{"podcast":{"title":"New Books in Women's History","slug":"new-books-in-women-s-history-4096544","podcast_index_feed_id":4096544,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/NBN5185885598","website_url":"https://newbooksnetwork.com","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/8c1cce70-e7c0-11eb-b746-c7e42408e0c6/image/408fcda0603b5d9e2b5decf747722d4d.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"New Books Network","episode_count":1866,"summary":"This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field. Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: ⁠newbooksnetwork.com⁠ Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to get informative, engaging content straight to your inbox: ⁠https://newbooksnetwork.substack.com/⁠ Follow us on Instagram and Bluesky to learn about more our latest interviews: @newbooksnetwork","last_synced_at":"2026-07-20T16:17:46.820872+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-women-s-history-4096544"},"episode":{"title":"Hilary Matfess, \"After Liberation: Women and the Politics of Expectations in Rebel-to-Party Transitions\" (Stanford UP, 2026)","slug":"hilary-matfess-after-liberation-women-and-the-politics-of-expectations-in-rebel-to-party-transitions-stanford-up-2026","published_at":"2026-04-05T08:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-women-s-history-4096544/hilary-matfess-after-liberation-women-and-the-politics-of-expectations-in-rebel-to-party-transitions-stanford-up-2026","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-women-s-history-4096544","url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK1324204735.mp3?updated=1775204967","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK1324204735.mp3?updated=1775204967","summary":"War offers opportunities for women to liberate their communities and build a better life for themselves. When women join rebel groups, they often take on new roles, cultivate new social networks, and develop new skills. These rebel women often gain the respect of rebel leaders, their comrades-in-arms, and the communities they're fighting for. When the guns are silenced, however, women have struggled to maintain the progress and prestige that they gained during war. Hilary Matfess investigates the gendered legacies of conflict and considers why it is so difficult for female veterans to defend the gains they made during war. After Liberation: Women and the Politics of Expectations in Rebel-to-Party Transitions (Stanford UP, 2026) by Dr. Hilary Matfess explores how both individual female veterans and former-rebel political parties balance the incentives to continue their wartime activities or moderate them to succeed in the postwar period. The particular balance struck—by party elites and by female veterans—shapes women's rights and representation after war. Drawing on cross-national statistics and in-depth qualitative case studies of rebel groups—from Ethiopia, Namibia, El Salvador, and Nepal—Dr. Matfess advances a theory to explain the postwar legacies of women's participation in rebellion at both the individual and the organizational levels. This book helps us understand why women that were once lauded as the backbone of the revolution are so frequently relegated to the backburner after war. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. You can find Miranda’s interv…","meta_description":"War offers opportunities for women to liberate their communities and build a better life for themselves. When women join rebel groups, they often take on…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3137,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/new-books-in-women-s-history-4096544/episodes/hilary-matfess-after-liberation-women-and-the-politics-of-expectations-in-rebel-to-party-transitions-stanford-up-2026/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-women-s-history-4096544/hilary-matfess-after-liberation-women-and-the-politics-of-expectations-in-rebel-to-party-transitions-stanford-up-2026.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}