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Anna Gjika, "When Rape Goes Viral: Youth and Sexual Assault in the Digital Age" (Univ of California Press, 2023)
Jun 18 • 52m
Jenn Hobbs, "Bodily Fluids, Fluid Bodies and International Politics: Feminist Technoscience, Biopolitics and Security" (Bristol University Press, 2024)
Jun 7 • 1h 4m
Tamara Lea Spira, "Queering Families: Reproductive Justice in Precarious Times" (U California Press, 2025)
May 19 • 1h 6m
Lucia Soriano, "Embodying Normalcy: Women's Work in Neoliberal Times" (Lexington Books, 2024)
May 15 • 55m
David Resnick, "Empowered or Abused: The Bible's Plan to Stop Battlefield Rape and Reduce Sexual Abuse" (BfoT, 2025)
May 3 • 28m
Mehrdad Alipour, "Negotiating Homosexuality in Islam: A Legal-hermeneutical Examination of Modern Shīʿī Discourse" (Brill, 2024)
Apr 26 • 1h 43m
Alexander Stoffel, "Eros and Empire: The Transnational Struggle for Sexual Freedom in the United States" (Stanford UP, 2025)
Apr 25 • 1h 3m
Tadashi Ishikawa, "Geographies of Gender: Family and Law in Imperial Japan and Colonial Taiwan" (Cambridge UP., 2024)
Apr 24 • 1h 6m
Howard Chiang, "After Eunuchs: Science, Medicine, and the Transformation of Sex in Modern China" (Columbia UP, 2018)
Apr 23 • 1h 12m
Talia Mae Bettcher, "Beyond Personhood: An Essay in Trans Philosophy" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
Apr 20 • 52m
Lived Experience and the Search for Truth: Revisiting Catholic Sexual Morality
Apr 5 • 1h 13m
Julia Jarcho, "Throw Yourself Away: Writing and Masochism" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Mar 29 • 54m
Sex and Love with Robots and Chatbots
Mar 26 • 1h 5m
Eliot Schrefer, "Queer Ducks (and Other Animals): The Natural World of Animal Sexuality" (Clarion Books, 2022)
Mar 6 • 1h 12m
Hallie Franks, "Ancient Sculpture and Twentieth-Century American Womanhood: Venus Envy" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Mar 2 • 59m
Dan Archer, "Voices from Nepal: Uncovering Human Trafficking through Comics Journalism" (U Toronto Press, 2024)
Jan 31 • 47m
Ryan Tan Wander, "Settler Tenses: Queer Time and Literatures of the American West" (Texas Tech UP, 2024)
Jan 23 • 1h 10m
Katharine E. McGregor, "Systemic Silencing: Activism, Memory, and Sexual Violence in Indonesia" (U Wisconsin Press, 2023)
Jan 19 • 48m
Amrita Narayanan, "Women's Sexuality and Modern India: In a Rapture of Distress" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Jan 18 • 55m
Eva Payne, "Empire of Purity: The History of Americans' Global War on Prostitution" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Jan 18 • 1h 9m
Cordelia Fine, "Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society" (Norton, 2018)
Jan 11 • 1h 15m
Lucas Wilson, "Shame-Sex Attraction: Survivors' Stories of Conversion Therapy" (Jessica Kingsley, 2025)
Jan 9 • 57m
James Welker, "Transfiguring Women in Late Twentieth-Century Japan: Feminists, Lesbians, and Girls' Comics Artists and Fans" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)
Dec 28, 2024 • 56m
Nathanael Homewood, "Seductive Spirits: Deliverance, Demons, and Sexual Worldmaking in Ghanaian Pentecostalism" (Stanford UP, 2024)
Dec 15, 2024 • 1h 4m
Katya Motyl, "Embodied Histories: New Womanhood in Vienna, 1894–1934" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Dec 14, 2024 • 53m
Rachel Hope Cleves, "Lustful Appetites: An Intimate History of Good Food and Wicked Sex" (Polity, 2024)
Dec 3, 2024 • 52m
Sam Langsdale, "Searching for Feminist Superheroes: Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Marvel Comics" (U Texas Press, 2024)
Nov 30, 2024 • 56m
Caroline Séquin, "Desiring Whiteness: A Racial History of Prostitution in France and Colonial Senegal, 1848-1950" (Cornell UP, 2024)
Nov 29, 2024 • 1h 40m
Sabrina Strings, "The End of Love: Racism, Sexism, and the Death of Romance" (Beacon Press, 2024)
Nov 27, 2024 • 37m
Julia Kelto Lillis, "Virgin Territory: Configuring Female Virginity in Early Christianity" (U California Press, 2022)
Nov 25, 2024 • 1h 4m
Park Jeong-Mi, "The State's Sexuality: Prostitution and Postcolonial Nation Building in South Korea" (U California Press, 2024)
Nov 19, 2024 • 1h 3m
George Severs, "Radical Acts: HIV/AIDS Activism in Late Twentieth-Century England" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Nov 19, 2024 • 50m
Joanne Rosenthal, "Sex: Jewish Positions" (Hirmer Verlag, 2024)
Nov 4, 2024 • 42m
Jonathan A. Allan, "Uncut: A Cultural Analysis of the Foreskin" (U Regina Press, 2024)
Nov 2, 2024 • 32m
Alistaire Tallent, "Fictions of Pleasure: The Putain Memoirs of Prerevolutionary France" (U Delaware Press, 2023)
Oct 31, 2024 • 49m
Jeremy Chow and Shelby Johnson, "Unsettling Sexuality: Queer Horizons in the Long Eighteenth Century" (U Delaware Press, 2024)
Oct 19, 2024 • 52m
Risa Cromer, "Conceiving Christian America: Embryo Adoption and Reproductive Politics" (NYU Press, 2023)
Oct 9, 2024 • 1h 21m
Courtney Ann Irby, "Guiding God's Marriage: Faith and Social Change in Premarital Counseling" (NYU Press, 2024)
Sep 27, 2024 • 1h 4m
Caterina Fugazzola, "Words Like Water: Queer Mobilization and Social Change in China" (Temple UP, 2023)
Sep 26, 2024 • 59m
Aideen O’Shaughnessy, "Embodying Irish Abortion Reform: Bodies, Emotions, and Feminist Activism" (Bristol UP, 2024)
Sep 21, 2024 • 47m
Jennifer Redmond and Mary McAuliffe, "The Politics of Gender and Sexuality in Modern Ireland: A Reader" (Four Courts Press, 2024)
Sep 14, 2024 • 58m
A Letter from Jesus (with Dann Aungst)
Sep 12, 2024 • 1h 0m
Chris Richardson, "Batman and the Joker: Contested Sexuality in Popular Culture" (Routledge, 2020)
Sep 3, 2024 • 54m
Matt Brim, "Poor Queer Studies: Confronting Elitism in the University" (Duke UP, 2020)
Aug 28, 2024 • 1h 8m
Regina G. Kunzel, "In the Shadow of Diagnosis: Psychiatric Power and Queer Life" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Aug 25, 2024 • 52m
Francisca Yuenki Lai, "Maid to Queer: Asian Labor Migration and Female Same-Sex Desires" (Hong Kong UP, 2021)
Aug 25, 2024 • 1h 3m
Wesley G. Phelps, "Before Lawrence v. Texas: The Making of a Queer Social Movement" (U Texas Press, 2023)
Aug 24, 2024 • 1h 0m
Javier Fernández-Galeano, "Queer Obscenity: Erotic Archives in Dictatorial Spain" (Stanford UP, 2024)
Aug 16, 2024 • 1h 5m
He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters
Aug 15, 2024 • 55m
Dianne Elise, "Creativity and the Erotic Dimensions of the Analytic Field" (Routledge, 2019)
Aug 13, 2024 • 1h 6m
Emily Cousens, "Trans Feminist Epistemologies in the US Second Wave" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
Aug 6, 2024 • 46m
Anne Gray Fischer, "The Streets Belong to Us: Sex, Race, and Police Power from Segregation to Gentrification" (UNC Press, 2022)
Aug 5, 2024 • 1h 14m
Alexander Sasha Kondakov, "Violent Affections: Queer Sexuality, Techniques of Power, and Law in Russia" (UCL Press, 2022)
Jul 24, 2024 • 1h 3m
Sarah Milton, "Ageing and New Intimacies: Gender, Sexuality and Temporality in an English Salsa Scene" (Manchester UP, 2024)
Jul 17, 2024 • 53m
James Mallery, "City of Vice: Transience and San Francisco's Urban History, 1848-1917" (U Nebraska Press, 2024)
Jul 16, 2024 • 1h 5m
