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episode 152: Lessie Jo Frazier, "Desired States: Sex, Gender, and Political Culture in Chile" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
Lessie Jo Frazier contends that desire played a central role in the political culture of the modern Chilean state.,,,
episode 17: Oluwakemi M. Balogun, "Beauty Diplomacy: Embodying an Emerging Nation" (Stanford UP, 2020)
Balogun takes us inside the world of Nigerian beauty contests...
episode 860: Carolyn Conley, "Debauched, Desperate, Deranged: Women Who Killed, London 1674-1913" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Conely examines the over 1400 trials of women accused of homicide in London from 1674-1913,..
episode 9: Transforming Breast Cancer Diagnosis in Vietnam: A Discussion with Professor Patrick Brennan
Globally, breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in women, with over 1 million cases detected annually. The disease is particularly worrisome in Vietnam...
episode 482: Melody E. Valdini, "The Inclusion Calculation: Why Men Appropriate Women's Representation" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Valdini outlines a clear calculus to evaluate the various dimensions of the costs and benefits in terms of integrating women...
episode 81: Samantha Langsdale and Elizabeth Rae Coody, "Monstrous Women in Comics" (UP of Mississippi, 2020)
This book the ways women are made monstrous in popular culture...
episode 5: Tom Rastrelli, "Confessions of a Gay Priest: A Memoir of Sex, Love, Abuse, and Scandal in the Catholic Seminary" (U Iowa Press, 2020)
Restrelli divulges the clandestine inner workings of the seminary, providing an intimate and unapologetic look into the psychosexual and spiritual dynamics of celibacy...
episode 4: Jim Downs, "Stand by Me: The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation" (Basic Books, 2016)
Downs rewrites the history of gay life in the 1970s, arguing that the decade was about much more than sex and marching in the streets...
episode 208: Tabassum Fahim Ruby, "Muslim Women's Rights: Contesting Liberal-Secular Sensibilities in Canada" (Routledge, 2019)
Ruby follows the legal debates and public discussions that surrounded the proposed shari‘ah tribunals in Canada from 2003 to 2006...
episode 83: Andrea Pető, "The Women of the Arrow Cross Party: Invisible Hungarian Perpetrators in the Second World War" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
Pető analyses the actions, background, connections and the eventual trials of Hungarian female perpetrators in the Second World War through the concept of invisibility.