Two women. Half the population. Several thousand years of history. About an hour. Join us on an award-winning journey through herstory! The History Chicks celebrates the lives of remarkable women from ancient times to the modern day, exploring women’s history in engaging episodes full of deep research, pop culture references, and the occasional tumble down a rabbit hole.
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I'm TK, your guide to the past as we uncover the people, events, and little-known facts hidden in the shadows of your old history textbooks. From empress baddies like Hatshepsut and Wu Zetianto, activist profiles, Egyptian and Japanese gods and goddesses, and the history of the toothbrush, tattoos, Pompeii peepees, and everything in between, you can find it all here. No event is too small and no topic too big, because this is For The Love of History. ----------------------- For over 100 arch ...
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Discussions with scholars of women's history about their new books
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Your Most Obedient & Humble Servant is a podcast that showcases 18th and early 19th-century women’s letters that don’t always make it into the history books. Join historian Kathryn Gehred and her guests as they explore the lives of women and the world around them through their letters.
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Hosted by Dallas Alexis, In celebration of Women’s History, we are featuring and highlighting the accomplishments, talents and gifts of women creatives who disrupted narratives, create new ones in their industries and give a voice to women around the world.
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American Women's History Journey is primarily about American women...throughout America's different historical periods. It is also about different types of American women, different age groups, different ethnic backgrounds, different vocational backgrounds and about women from different geographic areas of America. We will also discuss the history of women's history. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/virginia-r-bensen/support
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In recognition of Women’s History Month, Black PR Wire has partnered with WAMR – DB the Women’s Station to showcase their Sistas Who Succeed Webinar. Sistas Who Succeed, now in its third year, is a special initiative to showcase the great contributions and work of women of color throughout the nation. Sistas who Succeed will broadcast on this venue, Zoom and Facebook live. On March 24th at 2 p.m., Black PR Wire, Women Grow strong, and their partners will host the Sistas Who Succeed Webinar. ...
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“The Women Who Saved History” is a monthly 30-60 minute podcast focused on telling the stories of the many women who have dedicated their lives to preserving the history of the Silver State. Currently, there have been 20 women throughout the state that we have identified, including eight deceased women. Many of our historical institutions are the outcome of their work. Acknowledging these women has long been overdue. We are excited to celebrate them and their accomplishments with our first p ...
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Remember in school, all those lessons about the men of the past? How they ruled, fought and built? Well, on Kickass Women of History we'll be learning about what they didn't teach us in school. We'll be exploring the lives of strong and incredible women from around the globe and from throughout human history. Our aim is to share diverse stories of women who made a difference - to their family, village, country or the whole world. That could be 5 years ago, or 5000. Each episode, we'll be joi ...
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Women make up half of the world's population, and yet history books often consign them to the sidelines. They are dismissed as merely the wives of powerful men; babymakers and nothing more. Yet women have been the driving force behind history for millennia, from female Pharoahs, warrior princesses and pirates, to the revolutionaries who sought to topple the male-dominated political systems of their day. From host of the popular 'Queens of England Podcast', The Other Half tells the forgotten ...
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A podcast uncovering the women who contributed to Oxford's past.
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Meet women you want to know in this five minute podcast showcasing interesting and inspiring women. Bringing women’s history out of the woodwork and beyond International Women’s Day - Women Making History brings women’s historic achievements to life every week. Find out about fascinating women who have dared to make a difference. Each week discover a woman who made history. From politics to social justice, science to the arts and everything in between.
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The discrimination of women in working class America Cover art photo provided by rawpixel on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@rawpixel
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Do you like history? Do you like true crime? Do you like….women??? We thought so. Join us as we dive deep into the most infamous women of history across the globe. Interested yet? Check out Lawless Women of History: Crime has No Gender, why let men have all the fun?Follow us @LawlessTC on Twitter, Lawless Women of History on Facebook, and Lawless.TC on Instagram
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Welcome to HERstory: a collection of inspiring, yet unrecognized, women throughout history.
