Infinite Women

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

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