Kevin Leo Nadal, "Queering Law and Order: LGBTQ Communities and the Criminal Justice System" (Lexington Book, 2020)
Jul 14, 2024 • 38m
Avgi Saketopoulou, "Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia" (NYU Press, 2023)
Jul 8, 2024 • 1h 8m
Donna Drucker, "Contraception: A Concise History" (The MIT Press, 2020)
Jul 8, 2024 • 23m
Darshana Sreedhar Mini, "Rated A: Soft-Porn Cinema and Mediations of Desire in India" (U California Press, 2024)
Jul 7, 2024 • 1h 21m
Jared Stearns, "Pure: The Sexual Revolutions of Marilyn Chambers" (Headpress, 2024)
Jun 14, 2024 • 1h 4m
Elisa Camiscioli, "Selling French Sex: Prostitution, Trafficking, and Global Migrations" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Jun 9, 2024 • 1h 8m
Emma Heaney, "Feminism Against Cisness" (Duke UP, 2024)
Jun 4, 2024 • 46m
Sarah Nooter, "How to Be Queer: An Ancient Guide to Sexuality" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Jun 2, 2024 • 32m
Aslı Zengin, "Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World" (Duke UP, 2024)
May 31, 2024 • 59m
Narkis Alon, "Present Woman: Our Pleasure, Our Power" (2023)
May 22, 2024 • 44m
Anjali Arondekar, "Abundance: Sexuality’s History" (Duke UP, 2023)
May 21, 2024 • 52m
Kate Morgan, "The Walnut Tree: Women, Violence and the Law – A Hidden History" (Mudlark, 2024)
May 19, 2024 • 50m
Tessa Winkelmann, "Dangerous Intercourse: Gender and Interracial Relations in the American Colonial Philippines, 1898–1946" (Cornell UP, 2023)
May 15, 2024 • 1h 14m
Ketaki Chowkhani, "The Limits of Sexuality Education: Love, Sex, and Adolescent Masculinities in Urban India" (Routledge, 2024)
May 13, 2024 • 27m
Pamela Aronson and Matthew R. Fleming, "Gender Revolution: How Electoral Politics and #MeToo are Reshaping Everyday Life" (Routledge, 2023)
May 12, 2024 • 1h 4m
Knocking at the Brothel Door (with Michael John Cusick)
May 9, 2024 • 48m
Javier Samper Vendrell, "The Seduction of Youth: Print Culture and Homosexual Rights in the Weimar Republic" (U Toronto Press, 2020)
May 6, 2024 • 1h 5m
Matilda Bickers, "Working It: Sex Workers on the Work of Sex" (PM Press, 2023)
May 5, 2024 • 38m
Allison Schrager, "An Economist Walks Into A Brothel And Other Unexpected Places to Understand Risk" (Portfolio, 2019)
Apr 30, 2024 • 40m
Andil Gosine, "Nature's Wild: Love, Sex, and Law in the Caribbean" (Duke UP, 2021)
Apr 29, 2024 • 1h 6m
Julie Peakman, "Libertine London: Sex in the Eighteenth-Century Metropolis" (Reaktion, 2024)
Apr 22, 2024 • 40m
Heather Parry, "Electric Dreams: Sex Robots and Failed Promises of Capitalism" (404 Ink, 2024)
Apr 20, 2024 • 38m
Elyse Ambrose, "A Blackqueer Sexual Ethics: Embodiment, Possibility, and Living Archive" (T&T Clark, 2024)
Apr 11, 2024 • 35m
Erin L. Durban, "The Sexual Politics of Empire: Postcolonial Homophobia in Haiti" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
Apr 2, 2024 • 1h 3m
Laura Menin, "Quest for Love in Central Morocco: Young Women and the Dynamics of Intimate Lives" (Syracuse UP, 2024)
Mar 23, 2024 • 33m
Jennifer Evans, "Men's Sexual Health in Early Modern England" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)
Mar 2, 2024 • 48m
Jessica Hinchy, "Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India: The Hijra, c.1850-1900" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Feb 5, 2024 • 1h 4m
William R. Jankowiak, "Illicit Monogamy: Inside a Fundamentalist Mormon Community" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Jan 29, 2024 • 1h 9m
Chelsea Schields, "Offshore Attachments: Oil and Intimacy in the Caribbean" (U California Press, 2023)
Jan 21, 2024 • 56m
Sujin Lee, "Wombs of Empire: Population Discourses and Biopolitics in Modern Japan" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Jan 17, 2024 • 58m
Judith Surkis, "Sex, Law, and Sovereignty in French Algeria, 1830-1930" (Cornell UP, 2019)
Jan 12, 2024 • 1h 0m
Women and the Body in Buddhism
Jan 7, 2024 • 1h 12m
Elizabeth Eva Leach, "Medieval Sex Lives: The Sounds of Courtly Intimacy on the Francophone Borders" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Jan 6, 2024 • 38m
Matthew Gutmann, "Are Men Animals? How Modern Masculinity Sells Men Short" (Basic Books, 2019)
Jan 2, 2024 • 1h 2m
Stephen M. Engel and Timothy S. Lyle, "Disrupting Dignity: Rethinking Power and Progress in LGBTQ Lives" (NYU Press, 2021)
Jan 2, 2024 • 58m
John Christopoulos, "Abortion in Early Modern Italy" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Jan 1, 2024 • 56m
Jafari S. Allen, "There's a Disco Ball Between Us: A Theory of Black Gay Life" (Duke UP, 2022)
Dec 25, 2023 • 1h 10m
Timothy McCall, "Making the Renaissance Man: Masculinity in the Courts of Renaissance Italy" (Reaktion Books, 2023)
Dec 25, 2023 • 1h 4m
Nobuko Ishitate-Okunomiya Yamasaki, "Prostitutes, Hostesses, and Actresses at the Edge of the Japanese Empire" (Routledge, 2023)
Dec 25, 2023 • 1h 7m
Anne E. Linton, "Unmaking Sex: The Gender Outlaws of Nineteenth-Century France" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Dec 22, 2023 • 1h 2m
Emily Horowitz, "From Rage to Reason: Why We Need Sex Crime Laws Based on Facts, Not Fear" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Dec 20, 2023 • 1h 0m
Ervin Malakaj, "Anders als Die Andern" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2023)
Dec 11, 2023 • 37m
Simon Joyce, "LGBT Victorians: Sexuality and Gender in the Nineteenth-Century Archives" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Dec 5, 2023 • 1h 14m
Fae Garland and Mitchell Travis, "Intersex Embodiment: Legal Frameworks Beyond Identity and Patienthood" (Bristol UP, 2022)
Nov 26, 2023 • 56m
Terah J. Stewart, "Sex Work on Campus" (Routledge, 2022)
Nov 17, 2023 • 1h 17m
Heather Smith-Cannoy et al., "Sex Trafficking and Human Rights: The Status of Women and State Responses" (Georgetown UP, 2022)
Nov 16, 2023 • 58m
Barry Reay and Nina Attwood, "Dirty Books: Erotic Fiction and the Avant-garde in Mid-century Paris and New York" (Manchester UP, 2023)
Nov 10, 2023 • 45m
I Kick and I Fly
Nov 9, 2023 • 52m
This Will Change Your Perspective on James Bond
Nov 7, 2023 • 1h 17m
B Camminga, "Transgender Refugees and the Imagined South Africa: Bodies Over Borders and Borders Over Bodies" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2018)
Nov 6, 2023 • 51m
Gitte Marianne Hansen and Fabio Gygi, "The Work of Gender: Service, Performance and Fantasy in Contemporary Japan" (NIAS, 2022)
Nov 4, 2023 • 38m
Akiko Takeyama, "Involuntary Consent: The Illusion of Choice in Japan’s Adult Video Industry" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Nov 2, 2023 • 58m
Margaret K. Nelson, "Keeping Family Secrets: Shame and Silence in Memoirs from the 1950s" (NYU Press, 2022)
Oct 24, 2023 • 36m
Livia Arndal Woods, "Pregnancy in the Victorian Novel" (Ohio State UP, 2023)
Oct 18, 2023 • 39m
Stephanie R. Larson, "What It Feels Like: Visceral Rhetoric and the Politics of Rape Culture" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2021)
Oct 8, 2023 • 47m
Karen Weingarten, "Pregnancy Test" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Sep 27, 2023 • 40m
Tracy Rutler, "Queering the Enlightenment: Kinship and Gender in Eighteenth-Century French Literature" (Oxford UP/Liverpool UP, 2021)
Sep 23, 2023 • 56m
