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Catherine Reyes-Housholder, "How Women Win...

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2026/08/28

Between 1990 and 2020, women candidates won only 6% of the world’s presidential races. How Women Win Presidential Elections in Latin America (Temple University Press, 2026) explains the factors, strategies, and perceptions that help (or hinder) women to democratically access their country’s highest political office. Dr. Catherine Reyes-Housholder introduces a theory of gendered incentives and perceived potential to reveal why a political party would break with tradition and nominate a woman. She

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Diego Galego, "Queering Public Policy: A Disruptive...

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2026/08/28

For years, LGBTQ+ policies worldwide have been crafted based on heteronormative views, needs, and practices. However, this has gradually changed over the last two decades as LGBTQ+ individuals have become key players in the development of gender-based policies. Diego Galego's Queering Public Policy: A Disruptive Yet Inclusive Framework for Policymaking (Palgrave Macmillan, 2026) examines these political and social changes, evaluates how actors have successfully integrated LGBTQ+ needs into the

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Shelly Lundberg "How Economics Discovered Women:...

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2026/08/25

In the 1970s, as women started to enter the labor force in unprecedented numbers, economists began to examine their roles as economic actors. The result was the rise of gender economics, now a major subfield with powerful data and new methods comparing the economic lives of men and women. Yet despite decades of progress, many of the most consequential questions about gender inequality remain unresolved.InHow Economics Discovered Women: Bringing Gender Economics into the Twenty-First Century(U

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Niharika Pandit, "Occupying the Everyday:...

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2026/08/25

Our recent conversation aboutOccupying the Everyday: Militarisation and Gendered Politics of Living in Kashmir(Oxford UP, 2026), with author Niharika Pandit, covers the journey of how critical methodology meets the weight of lived experience. This book examines the everyday politics of militarized control in Kashmir following the Indian government’s August 5, 2019, decision to de-operationalize Jammu and Kashmir’s nominal autonomy. The core of our reflection centered on how one theorizes through

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Jane Draycott, "Fulvia: The Woman Who Broke All the...

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2026/08/22

Fulvia was born into wealth, privilege, and prestige around the year 80 BCE, yet there was nothing inherently special about her—she was not a saint, an empress, or a queen. But during the years leading up to the fall of the Roman Republic, Fulvia was moving in the most powerful social circles, and by her death in 40 BCE she had amassed a degree of political and military power unprecedented for a woman.Fulvia’s success came at considerable cost, however. None of her three marriages to politically

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Sandip Roy, "Chapal Rani, the Last Queen of Bengal"...

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2026/08/20

Chapal Rani was one of India’s most famous performers ofjatra,Bengal’s popular theater. Traditionally, all the roles, including female roles, were played by men—and Chapal Rani was perhaps the most prominent performer of women on the stage.He’s also the subject of a new book from Sandip Roy, titledChapal Rani, the Last Queen of Bengal.Roy, who joins us the show today, tells the story of Chapal Rani’s life, from stardom to obscurity and later rediscovery; how Chapal Rani would transform himself

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Linda Williams and eds. Christine Gledhill et al.,...

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2026/08/14

The centerpiece ofMelodrama as Provocateur(Duke UP, 2026) is an essay by Linda Williams (1946–2025). Williams was Professor of Film Studies and Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. Her highly influential work reframed some of cinema’s most neglected or denigrated genres from a feminist perspective, including documentary, pornography, horror, and melodrama.Melodrama is the focus of what would become Williams’s final project. In the last few years of her life, she was working on a

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Yulia Gradskova et al., "Good Mothers, Nations and...

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2026/08/13

In this episode, host Andrea Talabér (CEU Press, 2026) talks with Yulia Gradskova and Ieva Bisigirskaitė, two of the three authors behindGood Mothers, Nations and Nationalisms: Cases from Lithuania, Russia and Sweden. Together with Soheyla Yazdanpanah, they explore what nationalists mean by "good mothers," demographic anxiety, and maternal activism in Lithuania, Russia and Sweden. You can purchase a copyhere. The CEU Press Podcast delves into various aspects of the publishing process: from

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Julie Kliegman, "Finding Renée Richards: The...

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2026/08/11

Fifty years ago, tennis player Renée Richards made international headlines in her fight to compete in the women’s draw of the 1977 US Open—marking the first time a trans athlete sued to participate in professional sports in the gender category with which they identify. Renée eventually won her case. Though she lost in the first round of the singles tournament, she and her tennis partner made it to the finals in doubles, losing to Martina Navratilova and her partner. Finding Renée Richards: The

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Carly Thomsen, "Reproductive Justice, Queerly" (U...

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2026/08/05

Queer theory and reproductive justice need each other—now more than ever. As liberals and leftists increasingly frame reproductive justice in terms of LGBTQ+ rights, often adopting the language of “queerness,” it has become difficult to see that their political demands and strategies are often quite conservative. InReproductive Justice, Queerly(U California Press, 2026), Carly Thomsen examines typical reproductive justice issues—including abortion, surrogacy, crisis pregnancy centers, paid

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Valena Beety, "Pink Crime: Fighting Against the...

