Infinite Women

Dr Suzanne Leonard, Professor of Race, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Simmons University, is the author of the upcoming book, A Feminist Guide to Marriage, as well as Wife, Inc.: The Business of Marriage in the Twenty-First Century and Fatal Attraction and co-editor of Imagining We in the Age of I: Romance and Social Bonding in Contemporary Culture. Get the book: https://www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmith...

Dr. Beth Hubble, professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Montana, returns to tell us about 17th-century Ethiopian noblewoman turned nun Walatta Petros. Transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Beth-Hubble-on-Walatta-Petros-transcript.pdf

Madeleine Thompson, Site Administrator for the Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office Museum in Washington D.C., tells us about the life and legacy of the founder of the American Red Cross. Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Madeleine-Thompson-on-Clara-Barton-transcript.pdf

Dr Jessica Scott, an associate professor of gender studies at West Virginia Wesleyan College, joins us to discuss her book Home Is Where Your Politics Are: Queer Activism in the U.S. South and South Africa. Get the book: https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/home-is-where-your-politics-are/9781978836075/ Transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Jessica-Scott-on-queer-activ...

Biographer Amy Reading tells us about the subject of her book, The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at the New Yorker, which was a finalist for a Pulitzer and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Get the book: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-world-she-edited-amy-reading Transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Amy-Reading-on-Katharine-S.-White-transcript.pdf

Drs Wendy E. Chmielewski and Jill Norgren, co-creators of the digital history project Her Hat Was In The Ring (https://herhat.historyit.com/) and authors of a forthcoming book of the same name. The project traces 6,000 women who campaigned for elective office before 1920 and ratification of the 19th Amendment in the United States. Transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Drs-W...

Jane Eisner, author of the new book Carole King: She Made the Earth Move, joins us to talk about the life and work of the iconic singer-songwriter. Get the book: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300259469/carole-king/ Transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Jane-Eisner-on-Carole-King-transcript.pdf

Bethany Mannon, Assistant Professor of English at Appalachian State University and author of I Grew Up in the Church: How Evangelical Women Tell Their Stories, discusses contemporary Evangelical Christian women writers. Get the book: https://www.baylorpress.com/9781481318938/i-grew-up-in-the-church/ Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Bethany-Mannon-on-Evangel...

Dr. Beth Hubble, professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Montana, tells us about 14th century Italian-French writer, philosopher and feminist Christine de Pizan. Transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Beth-Hubble-on-Christine-de-Pizan-transcript.pdf

Dr Kate Culkin, author of Emerson’s Daughters: Ellen Tucker Emerson, Edith Emerson Forbes, and Their Family Legacy, introduces us to the sisters and their mother, Lidian Jackson Emerson. Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Kate-Culkin-on-the-Emerson-women-transcript.pdf

Magda Keaney, Head Curator of International Art at the National Gallery of Australia, and former Senior Curator Photographs at the National Portrait Gallery London, joins us to discuss the work of photographer Francesca Woodman. The NGA recently purchased a work by Woodman called Blueprints for a Temple (II) that is on display now through the end of January 2027. https://nga.gov.au/exhibitions/blu...

Melissa Chim, a librarian from Excelsior University, tells us about Hannah Cullwick, an 1800s maid of all work in the UK and how her unconventional marriage highlights the era's power dynamics and other realities life for working class women of the time. Transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Melissa-Chim-on-Hannah-Cullwick-transcript.pdf

Lucy Haigh, a PhD student in history at the University of Sheffield, tells us about Alexandra of Denmark - Danish princess, British queen, fashion icon and multiply disabled woman. Transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Lucy-Haigh-on-Alexandra-of-Denmark-transcript.pdf

Dr. Whitney Dirks, author of Monstrosity, Bodies, and Knowledge in Early Modern England, tells us about 1600s Englishwoman Mary Herring and her conjoined twin daughters, Aquila and Priscilla. Get the book: https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789462986671/monstrosity-bodies-and-knowledge-in-early-modern-england Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr.-Whitney-Dirks-on-Mary...

Author Gigi Berardi's latest novel, Bianca’s Cure, reimagines the story of Renaissance Italian noblewoman Bianca Capello. We discuss fact vs fiction and the lines between alchemy and science. Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Gigi-Berardi-on-Bianca-Capello-transcript-.pdf

Dr Jill Inderstrodt, a Research Scientist at Regenstrief Institute, joins us to talk about the intersections of technology and maternal health. Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Jill-Inderstrodt-on-maternal-health-and-data-science-transcript.pdf

Dr Jill Hasday, a distinguished professor at the University of Minnesota Law School, joins us to discuss her book We the Men: How Forgetting Women's Struggles for Equality Perpetuates Inequality. Get the book: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/we-the-men-9780197800805 Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Jill-Hasday-on-how-forgetting-womens-struggles-...

Lydia Reeder, who regular listeners may recall from our episode on the revolutionary Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi, returns to tell us about the women from her first book, Dust Bowl Girls: The Inspiring Story of the Team That Barnstormed Its Way to Basketball Glory. Get the book: https://lydiareeder.com/dust-bowl-girls-overview/ Transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Lydia-Reeder-o...

Dr Rebecca Wilkin and Dr Angela Hunter, have recently reconstructed Louise Dupin's Work on Women , which is now available in English for the first time thanks to their efforts and “presents an in-depth feminist treatise of the French Enlightenment, featuring an original claim about the modernity of gender inequality that informed the work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Dupin's secretary.” Get t...

Dr Mary Spongberg, Senior Deputy Vice Chancellor of Research at Southern Cross University, discusses how to fight entrenched biases in institutional settings, with a focus on on sexism in research, and how gender shapes who is studying what and how. Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Mary-Spongberg-on-gender-bias-in-research-transcript.pdf

Dr Courtney Jarrett tells us about sharing the stories of incredible women from history and today through her children's book, Muncie Women A-Z . Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Courtney-Jarrett-on-sharing-local-history-with-children-transcript.pdf

Cleo O'Callaghan Yeoman and Kate Ferrier, PhD candidates in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh, tell us about Scottish author Susan Edmonstone Ferrier. Kate is also a distant relative of Susan’s. Transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Cleo-OCallaghan-Yeoman-and-Kate-Ferrier-on-Susan-Edmonstone-Ferrier-transcript.pdf

Dr Vanessa R. Corcoran, a medieval historian and an advising dean at Georgetown University, joins us to discuss depictions of the Virgin Mary and how they reflect medieval society. Transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Vanessa-R.-Corcoran-on-the-Virgin-Mary-in-medieval-art-transcript.pdf

Dr Zoë Burgess, Senior Research Fellow at the University of West London’s London School of Film, Media and Design and Film Curator at Wessex Film & Sound Archive. She tells us about her research into gender and class in the WFSA’s Amateur Film Collection, focusing on the early years of film from 1895 to 1950. Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Zoe-Burgess...

Dr Shaune Lakin, Senior Curator of Photography at the National Gallery of Australia, joins us to discuss Australian modernist photographer Olive Cotton. The exhibition "Olive Cotton and Her Contemporaries" (https://nga.gov.au/exhibitions/making-it-modern-olive-cotton-and-her-contemporaries/) will be at the Gippsland Art Gallery in Victoria through 22 February, then at Cowra Regional Art...