

Infinite Women
Infinite Women
Tune in for women's stories from throughout history, and check out our website, infinite-women.com, for bios, recommendations and more!
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Jun 23, 2025 • 59min
Titaś Biswas on the female body taking up space
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

Jun 16, 2025 • 31min
Anna von Mertens on Henrietta Swan Leavitt
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

Jun 9, 2025 • 52min
Katie Gee Salisbury on Anna May Wong
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

Jun 2, 2025 • 33min
Dr Barbara Winslow on Shirley Chisholm and Kamala Harris
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

May 26, 2025 • 51min
Dr J.E. Smyth on Mary C. McCall Jr.
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

May 19, 2025 • 29min
Dr Domale Dube on the environmental activism of Ogoni women
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

May 12, 2025 • 28min
Dr Rebecca Fleming on Maude "Lores" Bonney
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

May 5, 2025 • 36min
Dr Georgia Munro-Cook on women, sports and disability
Dr Georgia Munro-Cook, a Research Fellow in the Disability and Rehabilitation Research Unit at Griffith University here in Australia, joins us to talk about her work around women, sport and disability. Georgia is also the author of Building the WNBA: From "Dunking Divas" to Political Leaders and a wheelchair basketball player, member of the Australian Gliders Wheelchair Basketball team and captain of Australia's National Wheelchair Basketball team at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics.

Apr 28, 2025 • 1h 4min
Dr Beth DeWolfe on Jane Armstrong Tucker and Madeleine Pollard
Dr Elizabeth DeWolfe is a Professor of History and Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies at the University of New England and Author of Alias Agnes: The Notorious Tale of a Gilded Age Spy. In this episode, she tells us the story of two women and a scandalous trial.Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Beth-DeWolfe-on-Jane-Armstrong-Tucker-and-Madeleine-Pollard-transcript.pdf

Apr 21, 2025 • 38min
Dr Lauren Jae Gutterman on 20th century lesbian desire within US marriage
Dr Lauren Jae Gutterman, Chair of the American Studies Department at the University of Texas at Austin, joins us to talk about the subject of her book, Her Neighbor's Wife: A History of Lesbian Desire Within Marriage.


