Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHearts of Men: How Should Progressives React to Masculinity Influencers like Andrew Tate?
Episode 53
Online masculinity is getting weirder and weirder. We’re way past mere misogyny and sexual predation (though, that’s still certainly there). Now, we’…
3 years, 1 month ago
Abortion and the Law
Episode 16
Today’s Postscript focuses on abortion politics in the United States, with particular attention to the April 7, 2023 federal court decisions in Texas…
3 years, 1 month ago
Akiko Takeyama, "Staged Seduction: Selling Dreams in a Tokyo Host Club" (Stanford UP, 2016)
Episode 489
Welcome to Tokyo's Kabuki-chō red-light district, where Professor Akiko Takeyama started her 'affective ethnographic' fieldwork to explore the host c…
3 years, 1 month ago
Bettina Judd, "Feelin: Creative Practice, Pleasure, and Black Feminist Thought" (Northwestern UP, 2022)
Episode 373
Feeling is not “feelin”. Feelin, in African American Vernacular English, is how Black women artists approach and produce knowledge as sensation: inte…
3 years, 1 month ago
Greta LaFleur et al., "Trans Historical: Gender Plurality Before the Modern" (Cornell UP, 2021)
Episode 1311
Greta LaFleur, Masha Raskolnikov, and Anna Klosowska's edited volume Transhistorical: Gender Plurality Before the Modern (Cornell University Press, 2…
3 years, 1 month ago
Monica Liu, "Seeking Western Men: Email-Order Brides Under China's Global Rise" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Episode 54
Commercial dating agencies that facilitate marriages across national borders comprise a $2.5 billion global industry. Ideas about the industry are ri…
3 years, 1 month ago
Gender and Climate Change Adaptation in Bangladesh
Episode 174
What does climate change adaptation look like in Bangladesh? And what kind of gendered social landscape does climate change adaptation have to naviga…
3 years, 1 month ago
School Authority, Parents' Rights: Rita Koganzon on Early Modern Education
Episode 71
Americans have always had mixed emotions about schooling: in popular literature and television, teachers are often depicted as tyrannical authorities…
3 years, 1 month ago
School Authority, Parents' Rights: Rita Koganzon on Early Modern Education
Episode 71
Americans have always had mixed emotions about schooling: in popular literature and television, teachers are often depicted as tyrannical authorities…
3 years, 1 month ago
Laurah E. Klepinger, "Transnational Yoga at Work: Spiritual Tourism and Its Blind Spots" (Lexington Books, 2022)
Episode 252
Transnational Yoga at Work: Spiritual Tourism and Its Blind Spots (Lexington Books, 2022) is an ethnography about local wageworkers in the Indian bra…
3 years, 1 month ago