Interviews with Scholars of Gender about their New Books
https://newbooksnetwork.com/category/politics-society/gender-studies/
episode 84: Vicky Pryce, "Women vs. Capitalism: Why We Can't Have It All in a Free Market Economy" (Hurst, 2019)
Free market capitalism has failed women...
episode 65: Donna Guy, "Creating Charismatic Bonds in Argentina: Letters to Juan and Eva Perón" (U New Mexico Press, 2016)
Using letters written by Argentine citizens to the Perón couple between 1946 and 1955, Guy offers a nuanced approach to understand charisma...
episode 42: Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information" (Norton, 2019)
We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?
episode 28: Sally Holloway, "The Game of Love in Georgian England: Courtship, Emotions, and Material Culture" (Oxford UP, 2019)
What was the role of love and courtship in eighteenth-century English culture?
episode 59: Caroline Wanjiku Kihato, "Migrant Women of Johannesburg: Everyday Life in an In-Between City" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)
Kihato's book is about home and not-home, eloquently told about the hopes and dreams, fears and hardships of migrant women trying to make life and livelihoods in inner city Johannesburg....
Kathleen Sheppard, "The Life of Margaret Alice Murray: A Woman’s Work in Archaeology" (Lexington, 2017)
After Napoleon occupied Egypt, Europeans became obsessed with the ancient cultures of the Nile...
episode 91: Laura K. T. Stokes, "Fanny Hensel: A Research and Information Guide" (Routledge, 2019)
Nineteenth-century composer Fanny Hensel is the subject of more published research than any other woman of the period, with the possible exception of Clara Schumann...
episode 58: Caroline Weber, “Proust’s Duchess” (Knopf, 2019)
Weber has done the painstaking research to find out who were the real-life people on whom Proust modeled some of the most memorable characters...
episode 90: Brianna Theobald, "Reproduction on the Reservation: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Colonialism in the Long Twentieth Century" (UNC Press, 2019)
Theobald delivers a long-overdue, comprehensive history of Native women’s reproductive health, rights, and practices...
episode 43: Rebecca Scofield, "Outriders: Rodeo at the Fringes of the American West" (U Washington, 2019)
Scofield argues that rodeo performance has also long-been a means of asserting “Western-ness” for people excluded from narratives about the region...