Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBarbara Jane Brickman, "Suffering Sappho! Lesbian Camp in American Popular Culture" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
Episode 142
An ever-expanding and panicked Wonder Woman lurches through a city skyline begging Steve to stop her. A twisted queen of sorority row crashes her con…
5 months, 1 week ago
Helen J. Nicholson, "Women and the Crusades" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 68
The crusade movement needed women: their money, their prayer support, their active participation, and their inspiration.
Helen J. Nicholson's book Wom…
5 months, 1 week ago
Ashley Brown, "Serving Herself: The Life and Times of Althea Gibson" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 14
From her start playing paddle tennis on the streets of Harlem as a young teenager to her eleven Grand Slam tennis wins to her professional golf caree…
5 months, 1 week ago
Alison Stone, "Women Philosophers in Nineteenth-Century Britain" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 79
Many women wrote philosophy in nineteenth-century Britain, and they wrote across the full range of philosophical topics. Yet these important women th…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Marion Gibson, "Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials" (Scribner, 2023)
Episode 1364
Witchfinder General, Salem, Malleus Maleficarum. The world of witch-hunts and witch trials sounds archaic and fanciful, these terms relics of an unen…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Kate Clancy, "Period: The Real Story of Menstruation" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 63
Menstruation is something half the world does for a week at a time, for months and years on end, yet it remains largely misunderstood. Scientists onc…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Donna J. Drucker, "Fertility Technology" (MIT Press, 2023)
Episode 353
A concise overview of fertility technology—its history, practical applications, and ethical and social implications around the world. In the late 185…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Ruby Oram, "Home Work: Gender, Child Labor, and Education for Girls in Urban America, 1870-1930" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
In Home Work: Gender, Child Labor, and Education for Girls in Urban America, 1870-1930 (U Chicago Press, 2025) historian Ruby Oram tells the story …
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Tracey Norman and Mark Norman, "Devon's Forgotten Witches: 1860–1910" (The History Press, 2025)
Episode 59
Witchcraft and witches throughout history have long captured the imagination, yet hidden away in archives are records of long forgotten cases. Many o…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Liberation & the Literature of the Women’s Movement with Bess Wohl and Honor Moore
Wednesday, December 17—“The best play I’ve seen this season,” says New York Magazine’s Sara Holdren about Liberation, Bess Wohl’s moving exploration …
5 months, 3 weeks ago