Infinite Women

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

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.

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

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.Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Lauren-Jae-Gutterman-on-lesbian-desire-in-US-marriages-transcript.pdf

Dr Samantha Schulz, an Associate Professor of the Sociology of Education at The University of Adelaide to discuss how the manosphere is radicalizing young men and boys, and how this is playing out in classrooms at both the school and university level. Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Samantha-Schulz-on-the-manosphere-in-the-classroom-transcript.pdf

Dr. Carrie Gibson, who studies the history of the Caribbean and is the author of two books, Empire’s Crossroads: a history of the Caribbean from Columbus to the present day, and El Norte: the epic and forgotten story of Hispanic North America. She joins us to talk about the women involved in slave revolts in the Caribbean - who were they, what do we know about them, why don’t we know more and, as always, what are the biases that shaped the way their stories are, or are not, told.More about Carrie's work and books: carriegibson.co.ukRead the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Carrie-Gibson-on-women-of-Caribbean-slave-revolts-transcript.pdf

Serene Bennett Williams, high school civics teacher and co-founder of Women's History in High School, tells us about Catholic nuns as activists. Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Serene-Bennett-Williams-on-activist-nuns-transcript.pdfRead more from Serene about Marjorie Tuite and Margaret Traxler on the Infinite Women site.