One of the things we learned in Feminist Technology is that the gender politics (sexism and feminism) of technologies are not only inscribed into products through their dimensions, weight, features, and […]
Category: author commentary
Health Care, Hughes, and the The Huffington Post
Richard Hughes, author of the book Christian America and the Kingdom of God, keeps up the blogging momentum with a new column at The Huffington Post. “… the continued flap over […]
Interview with Dirty Words author Robin Jensen
The Critical Lede just launched a podcast interview with Robin Jensen, author of the new book Dirty Words: The Rhetoric of Public Sex Education, 1870-1924. Dirty Words analyzes how health professionals […]
Richard Hughes on How We Can Save Our Country
Richard Hughes, author of Christian America and the Kingdom of God, started a new three-part series at The Huffington Post titled “Echoes from Gettysburg.” How We Can Save Our Country–Part 1 posted […]
Man in pale suit versus the abuse of corporate power: Theodore Dreiser in the Great Depression by Jude Davies
A photograph* among the papers of the novelist Theodore Dreiser shows him in November 1931, during a visit to the coal mining area of Harlan in Kentucky. The seated Dreiser […]
CHE Q&A w/ Dr. Vang
The Chronicle of Higher Education‘s PageView column recently profiled Chia Youyee Vang’s new book Hmong America: Reconstructing Community in Diaspora, including a short interview with Dr. Vang. “Q. As a member of the […]
The Makers of the Sacred Harp
The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress recently hosted a lecture by David Warren Steel, author of the new book The Makers of the Sacred Harp. Steel discusses the […]
Scandalous Men/Scandalized Publics by Joseph Valente
The first chapter of my new book, The Myth of Manliness in Irish National Culture, 1880-1922, re-imagines the political legend and legacy of Charles Stewart Parnell, the great late-Victorian Irish […]
Archival Discovery by Robin Jensen
My favorite memory of collecting data for Dirty Words: The Rhetoric of Public Sex Education, 1870-1924 took place in the Social Welfare History Archives at the University of Minnesota. I […]
North Carolina Public Radio interviews Faith Holsaert
On January 3, 2011, Faith Holsaert, co-editor of the new book Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC, was a guest on WUNC’s radio program The State […]
The College Bowl Color Line by Charles H. Martin
‘Tis the season, for Christmas presents, holiday cheer, New Year’s resolutions—and college football’s never-ending parade of bowl games (35 in all this year)! When I began the research for […]
Inside Higher Ed interviews Pay for Play author
Ronald A. Smith, author of the new book Pay for Play: A History of Big-Time College Athletic Reform, was interviewed for the January 3, 2011, edition of Inside Higher Ed. […]