Dana Berkowitz et al. ed., "Male Femininities" (NYU Press, 2023)
Sep 20, 2023 • 45m
Hongwei Bao, "Contemporary Chinese Queer Performance" (Routledge, 2022)
Sep 18, 2023 • 38m
Beverley Chalmers, "Child Sex Abuse: Power, Profit, Perversion" (Grosvenor House, 2022)
Sep 16, 2023 • 55m
Jacob Bloomfield, "Drag: A British History" (U California Press, 2023)
Sep 13, 2023 • 42m
A Better Way to Buy Books
Sep 12, 2023 • 34m
Tingting Hu, "Victims, Perpetrators and Professionals: The Representation of Women in Chinese Crime Films" (Liverpool UP, 2021)
Sep 9, 2023 • 33m
Alexander Stille, "The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune" (FSG, 2023)
Sep 4, 2023 • 44m
Donna J. Drucker, "Fertility Technology" (MIT Press, 2023)
Aug 29, 2023 • 30m
Whisper Networks: A Discussion with Carrie Ann Johnson
Aug 17, 2023 • 57m
Kris Marsh, "The Love Jones Cohort: Single and Living Alone in the Black Middle Class" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Aug 12, 2023 • 1h 4m
Sophie Bjork-James, "The Divine Institution: White Evangelicalism's Politics of the Family" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
Aug 12, 2023 • 55m
Charlotte Karem Albrecht, "Possible Histories: Arab Americans and the Queer Ecology of Peddling" (U California Press, 2023)
Aug 11, 2023 • 1h 7m
Petra Bueskens, "Modern Motherhood and Women’s Dual Identities: Rewriting the Sexual Contract" (Routledge, 2018)
Jul 27, 2023 • 1h 9m
Rahil Roodsaz, "Sexual Self-Fashioning: Iranian Dutch Narratives of Sexuality and Belonging" (Berghahn Books, 2022)
Jul 26, 2023 • 36m
Kathleen Lubey, "What Pornography Knows: Sex and Social Protest Since the Eighteenth Century" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Jul 24, 2023 • 1h 11m
Monica Liu, "Seeking Western Men: Email-Order Brides Under China's Global Rise" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Jul 19, 2023 • 48m
Michele Meek, "Consent Culture and Teen Films: Adolescent Sexuality in US Movies" (Indiana UP, 2023)
Jul 17, 2023 • 47m
Sara Moslener, "Virgin Nation: Sexual Purity and American Adolescence" (Oxford UP, 2015)
Jul 15, 2023 • 56m
Robert Mills, "Seeing Sodomy in the Middle Ages" (U Chicago Press, 2015)
Jul 9, 2023 • 53m
Sarah Banet-Weiser and Kathryn C. Higgins, "Believability: Sexual Violence, Media, and the Politics of Doubt" (Polity Press, 2023)
Jul 5, 2023 • 52m
Glen W. Olson and Terry Lee Brussel-Rogers, "Fifty Years of Polyamory in America: A Guided Tour of a Growing Movement" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
Jul 4, 2023 • 32m
Peggy O'Donnell Heffington, "Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother" (Seal Press, 2023)
Jul 2, 2023 • 50m
Avgi Saketopoulou and Ann Pellegrini, "Gender Without Identity" (Unconscious in Translation, 2023)
Jun 27, 2023 • 1h 17m
Thomas Arentzen, et al., "Orthodox Tradition and Human Sexuality" (Fordham UP, 2022)
Jun 24, 2023 • 55m
Amy Tooth Murphy et al., "New Directions in Queer Oral History: Archives of Disruption" (Routledge, 2022)
Jun 23, 2023 • 52m
Lisabeth During, "The Chastity Plot" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Jun 21, 2023 • 38m
Orit Avishai, "Queer Judaism: LGBT Activism and the Remaking of Jewish Orthodoxy in Israel" (NYU Press, 2023)
Jun 18, 2023 • 52m
Grace Elisabeth Lavery, "Pleasure and Efficacy: Of Pen Names, Cover Versions, and Other Trans Techniques" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Jun 15, 2023 • 33m
The Gentrification of Queer Desire
May 27, 2023 • 58m
After the Pill: A Conversation with Mary Eberstadt
May 23, 2023 • 48m
Srila Roy, "Changing the Subject: Feminist and Queer Politics in Neoliberal India" (Duke UP, 2022)
May 22, 2023 • 1h 17m
Julia Serano, "Sexed Up: How Society Sexualizes Us, and How We Can Fight Back" (Seal Press, 2022)
May 20, 2023 • 59m
Victoria Bateman, "Naked Feminism: Breaking the Cult of Female Modesty" (Polity Press, 2023)
May 16, 2023 • 1h 6m
Rupal Oza, "Semiotics of Rape: Sexual Subjectivity and Violation in Rural India" (Duke UP, 2022)
May 6, 2023 • 49m
Sita Balani, "Deadly and Slick: Sexual Modernity and the Making of Race" (Verso, 2023)
May 5, 2023 • 48m
Akiko Takeyama, "Staged Seduction: Selling Dreams in a Tokyo Host Club" (Stanford UP, 2016)
Apr 11, 2023 • 1h 6m
Monica Liu, "Seeking Western Men: Email-Order Brides Under China's Global Rise" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Apr 2, 2023 • 42m
Susan Burgess, "LGBT Inclusion in American Life: Pop Culture, Political Imagination, and Civil Rights" (NYU Press, 2023)
Mar 30, 2023 • 54m
E. Cram, "Violent Inheritance: Sexuality, Land, and Energy in Making the North American West" (U California Press, 2022)
Mar 25, 2023 • 1h 26m
Melanie Heath, "Forbidden Intimacies: Polygamies at the Limits of Western Tolerance" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Mar 21, 2023 • 48m
Mejdulene Bernard Shomali, "Between Banat: Queer Arab Critique and Transnational Arab Archives" (Duke UP, 2023)
Mar 17, 2023 • 47m
Measure for Measure Episode 7: Kinsey
Mar 8, 2023 • 23m
Caroline Rusterholz, "Women's Medicine: Family Planning and British Female Doctors in Transnational Perspective, 1920-70" (Manchester UP, 2021)
Mar 4, 2023 • 32m
Who Do You Think You Are?: Thorny Questions about Sex, Identity, and Catholic Doctrine
Mar 2, 2023 • 1h 16m
Celeste Vaughan Curington et al., "The Dating Divide: Race and Desire in the Era of Online Romance" (U California Press, 2021)
Mar 1, 2023 • 49m
Affective Masculinities
Feb 27, 2023 • 19m
Jane Lasonder, "Red Alert: The Inside Story of Prostitution and Human Trafficking" (Scholten Uitgeverij BV, 2016)
Feb 22, 2023 • 1h 2m
Kevin Blackburn, "The Comfort Women of Singapore in History and Memory" (National U of Singapore Press, 2022)
Feb 17, 2023 • 44m
Mary C. Flannery, "Practicing Shame: Female Honour in Later Medieval England" (Manchester UP, 2019)
Feb 15, 2023 • 43m
Rhiannon Graybill, "Texts After Terror: Rape, Sexual Violence, and the Hebrew Bible" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Feb 15, 2023 • 51m
Shailaja Paik, "The Vulgarity of Caste: Dalits, Sexuality, and Humanity in Modern India" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Feb 12, 2023 • 48m
Thomas L Murray, "Making Nice with Naughty: An Intimacy Guide for the Rule-Following, Organized, Perfectionist, Practical, and Color-Within-The-Line Types" (2022)
Feb 7, 2023 • 1h 5m
Sennett and Foucault on Sexuality and Solitude (1979)
Feb 2, 2023 • 1h 8m
Robert O'Mochain and Yuki Ueno, "Sexual Abuse and Education in Japan: In the (Inter)National Shadows" (Routledge, 2022)
Feb 1, 2023 • 57m
Shailaja Paik, "The Vulgarity of Caste: Dalits, Sexuality, and Humanity in Modern India" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Jan 28, 2023 • 1h 3m
Emily A. Owens, "Consent in the Presence of Force: Sexual Violence and Black Women's Survival in Antebellum New Orleans" (UNC Press, 2023)
Jan 19, 2023 • 1h 32m
Mairead Sullivan, "Lesbian Death: Desire and Danger Between Feminist and Queer" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
Jan 1, 2023 • 57m
Matthew Hall et al., "Digital Gender-Sexual Violations: Violence, Technologies, Motivations" (Routledge, 2022)
Dec 16, 2022 • 1h 10m
