Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchYue Du, "State and Family in China" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 62
In Imperial China, the idea of filial piety not only shaped family relations but was also the official ideology by which Qing China was governed. In …
2 years, 11 months ago
Orit Avishai, "Queer Judaism: LGBT Activism and the Remaking of Jewish Orthodoxy in Israel" (NYU Press, 2023)
Episode 253
Until fairly recently, Orthodox people in Israel could not imagine embracing their LGBT sexual or gender identity and staying within the Orthodox fol…
2 years, 11 months ago
Anna Piela, "Wearing the Niqab: Muslim Women in the UK and the US" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Episode 306
In recent years the niqab has emerged as one of the most ubiquitous symbols of everything that is perceived to be wrong with Islam: barbarity, backwa…
2 years, 11 months ago
Grace Elisabeth Lavery, "Pleasure and Efficacy: Of Pen Names, Cover Versions, and Other Trans Techniques" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 65
In Pleasure and Efficacy: Of Pen Names, Cover Versions, and Other Trans Techniques (Princeton UP, 2023), Grace Lavery investigates gender transition …
2 years, 11 months ago
Alison S. Fell, "Warrior Women: The Cultural Politics of Armed Women, c.1850-1945" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 58
Alison S. Fell's book Warrior Women: The Cultural Politics of Armed Women, c.1850-1945 (Cambridge UP, 2023) examines women warriors as vehicles of mo…
2 years, 11 months ago
Nate G. Hilger, "The Parent Trap: How to Stop Overloading Parents and Fix Our Inequality Crisis" (MIT Press, 2023)
Episode 152
Few people realize that raising children is the single largest industry in the United States. Yet this vital work receives little political support, …
2 years, 11 months ago
Payal Arora et al., "Feminist Futures of Work: Reimagining Labour in the Digital Economy" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)
Episode 294
The future of work is at the centre of debates related to the emerging digital society. Concerns range from the inclusion, equity, and dignity of tho…
2 years, 11 months ago
Jacqueline Beatty, "In Dependence: Women and the Patriarchal State in Revolutionary America" (NYU Press, 2023)
Episode 57
Patriarchal forces of law, finance, and social custom restricted women’s rights and agency in revolutionary America. Yet women in this period exploit…
2 years, 11 months ago
Athene Donald, "Not Just for the Boys: Why We Need More Women in Science" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 127
Why are girls discouraged from doing science? Why do so many promising women leave science in early and mid-career? Why do women not prosper in the s…
2 years, 11 months ago
Feminism Against Progress: A Conversation with Mary Harrington
Episode 77
Is feminism compatible with progress? Reactionary feminist Mary Harrington thinks not. In this interview, she discusses the history of feminism, her …
2 years, 11 months ago