Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchNancy Woloch, "Women and the American Experience: A Concise History" (Routledge, 2024)
Episode 95
The third edition of Women and the American Experience: A Concise History (Routledge, 2024) is a comprehensive survey of U.S. women’s history from th…
1 year, 10 months ago
American Muslim Women on Campus
Season 1 Episode 4
A conversation with award-winning academic Dr. Shabana Mir discussing her book Muslim American Women on Campus: Undergraduate Social Life and Identit…
1 year, 11 months ago
Thomas Hendriks, "Rainforest Capitalism: Power and Masculinity in a Congolese Timber Concession" (Duke UP, 2021)
Episode 311
In this episode we are joined by Thomas Hendriks, an anthropologist studying capitalism and resource extraction in the Democratic Republic of Congo. …
1 year, 11 months ago
Nina Edwards, "The Virtues of Underwear: Modesty, Flamboyance, and Filth (Reaktion Books, 2024)
Episode 93
Stories are woven into the fabric of our most personal garments. From the first loincloths to the intricate layers of shapewear, the concealed world …
1 year, 11 months ago
Allison Elias, "The Rise of Corporate Feminism: Women in the American Office, 1960-1990" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Episode 92
From the 1960s through the 1990s, the most common job for women in the United States was clerical work. Even as college-educated women obtained great…
1 year, 11 months ago
Keja L. Valens, "Culinary Colonialism, Caribbean Cookbooks, and Recipes for National Independence" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
Episode 112
Women across the Caribbean have been writing, reading, and exchanging cookbooks since at least the turn of the nineteenth century. These cookbooks ar…
1 year, 11 months ago
Jennifer S. Clark, "Producing Feminism: Television Work in the Age of Women's Liberation" (U California Press, 2024)
Episode 465
How have women resisted sexism in TV? In Producing Feminism: Television Work in the Age of Women’s Liberation (U California Press, 2024), Jennifer S.…
1 year, 11 months ago
Johanna Oksala, "Feminism, Capitalism, and Ecology" (Northwestern UP, 2023)
Episode 345
Can capitalism be made ecologically sustainable? Can it be good for women? What theoretical approaches help us to grapple with these questions in way…
1 year, 11 months ago
Anahit Behrooz, "BFFs: The Radical Potential of Female Friendship" (404 Ink, 2023)
Episode 239
Friendships can be the foundation of our earliest memories and most formative moments. But why are they often seen as secondary to romantic, or famil…
1 year, 11 months ago
PhDing While Parenting
Episode 217
An increasing number of students worldwide attend graduate school while simultaneously navigating a variety of competing responsibilities in their pe…
1 year, 11 months ago