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New Books in Gender

Interviews with Scholars of Gender about their New BooksSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/gender-studies

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Marsha Gordon, "Becoming the Ex-Wife: The Unconventional Life and Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott" (U California Press, 2023)

Marsha Gordon, "Becoming the Ex-Wife: The Unconventional Life and Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott" (U California Press, 2023)

Credited with popularizing the label "ex-wife" in 1929, Ursula Parrott wrote provocatively about divorcées, career women... Read more

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Sophie Bjork-James, "The Divine Institution: White Evangelicalism's Politics of the Family" (Rutgers UP, 2021)

Sophie Bjork-James, "The Divine Institution: White Evangelicalism's Politics of the Family" (Rutgers UP, 2021)

The Divine Institution: White Evangelicalism's Politics of the Family (Rutgers University Press, 2021) provides an accou... Read more

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