Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchOtherness, Disability, and Beauty: A Conversation with Pulitzer finalist Chloé Cooper Jones
Episode 17
This episode of How To Be Wrong is about humility, beauty and the ways in which our society dictates the nature and boundaries of what is deemed beau…
3 years, 3 months ago
Andrea Dara Cooper, "Gendering Modern Jewish Thought" (Indiana UP, 2021)
Episode 358
The idea of brotherhood has been an important philosophical concept for understanding community, equality, and justice. In Gendering Modern Jewish Th…
3 years, 3 months ago
Missing: Men at Work
Episode 220
Over six million prime-age men are neither working nor looking for work; America's low unemployment rate hides the fact that many men have dropped ou…
3 years, 3 months ago
Queer Space
Episode 109
In this episode of High Theory, Jack Jen Gieseking tells us about queer space. Queer geographies matter alongside queer temporalities. And it turns o…
3 years, 3 months ago
Shailaja Paik, "The Vulgarity of Caste: Dalits, Sexuality, and Humanity in Modern India" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Episode 171
The Vulgarity of Caste: Dalits, Sexuality, and Humanity in Modern India (Stanford UP, 2022) offers the first social and intellectual history of Dalit…
3 years, 3 months ago
What if You're Gay? Starting Conversations with and about LGBT Catholics
Season 1 Episode 30
Since 2016, and with the blessing of Pope Francis, Father Jim Martin has been talking with LGBT Catholics about their relationship with their church.…
3 years, 3 months ago
Sheri Brenden, "Break Point: Two Minnesota Athletes and the Road to Title IX" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
Episode 235
In Break Point: Two Minnesota Athletes and the Road to Title IX (University of Minnesota Press, 2022), Sheri Brenden examines how two teenage girls i…
3 years, 4 months ago
Elizabeth Farfán-Santos, "Undocumented Motherhood: Conversations on Love, Trauma, and Border Crossing" (U Texas Press, 2022)
Episode 210
Claudia Garcia crossed the border because her toddler, Natalia, could not hear. Leaving behind everything she knew in Mexico, Claudia recounts the te…
3 years, 4 months ago
Gregory Pfitzer, "'Fame Is Not Just for the Fellas': Female Renown and the Childhood of Famous Americans Series" (U Massachusetts Press, 2022)
Episode 44
In “Fame is Not Just for the Fellas”: Female Renown and the Childhood of Famous Americans Series (University of Massachusetts Press, 2022), Gregory P…
3 years, 4 months ago
Contextualizing the Iranian Protests: The Role of Women in Leading the Change
Episode 109
Western sanctions have slowed Iran's economy, causing protests against the absence of freedom and opportunities -- teachers their lack of pay; farmer…
3 years, 4 months ago