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/wp-content/uploads/Dr.-Doris-Gutsmiedl-Schumann-on-early-German-speaking-archaeologists-transcript.pdf
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 Vivian Castleberry: Challenging the Traditions of Women’s Roles, Newspaper Content, and Community Politics.
Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Kimberly-Voss-on-women-in-US-journalism-in-the-1950s-and-60s-transcript.pdf
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 comedy can help inspire creativity and resistance in our political culture today.
Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Maggie-Hennefeld-on-womens-comedy-and-laughter-in-film-and-activism-transcript.pdf
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-feminism-9781350447820/
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-that-changed-women-s-lives-forever-lydia-reeder/20981853?ean=9781250284457&next=t&aid=115788&listref=infinite-women-podcast-guests-books&next=t
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 will know, this is a family with a lot of drama, and Charlotte’s own life is no exception, starting almost from birth.
Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Vulgar-Historys-Ann-Foster-on-Princess-Charlotte-transcript.pdf
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
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-Gordon-on-Ursula-Parrott-transcript.pdf
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/book/chicago/G/bo245099273.html
Transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Sarah-Bellows-Blakeley-on-issues-around-international-approaches-to-girls-education-transcript.pdf
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 century later.
Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Rebecca-Brenner-Graham-on-Frances-Perkins-transcript-.pdf
Get the book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/762819/dear-miss-perkins-by-rebecca-brenner-graham/
Read more about Perkins on the Infinite Women site: https://www.infinite-women.com/women/frances-perkins/
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.
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
