Courtney Brannon Donoghue, "The Value Gap: Female-Driven Films from Pitch to Premiere" (U Texas Press, 2023)

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Alison Stone, "Women Philosophers in Nineteenth-Century Britain" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Many women wrote philosophy in nineteenth-century Britain, and they wrote across the full range of philosophical topics. Yet these important women thinkers have been left out of the philosophical canon and many of them are barely known today. The aim of Women Philosophers in Nine ...  Show more

 . 55min 53sec
Kate Clancy, "Period: The Real Story of Menstruation" (Princeton UP, 2023)

Menstruation is something half the world does for a week at a time, for months and years on end, yet it remains largely misunderstood. Scientists once thought of an individual's period as useless, and some doctors still believe it's unsafe for a menstruating person to swim in the ...  Show more

 . 28min 21sec

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