Infinite Women

Dr. Marsha Gordon, Director of Film Studies at North Carolina State University, tells us about the brilliant writer who is the subject of her book, Becoming the Ex-Wife: The Unconventional Life & Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott. Get the book: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520391543/becoming-the-ex-wife Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Marsha-Gor...

Dida Sundet, a PhD candidate at Edith Cowan University, tells us about her doctoral project on the theme of the “heroic” rapist in ancient mythologies and how this connects to today’s rape myths. Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dida-Sundet-on-rape-myths-transcript.pdf

Dr. Sarah Bellows-Blakely, a Junior Research Group Leader in the History of Science at the Margherita von Brentano Center for Gender Studies at Free University Berlin, tells us about her new book, Girl Power? A History of Girl-Focused Development from Nairobi and how UNICEF helped shape decades of international policy (and not for the better). Get the book: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/boo...

Dr Rebecca Brenner Graham is a postdoctoral research associate at Brown University and author of the new book Dear Miss Perkins. While the book specifically focuses on Frances Perkins’s work to help refugees from Nazi Germany, Dr Grahamalso tells us more broadly about the first woman in the U.S. Cabinet, whose work as labor secretary and as the architect of the New Deal programs lives on almost a...

Titaś Biswas, a Doctoral Candidate in sociology at University College Dublin, lecturer in Media Studies at Carlow College and a researcher at University College Cork, tells us about her work exploring how the human body has been analyzed in traditional histories, and reframing perspectives with feminist readings. Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Titas-Biswas-o...

Anna Von Mertens is a visual artist and author of the book, Attention Is Discovery: The Life and Legacy of Astronomer Henrietta Leavitt. Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Anna-von-Mertens-on-Henrietta-Swan-Leavitt-transcript.pdf

Katie Gee Salisbury, author of Not Your China Doll: The Wild and Shimmering Life of Anna May Wong , joins us to talk about Hollywood’s first Asian-American movie star. More about Katie and her work: https://www.notyourchinadoll.com/ Read the episode transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Katie-Gee-Salisbury-on-Anna-May-Wong-transcript.pdf

Dr Barbara Winslow, professor emerita in women and gender studies at Brooklyn College and founder and director emerita of the Shirley Chisholm Project on Brooklyn Women’s Activism , joins us to discuss the parallels between the presidential campaigns of Shirley Chisholm and Kamala Harris. Read more about Barbara's books: Shirley Chisholm: Catalyst for Change https://www.routledge.com/Shirley-C...

Dr J.E. Smyth, a historian, film critic and professor at the University of Warwick, and author of books including Nobody's Girl Friday: The Women Who Ran Hollywood and Edna Ferber's Hollywood: American Fictions of Gender, Race, and History, joins us to discuss the subject of her book, Mary C. McCall Jr.: The Rise and Fall of Hollywood's Most Powerful Screenwriter. Get the book: https:/...

Dr Domale Dube is an assistant professor in Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Alberta and author of Ogoni Women's Activism: The Transnational Struggle Against Big Oil and the State. Get the book: https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p088650 Interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Domale-Dube-on-the-environmental-activism-of-Ogoni-women-...

Dr Rebecca Fleming, Senior Advisor of Digitisation Projects in the Collections Branch at the National Library of Australia, to talk about the phenomenal aviator Maude “Lores” Bonney. Find Bonney's diaries on Trove at https://trove.nla.gov.au/people/462526 Read the episode transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Rebecca-Fleming-on-Lores-Bonney-transcript.pdf

Dr Georgia Munro-Cook, a Research Fellow in the Disability and Rehabilitation Research Unit at Griffith University here in Australia, joins us to talk about her work around women, sport and disability. Georgia is also the author of Building the WNBA: From "Dunking Divas" to Political Leaders and a wheelchair basketball player, member of the Australian Gliders Wheelchair Basketball team and captain...