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2026/08/04

A woman miscarries—and is charged with murder. A new mother tests positive for a drug her hospital administered—and loses custody of her newborn. Four women are convicted of horrific crimes against children they never touched, based on junk science and homophobia—and spend nearly twenty years in prison before being exonerated. A queer teenager takes a photo of a child’s diaper rash at work—and is sentenced to 126 years. These cases are not aberrations. They are symptoms of a system that

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Murat C. Yildiz, "The Ottoman World of Sports:...

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2026/07/31

The history of sports in Turkey is deeply contested. Over the decades, journalists, pundits, non-professional historians, sports scholars, and everyday people have offered competing narratives about the origins of modern sports in the late Ottoman Empire. In The Ottoman World of Sports: Refashioning Bodies, Men, and Communities in Late Imperial Istanbul(University of Texas Press, 2026), Murat Cihan Yıldıztells the story of how Istanbul’s Muslims, Christians, and Jews—gymnastics teachers,

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Rahim Thawer and Maryam Khan eds., "Queer and Muslim:...

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2026/07/30

Rahim Thawer and Maryam Khan's new edited volumeQueer and Muslim: On Faith, Family and Healing(U Regina Press, 2026) is a powerful anthology that brings together writers, activists, and scholars who meditate, reflect, and share stories of queer Muslim life, that contains the complexity of rage, grief and resilience but also joy, love, and healing. In the process, Thawer and Khan deconstruct the limitations of western centric formulations of mental health and wellness, which is often individualistic

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55:18

The Letters of Emily Dickinson

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2026/07/30

Emily Dickinson was a letter writer before she was a poet. And it was through letters that she shared prose reflections–alternately humorous, provocative, affectionate, and philosophical–with her extensive community. While her letters often contain poems, and some letters consist entirely of a single poem, they also constitute a rich genre all their own. Through her correspondence, Dickinson appears in her many facets as a reader, writer, and thinker; social commentator and comedian; friend,

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Steven K. Green, "American Infidelity: The Gilded Age...

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2026/07/29

Today I'm speaking with Steven K. Green, Fred H. Paulus Professor of Law and Affiliated Professor of History and Religious Studies at Willamette University. We are discussing his book,American Infidelity: The Gilded Age Battle Over Freethought, Free Love, and Feminism(Oxford University Press, 2026). Since the first permanent Protestant settlement in Jamestown in 1607, Protestant Christianity has waxed and waned through a series of revivals, migrations, and challenges from alternative faiths like

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Susannah Heschel and Sarah Imhoff, "The Woman...

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2026/07/29

The Woman Question in Jewish Studies(Princeton UP, 2025)is acritical look at the difficulties women face in the field of Jewish studies, drawing on quantitative data, personal stories, and the gendered history of the field.The field of Jewish studies has expanded significantly in recent years, with increasing numbers of women entering the field. These scholars have brought new perspectives from studies of women, gender, and sexuality. Yet they have also faced institutional and individual

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Claire Hubbard-Hall, "Her Secret Service: The...

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2026/07/27

Since the inception of the Secret Service Bureau back in 1909, women have worked at the very heart of British secret intelligence - yet their contributions have been all but written out of history. Now, drawing on private and previously-classified documents, leading historian Claire Hubbard-Hall brings their gripping true stories to life inHer Secret Service: The Forgotten Women of British Intelligence(Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2024). From encoding orders and decrypting enemy messages to penning

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Galina Bogatova, "Casting War As Love: Russian...

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2026/07/25

Casting War As Love: Russian Colonialism in Familial Terms (Palgrave Macillan, 2026) by Dr. Galina Bogatova unpacks the hidden imperial logic behind Russia’s dominance over its neighbors, revealing how the Kremlin weaponizes "familial system" myths to justify control, including its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. From the Tsarist empire to Putin’s digital propaganda, Dr. Bogatova examines how Russia portrays itself as a disciplining “father,” a self-sacrificing “mother,” or an “elder brother”

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Elisabeth van Houts, "Empress Matilda: Queen of the...

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2026/07/25

Born in 1102, Empress Matilda combined the blood of two dynasties: the house of Wessex and their conquerors, the dukes of Normandy. As a widowed German empress, she was named as heir successor by her father, Henry I. But, after his death in 1135, Matilda’s place on the English throne was usurped by her cousin, Stephen of Blois. Civil war followed, and she ruled the south-west of England in opposition.InEmpress Matilda: Queen of the Romans, Ruler of the English(Yale University Press, 2026),

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Debolina Dutta, "A Jurisprudence of Conversations:...

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2026/07/22

Grounded in empirical studies, this bookis both a history of the emergence of feminist jurisprudence inpost-colonial India and a model of innovative legal research. The book inaugurates a creative practice of scholarly activism that engages a new way of thinking about law and feminist jurisprudence, one that is geared to acknowledge and take responsibility for the hierarchies in Indian academic practices. Its method of conversation and accountability continues the feminist tradition of taking

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