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La storia è fatta dagli uomini. Eppure le donne hanno contribuito allo stesso modo allo sviluppo storico, politico e culturale, seppur spesso dimenticate dai libri.Questo podcast è un piccolo omaggio alle loro vite.Ogni martedì, vi racconterò in meno di 10 minuti le loro storie, sperando che siano di ispirazione a molti all'ascolto.
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Welcome to Herstoryically (Her-story-ically), the podcast that's rewriting history one remarkable woman at a time. Hosted by Sasha, we're diving deep into the often overlooked and untold stories of extraordinary women who have left an indelible mark on our world. These are the women who defied norms, shattered barriers, and paved the way for future generations, often hailing from marginalized communities. In each episode, we'll unearth the inspiring tales of fearless leaders, brilliant minds ...
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In this podcast, we will focus on the rights that women were granted. Get ready to learn about how women impacted our world, and how they still do!
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The Lives of Women in History is a podcast about the fascinating and inspiring stories of women from colonial days to the early 1900s. These women settled new lands, traveled the ocean, drove covered wagons, built cities and communities, were cattle rustlers and bank robbers, educators and politicians, stood up against racism and fought for the right to vote, got married and raised families, and so much more. Hosted, researched, and written by April Rogers. I believe that every woman's story ...
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We discuss topics that are sent to us by viewers that want to get our viewpoint on the issues. We do research and then comeback and make valid points on what we find and our siding arguments. Cover art photo provided by Joel Filipe on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@joelfilip
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These oral history interviews, conducted by Georgina Ferry, capture the stories of pioneering women at the forefront of research, teaching and service provision for computing in Oxford, 1950s-1990s. Themes throughout the interviews include career opportunities, gender splits in computing, the origins and development of computing teaching and research in Oxford, as well as development of the University of Oxford's Computing Service and the commercial software house the Numerical Algorithms Gr ...
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Xian Wang, "Gendered Memories: An Imaginary Museum for Ding Ling and Chinese Female Revolutionary Martyrs" (U Michigan Press, 2025)
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1:03:06Gendered Memories: An Imaginary Museum for Ding Ling and Chinese Female Revolutionary Martyrs (U Michigan Press, 2025) takes readers on a journey through the lives and legacies of Chinese female revolutionary martyrs, revealing how their sacrifices have been remembered, commemorated, and manipulated throughout history. This innovative book blends h…
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Ancient Booty Calls and WTF Aphrodisiacs | weird history of love and dating
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31:40Happy Valentine’s Day, history besties! Whether you’re blissfully in love, dodging dating apps like a pro, or just here for the weird history (respect ✊), this episode is for you. We’re diving deep into history’s strangest, grossest, and most WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT aphrodisiacs and ancient booty calls. Spoiler: some people really went to extreme len…
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Georgia Gilmore was one of the unsung heroes of history during the Civil Rights movement in America; a prime example of how one person's contributions can change the course of a country. Her tireless fundraising efforts were critical to the success of the Montgomery bus boycott, and Presidents met with activists under her roof, comforted by Georgia…
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Episode 56: The Most Dreadful Of All Enemies
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38:50Dr. Jacqueline Beatty joins host Kathryn Gehred to discuss The Petition of Belinda from 1783 in which Belinda Sutton petitions The Massachusetts General Court for the funds left to her by her enslaver Isaac Royall after he fled the colonies during the Revolutionary War. Beatty and Gehred discuss Sutton’s use of poetic language to describe her kidna…
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Episode 007 - 17th Century Printers of York
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26:34Amy and Emma are joined by Sarah Griffin of the University of York (UK) to discuss the lives of Alice Broad and Grace White, two generations of women who were pioneers in the print trade in post-Reformation York.
