Infinite Women

Engineering historian Dr. Nina C. Baker returns to tell us about inventor Margaret E. Knight. Transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Nina-Baker-on-Margaret-E.-Knight-transcript-.pdf

Dr Llewellyn Negrin is an Adjunct senior researcher in the School of Creative and Performing Arts at the University of Tasmania who studies fashion as an embodied artform. She was involved in the Costume Art exhibition at The Met in New York, which will be on display through 10 January 2027: https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/costume-art Transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/upl...

Dr. Georgia Munro-Cook, a research fellow in the Centre for Social and Cultural Research at Griffith University, is the author of Building the WNBA: From Dunking Divas to Political Leaders. She joins us to discuss the history, evolution and impact of the league. Transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Georgia-Munro-Cook-on-the-WNBA-transcript.pdf

Dr Céline Leboeuf is an Associate Professor in Philosophy at Florida International University and author of the new book, The Tyranny of Thinness: Understanding and Resisting the Pressure to Be Skinny. Get the book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/826797/the-tyranny-of-thinness-by-celine-leboeuf/ Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Celine-Leboeuf-on-t...

Julia Cooke, author of Starry and Restless: Three Women Who Changed Work, Writing, and the World, tells us about journalist, author and travel writer Mickey Hahn. Get the book: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250436092/starryandrestless/ Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Julia-Cooke-on-Mickey-Hahn-transcript.pdf

Nancy Bernhard, author of The Double Standard Sporting House, joins us to discuss “fallen” women in the U.S. in the 19th century and women’s health and medical treatments. Get the book: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Double-Standard-Sporting-House/Nancy-Bernhard/9798896360520 Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Nancy-Bernhard-on-fallen-women-and-women...

Nancy Hudgins joins us to discuss the subject of her middle-grade biography, Books Good Enough For You: The Storied Life of Ursula Nordstrom, Editor of Extraordinary Children’s Books. Get the book: https://nancyhudgins.com/books/books-good-enough-for-you/ Transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Nancy-Hudgins-on-Ursula-Nordstrom-transcript.pdf

Dr Nina Baker tells us about the women in her book, “Supposed Killed or Drowned by Enemy Action at Sea,” about Scottish merchant navy women who died as a result of enemy action in the First and Second World Wars. Transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Nina-Baker-on-Merchant-Navy-seawomen-transcript.pdf Get the book: https://cramptonmoorhousepublishing.blogspot.com/2026/04/ne...

Dr Lorana Bartels is a Professor of Criminology at the Australian National University and Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Canberra and University of Tasmania. We discuss links between victimization and criminality, meaning the ways in which being victimized can make women more likely to commit crimes themselves. Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/D...

Historian Pamela Toler introduces us to Sigrid Schultz, the subject of her biography The Dragon From Chicago: The Untold Story of an American Reporter in Nazi Germany. Get the book: https://bookshop.org/a/115788/9780807019603 Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Pamela-Toler-on-Sigrid-Schultz-transcript.pdf

Regular listeners may recognize Dr. Beth Hubble, professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Montana, from previous episodes about transgender histories, the French medieval writer Marie de France, Italian-French feminist writer Christine de Pizan, and the 17th-century Ethiopian nun Walatta Petros. Now she’s back to tell us about someone quite a bit more recent: Mor...

Biographer Sheila Isenberg joins us to discuss the subject of her book, Muriel's War: An American Heiress in the Nazi Resistance. Get the book: https://sheilaisenberg.com/muriels-war Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Sheila-Isenberg-on-Muriel-Gardiner-transcript.pdf

Dr. Alison Parker, Richards Professor of American History at the University of Delaware, tells us about her research into the life and work of Civil Rights activist Mary Hamilton. Regular listeners may recall Dr. Parker from her previous episode about “unceasing militant” Mary Church Terrell: https://www.infinite-women.com/women/mary-church-terrell/ Transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-co...

Lydia Reeder, author of The Cure for Women: Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi and The Challenge to Victorian Medicine that Changed Women's Lives Forever returns to discuss another part of her book, Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the rest cure. Get the book: https://lydiareeder.com/the-cure-for-women-overview/ Transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Lydia-Reeder-on-Charlotte-Perkins-Gi...

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...