Beverley Chalmers, "Betrayed: Child Sex Abuse in the Holocaust" (Grosvenor House, 2020)
Dec 15, 2022 • 1h 4m
Nicholas de Villiers, "Cruisy, Sleepy, Melancholy: Sexual Disorientation in the Films of Tsai Ming-Liang" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
Dec 14, 2022 • 59m
Avgi Saketopoulou, "Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia" (NYU Press, 2023)
Dec 13, 2022 • 1h 38m
Marla Segol, "Kabbalah and Sex Magic: A Mythical-Ritual Genealogy" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2022)
Dec 12, 2022 • 57m
Jennifer Eun-Jung Row, "Queer Velocities: Time, Sex, and Biopower on the Early Modern Stage" (Northwestern UP, 2022)
Nov 28, 2022 • 49m
Eva Illouz, "The End of Love: A Sociology of Negative Relations" (Polity Press, 2021)
Nov 23, 2022 • 37m
On Sigmund Freud's "Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality"
Nov 18, 2022 • 32m
Sophie Lewis, "Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation" (Verso, 2022)
Nov 18, 2022 • 1h 0m
Oliver Davis and Tim Dean, "Hatred of Sex" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)
Nov 17, 2022 • 1h 7m
Guido Ruggiero, "Love and Sex in the Time of Plague: A Decameron Renaissance" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Nov 16, 2022 • 54m
Howard Chiang, "Transtopia in the Sinophone Pacific" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Nov 14, 2022 • 59m
Peter Rehberg, "Hipster Porn: Queer Masculinities and Affective Sexualities in the Fanzine 'Butt'" (Routledge, 2022)
Nov 4, 2022 • 1h 8m
Krystale E. Littlejohn, "Just Get on the Pill: The Uneven Burden of Reproductive Politics" (U California Press, 2021)
Oct 27, 2022 • 1h 2m
Amina Yaqin, "Gender, Sexuality and Feminism in Pakistani Urdu Writing" (Anthem, 2022)
Oct 26, 2022 • 55m
Sabine Frühstück, "Gender and Sexuality in Modern Japan" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Oct 21, 2022 • 2h 18m
Reflections on Chinese Sexuality: A Conversation with Weiyi Hu
Oct 21, 2022 • 21m
Mansi Choksi, "The Newlyweds: Rearranging Marriage in Modern India" (Atria Books, 2022)
Oct 20, 2022 • 42m
Kirsty Loehr, "A Short History of Queer Women" (Oneworld Publications, 2022)
Oct 17, 2022 • 33m
Jamieson Webster, "Disorganisation & Sex" (Divided Publishing, 2022)
Oct 14, 2022 • 44m
Heather Berg, "Porn Work: Sex, Labor, and Late Capitalism" (UNC Press, 2021)
Sep 27, 2022 • 1h 12m
Chris Belcher, "Pretty Baby: A Memoir" (Simon and Schuster, 2022)
Sep 16, 2022 • 45m
Ethan Czuy Levine, "Rape by the Numbers: Producing and Contesting Scientific Knowledge about Sexual Violence" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
Sep 13, 2022 • 59m
L. L. Wynn and Angel M. Foster, "Sex in the Middle East and North Africa" (Vanderbilt UP, 2022)
Sep 8, 2022 • 1h 5m
Sandra Eder, "How the Clinic Made Gender: The Medical History of a Transformative Idea" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Aug 30, 2022 • 51m
Jennifer Jill Fellows and Lisa Smith, "Gender, Sex, and Tech!: An Intersectional Feminist Guide" (Canadian Scholars, 2022)
Aug 29, 2022 • 50m
James Welker, "Queer Transfigurations: Boys Love Media in Asia" (U Hawaii Press, 2022)
Aug 25, 2022 • 1h 10m
On Jewish Sexual Ethics
Aug 25, 2022 • 36m
Shrayana Bhattacharya, "Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India's Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence" (Harper Collins, 2021)
Aug 22, 2022 • 53m
Jamieson Webster, "Disorganisation & Sex" (Divided Publishing, 2022)
Aug 22, 2022 • 55m
Stephen Hewer. "Beyond Exclusion: Intersections of Ethnicity, Sex, and Society Under English Law in Medieval Ireland" (Brepols, 2022)
Aug 17, 2022 • 50m
Jordan Osserman, "Circumcision on the Couch: The Cultural, Psychological, and Gendered Dimensions of the World's Oldest Surgery" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Aug 15, 2022 • 56m
Joanna Bourke, "Disgrace: Global Reflections on Sexual Violence" (Reaktion Books, 2022)
Aug 12, 2022 • 49m
Oliver Davis and Tim Dean, "Hatred of Sex" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)
Aug 11, 2022 • 50m
Maya Mikdashi, "Sextarianism: Sovereignty, Secularism, and the State in Lebanon" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Aug 4, 2022 • 1h 5m
Charlie Jeffries, "Teenage Dreams: Girlhood Sexualities in the U.S. Culture Wars" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
Aug 3, 2022 • 1h 2m
Paisley Currah, "Sex Is as Sex Does: Governing Transgender Identity" (NYU Press, 2022)
Jul 29, 2022 • 32m
Sarah Lamb, "Being Single in India: Stories of Gender, Exclusion, and Possibility" (U California Press, 2022)
Jul 26, 2022 • 52m
Exiled in America: About the Lives of Registered Sex Offenders
Jul 22, 2022 • 34m
Rachel Krantz, "Open: An Uncensored Memoir of Love, Liberation and Non-Monogamy" (Harmony, 2022)
Jul 19, 2022 • 50m
Beverley Chalmers, "Birth, Sex and Abuse: Women's Voices Under Nazi Rule" (Grosvenor House, 2015)
Jul 15, 2022 • 1h 0m
Laurie Marhoefer, "Racism and the Making of Gay Rights: A Sexologist, His Student, and the Empire of Queer Love" (U Toronto Press, 2022)
Jul 14, 2022 • 55m
Reena Kukreja, "Why Would I Be Married Here?: Marriage Migration and Dispossession in Neoliberal India" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Jul 12, 2022 • 51m
Holly Welker, "Revising Eternity: 27 Latter-Day Saint Men Reflect on Modern Relationships" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
Jul 8, 2022 • 47m
Elsa L. Fan, "Commodities of Care: The Business of HIV Testing in China" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
Jul 4, 2022 • 54m
Jason D. Spraitz and Kendra N. Bowen, "Institutional Sexual Abuse in the #metoo Era" (Southern Illinois UP, 2021)
Jul 1, 2022 • 57m
Sextuality
Jun 29, 2022 • 13m
Lust
Jun 24, 2022 • 16m
Anne Gray Fischer, "The Streets Belong to Us: Sex, Race, and Police Power from Segregation to Gentrification" (UNC Press, 2022)
Jun 23, 2022 • 1h 13m
Agustín Fuentes, "Race, Monogamy, and Other Lies They Told You: Busting Myths about Human Nature" (Second Edition) (U California Press, 2022)
Jun 22, 2022 • 47m
Jennifer D. Sciubba, "8 Billion and Counting: How Sex, Death, and Migration Shape Our World" (W. W. Norton, 2022)
Jun 22, 2022 • 57m
Lilianne Milgrom, "L' Origine: The Secret Life of the World's Most Erotic Masterpiece" (Girl Friday Books, 2021)
Jun 15, 2022 • 47m
Moises Lino e Silva, "Minoritarian Liberalism: A Travesti Life in a Brazilian Favela" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Jun 10, 2022 • 1h 12m
Alexander Monea, "The Digital Closet: How the Internet Became Straight" (MIT Press, 2022)
May 31, 2022 • 1h 4m
Steven G. Epstein, "The Quest for Sexual Health: How an Elusive Ideal Has Transformed Science, Politics, and Everyday Life" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
May 30, 2022 • 1h 1m
Ashley M. Williard, "Engendering Islands: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Violence in the Early French Caribbean" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
May 30, 2022 • 48m
Boys Love and Japanese Queer Popular Culture across Southeast Asia
May 26, 2022 • 23m
Stephen Vider, "The Queerness of Home: Gender, Sexuality, and the Politics of Domesticity After World War II" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