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Mary Frances Phillips, "Black Panther Woman: The Political and Spiritual Life of Ericka Huggins" (NYU Press, 2025)
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38:49In this groundbreaking biography, Mary Frances Phillips immerses readers in the life and legacy of Ericka Huggins, a revered Black Panther Party member, as well as a mother, widow, educator, poet, and former political prisoner. In 1969, the police arrested Ericka Huggins along with Bobby Seale and fellow Black Panther Party members, who were accuse…
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Jessica A. Brockmole, "Pink Cars and Pocketbooks: How American Women Bought Their Way Into the Driver's Seat" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2025)
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1:06:58Since the commercial introduction of the automobile, US automakers have always sought women as customers and advertised accordingly. How, then, did car culture become so masculine? In Pink Cars and Pocketbooks: How American Women Bought Their Way into the Driver's Seat (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2025), Dr. Jessica Brockmole shares the untold …
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Adam Pennington, "Henry VIII and the Plantagenet Poles: The Rise and Fall of a Dynasty" (Pen and Sword History, 2024)
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48:23The story of King Henry VIII, a man who married six times only to execute two of those wives, is part of Great Britain’s national and international identity. Each year, millions of people walk around the Tower of London, Hampton Court Palace and Hever Castle, plus many other historical sites, taking in and hoping to glean some sense of the man and …
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Pamela Allen Brown, "The Diva's Gift to the Shakespearean Stage: Agency, Theatricality, and the Innamorata" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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1:01:19Pamela Allen Brown joins Jana Byars to talk about The Diva's Gift to the Shakespearean Stage (Oxford University Press, 2022), which traces the transnational connections between Shakespeare's all-male stage and the first female stars in the West. The book is the first to use Italian and English plays and other sources to explore this relationship, f…
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Randall Fuller, "Bright Circle: Five Remarkable Women in the Age of Transcendentalism" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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57:21In November 1839, a group of young women in Boston formed a conversation society "to answer the great questions" of special importance to women: "What are we born to do? How shall we do it?" The lives and works of the five women who discussed these questions are at the center of Bright Circle, a group biography of remarkable thinkers and artists wh…
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Patricia Owens, "Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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1:08:44The academic field of international relations presents its own history as largely a project of elite white men. And yet women played a prominent role in the creation of this new cross-disciplinary field. In Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men (Princeton University Press, 2025), Professor Patricia Owens shows that, since its begin…
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The Vice President's Black Wife: The Untold Life of Julia Chinn
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1:12:17Our book is: The Vice President's Black Wife: The Untold Life of Julia Chinn (University of North Carolina Press, 2023) by award-winning historian Dr. Amrita Chakrabarti Myers. Dr. Myers has recovered the riveting, troubling, and complicated story of Julia Ann Chinn (ca. 1796–1833), the enslaved wife of Richard Mentor Johnson. Johnson was the owner…
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Episode 006 - DAWN & The UN Decade for Women
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43:16Dr Imaobong Umoren from the London School of Economics and Politics joins Amy and Emma to celebrate mark 50 years since the UN announced their Decade for Women. What impact did it have on women's opportunities around the globe? How did it lead to the birth of Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN), a transnational feminist network…
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Laurel Victoria Gray, "Women’s Dance Traditions of Uzbekistan: Legacy of the Silk Road" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
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34:17Women’s Dance Traditions of Uzbekistan: Legacy of the Silk Road (Bloomsbury, 2024) is the first comprehensive work in English on the three major regional styles of Uzbek women's dance – Ferghana, Khiva and Bukhara – and their broader Silk Road cultural connections, from folklore roots to contemporary stage dance. The book surveys the remarkable dev…
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Kidnapped at Sea | The Story of David Henry White By Andrew Sillen
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44:08Welcome to For the Love of History! In this episode, we dive into a lesser-known yet fascinating tale of maritime history with author and archaeologist Andrew Celyn. His latest book, Kidnapped at Sea: The Civil War Voyage of David Henry White, uncovers the harrowing journey of a free Black teenager who was abducted and forced aboard the infamous Co…
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Thanks to Life: A Biography of Violeta Parra
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1:07:44Our book is: Thanks to Life: A Biography of Violeta Parra (UNC Press, 2025), by Ericka Verba, which explores the life of Chilean musician and artist Violeta Parra (1917–1967). Parra is an inspiration to generations of artists and activists across the globe. Her music is synonymous with resistance, and it animated both the Chilean folk revival and t…
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Episode 005 - Elsa Laula Renberg
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27:07Sámi National Day is 6th February, so we are celebrating with the story of activist, and first published Sámi writer, Elsa Laula Renberg. Joining Amy and Emma is Lia Frostkrans of the Women's History Museum in Umeå, Sweden.
