Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBook Talk 58: Vivian Gornick on Emma Goldman
Episode 129
What Is to Be Done?
In her luminous biography Emma Goldman: Revolution as a Way of Life (Yale UP, 2011), Vivian Gornick brings us back to this questio…
3 years, 2 months ago
Jessica Wilson, "It's Always Been Ours: Rewriting the Story of Black Women's Bodies" (Hachette Go, 2023)
Episode 370
In It's Always Been Ours: Rewriting the Story of Black Women's Bodies (Hachette Go, 2023) eating disorder specialist and storyteller Jessica Wilson c…
3 years, 2 months ago
Dalia Nassar and Kristin Gjesdal, "Women Philosophers in the Long Nineteenth Century: The German Tradition" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Episode 177
The long nineteenth-century--the period beginning with the French Revolution and ending with World War I--was a transformative period for women philo…
3 years, 2 months ago
The Role of Global South Women in Shaping Global Governance
Episode 115
This week on International Horizons, Ellen Chesler interviews Rebecca Adami and Fatima Sator, editor and co-author of Women and the UN: A New History…
3 years, 2 months ago
Ke Li, "Marriage Unbound: State Law, Power, and Inequality in Contemporary China" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Episode 14
In recent years the authors of a slew of books and articles have debated whether China is moving toward or away from the rule of law. Against this en…
3 years, 2 months ago
Richard Thompson Ford, "Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History" (Simon & Schuster, 2021)
Episode 1307
Dress codes are as old as clothing itself. For centuries, clothing has been a wearable status symbol; fashion, a weapon in struggles for social chang…
3 years, 2 months ago
Alison Stone, "Women Philosophers in Nineteenth-Century Britain" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 79
Many women wrote philosophy in nineteenth-century Britain, and they wrote across the full range of philosophical topics. Yet these important women th…
3 years, 2 months ago
Marion Turner, "The Wife of Bath: A Biography" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 143
Ever since her triumphant debut in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the Wife of Bath, arguably the first ordinary and recognisably real woman in English l…
3 years, 2 months ago
Can we Engage in Public Scholarship with Feminist and Accessible Communication?
Episode 143
Today’s book is: Engage in Public Scholarship: A Guidebook on Feminist and Accessible Communication, by Dr. Alex D. Ketchum. Public scholarship—shari…
3 years, 2 months ago
Measure for Measure Episode 7: Kinsey
Episode 66
Scientist Alfred Kinsey tried to differentiate human sexualities on a seven-point scale. In so doing, he brought us the basics of bisexuality. But th…
3 years, 2 months ago