New Books in Gender

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Talia Mae Bettcher, "Beyond Personhood: An Essay in Trans Philosophy" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
Apr 20, 2025 – 52:53
Sophie Lewis, "Enemy Feminisms: Terfs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation" (Haymarket Books, 2025)
Apr 19, 2025 – 01:32:59
Akiko Takenaka, "Mothers Against War: Gender, Motherhood, and Peace Activism in Cold War Japan" (U Hawaii Press, 2025)
Apr 18, 2025 – 57:51
Dána-Ain Davis and Christa Craven, "Feminist Ethnography: Thinking Through Methodologies, Challenges, and Possibilities" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
Apr 14, 2025 – 56:21
Laura Miller, "Occult Hunting and Supernatural Play in Japan" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)
Apr 13, 2025 – 01:07:08
Womanist Bioethics: Social Justice, Spirituality, and Black Women's Health
Apr 3, 2025 – 01:01:58
Sally King, "Menstrual Myth Busting: The Case of the Hormonal Female" (Policy Press, 2025)
Apr 2, 2025 – 47:33
Anna Farro Henderson, "Core Samples: A Climate Scientist's Experiments in Politics and Motherhood" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
Apr 1, 2025 – 47:02
Hemangini Gupta, "Experimental Times: Startup Capitalism and Feminist Futures in India" (U California Press, 2024)
Mar 31, 2025 – 41:59
Farah Ahamed, "Period Matters: Menstruation in South Asia" (Pan Macmillan, 2022)
Mar 26, 2025 – 49:24
Mary Anne Hunting and Kevin D. Murphy, "Women Architects at Work: Making American Modernism" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Mar 25, 2025 – 01:05:44
Amy Adamczyk, "Fetal Positions: Understanding Cross-National Public Opinion about Abortion" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Mar 24, 2025 – 01:00:20
Holly Grout, "Playing Cleopatra: Inventing the Female Celebrity in Third Republic France" (LSU Press, 2024)
Mar 19, 2025 – 48:59
Colby Gordon, "Glorious Bodies: Trans Theology and Renaissance Literature" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Mar 18, 2025 – 56:07
Ellen Scheible, "Body Politics in Contemporary Irish Women’s Fiction: The Literary Legacy of 'Mother Ireland'" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Mar 16, 2025 – 01:27:30
Fiona Handyside, "Girls' Hairstories: Sparkle and Resilience in Contemporary Screen Cultures" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)
Mar 14, 2025 – 01:08:00
Jennifer L. Freeman Marshall, "Ain't I an Anthropologist: Zora Neale Hurston Beyond the Literary Icon" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
Mar 11, 2025 – 01:15:43
Lina-Maria Murillo, "Fighting for Control: Power, Reproductive Care, and Race in the US-Mexico Borderlands" (UNC Press, 2025)
Mar 9, 2025 – 01:11:27
Madalina Armie and Veronica Membrive, "Trauma, Memory and Silence of the Irish Woman in Contemporary Literature" (Routledge, 2023)
Mar 9, 2025 – 01:08:59
Hallie Franks, "Ancient Sculpture and Twentieth-Century American Womanhood: Venus Envy" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Mar 2, 2025 – 59:41
Esha Niyogi De, "Women's Transborder Cinema: Authorship, Stardom, and Filmic Labor in South Asia" (U Illinois Press, 2024)
Mar 1, 2025 – 01:16:44
Gemma Hollman, "Women in the Middle Ages: Illuminating the World of Peasants, Nuns, and Queens" (Abbeville Press, 2024)
Feb 26, 2025 – 01:10:52
Megan Moran, "Gender and Family Networks in Early Modern Italy" (Amsterdam UP, 2024)
Feb 23, 2025 – 50:56
Kecia Ali, "The Woman Question in Islamic Studies" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Feb 21, 2025 – 01:25:43
