Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAimee Louise Middlemiss, "Invisible Labours: The Reproductive Politics of Second Trimester Pregnancy Loss in England" (Berghahn Books, 2024)
Episode 130
Tracing women’s experiences of miscarriage and termination for foetal anomaly in the second trimester, before legal viability, shows how such events …
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Kirsten Fermaglich, "A Rosenberg by Any Other Name: A History of Jewish Name Changing in America" (NYU Press, 2018)
Episode 127
Throughout the 20th century, especially during and immediately after WWII, New York Jews changed their names at rates considerably higher than any ot…
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Casey Plett, "On Community" (Biblioasis, 2023)
Episode 417
Today I interview Casey Plett. Plett is the author of multiple works of fiction, including the story collection A Dream of a Woman, the novel Little …
1 year, 10 months ago
Spencer Piston, “Class Attitudes in American Politics: Sympathy for the Poor, Resentment of the Rich, and Political Implications” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Episode 65
It has long been a truism that Americans’ disdain for poor people–our collective sense that if they only worked harder or behaved more responsibly th…
1 year, 10 months ago
Ella Houston, "Advertising Disability" (Routledge, 2024)
Episode 48
Ella Houston's book Advertising Disability (Routledge, 2024) invites Cultural Disability Studies to consider how advertising, as one of the most ubiq…
1 year, 10 months ago
Catherine Boone, "Inequality and Political Cleavage in Africa: Regionalism by Design" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 195
Inequality and Political Cleavage in Africa: Regionalism by Design (Cambridge University Press, 2024) by Dr. Catherine Boone integrates African count…
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George Musgrave, "The England No One Cares About: Lyrics from Suburbia" (Goldsmiths Press, 2023)
Episode 249
An exploration of the much-derided English suburbs through rap music.
There are many different Englands. From the much-romanticized rolling countrysid…
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Claudia Strauss, "What Work Means: Beyond the Puritan Work Ethic" (ILR Press, 2024)
Episode 375
What Work Means: Beyond the Puritan Work Ethic (ILR Press, 2024) goes beyond the stereotypes and captures the diverse ways Americans view work as a p…
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Frederick Luis Aldama, "Decolonizing Latinx Masculinities" (U Arizona Press, 2020)
Episode 72
An early wave of research helped make visible the complex dynamics of sexuality and gender norms in Latino life, but a new generation of scholars is …
1 year, 10 months ago
Samuel C. Heilman and Mucahit Bilici, "Following Similar Paths: What American Jews and Muslims Can Learn from One Another" (U California Press, 2024)
Episode 124
Two academics, one Jewish and one Muslim, come together to show how much their faiths have in common—particularly in America.
This book provides a bra…
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