Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJessica Cox, "Confinement: The Hidden History of Maternal Bodies in Nineteenth-Century Britain" (The History Press, 2023)
Episode 119
Covering a fascinating period of population growth, high infant mortality and deep social inequality, rapid medical advances and pseudoscientific qua…
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Diana Chapman Walsh, "The Claims of Life: A Memoir" (MIT Press, 2023)
Episode 73
The engaging memoir of a legendary president of Wellesley College known for authentic and open-hearted leadership, who drove innovation with power an…
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Women’s Experiences of Workplace Gender-based Violence and Harassment in Cambodia’s Construction Industry
Episode 93
In Cambodia, the government and civil society organisations have paid significant attention to Gender-based Violence and Harassment, within both the …
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Diana Leon-Boys, "Elena, Princesa of the Periphery: Disney’s Flexible Latina Girl" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
Episode 113
In the summer of 2016, Disney introduced its first Latina princess, Elena of Avalor. Elena, Princess of the Periphery: Disney’s Flexible Latina Girl …
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Cathy Yue Wang, "Snake Sisters and Ghost Daughters: Feminist Adaptations of Traditional Tales in Chinese Fantasy" (Wayne State UP, 2023)
Episode 521
Contemporary Chinese film and literature often draw on time-honored fantastical texts and tales which were founded in the milieu of patriarchy, paren…
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Miss Tibet: Representing Tibet through Beauty Pageants
Episode 217
What does the Miss Tibet beauty pageant tell us about what it means to be Tibetan in a globalized world? And what understandings of Tibetan culture d…
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Elyse Ambrose, "A Blackqueer Sexual Ethics: Embodiment, Possibility, and Living Archive" (T&T Clark, 2024)
Episode 259
In A Blackqueer Sexual Ethics: Embodiment, Possibility, and Living Archive (T&T Clark, 2024), Elyse Ambrose looks to an archive of blackqueerness as …
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Xiaofei Kang, "Enchanted Revolution: Ghosts, Shamans, and Gender Politics in Chinese Communist Propaganda, 1942-1953" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 91
China’s communist revolution has an intricate relationship with gender and religion. In Enchanted Revolution: Ghosts, Shamans, and Gender Politics in…
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Ellie Tomsett, "Stand-up Comedy and Contemporary Feminisms: Sexism, Stereotypes and Structural Inequalities" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Episode 447
How is comedy hostile to women? In Stand-up Comedy and Contemporary Feminisms: Sexism, Stereotypes and Structural Inequalities (Bloomsbury, 2023), El…
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Leah Broad, "Quartet: How Four Women Changed the Musical World" (Faber & Faber, 2023)
Episode 233
This is a story of four composers whose careers, lives and loves as women working in 20th century Britain have since been largely forgotten.
Dr Leah B…
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