Susan Tate Ankeny, "American Flygirl" (Citadel Press, 2024)
Feb 20, 2025 – 29:40
Xian Wang, "Gendered Memories: An Imaginary Museum for Ding Ling and Chinese Female Revolutionary Martyrs" (U Michigan Press, 2025)
Feb 19, 2025 – 01:03:06
Jessica A. Brockmole, "Pink Cars and Pocketbooks: How American Women Bought Their Way Into the Driver's Seat" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2025)
Feb 16, 2025 – 01:06:58
Briony Hannell, "Feminist Fandom: Media Fandom, Digital Feminisms, and Tumblr" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Feb 15, 2025 – 41:38
Patricia Owens, "Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Feb 13, 2025 – 01:08:44
Sara Burdorff, "Maternity, Monstrosity, and Heroic (Im)mortality from Homer to Shakespeare" (Amsterdam UP, 2025)
Feb 2, 2025 – 38:13
Dan Archer, "Voices from Nepal: Uncovering Human Trafficking through Comics Journalism" (U Toronto Press, 2024)
Jan 31, 2025 – 47:15
Wilton S. Wright, "Rewriting Resistance to Social Justice Pedagogies" (Lexington Books, 2024)
Jan 30, 2025 – 49:52
Matthew McCormack, "Shoes and the Georgian Man" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Jan 24, 2025 – 39:12
Ryan Tan Wander, "Settler Tenses: Queer Time and Literatures of the American West" (Texas Tech UP, 2024)
Jan 23, 2025 – 01:10:07
Danielle Bayard Jackson, "Fighting for Our Friendships: The Science and Art of Conflict and Connection in Women's Relationships" (Hachette, 2024)
Jan 21, 2025 – 01:15:56
Carol Cleaveland and Michele Waslin. "Private Violence: Latin American Women and the Struggle for Asylum" (NYU Press, 2024)
Jan 20, 2025 – 41:19
Monica A. Hershberger, "Women in American Operas of The 1950s: Undoing Gendered Archetypes" (U Rochester Press, 2023)
Jan 20, 2025 – 01:07:01
Eva Payne, "Empire of Purity: The History of Americans' Global War on Prostitution" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Jan 18, 2025 – 01:09:03
Amrita Narayanan, "Women's Sexuality and Modern India: In a Rapture of Distress" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Jan 18, 2025 – 55:46
Emily Murdoch Perkins, "Regina: The Queens Who Could Have Been" (The History Press, 2024)
Jan 14, 2025 – 54:32
Nancy Reddy, "The Good Mother Myth: Unlearning Our Bad Ideas About How to Be a Good Mom" (St. Martin's Press, 2025)
Jan 13, 2025 – 51:55
James Malazita, "Enacting Platforms: Feminist Technoscience and the Unreal Engine" (MIT Press, 2024)
Jan 12, 2025 – 40:01
Jennifer Greenburg, "At War with Women: Military Humanitarianism and Imperial Feminism in an Era of Permanent War" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Jan 11, 2025 – 46:05
Cordelia Fine, "Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society" (Norton, 2018)
Jan 11, 2025 – 01:15:44
Sandy Ng, "Portrayals of Women in Early Twentieth-Century China" (Amsterdam UP, 2024)
Jan 10, 2025 – 48:23
Lucas Wilson, "Shame-Sex Attraction: Survivors' Stories of Conversion Therapy" (Jessica Kingsley, 2025)
Jan 9, 2025 – 57:36
Sarah B. Rodriguez, "The Love Surgeon: A Story of Trust, Harm, and the Limits of Medical Regulation" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
Jan 7, 2025 – 47:15
Judith Giesberg, “Sex and the Civil War: Soldiers, Pornography, and the Making of American Morality” (UNC Press, 2017)
Jan 6, 2025 – 01:07:48
Lisa Doggett, "Up the Down Escalator: Medicine, Motherhood, and Multiple Sclerosis" (Health Communications, 2023)
Jan 5, 2025 – 35:17
Amy Aronson, "Chrystal Eastman: A Revolutionary Life" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Jan 5, 2025 – 01:02:54

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