Infinite Women

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

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-wifeRead 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