New Books in Gender Studies
Interviews with Scholars of Gender about their New Books
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- Interviews with Scholars of Gender about their New Books
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- 🇬🇧 English
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- 2024-11-24 13:26
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- 2024-11-24 09:00
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Episodes
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| 2024-11-24 | In Reproductive Labor and Innovation: Against the Tech Fix in an Era of Hype (Duke UP, 2024), Jennifer Denbow examines how the push toward technoscientific innovation in contemporary American life often comes at the expense of the care work and reprodu... |
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| 2024-11-21 | After over 175 years, the feminist movement, now in its fourth wave, is at risk of collapsing on its eroding foundation. In Faux Feminism: Why We Fall for White Feminism and How We Can Stop (Beacon Press, 2024), political philosopher Serene Khader advo... |
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| 2024-11-20 |
Vivian Asimos, "Cosplay and the Dressing of Identity" (Reaktion, 2024) Cosplay, born from the fusion of ‘costume’ and ‘play’, transcends mere dress-up by transforming enthusiasts of TV shows, movies, books or video games into living embodiments of their cherished characters. Cosplay and the Dressing of Identity (Reaktion,... |
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| 2024-11-19 | In Radical Acts: HIV/AIDS Activism in Late Twentieth-Century England (Bloomsbury Academic, 2024), Dr George Severs draws on activist campaign literature and materials, broadcast media, and new oral history interviews to reconstruct the overlooked world... |
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| 2024-11-19 | The State's Sexuality: Prostitution and Postcolonial Nation Building in South Korea (University of California Press, 2024) by Dr. Park Jeong-Mi uncovers how the lives and work of women engaged in prostitution, long considered the most abased members of... |
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| 2024-11-17 |
Karen M. Dunak, "Our Jackie: Public Claims on a Private Life" (NYU Press, 2024) When Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis became First Lady of the United States over sixty years ago, she stepped into the public spotlight. Although Jackie is perhaps best known for her two highly-publicized marriages, her legacy has endured beyond twentieth-c... |
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| 2024-11-17 |
Ian Miller, "Self-Esteem: An American History" (Polity Press, 2024) By the end of the twentieth century, the idea of self-esteem had become enormously influential. A staggering amount of psychological research and self-help literature was being published and, before long, devoured by readers. Self-esteem initiatives pe... |
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| 2024-11-16 | Saadia Yacoob’s excellent new book, Beyond the Binary: Gender and Legal Personhood in Islamic Law (U of California Press 2024), makes a compelling argument about gender and Islamic law that has been shockingly overlooked: Legal personhood in Islamic la... |
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| 2024-11-14 | Today’s book is: We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance (Seal Press, 2024) by Dr. Kellie Carter Jackson. Black resistance to white supremacy is often reduced to a simple binary, between Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s nonviolence and Malcolm X’... |
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| 2024-11-13 |
Vaughn Scribner, "Merpeople: A Human History" (Reaktion Books, 2020) Vaughn Scribner joins Jana Byars on the occasion of the paperback edition of Merpeople: A Human History (Reaktion, 2024) People have been fascinated by merpeople and merfolk since ancient times. From the sirens of Homer’s Odyssey to Hans Christian Ande... |
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