May 25, 2022 • 1h 19m
Postscript: Post-Roe Politics
May 12, 2022 • 1h 19m
Ellen S. More, "The Transformation of American Sex Education: Mary Calderone and the Fight for Sexual Health" (NYU Press, 2022)
Apr 29, 2022 • 1h 8m
Clayton Howard, "The Closet and the Cul-de-Sac: The Politics of Sexual Privacy in Northern California" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2019)
Apr 25, 2022 • 1h 5m
Rama Srinivasan, "Courting Desire: Litigating for Love in North India" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
Mar 31, 2022 • 1h 6m
Rachel E. Gross, "Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage" (W. W. Norton, 2022)
Mar 30, 2022 • 46m
Alison Donnell, "Creolized Sexualities: Undoing Heteronormativity in the Literary Imagination of the Anglo-Caribbean" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
Mar 30, 2022 • 27m
Lucy Cooke, "Bitch: On the Female of the Species" (Basic Books, 2022)
Mar 28, 2022 • 48m
K. S. Batmanghelichi, "Revolutionary Bodies: Technologies of Gender, Sex, and Self in Contemporary Iran" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Mar 25, 2022 • 54m
Heather R. Hlavka and Sameena Mulla, "Bodies in Evidence: Race, Gender, and Science in Sexual Assault Adjudication" (NYU Press, 2021)
Mar 24, 2022 • 1h 7m
Serena Owusua Dankwa, "Knowing Women: Same-sex Intimacy, Gender, and Identity in Postcolonial Ghana" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Mar 24, 2022 • 1h 3m
Kecia Ali, ed., "Half of Faith: American Muslim Marriage and Divorce in the Twenty-First Century" (Open BU, 2021)
Mar 18, 2022 • 1h 15m
Matthew C. Ehrlich, "Dangerous Ideas on Campus: Sex, Conspiracy, and Academic Freedom in the Age of JFK" (University of Illinois Press, 2021)
Mar 10, 2022 • 1h 2m
Sherry Scott, "Playhouses: Sexuality and Fundamentalism" (Black Rose Writing, 2022)
Mar 8, 2022 • 44m
Tina Sikka, "Sex, Consent and Justice: A New Feminist Framework" (Edinburgh UP, 2021)
Mar 7, 2022 • 37m
Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández, "Archiving Mexican Masculinities in Diaspora" (Duke UP, 2021)
Feb 23, 2022 • 1h 17m
Sara Matthiesen, "Reproduction Reconceived: Family Making and the Limits of Choice After Roe V. Wade" (UC Press, 2021)
Feb 16, 2022 • 1h 1m
Patricia Tilburg, "Working Girls: Sex, Taste, and Reform in the Parisian Garment Trades, 1880-1919" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Feb 16, 2022 • 1h 4m
Michelle Millar Fisher and Amber Winick, "Designing Motherhood: Things that Make and Break Our Births" (MIT Press, 2021)
Feb 15, 2022 • 1h 6m
Hillary Jordan and Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan, "Anonymous Sex" (Simon and Schuster, 2022)
Feb 14, 2022 • 41m
Nina Power, "What Do Men Want?: Masculinity and Its Discontents" (Penguin, 2022)
Feb 14, 2022 • 1h 2m
Matthias Roberts, "Beyond Shame: Creating a Healthy Sex Life on Your Own Terms" (Fortress Press, 2020)
Feb 11, 2022 • 43m
J. M. West, "Madame Bessie Jones: Her Life and Times" (Local History Press, 2021)
Feb 10, 2022 • 34m
Daniel Groll, "Conceiving People: Genetic Knowledge and the Ethics of Sperm and Egg Donation" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Feb 1, 2022 • 1h 6m
Jane Lilly López, "Unauthorized Love: Mixed-Citizenship Couples Negotiating Intimacy, Immigration, and the State" (Stanford UP, 2021)
Feb 1, 2022 • 1h 8m
Mir Yarfitz, "Impure Migration: Jews and Sex Work in Golden Age Argentina" (Rutgers UP, 2019)
Jan 28, 2022 • 1h 12m
Camilla Fitzsimons et al., "Repealed: Ireland's Unfinished Fight for Reproductive Justice" (Pluto Press, 2021)
Jan 27, 2022 • 1h 1m
Katherine Harvey, "The Fires of Lust: Sex in the Middle Ages" (Reaktion Books, 2021)
Jan 26, 2022 • 38m
Viktoriya Kim et al. "The Politics of International Marriage in Japan" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
Jan 3, 2022 • 53m
Noam Sachs Zion, "Sanctified Sex: The Two-Thousand-Year Jewish Debate on Marital Intimacy" (Jewish Publication Society, 2021)
Dec 31, 2021 • 1h 11m
Bogdan Popa, "De-Centering Queer Theory: Communist Sexuality in the Flow During and After the Cold War" (Manchester UP, 2021)
Dec 17, 2021 • 57m
Jacob Johanssen, "Fantasy, Online Misogyny and the Manosphere: Male Bodies of Dis/Inhibition" (Routledge, 2021)
Dec 14, 2021 • 1h 9m
Jade S. Sasser, "On Infertile Ground: Population Control and Women's Rights in the Era of Climate Change" (NYU Press, 2018)
Dec 13, 2021 • 54m
Postscript: SB-8, Dobbs, and the Politics of Abortion
Dec 10, 2021 • 54m
Barbara H. Rosenwein, "Love: A History in Five Fantasies" (Polity Press, 2021)
Dec 7, 2021 • 45m
Sonia Gollance, "It Could Lead to Dancing: Mixed-Sex Dancing and Jewish Modernity" (Stanford UP, 2021)
Dec 7, 2021 • 1h 22m
Rana M. Jaleel, "The Work of Rape" (Duke UP, 2021)
Nov 24, 2021 • 36m
Gila Ashtor, "Homo Psyche: On Queer Theory and Erotophobia" (Fordham UP, 2021)
Nov 22, 2021 • 1h 13m
Scott Cunningham, "Causal Inference: The Mixtape" (Yale UP, 2021)
Nov 19, 2021 • 1h 8m
Nicole C. Bourbonnais, "Birth Control in the Decolonizing Caribbean: Reproductive Politics and Practice on Four Islands, 1930–1970" (Cambridge UP, 2016)
Nov 19, 2021 • 52m
Karla Huebner, "Magnetic Woman: Toyen and the Surrealist Erotic" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2020)
Nov 16, 2021 • 1h 11m
April Sizemore-Barber, "Prismatic Performances: Queer South Africa and the Fragmentation of the Rainbow Nation" (U Michigan Press, 2020)
Nov 15, 2021 • 1h 3m
Robert Brooks, "Artificial Intimacy: Virtual Friends, Digital Lovers, and Algorithmic Matchmakers" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Nov 15, 2021 • 1h 3m
Julia Bahner, "Sexual Citizenship and Disability: Understanding Sexual Support in Policy, Practice and Theory" (Routledge, 2021)
Nov 12, 2021 • 44m
Darian Leader, "Jouissance: Sexuality, Suffering and Satisfaction" (Polity Press, 2021)
Nov 12, 2021 • 55m
Sima Shakhsari, "Politics of Rightful Killing: Civil Society, Gender, and Sexuality in Weblogistan" (Duke UP, 2020)
Nov 10, 2021 • 1h 6m
Sonja Tiernan, "The History of Marriage Equality in Ireland: A Social Revolution Begins" (Manchester UP, 2020)
Oct 19, 2021 • 55m
Kemi Adeyemi et al., "Queer Nightlife" (U Michigan Press, 2021)
Oct 18, 2021 • 53m
A Conversation About Reproductive Health and Abortion Studies
Oct 14, 2021 • 1h 8m
Danish Sheikh, "Love and Reparation: A Theatrical Response to the Section 377 Litigation in India" (Seagull Books, 2021)
Sep 20, 2021 • 49m
Tina Schermer Sellers, "Shameless Parenting: Everything You Need to Raise Shame-free Confident Kids & Heal Your Shame Too!" (2021)
Sep 17, 2021 • 48m
Virginia Miller, "Child Sexual Abuse Inquiries and the Catholic Church: Reassessing the Evidence" (Firenze UP, 2021)
Sep 13, 2021 • 58m
Porn, Privacy and Pain: The Rise of Image-based Abuse in Asia
Sep 10, 2021 • 28m
Judith Levine and Erica Meiners, "The Feminist and the Sex Offender: Confronting Sexual Harm, Ending State Violence" (Verso, 2020)
Sep 1, 2021 • 1h 5m
Lorna N. Bracewell, "Why We Lost the Sex Wars: Sexual Freedom in the #MeToo Era" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
Aug 26, 2021 • 42m
Hannah McCann, "Queering Femininity: Sexuality, Feminism and the Politics of Presentation" (Routledge, 2019)
Aug 26, 2021 • 31m
