Broadly Underestimated

In 1823, a young woman named Mary Anning discovered a fossil that would forever change the way we view the earth.

Recommended Reading / Viewing:

The Fossil Hunter by Shelley Emling

Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier

Ammonite (2020)

In this episode, Emma Duval and I dive into the concept of childfree women in history, and how women without children push boundaries and help us redefine womanhood.

You can find Emma Duval on Instagram @millennialemma

Recommended Reading:

Single women in the European Past Edited by Judith M. Bennett and Amy M. Froide

A History of Celibacy by Elizabeth Abbott

How to be Childless by Rachel Chrasthil

Marie Marvingt, Fiancee of Danger: First Female Bomber Pilot, World-Class Athlete and

Inventor of the Air Ambulance by Book by Rosalie Maggio

Recommended Viewing:

Ammonite

Dickinson

The Girl King

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In this episode, Alycia from Civics & Coffee and I jump into a conversation about Jane Franklin and Abigail Adams, two women whose lives both reflect the women of their generation and defy the roles they were expected to fill.

Recommended Reading / Listening:

Book of Ages by Jill Lepore

Abigail Adams, a Life by Woody Holton

Civics & Coffee Podcast – Miss Independent: Abigail Adams

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Alison Larkin took Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol and adapt in one single way: she turned Scrooge into a woman.

The plot is exactly the same, all the other characters are exactly the same. The only thing that changes in the story is that Scrooge is a female business owner, miser, and Christmas-hater in Victorian London. But this changes everything.

Recommended Reading / Listening:

A Christmas Carol – Freely Adapted by Alison Larkin

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Clue emerged on the scene in 1949 and changed the world of board games forever. Its inventor, Anthony Pratt, had developed his idea for the game during World War II, but this is the hidden story of the women who inspired his idea, designed the game board, and shared the story with the world.

Recommended Reading and Viewing:

The Story of Cluedo by Jonathan Foster

The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie

