Gender and Stem Cell Research in South Korea
A review of Science, Nation, and Women’s Bodies: Economies of Reproductive Tissues and Stem Cell Research in South Korea, by Yeonbo Jeong. Feminist scholarship has…
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Ecowomanist Literature in the Chinese Diaspora
A review of Imagining the Decolonial Spirit: Ecowomanist Literature and Criticism in the Chinese Diaspora, by Xiumei Pu. Xiumei Pu’s dissertation consists of two main…
The US Congress and Bioethics, 1960-1975
A review of Biomedical Advances Confront Society: Congressional Hearings and the Development of Bioethics, 1960-1975, by Frazier Benya. In her dissertation, Frazier Benya offers a…
Social Workers and the Creation of the Pathological Unwed Mother
A review of A Certain Kind of Girl: Social Workers and the Creation of the Pathological Unwed Mother, 1918-1940, by Cara Kinzelman Cara Kinzelman begins…
Korean Adoption & Orphans
A review of Genealogies of Korean Adoption: American Empire, Militarization, and Yellow Desire, by SooJin Pate. SooJin Pate’s dissertation is groundbreaking not only for the…
“Political Hinduism” & Material Culture in North India
A review of In the Name of Krishna: The Cultural Landscape of a North Indian Pilgrimage Town, by Sugata Ray. This study examines the consolidation…
Tiananmen Square as a Realm of Memory
A review of Constructing Tiananmen Square as a Realm of Memory: National Salvation, Revolutionary Tradition, and Political Modernity in Twentieth-Century China, by Tsung-Yi Pan. Tsung-Yi…
Practice & Conflict in Nuclear Transplantation, 1925-70
A review of A “Fantastical” Experiment: Motivations, Practice, and Conflict in the History of Nuclear Transplantation, 1925-1970, by Nathan Paul Crowe. In the late 1990s,…
Biomimicry & Bioengineering
A review of Reanimating Bios: Biomimetic Science and Empire, by Elizabeth Randolph Johnson. When I was about twelve years old, I dreamed — and, I…
“All India” Politics, 1940-1956
A review of Unity, Democracy, and the All India Phenomenon, 1940-1956, by Emily Rook-Koepsel. Emily Rook-Koepsel’s dissertation provides a fresh approach to the genealogy of…