Sarah J. Zimmerman, "Militarizing Marriage: West African Soldiers' Conjugal Traditions in Modern French Empire" (Ohio UP, 2021)
Aug 20, 2021 • 1h 19m
Nicola J. Smith, "Capitalism's Sexual History" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Aug 17, 2021 • 1h 4m
Páraic Kerrigan, "LGBTQ Visibility, Media and Sexuality in Ireland" (Routledge, 2020)
Aug 11, 2021 • 1h 15m
Gowri Vijayakumar, "At Risk: Indian Sexual Politics and the Global AIDS Response" (Stanford UP, 2021)
Aug 10, 2021 • 1h 2m
Megan Goodwin, "Abusing Religion: Literary Persecution, Sex Scandals, and American Minority Religions" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
Aug 9, 2021 • 57m
Kanika Batra, "Worlding Postcolonial Sexualities: Publics, Counterpublics, Human Rights" (Routledge, 2021)
Aug 5, 2021 • 1h 9m
Vaibhav Saria, "Hijras, Lovers, Brothers: Surviving Sex and Poverty in Rural India" (Fordham UP, 2021)
Jul 29, 2021 • 58m
Eszter Varsa, "Protected Children, Regulated Mothers: Gender and the 'Gypsy Question' in State Care in Postwar Hungary, 1949–1956" (Central European UP, 2020)
Jul 26, 2021 • 49m
Chris A. Barcelos, "Distributing Condoms and Hope: The Racialized Politics of Youth Sexual Health" (U California Press, 2020)
Jul 23, 2021 • 1h 0m
Megan D. McFarlane, "Militarized Maternity: Experiencing Pregnancy in the U. S. Armed Forces" (U California Press, 2021)
Jul 19, 2021 • 56m
Karma R. Chávez, "The Borders of AIDS: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance" (U Washington Press, 2021)
Jul 16, 2021 • 1h 5m
Lindy McDougall, "The Perfect Vagina: Cosmetic Surgery in the Twenty-First Century" (Indiana UP, 2021)
Jul 14, 2021 • 43m
Nafiseh Ghafournia, "Faith in Freedom: Muslim Immigrant Women Experiences of Domestic Violence" (Melbourne UP, 2019)
Jul 9, 2021 • 44m
Navaneetha Mokkil, "Unruly Figures: Queerness, Sex Work, and the Politics of Sexuality in Kerala" (U Washington Press, 2019)
Jul 8, 2021 • 48m
Stefan Vogler, "Sorting Sexualities: Expertise and the Politics of Legal Classification" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Jul 7, 2021 • 1h 10m
Allison Alexy, "Intimate Disconnections: Divorce and the Romance of Independence in Contemporary Japan" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
Jul 2, 2021 • 54m
Heather Douglas, "Women, Intimate Partner Violence, and the Law" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Jul 1, 2021 • 1h 9m
J. Laite, "Common Prostitutes and Ordinary Citizens: Commercial Sex in London, 1885-1960" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2012)
Jun 30, 2021 • 1h 5m
stef m. shuster, "Trans Medicine: The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender" (NYU Press, 2021)
Jun 30, 2021 • 53m
Claire L. Jones, "The Business of Birth Control: Contraception and Commerce in Britain before the Sexual Revolution" (Manchester UP, 2020)
Jun 29, 2021 • 48m
Leah DeVun, "The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Jun 29, 2021 • 57m
Jane Gallop, "Sexuality, Disability, and Aging: Queer Temporalities of the Phallus" (Duke UP, 2019)
Jun 28, 2021 • 1h 0m
Jane Ward, "The Tragedy of Heterosexuality" (NYU Press, 2020)
Jun 22, 2021 • 1h 10m
Jane Ward, "The Tragedy of Heterosexuality" (NYU Press, 2020)
Jun 22, 2021 • 45m
Gemma Commane, "Bad Girls, Dirty Bodies: Sex, Performance and Safe Femininity" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Jun 22, 2021 • 58m
No Choice: Why Is It So Hard to Get an Abortion in the South?
Jun 22, 2021 • 25m
Raven Bowen, "Work, Money and Duality: Trading Sex As a Side-Hustle" (Policy Press, 2021)
Jun 22, 2021 • 1h 5m
Natalie West and Tina Horn, "We Too: Essays on Sex Work and Survival" (Feminist Press, 2021)
Jun 21, 2021 • 55m
Lisa Z. Sigel, "The People's Porn: A History of Handmade Pornography in America" (Reaktion Books, 2020)
Jun 18, 2021 • 1h 11m
Erika Dyck and Maureen Lux, "Challenging Choices: Canada's Population Control in the 1970s" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2020)
Jun 15, 2021 • 48m
Rachel Stuart on the Unmet Health Needs of London Sex Workers
Jun 8, 2021 • 1h 11m
Axel Englund, "Deviant Opera: Sex, Power, and Perversion on Stage" (U California Press, 2020)
Jun 7, 2021 • 43m
Judith Surkis, "Sex, Law, and Sovereignty in French Algeria, 1830-1930" (Cornell UP, 2019)
Jun 4, 2021 • 1h 0m
Francine Tremblay, "Organizing for Sex Workers’ Rights in Montréal: Resistance and Advocacy" (Lexington Books, 2020)
Jun 4, 2021 • 1h 6m
Sergio Rigoletto, "Le norme traviate: Saggi sul genere e sulla sessualità nel cinema e nella televisione italiana" (Meltemi Publishers, 2020)
May 31, 2021 • 1h 2m
Julia Laite, "The Disappearance of Lydia Harvey: A true story of sex, crime and the meaning of justice" (Profile Books, 2021)
May 31, 2021 • 51m
Hsiao-wen Cheng, "Divine, Demonic, and Disordered: Women Without Men in Song Dynasty China" (U Washington Press, 2021)
May 28, 2021 • 1h 4m
Tom Barker, "Aggressors in Blue: Exposing Police Sexual Misconduct" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
May 26, 2021 • 1h 7m
Jeffrey Merrick, "Sodomy in Eighteenth-Century France" (Cambridge Scholars, 2020)
May 24, 2021 • 1h 15m
Vanessa Carlisle, "Take Me with You" (Running Wild, 2021)
May 21, 2021 • 1h 7m
L. Ayu Saraswati, "Pain Generation: Social Media, Feminist Activism, and the Neoliberal Selfie" (NYU Press, 2021)
May 19, 2021 • 1h 9m
T. Sanders et al., "Paying for Sex in a Digital Age: US and UK Perspectives" (Routledge, 2020)
May 10, 2021 • 1h 18m
Dilara Yarbrough, "Nothing About Us Without Us: Reading Protests against Oppressive Knowledge Production as Guidelines for Solidarity Research" (2019)
May 6, 2021 • 1h 7m
Katie Cruz, "The Work of Sex Work: Prostitution, Unfreedom and Criminality at Work" (2020)
Apr 30, 2021 • 1h 4m
Nikki Lane, "The Black Queer Work of Ratchet: Race, Gender, Sexuality, and the (Anti)Politics of Respectability" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019)
Apr 29, 2021 • 1h 14m
Mytheli Sreenivas, "Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India" (U Washington Press, 2021)
Apr 28, 2021 • 1h 12m
Iván Monalisa Ojeda, "Las Biuty Queens: Stories" (Astra House, 2021)
Apr 27, 2021 • 1h 2m
Bernadette Barton, "The Pornification of America: How Raunch Culture Is Ruining Our Society" (NYU Press, 2021)
Apr 23, 2021 • 41m
Stephen K. Stein, "Sadomasochism and the BDSM Community in the United States: Kinky People Unite" (Routledge, 2021)
Apr 21, 2021 • 54m
Lorna N. Bracewell, "Why We Lost the Sex Wars: Sexual Freedom in the #MeToo Era" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
Apr 21, 2021 • 1h 15m
John Geoffrey Scott and Christian Grov, "The Routledge Handbook of Male Sex Work, Culture, and Society" (Routledge, 2021)
Apr 16, 2021 • 1h 6m
Y. Yvon Wang, "Reinventing Licentiousness: Pornography and Modern China" (Cornell UP, 2021)
Apr 16, 2021 • 1h 16m
Jon Birger, "Make Your Move: The New Science of Dating and Why Women Are in Charge" (Benbella, 2021)
Apr 15, 2021 • 1h 0m
Maria San Filippo, "Provocauteurs and Provocations: Screening Sex in 21st Century Media" (Indiana UP, 2021)
Apr 13, 2021 • 1h 13m
Sasha Roseneil, "The Tenacity of the Couple-Norm: Intimate Citizenship Regimes in a Changing Europe." (UCL Press, 2020)