Dr Elizabeth DeWolfe is a Professor of History and Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies at the University of New England and Author of Alias Agnes: The Notorious Tale of a Gilded Age Spy. In this episode, she tells us the story of two women and a scandalous trial. Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Beth-DeWolfe-on-Jane-Armstrong-Tucker-and-Madeleine-Pollard-tr...

Dr Lauren Jae Gutterman, Chair of the American Studies Department at the University of Texas at Austin, joins us to talk about the subject of her book, Her Neighbor's Wife: A History of Lesbian Desire Within Marriage. Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Lauren-Jae-Gutterman-on-lesbian-desire-in-US-marriages-transcript.pdf

Dr Samantha Schulz, an Associate Professor of the Sociology of Education at The University of Adelaide to discuss how the manosphere is radicalizing young men and boys, and how this is playing out in classrooms at both the school and university level. Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Samantha-Schulz-on-the-manosphere-in-the-classroom-transcript.pd...

Dr. Carrie Gibson, who studies the history of the Caribbean and is the author of two books, Empire’s Crossroads: a history of the Caribbean from Columbus to the present day, and El Norte: the epic and forgotten story of Hispanic North America. She joins us to talk about the women involved in slave revolts in the Caribbean - who were they, what do we know about them, why don’t we know more and, as...

Serene Bennett Williams, high school civics teacher and co-founder of Women's History in High School , tells us about Catholic nuns as activists. Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Serene-Bennett-Williams-on-activist-nuns-transcript.pdf Read more from Serene about Marjorie Tuite and Margaret Traxler on the Infinite Women site.

Simeran Maxwell, Associate Curator of Australian Art at the National Gallery of Australia, joins us to talk about Australian designers Jenny Kee and Linda Jackson, and the French modern artist who inspired them, Sonia Delaunay . The three women’s work is on display now at the NGA in an eponymous exhibition that will be on into 2026: nga.gov.au/exhibitions/know-my-name-kee-jackson-delaunay/ Read th...

Dr Beth Linker, author of Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America, joins us to talk about the “strange and surprising history of the so-called epidemic of bad posture in modern America.” Get the book: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691235493/slouch Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Beth-Linker-on-posture-panic-transcript.pdf

Dr Robyn Spencer-Antoine, a historian and author of The Revolution has Come: Black Power, Gender and the Black Panther Party, to discuss radical leftist Black activist Patricia Murphy Robinson and the intersections of nurturing and radicalism. Get the book: https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-revolution-has-come Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Robyn-S...

Dr. Elizabeth Mahony, a research scientist at CSIRO, joins us to talk about Australian pioneering radio astronomer Ruby Payne-Scott, and the gendered barriers that ended her career. Read more about Payne-Scott on the Infinite Women site: https://www.infinite-women.com/women/ruby-payne-scott/ Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr.-Elizabeth-Mahony-on-Ru...

Dr. Beth Hubble, Director of the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at The University of Montana, joins us to talk about the complexities of transgender histories, including gender fluid, two-spirit and other non-binary identities. Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Beth-Hubble-on-trans-history-transcript.pdf Find more trans stories on...

Dr Caroline Sequin, Assistant Professor of History at Lafayette College, joins us to discuss the intersection of racial politics and sex. Dr Sequin is the author of new book, Desiring Whiteness: A Racial History of Prostitution in France and Colonial Senegal, 1848–1950. More about the book: https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501777035/desiring-whiteness/ Read the interview transcript: h...

Dr Ellie Woodacre, Reader in Renaissance History at the University of Winchester and author of Queens and Queenship, joins us to discuss the impact and shaping of queens' image. Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Ellie-Woodacre-on-queenly-image-transcript.pdf

Dr Jennifer deWinter and Dr Carly Kocurek from the Illinois Institute of Technology tell us about some of the pioneering women in the video game industry. Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Jennifer-deWinter-and-Dr-Carly-Kocurek-on-women-and-the-evolution-of-video-games-transcript.pdf