Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMeredith Broussard, "More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech" (MIT Press, 2023)
Episode 385
The word "glitch" implies an incidental error, as easy to patch up as it is to identify. But what if racism, sexism, and ableism aren't just bugs in …
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America & Democracy Ep. 3: Carol A. Stabile on the Red Scare
Episode 77
In this series of interviews from The MIT Press Podcast, we'll be drawing on the research of various authors to reflect on some of the issues shaping…
3 years ago
Victoria Bateman, "Naked Feminism: Breaking the Cult of Female Modesty" (Polity Press, 2023)
Episode 169
Is it right that, despite the promises of feminism, women’s bodies remain at the mercy of state, society and religion? Should a scantily clad woman, …
3 years ago
Kate Clancy, "Period: The Real Story of Menstruation" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 63
Menstruation is something half the world does for a week at a time, for months and years on end, yet it remains largely misunderstood. Scientists onc…
3 years ago
Claudia Liebelt, "Istanbul Appearances: Beauty and the Making of Middle-Class Femininities in Urban Turkey" (Syracuse UP, 2023)
Episode 226
In the past two decades, the consumption of beauty services and cosmetic surgery in Turkey has developed from an elite phenomenon to an increasingly …
3 years ago
Leyla Jagiella, "Among the Eunuchs: A Muslim Transgender Journey" (Hurst, 2022)
Episode 302
In the powerful book Among the Eunuchs: A Muslim Transgender Journey (Hurst Publishers, 2022), Leyla Jagiella reflects on her story as a trans Muslim…
3 years ago
Naomi McDougall Jones, "The Wrong Kind of Women: Inside Our Revolution to Dismantle the Gods of Hollywood" (Beacon, 2020)
Episode 165
The Wrong Kind of Women: Inside Our Revolution to Dismantle the Gods of Hollywood (Beacon, 2020) by Naomi McDougall Jones is a brutally honest look a…
3 years ago
Leah Phillips, "Female Heroes in Young Adult Fantasy Fiction: Reframing Myths of Adolescent Girlhood" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Episode 222
The heroic romance is one of the West's most enduring narratives, found everywhere, from religion and myth to blockbuster films and young adult liter…
3 years ago
The Everyday Feminist with Latanya Mapp Frett
Episode 120
Equality between the sexes has long been recognized as a fundamental moral and legal objective of the UN, and more recently of many governments and i…
3 years ago
Oded Zinger, "Living with the Law: Gender and Community Among the Jews of Medieval Egypt" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
Episode 399
Living with the Law: Gender and Community Among the Jews of Medieval Egypt (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023) explores the marital disputes of Jews in medi…
3 years ago