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episode 165: Matthew McManus, "The Rise of Post-Modern Conservatism" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
Manus argues that Trump and other similar figures and movements represent a new form of conservatism, one with a long history of development, and formed as a response to various social dynamics...
episode 165: Matthew McManus, "The Rise of Post-Modern Conservatism" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
Manus argues that Trump and other similar figures and movements represent a new form of conservatism, one with a long history of development, and formed as a response to various social dynamics...
episode 140: Rebecca J. Kissane and Sarah Winslow, "Whose Game?: Gender and Power in Fantasy Sports" (Temple UP, 2020)
Fantasy sports have the opportunity to provide a sporting community in which gendered physical presence plays no role—a space where men and women can compete and interact on a level playing field...
episode 41: Ayala Fader, "Hidden Heretics: Jewish Doubt in the Digital Age" (Princeton UP, 2020)
What would you do if you questioned your religious faith, but revealing that would cause you to lose your family and the only way of life you had ever known?
episode 63: Mythri Jegathesan, "Tea and Solidarity: Tamil Women and Work in Postwar Sri Lanka" (U Washington Press, 2019)
Jegathesan makes essential contributions to the fields of anthropology and gender studies but also to scholars interested in South Asia, decoloniality, and ethical research methods...
episode 67: Tyler Bickford, "Tween Pop: Children’s Music and Public Culture" (Duke UP, 2020)
Bickford addresses the ways in which the music industry seized only childishness as a key element in legitimizing children's participation in public culture...
episode 142: M. R. Michelson and B. F. Harrison, "Transforming Prejudice: Identity, Fear, and Transgender Rights" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Michelson and Harrison examine what tactics are effective in changing public opinion regarding transgender people...
episode 113: Katie Horowitz, "Drag, Interperformance, and the Trouble with Queerness" (Routledge, 2019)
Horowitz argues that the radical (in)difference between kings and queens provides a window into the perennial rift between lesbians and gay men...
episode 47: Andre Brock, "Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures" (NYU Press, 2020)
Brock theorizes what it means to be Black online, particularly when the physical body can neither be understood nor constrained...
episode 141: Jyoti Puri, "Sexual States: Governance and the Struggle over the Antisodomy Law in India" (Duke UP, 2016)
Puri tracks the efforts to decriminalize homosexuality in India to show how the regulation of sexuality is fundamentally tied to the creation and enduring existence of the state...