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Women's History
Interviews with scholars of women's history about their new books.
May 26, 2026
Finding Mary
During a robbery on 10 March 1844, 14-year-old servant Mary Doherty was murdered in a farmhouse near Culdaff, Co. Donegal. There was no doubt locally …
May 25, 2026
Dalit Feminism
This episode features a conversation with Thenmozhi Soundararajan, founder Equality Labs and author of The Trauma of Caste. We discussed her own comin…
May 23, 2026
Abolitionists and the Politics of Correspondence
Mary Freeman, associate professor of history at the University of Maine, joins Michael Stauch to discuss her new book Abolitionists and the Politics o…
May 22, 2026
Cut Out
Female artists have long employed collage to reflect the ways in which identity is often constructed from conflicting, contrasting and contradictory p…
May 16, 2026
A Womb of One's Own
In the well-trod history of the Roman Empire, a pivotal moment has long gone unnoticed: It was in ancient Rome that medical men first set their sights…
May 13, 2026
The Light of Days
Witnesses to the brutal murder of their families and neighbors and the violent destruction of their communities, a cadre of Jewish women in Poland—som…
May 10, 2026
You Can't Catch Us
From the author of The First Lady of WWII comes You Can't Catch Us: Lady Bird Johnson’s Trailblazing 1964 Campaign Train and the Women Who Rode With H…
May 8, 2026
Jewish Anarchist Women 1920–1950
Anarchist theory includes the belief in freedom for all - that no one person, nor group of people, should have power over any others; that individuals…
May 7, 2026
The Japanese Garden
As detailed in The Japanese Garden: Ella Christie and Cowden (Birlinn, 2026) by Lucy Stewart, at the turn of the twentieth century, Scottish adventure…
May 6, 2026
Career and Family
A century ago, it was a given that a woman with a college degree had to choose between having a career and a family. Today, there are more female coll…
May 4, 2026
Intimacy and Social (Dis)Order in Dutch Colonial Expansion
Explosive sexual scandals, bitter domestic conflicts, and dramatic changes in fortune. Sex, marriage, and family life were matters of enormous consequ…
April 30, 2026
God Bless the Pill
Most people today understand contraception as central to women’s liberation, and when the birth control pill arrived in 1960, the media thought it wou…
April 28, 2026
Selling Opportunity
As detailed in Selling Opportunity: The Story of Mary Kay (Penguin, 2026) by Mary Lisa Gavenas, as the only woman in Forbes’ Greatest Business Stories…
April 24, 2026
Expect Great Things!
It’s a safe bet that most of the secretaries on the TV series Mad Men would have attended the Katharine Gibbs School in New York City. The iconic inst…
April 20, 2026
Archiving the Past
What happens when we assume women’s presence in film history instead of their absence? This is the question at the heart of Archiving the Past: Women’…
April 20, 2026
Lipstick
From Revlon to Glossier, from Marilyn to Gaga, lipstick is as shape-shifting and unwieldy as femininity itself. Who wears lipstick today – as a mat…
April 18, 2026
I Will Not Abandon You
I Will Not Abandon You: Queer Women in Nazi Germany (Aevo UTP, 2026) brings to life the unrelenting defiance of queer women in fascist Germany. In hi…
April 16, 2026
Borders, Citizenship, and Pregnancy
Using the analytical framework of reproductive justice, Borders, Citizenship, and Pregnancy: Migrant Women’s Experiences of Pregnancy and Maternity Ca…
April 7, 2026
Sarah Wambaugh and the Plebiscite
In Sarah Wambaugh and the Plebiscite: The Turbulent History of a Democratic Alternative to War (Cambridge UP, 2026) Dr. Andrew Park tells the story of…
April 5, 2026
After Liberation
War offers opportunities for women to liberate their communities and build a better life for themselves. When women join rebel groups, they often take…