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Word Weavers: Elinor Glyn
Season 6 Episode 173
Elinor Glyn (1864-1943) was a British novelist, screenwriter, and filmmaker known for her romantic fiction and contributions to early Hollywood cinem…
11 months ago
Word Weavers: Arlie Hochschild
Season 6 Episode 172
Arlie Hochschild (1940 - present) is an American sociologist known for her coining of the term “Emotional Labor.” In her 1983 book The Managed Heart:…
11 months ago
Word Weavers: Rabiʿa al-Basri
Season 6 Episode 171
Rābiʻa al-ʻAdawiyya al-Qaysiyya or Rabiʿa al-Basri (717-801 C.E.) is a highly regarded Sufi saint born in Basra, Iraq. Oral traditions and later writ…
11 months ago
Word Weavers: Jane Austen
Season 6 Episode 170
Jane Austen (1775-1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her novels which implicitly interpret, critique, and comment on the English lande…
11 months ago
Word Weavers: The Heroines of Jiangyong
Season 6 Episode 169
The Heroines of Jiangyong were women in rural China who made a secret language – Nüshu – to communicate with each other. Nüshu translates directly to…
11 months, 1 week ago
Word Weavers: Myra Laramee
Season 6 Episode 168
Myra Laramee is a Cree/Métis teacher and Elder based in Winnipeg, Canada. She introduced the term Two-Spirit to better define queer identity under In…
11 months, 1 week ago
Word Weavers: Ruth Glass
Season 6 Episode 172
Ruth Glass (1912-1990) was a British sociologist and urban planner known for coining the term “gentrification” in 1964 to describe the transformation…
11 months, 1 week ago
Word Weavers: Pauline Rose Clance
Season 6 Episode 174
Pauline Rose Clance (1938 - present) is a psychologist most famous for co-authoring the research paper that first coined the term “imposter phenomeno…
11 months, 1 week ago
Word Weavers: María Marcela Lagarde y de los Ríos
Season 6 Episode 173
Marcela Lagarde (1968 - present) is a Mexican anthropologist, author, politician and feminist scholar who is credited with coining the term “feminici…
11 months, 1 week ago
Word Weavers: Josephine Starrs and Virginia Barratt
Season 6 Episode 172
Josephine Starrs and Virginia Barratt were among the creators of the VNS, an Australian feminist art collective born in the early days of the world w…
11 months, 2 weeks ago