Infinite Women

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-pbRead 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/9781324050827Read 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.pdfGet 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.pdfGet 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