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…
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…
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…
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…
Korean Adoption & Orphans
A review of Genealogies of Korean Adoption: American Empire, Militarization, and Yellow Desire, by SooJin Pate. SooJin Pate’s dissertation is…
“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.…
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…
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…
Biomimicry & Bioengineering
A review of Reanimating Bios: Biomimetic Science and Empire, by Elizabeth Randolph Johnson. When I was about twelve years old,…
“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…