Infinite Women

Dr Lisa Baer-Tsarfati joins us to discuss linguistic bias in artificial intelligence. Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Lisa-Baer-Tsarfati-on-linguistic-gender-bias-in-AI-transcript.pdf

Dr. Beth Hubble, Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies professor at the University of Montana, is back for round two! Regular listeners may recall that Beth previously joined us to talk about transgender histories, but her first love is French medieval literature. If you have listened to her first episode, she mentioned that she has a tattoo of a quote in old French - which she reads, and that...

Melissa Chim is the Scholarly Communications Librarian at Excelsior University in New York and co-author of the book Living Archives: A History of the Center for Christian Spirituality. She joins us to discuss influential priest Margaret Guenther and women's contributions to the Episcopal Church. Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Melissa-Chim-on-Margaret-Gu...

Susan Abernethy is the author of Charles II's Portuguese Queen: The Legacy of Catherine of Braganza. Get the book: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Charles-IIs-Portuguese-Queen-by-Susan-Abernethy/9781036121648 Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Susan-Abernethy-on-Catherine-of-Braganza-transcript.pdf

DeAnne Blanton is the co-author of They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War . DeAnne is also a retired reference archivist from the National Archives and Records Administration, where she worked for over 30 years and specialized in the Civil War and 19th century women’s history. Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/DeAnne-Blanton-on-women-...

Dr Victoria Wolcott, Professor of History and Director of the Gender Institute at the University at Buffalo. Dr. Wolcott is currently working on The Embodied Resistance of Eroseanna Robinson: Athleticism and Activism in the Cold War Era . Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Victoria-Wolcott-on-Eroseanna-Robinson-transcript.pdf

Kristen Lopez is a journalist and author of the new book Popcorn Disabilities: The Highs and Lows of Disabled Representation in the Movies . Transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Kristen-Lopez-on-disability-in-film.pdf

Terese Svoboda, author of the new book Hitler and My Mother-in-Law, shares the story of groundbreaking reporter, arts advocate and Svoboda's own mother-in-law, Patricia Hartwell. Get the book: https://orbooks.com/catalog/hitler-and-my-mother-in-law/ Transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Terese-Svoboda.pdf

Patricia Owens, Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford and author of the new book, Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men, tells us about the women erased from the scholarship of international relations. Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Patricia-Owens-on-the-erased-women-of-international-thought-transcript.pdf

Grace Beattie, creator, host and producer of Wicked Women: The Podcast, discusses how we perceive and depict famous women in real time and in retrospect. Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Grace-Beattie-on-Wicked-Women-transcript.pdf

Biographer Lorissa Rinehart tells us about the U.S.’s first Congresswoman and the subject of her new book, Winning the Earthquake: How Jeannette Rankin Defied All Odds to Become the First Woman in Congress. Get the book: https://www.panmacmillan.com.au/9781250353047/ Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Lorissa-Rinehart-on-Jeannette-Rankin-transcript.pdf

Dr. Doris Gutsmiedl-Schümann, co-Investigator for AktArcha, a project researching early female archaeologists from German-speaking areas, tells us about such women’s careers in archaeology, including as antiquarians, collectors, excavators, or museum workers. More about the project and various women's stories: https://aktarcha.hypotheses.org/ Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com...

Dr Kimberly Voss, a professor of journalism at the Nicholson School of Communication and Media at the University of Central Florida. Her books include The Food Section: Newspaper Women and the Culinary Community , Politicking Politely: Well-Behaved Women Making a Difference in the 1960s and 1970s , Re-Evaluating Women’s Page Journalism in the Post-World War II Era: Celebrating Soft News , and Vivi...

Dorina Pojani is an Associate Professor of urban planning at The University of Queensland and co-author of Early Planning Utopias: A Feminist Critique , which is available now from Anthem Press: https://anthempress.com/early-planning-utopias-pb Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Dorina-Pojani-on-the-gender-divide-in-urban-planning-transcript.pdf

Maggie Hennefeld is a Professor of Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota and author of Death by Laughter: Female Hysteria & Early Cinema . Maggie is also affiliated with the Women Film Pioneers Project ( read about her Cinema's First Nasty Women project ), and joins us to discuss women's laughter and film, and how the archives of feminist film com...

Mayukh Sen, author of Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood's First South Asian Star, tells us about the life, career and complex legacy of this too-often-overlooked icon. Get the book: https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324050827 Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Mayukh-Sen-on-Merle-Oberon-transcript.pdf

Dr Quah Ee Ling, associate professor of Culture & Society at Western Sydney University, discusses her new book, Fire Dragon Feminism: Asian Migrant Women's Tales of Migration, Coloniality and Racial Capitalism. Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Quah-Ee-Ling-on-Fire-Dragon-Feminism-transcript.pdf Get the book: https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/fire-dragon...

Sara Sheridan is the author of several novels including On Starlit Seas , inspired by the “brilliant Georgian travel writer” Maria Graham. We also discuss creative ways to memorialize women's lives beyond statues and plaques. Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Sara-Sheridan-on-Maria-Graham-and-creative-memorialization-transcript.pdf

June Thomas, author of A Place of Our Own: Six Spaces That Shaped Queer Women's Culture , guides us through lesbian bars, feminist bookstores, softball pitches, communes, sex toy stores and holiday destinations. Transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/June-Thomas-on-queer-womens-spaces-transcript.pdf

April White, author of The Divorce Colony, joins us to discuss How Women Revolutionized Marriage and Found Freedom on the American Frontier. Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/April-White-on-Sioux-Falls-Divorce-Colony-transcript.pdf

Meg Campbell, Vice-President of the Boston Women's Heritage Trail joins us to discuss the importance of local history and connecting geographically with history. Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Meg-Campbell-on-the-Boston-Womens-Heritage-Trail-transcript.pdf

Dr. Nina Baker, a historian of women in engineering, tells us about British aeronautical engineer and motorcycle and sports car racer Beatrice Shilling. Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Nina-Baker-on-Beatrice-Shilling-transcript-.pdf

Lydia Reeder is the author of The Cure for Women: Dr Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Challenge to Victorian Medicine That Changed Women’s Lives Forever. Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Lydia-Reeder-on-Dr.-Mary-Putnam-Jacobi-transcript.pdf Get the book: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-cure-for-women-dr-mary-putnam-jacobi-and-the-challenge-to-victorian-medicine-tha...

Ann Foster is a Canada-based writer that people may recognize from her own podcast, Vulgar History. Her new book, Rebel of the Regency, about Caroline of Brunswick, is available to order now and joins us to discuss Caroline’s daughter, Princess Charlotte. As anyone who’s listened to Vulgar History, or Infinite Women's previous episode about the rise of the Hanoverians to the English throne wil...

Rachelle Bergstein, author of several books including The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us, joins us to discuss how Blume impacted children like her, and the publishing industry as a whole. Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Rachelle-Bergstein-on-Judy-Blume-transcript.pdf