Infinite Women

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.htmlTranscript: 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-.pdfGet 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.Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Titas-Biswas-on-the-female-body-taking-up-space-transcript.pdf

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-Chisholm-Catalyst-for-Change/Winslow/p/book/9780813347691Revolutionary Feminists: The Women’s Liberation Movement in Seattle https://www.dukeupress.edu/revolutionary-feministsRead the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Barbara-Winslow-on-Shirley-Chisholm-and-Kamala-Harris-transcript.pdf

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://cup.columbia.edu/book/mary-c-mccall-jr/9780231215282Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-J.E.-Smyth-on-Mary-C.-McCall-Jr.-transcript.pdf

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=p088650Interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Domale-Dube-on-the-environmental-activism-of-Ogoni-women-transcript.pdf

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/462526Read the episode transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Rebecca-Fleming-on-Lores-Bonney-transcript.pdf