Interviews with Scholars of Gender about their New Books
https://newbooksnetwork.com/category/politics-society/gender-studies/
episode 375: C. Strachan and L. Poloni-Staudinger, "Why Don′t Women Rule the World?: Understanding Women′s Civic and Political Choices" (Sage, 2019)
"Why Don′t Women Rule the World?" is a comprehensive and useful addition to the established literature on women and politics...
episode 153: Ather Zia, "Resisting Disappearance: Military Occupation and Women’s Activism" (U Washington Press, 2019)
Zia's urgent ethnography is centered on Kashmiri women of the APDP (Association of the Parents of the Disappeared Persons)...
episode 180: A Conversation with Acquisitions Editor Dawn Durante about How Manuscripts Become Books
For a book to exist, there must be a lot more than a writer...
episode 1: Gerry Milligan, "Moral Combat: Women, Gender and War in Italian Renaissance Literature" (U Toronto Press, 2018)
Milligan takes as its subject the woman warrior in early modern Italy as she was and as she was represented across varied types of texts,..
episode 206: Nora Jaffary, "Reproduction and its Discontents in Mexico: Childbirth and Contraception from 1750 to 1905" (UNC Press, 2016)
Jaffary tracks how medical ideas, practices, and policies surrounding reproduction changed between the late eighteenth and early twentieth centuries in Mexico...
episode 602: Benjamin Kahan, "The Book of Minor Perverts: Sexology, Etiology, and the Emergences of Sexuality" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
The conversation covers major changes in the cultural discourse around sexual identity, but still makes time for conversation about sexual magicians and wanderlust...
episode 99: Emily Skidmore, "True Sex: The Lives of Trans Men at the Turn of the 20th Century" (NYU Press, 2017)
Skidmore weaves in a vibrant discussion on how trans men created community and crafted their lives in rural America at the turn of the twentieth century...
episode 152: Zahra Ayubi, "Gendered Morality: Classical Islamic Ethics of the Self, Family, and Society" (Columbia UP, 2019)
How are notions of justice and equality constructed in Islamic virtue ethics (akhlaq)?
episode 599: Melissa E. Sanchez, "Queer Faith: Reading Promiscuity and Race in the Secular Love Tradition" (NYU Press, 2019)
Sanchez provides an overview of feminist discourse on sex trafficking...
episode 599: Melissa E. Sanchez, "Brokered Subjects: Sex, Trafficking and the Politics of Freedom" (U Chicago Press, 2018)
Sanchez provides an overview of feminist discourse on sex trafficking...