Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDiana W. Anselmo, "A Queer Way of Feeling: Girl Fans and Personal Archives of Early Hollywood" (U California Press, 2023)
Episode 15
In A Queer Way of Feeling: Girl Fans and Personal Archives of Early Hollywood (University of California Press, 2023), Diana W. Anselmo queers the ear…
2 years, 8 months ago
Sarah Clegg, "Women's Lore: 4,000 Years of Sirens, Serpents and Succubi" (Apollo, 2023)
Episode 47
Creatures like Lilith, the seductive first wife of Adam, and mermaids, who lured sailors to their death, are familiar figures in the genre of monstro…
2 years, 8 months ago
Marion Holmes Katz, "Wives and Work: Islamic Law and Ethics Before Modernity" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Episode 313
In this interview, I speak with Marion Holmes Katz about her latest book Wives and Work: Islamic Law and Ethics Before Modernity (Columbia UP, 2022).…
2 years, 8 months ago
Anna Kathryn Grau and Lisa Colton, "Female-Voice Song and Women's Musical Agency in the Middle Ages" (Brill, 2022)
Episode 199
While there is little doubt that women were active participants in medieval musical culture, their role has nevertheless been variously obfuscated, u…
2 years, 8 months ago
Bonnie Gordon, "Voice Machines: The Castrato, the Cat Piano, and Other Strange Sounds" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Episode 197
Italian courts and churches began employing castrato singers in the late sixteenth century. By the eighteenth century, the singers occupied a celebri…
2 years, 8 months ago
Donna J. Drucker, "Fertility Technology" (MIT Press, 2023)
Episode 353
A concise overview of fertility technology—its history, practical applications, and ethical and social implications around the world. In the late 185…
2 years, 8 months ago
Karima K. Jeffrey-Legette, "Speculative Film and Moving Images by or about Black Women and Girls" (Lexington Books, 2022)
Episode 395
Karima K. Jeffrey-Legette's book Speculative Film and Moving Images by or about Black Women and Girls (Lexington Books, 2022) examines depictions of …
2 years, 8 months ago
Chris Dietz, "Self-Declaration in the Legal Recognition of Gender" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 196
Self-Declaration in the Legal Recognition of Gender (Routledge, 2023) is a socio-legal study that offers a critique of what it means to self-declare …
2 years, 9 months ago
Chesya Burke, "Hero Me Not: The Containment of the Most Powerful Black, Female Superhero" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
Episode 394
First introduced in the pages of X-Men, Storm is probably the most recognized Black female superhero. She is also one of the most powerful characters…
2 years, 9 months ago
Managing your Mental Health During Your PhD
Episode 165
Can your graduate school affect your mental health? Dr. Zoe Ayres joins us to discuss what she wishes she had known before starting graduate school, …
2 years, 9 months ago