Apr 7, 2021 • 52m
Siobhán Hearne, "Policing Prostitution: Regulating the Lower Classes in Late Imperial Russia" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Apr 7, 2021 • 58m
Stuart P. Green, "Criminalizing Sex: A Unified Liberal Theory" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Apr 7, 2021 • 1h 0m
Roundtable on Asian Migrant Sex Work
Apr 6, 2021 • 1h 3m
Agnieszka Kościańska, "Gender, Pleasure, and Violence: The Construction of Expert Knowledge of Sexuality in Poland" (Indiana UP, 2021)
Mar 31, 2021 • 1h 12m
Carol J. Adams, "The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory" (Bloomsbury, 2015)
Mar 19, 2021 • 1h 19m
Camille Melissa, "Whoretography" (Apple Books, 2017)
Mar 18, 2021 • 1h 11m
Kate Lister, "A Curious History of Sex" (Unbound, 2020)
Mar 8, 2021 • 52m
Francisco J. Galarte, "Brown Trans Figurations: Rethinking Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Chicanx/Latinx Studies" (U of Texas Press, 2021)
Mar 5, 2021 • 1h 11m
Meenakshi Gigi Durham, "MeToo: How Rape Culture in the Media Impacts Us All" (Polity, 2021)
Feb 15, 2021 • 55m
Alyson K. Spurgas, "Diagnosing Desire: Biopolitics and Femininity Into the Twenty-First Century" (Ohio State UP, 2020)
Dec 28, 2020 • 1h 21m
Marta V. Vicente, "Debating Sex and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Spain" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Dec 23, 2020 • 50m
Kim T. Gallon, "Pleasure in the News: African American Readership and Sexuality in the Black Press" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
Dec 22, 2020 • 1h 11m
Sexuality, Gender, and Race in the Middle Ages: A Discussion with Roland Betancourt
Dec 15, 2020 • 1h 8m
Mithu Sanyal, "Rape: From Lucretia to #MeToo" (Verso, 2019)
Dec 11, 2020 • 39m
Lessie Jo Frazier, "Desired States: Sex, Gender, and Political Culture in Chile" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
Dec 7, 2020 • 1h 15m
Tom Rastrelli, "Confessions of a Gay Priest: A Memoir of Sex, Love, Abuse, and Scandal in the Catholic Seminary" (U Iowa Press, 2020)
Nov 30, 2020 • 1h 1m
Chris Richardson, "Batman and the Joker: Contested Sexuality in Popular Culture" (Routledge, 2020)
Nov 25, 2020 • 51m
Ellen Lamont, "The Mating Game: How Gender Still Shapes How We Date" (U California Press, 2020)
Nov 23, 2020 • 48m
Sexuality on Evangelical Campuses: A Conversation with Dana M. Malone
Nov 6, 2020 • 1h 13m
Judith G. Coffin, "Sex, Love, and Letters: Writing Simone de Beauvoir" (Cornell UP, 2020)
Oct 26, 2020 • 40m
Sara Luna, "Love in the Drug War: Selling Sex and Finding Jesus on the Mexico-US Border" (U Texas Press, 2020)
Oct 23, 2020 • 41m
Janet Jakobsen, "The Sex Obsession: Perversity and Possibility in American Politics" (NYU Press, 2020)
Oct 19, 2020 • 57m
Julie Hardwick, "Sex in an Old Regime City: Young Workers and Intimacy in France, 1660-1789" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Oct 13, 2020 • 1h 0m
Durba Mitra, "Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Sep 21, 2020 • 45m
Dana M. Malone, "From Single to Serious: Relationships, Gender, and Sexuality on American Evangelical Campuses" (Rutgers UP, 2018)
Sep 9, 2020 • 1h 13m
Marion Bower, "The Life and Work of Joan Riviere: Freud, Klein and Female Sexuality" (Routledge, 2018)
Sep 2, 2020 • 57m
Arti Dhand, "Woman as Fire, Woman as Sage: Sexual Ideology in the Mahabharata" (SUNY Press, 2008)
Aug 24, 2020 • 41m
Danielle Knafo, "The New Sexual Landscape and Contemporary Psychoanalysis" (Confer Books, 2020)
Aug 17, 2020 • 56m
Donna Drucker, "Contraception: A Concise History" (The MIT Press, 2020)
Aug 6, 2020 • 25m
Natalia Milanesio, "¡Destape! Sex, Democracy, and Freedom in Postdictatorial Argentina" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2019)
Aug 5, 2020 • 1h 4m
Melissa J. Wilde, "Birth Control Battles: How Race and Class Divided American Religion" (U California Press, 2020)
Aug 3, 2020 • 1h 5m
Paulo Drinot, "The Sexual Question: A History of Prostitution in Peru, 1850s-1950s" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Jul 29, 2020 • 1h 1m
L. L. Wynn, "Love, Sex, and Desire in Modern Egypt: Navigating the Margins of Respectability" (U Texas Press, 2018)
Jul 17, 2020 • 48m
Pernilla Myrne, "Female Sexuality in the Early Medieval Islamic World: Gender and Sex in Arabic Literature" (I. B. Tauris, 2020)
Jul 10, 2020 • 53m
Josh Cerretti, "Abuses of the Erotic: Militarizing Sexuality in the Post-Cold War United States" (U Nebraska Press, 2020)
Jun 26, 2020 • 1h 1m
Laura A. Dean, "Diffusing Human Trafficking Policy in Eurasia" (Policy Press, 2020)
Jun 23, 2020 • 1h 3m
Taylor Petrey, "Tabernacles of Clay: Sexuality and Gender in Modern Mormonism" (UNC Press, 2020)
Jun 9, 2020 • 39m
Dale Cockrell, "Everybody’s Doin’ It: Sex, Music, and Dance in New York, 1840-1917" (Norton, 2019)
Jun 2, 2020 • 1h 0m
Jyoti Puri, "Sexual States: Governance and the Struggle over the Antisodomy Law in India" (Duke UP, 2016)
May 1, 2020 • 55m
J. S. Hirsch and S. Khan, "Sexual Citizens: A Landmark Study of Sex, Power, and Assault on Campus" (Norton, 2020)
Apr 6, 2020 • 1h 1m
Megan Burke, "When Time Warps: The Lived Experience of Gender, Race, and Sexual Violence" (U Minnesota Press, 2019)
Feb 20, 2020 • 57m
Todd Shepard, "Sex, France, and Arab Men, 1962-1979" (U Chicago Press, 2017)
Feb 18, 2020 • 1h 3m
Angela Jones, "Camming: Money, Power, and Pleasure in the Sex Work Industry" (NYU Press, 2020)
Feb 14, 2020 • 52m
Allison Ochs, "Would I Have Sexted Back in the 80s?" (Amsterdam UP, 2019)
Jan 31, 2020 • 1h 7m
Rosine Jozef Perelberg, "Psychic Bisexuality: A British-French Dialogue" (Routledge, 2018)
Jan 27, 2020 • 53m
Andrew Israel Ross, "Public City/Public Sex: Homosexuality, Prostitution, and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris" (Temple UP, 2019)
Dec 31, 2019 • 39m
Elizabeth Bernstein, "Brokered Subjects: Sex, Trafficking and the Politics of Freedom" (U Chicago, 2018)
Nov 21, 2019 • 1h 18m
Jessica Hinchy, "Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India: The Hijra, c.1850-1900" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Oct 24, 2019 • 1h 4m
Nora Jaffary, "Reproduction and its Discontents in Mexico: Childbirth and Contraception from 1750 to 1905" (UNC Press, 2016)
Sep 26, 2019 • 1h 10m
Benjamin Kahan, "The Book of Minor Perverts: Sexology, Etiology, and the Emergences of Sexuality" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
Sep 24, 2019 • 44m
Thomas A. Foster, "Rethinking Rufus: Sexual Violations of Enslaved Men" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
Jul 19, 2019 • 42m
Ann Powers, "Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music" (Dey St. Books, 2017)
Jul 17, 2019 • 1h 3m
Marc Stein, "Sexual Injustice: Supreme Court Decisions from Griswold to Roe" (UNC Press, 2013)
Jul 12, 2019 • 37m
Chinyere K. Osuji, "Boundaries of Love: Interracial Marriage and the Meaning of Race" (NYU Press, 2019)
Jul 11, 2019 • 55m
Greta LaFleur, "The Natural History of Sexuality in Early America" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2018)
Jul 4, 2019 • 1h 20m
Amanda Littauer, "Bad Girls: Young Women, Sex, and Rebellion before the Sixties" (UNC Press, 2015)
Jun 26, 2019 • 1h 18m
