Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchEllie 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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Naomi Cahn, et al., "Fair Shake: Women and the Fight to Build a Just Economy" (Simon & Schuster, 2023)
Episode 147
A stirring, comprehensive look at the state of women in the workforce--why women's progress has stalled, how our economy fosters unproductive competi…
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Erin L. Durban, "The Sexual Politics of Empire: Postcolonial Homophobia in Haiti" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
Episode 108
Evangelical Christians and members of the global LGBTQI human rights movement have vied for influence in Haiti since the 2010 earthquake. Each side a…
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Rina Verma Williams, "Marginalized, Mobilized, Incorporated: Women and Religious Nationalism in Indian Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 223
How has the participation of women in Hindu nationalist politics in India changed over time? More broadly, what has their changing participation mean…
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William W. Parsons and Regina M. Matheson, "The Pink Wave: Women Running for Office After Trump" (NYU Press, 2023)
Episode 254
How and why the election of Donald Trump inspired more women to enter politics.
Donald Trump's victory over Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential e…
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Maggie Hennefeld, "Death by Laughter: Female Hysteria and Early Cinema" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Episode 86
Can you really die from laughing too hard? Between 1870 and 1920, hundreds of women suffered such a fate—or so a slew of sensationalist obituaries wo…
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Laura Menin, "Quest for Love in Central Morocco: Young Women and the Dynamics of Intimate Lives" (Syracuse UP, 2024)
Episode 344
Following the 2011 wave of revolutions and protests in North Africa and the Middle East, new discussions of individual freedoms emerged in the Morocc…
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Heather Akou, "On the Job: A History of American Work Uniforms" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Episode 253
Through a variety of archival documents, artefacts, illustrations, and references to primary and secondary literature, On the Job: A History of Ameri…
2 years, 2 months ago
Fran Martin, "Dreams of Flight: The Lives of Chinese Women Students in the West" (Duke UP, 2021)
Episode 290
Dreams of Flight: The Lives of Chinese Women Students in the West (Duke UP, 2021) explores the significance of transnational educational mobility in …
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