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Alexis Wolf, "Transnational Women Writers in the Wilmot Coterie, 1798-1840" (Boydell Press, 2024)
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38:02What were two Irish sisters doing in Russia during the early years of the nineteenth century, editing the French-language memoirs of a princess who had been a close confidante of Catherine the Great? Author Alexis Wolf is in conversation with Duncan McCargo about a remarkable transnational story she has unearthed through meticulous archival researc…
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6.03 Jane Whorwood (2) Agent 409
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45:40With her beloved king in custody, Jane does everything in her power to break him out of captivity. Sign up for the Intelligent Speech Conference https://intelligentspeechonline.com/. Use the code OTHER to get a discount! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Blessin Adams, "Thou Savage Woman: Female Killers in Early Modern Britain" (HarperCollins, 2025)
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32:24Early Modern Britain was awash with pamphlets, ballads, woodcuts broadcasting bloodthirsty tales of traitorous wives, greedy mistresses, cunning female poisoning lacing the supper with deadly substances; of child killers and spiteful witches, stories of women wholly and unnaturally wicked. These were printed or sung, tacked the walls of alehouses, …
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London's Most Fashionable and Fierce All Women Gang | The 40 Elephants
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38:40Welcome back, my delicious doughnut! 🍩 This week, we’re peeling back the velvet curtain on one of London's most scandalous and fabulous crime syndicates: the Forty Elephants, an all-women gang who ruled the shoplifting scene from the Victorian era well into the Roaring Twenties. Think Oceans Eleven, but make it corsets, diamonds, and bloomers with …
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About Spider-Mother: The Fiction and Politics of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
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1:06:55Today I talked to Ben Baer and Smaran Dayal about About Spider-Mother: The Fiction and Politics of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain. Pioneering Indian Muslim feminist Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain wrote speculative fiction, manifestoes, radical reportage, and incisive essays that transformed her experience of enforced segregation into unique interventions against…
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Episode 004 - Julie Laurberg
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37:37Dr Mette Kia Krabbe Meyer of the Royal Danish Library joins Amy and Emma to talk about the life of pioneering Danish photographer, Julie Laurberg. Discussion includes Julie's experiments with colour images, her active support of other women, and the importance of her business and life partner, Franziska Gad.…
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Claytee D. White: Enthusiastic Collector of the Complete Las Vegas Story
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43:37How do we pay honor to our histories and build alongside them instead of paving over them? This episode is an in-depth conversation with the inimitable Director of Oral History at UNLV, Claytee D. White. Join us as she shares her early experiences of connecting with the Black community through oral history before entering into a career in this fiel…
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The Bloody and Unnecessarily Difficult History of Surgery
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35:48Welcome back, dear one! This week, we’re scrubbing in and diving scalpels-first into the history of surgery. From ancient skull drilling to the OG rhinoplasty (nose job, anyone?), this episode explores the bizarre, bloody, and brilliant evolution of ancient surgical techniques. Spoiler: it’s not all medieval barber surgeons and questionable hygiene…
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Josephine Bonaparte and Eugénie Bonaparte
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2:19:03Josephine and Eugénie, related by marriage, and separated by only a generation, both rose from relative obscurity to become the Empress of France during tumultuous times. The paths of these very different women never crossed, but they both were stars in their own time and left their unique marks on history. Please join us on our Field Trip to Italy…
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Things can't go right all the time. Hear dogs, disasters, and dates cause problems for Amy Cotterill, Emma Cook, and Dr Eleanor Janega in these outtakes from Kickass Women of History episode 3.
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Episode 003 - Isabella the She-Wolf
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1:02:46Dr Eleanor Janega joins Amy and Emma to talk about the turbulent life of Isabella of France. This Queen of England's tale includes adultery, treason, and lots and lots of jewellery. Hear about how she conquered a nation, deposed a king, and remained absolutely fabulous.