Carrie Baker, "Fighting the US Youth Sex Trade: Gender, Race, and Politics" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
May 8, 2019 • 1h 3m
Richa Kaul Padte, "Cyber Sexy: Rethinking Pornography" (Penguin Viking, 2018)
Mar 19, 2019 • 43m
Trent MacNamara, "Birth Control and American Modernity: A History of Popular Ideas" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Mar 4, 2019 • 52m
Dagmar Herzog, "Unlearning Eugenics: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Disability in Post-Nazi Europe" (U Wisconsin Press, 2018)
Jan 25, 2019 • 42m
Daina Ramey Berry and Leslie Harris, "Sexuality and Slavery: Reclaiming Intimate Histories in the Americas" (U Georgia Press, 2018)
Jan 24, 2019 • 1h 2m
Arnika Fuhrmann, "Ghostly Desires: Queer Sexuality and Vernacular Buddhism in Contemporary Thai Cinema" (Duke UP, 2016)
Jan 22, 2019 • 40m
Howard Chiang, "After Eunuchs: Science, Medicine, and the Transformation of Sex in Modern China" (Columbia UP, 2018)
Dec 17, 2018 • 1h 8m
Lily Wong, “Transpacific Attachments: Sex Work, Media Networks, and Affective Histories of Chineseness” (Columbia UP, 2018)
Aug 20, 2018 • 50m
Lisa M. Todd, “Sexual Treason in Germany during the First World War” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)
Jun 22, 2018 • 1h 2m
Nicole Von Germeten, “Profit and Passion: Transactional Sex in Colonial Mexico” (U California Press, 2018)
Jun 7, 2018 • 1h 2m
Amy Sueyoshi, “Discriminating Sex: White Leisure and the Making of the American ‘Oriental'” (U Illinois Press, 2018)
Jun 1, 2018 • 1h 8m
Mehammed Mack, “Sexagon: Muslims, France, and the Sexualization of National Culture” (Fordham UP, 2017)
Mar 29, 2018 • 1h 19m
George Paul Meiu, “Ethno-erotic Economies: Sexuality, Money and Belonging in Kenya” (U Chicago Press, 2017)
Mar 26, 2018 • 53m
Marie Griffith, “Moral Combat: How Sex Divided American Christians and Fractured American Politics” (Basic Books, 2017)
Feb 20, 2018 • 57m
Sarah Fishman, “From Vichy to the Sexual Revolution: Gender and Family Life in Postwar France” (Oxford UP, 2017)
Dec 29, 2017 • 1h 1m
Judith Giesberg, “Sex and the Civil War: Soldiers, Pornography, and the Making of American Morality” (UNC Press, 2017)
Nov 13, 2017 • 1h 2m
Regine Jean-Charles, “Conflict Bodies: The Politics of Rape Representation in the Francophone Imaginary” (OSU Press, 2014)
Oct 26, 2017 • 42m
Naoko Wake, “Private Practices: Harry Stack Sullivan, the Science of Homosexuality, and American Liberalism” (Rutgers UP, 2011)
Aug 1, 2017 • 58m
Lisa Wade, “American Hookup: The New Culture of Sex on Campus” (Norton, 2017)
Apr 6, 2017 • 45m
Gregory Mitchell, “Tourist Attractions: Performing Race and Masculinity in Brazil’s Sexual Economy” (U. Chicago Press, 2015)
Mar 13, 2017 • 55m
Anthony M. Petro, “After the Wrath of God: AIDS, Sexuality, and American Religion” (Oxford UP, 2015)
Dec 2, 2016 • 52m
LaShawn Harris, “Sex Workers, Psychics and Number Runners: Black Women in New York City’s Underground Economy” (U. of Illinois Press, 2016)
Nov 3, 2016 • 54m
Galit Atlas, “The Enigma of Desire: Sex, Longing, and Belonging in Psychoanalysis” (Routledge, 2015)
Jun 2, 2016 • 59m
Susannah Drake, “Slandering the Jew: Sexuality and Difference in Early Christian Texts” (U of Pennsylvania Press, 2013)
Apr 11, 2016 • 33m
Afsaneh Najmabadi, "Professing Selves: Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran" (Duke UP, 2013)
Dec 30, 2015 • 56m
Angelique V. Nixon, “Resisting Paradise: Tourism, Diaspora, and Sexuality in Caribbean Culture” (U Press of Mississippi, 2015)
Dec 2, 2015 • 46m
Nancy Bauer, “How to Do Things With Pornography” (Harvard UP, 2015)
Nov 15, 2015 • 1h 12m
Juanita De Barros, “Reproducing the British Caribbean: Sex, Gender, and Population Politics after Slavery” (UNC Press, 2014)
Oct 6, 2015 • 57m
James E. Strick, “Wilhelm Reich, Biologist” (Harvard UP, 2015)
Oct 6, 2015 • 1h 9m
Phil Tiermeyer, “Plane Queer: Labor, Sexuality, and AIDS in the History of Male Flight Attendants” (U of California Press, 2013)
Sep 14, 2015 • 39m
Preston Lauterbach, “Beale Street Dynasty: Sex, Song, and the Struggle for the Soul of Memphis” (Norton, 2015)
Aug 4, 2015 • 36m
Jonathan Eig, “The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution” (Norton, 2014)
Jul 3, 2015 • 50m
Eva Illouz, “Hard-Core Romance: Fifty Shades of Grey, Best-Sellers, and Society” (U of Chicago Press, 2014)
Apr 27, 2015 • 1h 3m
Leigh Ann Wheeler, “How Sex Became a Civil Liberty” (Oxford University Press, 2013)
Apr 6, 2015 • 1h 7m
Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, “Classroom Wars: Language, Sex, and the Making of Modern Political Culture” (Oxford University Press, 2015)
Mar 26, 2015 • 51m
Donna J. Drucker, “The Classification of Sex: Alfred Kinsey and the Organization of Knowledge” (University of Pittsburg Press, 2014)
Mar 10, 2015 • 1h 1m
Edward Ross Dickinson, “Sex, Freedom and Power in Imperial Germany 1880-1914” (Cambridge UP, 2014)
Nov 18, 2014 • 1h 14m
Stephen Legg, “Prostitution and the Ends of Empire: Scale, Governmentalities, and Interwar India” (Duke UP, 2014)
Oct 7, 2014 • 50m
Katherine Frank, “Plays Well in Groups: A Journey Through the World of Group Sex” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2013)
Sep 15, 2014 • 32m
Cymene Howe, “Intimate Activism: The Struggle for Sexual Rights in Postrevolutionary Nicaragua” (Duke UP, 2013)
Jun 10, 2014 • 1h 11m
Clare Haru Crowston, “Credit, Fashion, Sex: Economies of Regard in Old Regime France”
May 29, 2014 • 1h 0m
Denise Brennan, “Life Interrupted: Trafficking into Forced Labor in the United States” (Duke UP, 2014)
May 20, 2014 • 1h 6m
Michael Salter, “Organised Sexual Abuse” (Routledge, 2012)
May 7, 2014 • 51m
Sa’diyya Shaikh, “Sufi Narratives of Intimacy: Ibn Arabi, Gender and Sexuality” (University of North Carolina Press, 2012)
Apr 29, 2014 • 55m
Julie Berebitsky, “Sex and the Office: A History of Gender, Power and Desire” (Yale University Press, 2012)
Dec 11, 2013 • 1h 4m
Elizabeth H. Pleck, “Not Just Roommates: Cohabitation after the Sexual Revolution” (Chicago UP, 2012)
May 31, 2013 • 47m
Helen Longino, “Studying Human Behavior: How Scientists Investigate Aggression and Sexuality” (University of Chicago Press, 2013)
May 15, 2013 • 1h 4m
Dan Healey, “Bolshevik Sexual Forensics: Diagnosing Disorder in the Clinic and Courtroom, 1917-1939” (Northern Illinois UP, 2009)
Nov 26, 2012 • 1h 23m
Julietta Hua, “Trafficking Women’s Human Rights” (University of Minnesota Press, 2011)
Oct 13, 2012 • 41m
Amy Stanley, “Selling Women: Prostitution, Markets, and the Household in Early Modern Japan” (University of California Press, 2012)
Sep 19, 2012 • 1h 6m
Heather Munro Prescott, “The Morning After: A History of Emergency Contraception in the United States” (Rutgers UP, 2011)
Apr 16, 2012 • 43m
Elizabeth Heineman, “Before Porn Was Legal: The Erotica Empire of Beate Uhse” (University of Chicago Press, 2011)
Sep 2, 2011 • 1h 6m
Elaine Tyler May, “America and the Pill: A History of Promise, Peril, and Liberation” (Basic Books, 2010)
Sep 4, 2010 • 57m
Kristin Celello, “Making Marriage Work: A History of Marriage and Divorce in the 20th-Century U.S.” (University of North Carolina Press, 2009)
Mar 27, 2009 • 1h 3m
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