived by policymakers, pundits, and activists following the mass…
1 year, 6 months ago
Jonathan A. Allan, "Uncut: A Cultural Analysis of the Foreskin" (U Regina Press, 2024)
Episode 244
The “uncut” penis is viewed by some as attractive or erotic, and by others as ugly or undesirable. Secular parents of male infants worry about whethe…
1 year, 6 months ago
Angel Daniel Matos, "The Reparative Impulse of Queer Young Adult Literature" (Routledge, 2024)
Episode 320
The Reparative Impulse of Queer Young Adult Literature (Routledge, 2024) is a provocative meditation on emotion, mood, history, and futurism in the c…
1 year, 6 months ago
Alistaire Tallent, "Fictions of Pleasure: The Putain Memoirs of Prerevolutionary France" (U Delaware Press, 2023)
Episode 85
Alistaire Tallent joins Jana Byars to talk about her new book, Fictions of Pleasure: The Putain Memoirs of Prerevolutionary France (University of Del…
1 year, 6 months ago
Sabina Faiz Rashid, "Poverty, Gender and Health in the Slums of Bangladesh: Children of Crows" (Routledge, 2024)
Episode 293
Poverty, Gender and Health in the Slums of Bangladesh: Children of Crows (Routledge, 2024) provides comprehensive ethnographic accounts that depict t…
1 year, 6 months ago
Jia Tan, "Digital Masquerade: Feminist Rights and Queer Media in China" (NYU Press, 2023)
Episode 69
Digital Masquerade: Feminist Rights and Queer Media in China (NYU Press, 2023) offers a trenchant and singular analysis of the convergence of digital…
1 year, 6 months ago
Eve Dunbar, "Monstrous Work and Radical Satisfaction: Black Women Writing Under Segregation" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
Episode 480
Monstrous Work and Radical Satisfaction: Black Women Writing Under Segregation (U Minnesota Press, 2024) offers new and insightful readings of Africa…
1 year, 7 months ago
Margarette Lincoln, "Perfection: 400 Years of Women's Quest for Beauty" (Yale UP, 2024)
Episode 103
A colourful account of women's health, beauty, and cosmetic aids, from stays and corsets to today's viral trends.
Victorian women ate arsenic to achie…
1 year, 7 months ago
Arash Azizi, "What Iranians Want: Women, Life, Freedom" (Oneworld, 2024)
Episode 1
On Tuesday 13 September 2022, all Mahsa Amini has planned is a day shopping in Tehran. Her birthday is next week. But she is arrested as she comes ou…
1 year, 7 months ago