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Fannie Lou Hamer, 2025
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1:56:51In honor of Martin Luther King Day, we are again shining the spotlight on the remarkable life of Fannie Lou Hamer. As a small child, her hard labor was key to her family’s survival. She grew up to become a fiery civil rights activist who would not be silenced by intimidation, violence, or the personal wishes of the President of the United States hi…
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Monica A. Hershberger, "Women in American Operas of The 1950s: Undoing Gendered Archetypes" (U Rochester Press, 2023)
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1:07:01The 1950s looks placid from the outside, but underneath that calm post-war exterior roiled the intellectual and activist beginnings of the political movements that tore through the 1960s and 1970s. In Women in American Operas of the 1950s: Undoing Gendered Archetypes (University of Rochester Press, 2023), Monica A. Hershberger considers the main fe…
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Carol Cleaveland and Michele Waslin. "Private Violence: Latin American Women and the Struggle for Asylum" (NYU Press, 2024)
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41:19How the US asylum process fails to protect against claims of gender-based violence. Through eyewitness accounts of closed-court proceedings and powerful testimony from women who have sought asylum in the United States because of severe assaults and death threats by intimate partners and/or gang members, Private Violence: Latin American Women and th…
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6.02 Jane Whorwood (1) The gold smuggler royal
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41:43Fleeing an unhappy marriage and filled with royalist fervour, a young Scottish courtier spies, smuggles and embezzled for her king during the English Civil War Sign up for the Intelligent Speech Conference https://intelligentspeechonline.com/. Use the code OTHER to get a discount! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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Katharine E. McGregor, "Systemic Silencing: Activism, Memory, and Sexual Violence in Indonesia" (U Wisconsin Press, 2023)
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48:53The system of prostitution imposed and enforced by the Japanese military during its wartime occupation of several countries in East and Southeast Asia is today well-known and uniformly condemned. Transnational activist movements have sought to recognize and redress survivors of this World War II-era system, euphemistically known as "comfort women,"…
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Amrita Narayanan, "Women's Sexuality and Modern India: In a Rapture of Distress" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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55:46Amrita Narayanan is a practicing Clinical Psychologist (Psy.D. 2007) and Psychoanalyst (Indian Psychoanalytic Society, 2019). She is the author of Women's Sexuality and Modern India: In a Rapture of Distress (Oxford University Press, 2023). She was the Editor of and essayist in The Parrots of Desire: 3000 years of Erotica in India (Aleph Books, 201…
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Tattoo Traditions of Asia | Author Interview with Tattoo Anthropologist Lars Krutak
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1:08:22Welcome, history besties and ink enthusiasts! This week on For the Love of History, we’re taking a deep dive into the fascinating world of tattoo anthropology with none other than Lars Krutak, author of Tattoo Traditions of Asia. Lars shares jaw-dropping stories from his 25+ years of fieldwork, uncovering the hidden meanings behind indigenous tatto…
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Valentina N. Glajar, "The Secret Police Dossier of Herta Müller: A "File Story" of Cold War Surveillance" (Camden House, 2023)
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1:40:18"Herta Müller should share her Nobel with the Securitate." This comment by a former officer in the Romanian secret police, or Securitate, was in reaction to hearing that Müller, a German writer originally from Romania, had won the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature. Communist Romania's infamous secret police was indeed a protagonist in Müller's work, …
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Elizabeth L. Block, "Beyond Vanity: The History and Power of Hairdressing" (MIT Press, 2024)
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38:48In the nineteenth century, the complex cultural meaning of hair was not only significant—it could affect one’s place in society. After the Civil War, hairdressing was a growing profession and the hair industry a mainstay of local, national, and international commerce. In Beyond Vanity: The History and Power of Hairdressing (MIT Press, 2024), Elizab…
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Emily Murdoch Perkins, "Regina: The Queens Who Could Have Been" (The History Press, 2024)
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54:32What queens would England have had if firstborn daughters, not firstborn sons, had inherited the throne? In Regina: The Queens Who Could Have Been (The History Press, 2024), Emily Murdoch Perkins investigates. We may think of princesses as dutiful and elegant, wearing long flowing dresses, but the eldest daughters of England’s kings have been very …
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Episode 002 - Chris Bearchell
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46:22Amy and Emma are joined by Roxy Moon of the ArQuives in Toronto, Canada to discuss the life of LGBTQ+ campaigner, journalist and icon, Chris Bearchell. Hosted by Amy Cotterill and Emma Cook.
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