Interviews with Scholars of Gender about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/gender-studies
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Charlotte Witt, "The Metaphysics of Gender" (Oxford University Press, 2011)
Is your gender essential to who you are? If you were a man instead of a woman, or vice versa, would you be a different person? In her new book The Metaphysics of Gender (Oxford University Press, 2011), Charlotte Witt…
Mary Louise Adams, "Artistic Impressions: Figure Skating, Masculinity, and the Limits of Sport" (University of Toronto Press, 2011)
On the Minnesota rinks where I spent many days of my childhood, the skates made the man–or the boy, to be more accurate. Hockey skates had a boot of tough leather and a reinforced toe to protect against sticks and…
Scott Morgensen, "Spaces Between Us: Queer Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Decolonization" (University of Minnesota Press, 2011)
Here’s a study-guide prepared to accompany the interview. For as much as recent decades have witnessed a patriarchal backlash against the growing visibility of LGBTQ people in North American society, there is another,
Judith Halberstam, "The Queer Art of Failure" (Duke UP, 2011)
Tell me, who can resist a book called The Queer Art of Failure? Not me. Especially once I learned that its heroines are the likes of Ginger (of *Chicken Run*) and Dory (of *Finding Nemo*). Children – the intended…
Jafari S. Allen, "!Venceremos?: The Erotics of Black Self-Making in Cuba" (Duke UP, 2011)
Jafari S. Allen‘s !Venceremos?: The Erotics of Black Self-Making in Cuba (Duke University Press, 2011) is a meticulously researched and exquisitely theorized ethnography that begins with a queer speculation of the revolutionary inevitable. That is,
Jean H. Baker, "Margaret Sanger: A Life of Passion" (Hill and Wang, 2011)
Forty-five years after her death, the reproductive rights activist Margaret Sanger remains a polarizing figure. Conservatives attack her social liberalism while liberals shy away from her perceived advocacy of eugenics and her supposed socialist tenden...
Niamh Reilly, "Women’s Human Rights: Seeking Gender Justice in a Globalizing Age" (Polity Press, 2009)
Today, you can open your newspaper and find stories about mass rape in the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, death sentences for adulterous women in Iran, or Central American women smuggled into the US for the purposes of…
Ellen Lewin, "Gay Fatherhood: Narratives of Family and Citizenship in America" (University of Chicago, 2009)
When anthropologist Ellen Lewin gave a preliminary report on her research on gay fathers, a member of the audience asked how she could write about such "yucky people." Yes, that’s the technical anthropological term for same-sex attracted men who parent…
Annette Timm, "The Politics of Fertility in Twentieth-Century Berlin" (Cambridge UP, 2010)
Many of us know that Nazi regime tried to control Germans’ fertility: some people should reproduce more, according to the National Socialists, and some should reproduce less or not at all. Policies like coercive sterilization for the supposedly "unfit"...
Yi-Li Wu’s book, "Reproducing Women: Medicine, Metaphor, and Childbirth in Late Imperial China" (University of California Press, 2010)
In what must be one of the most well-organized and clearly-written books in the history of academic writing, Yi-Li Wu‘s book, Reproducing Women: Medicine, Metaphor, and Childbirth in Late Imperial China (University of California Press, 2010),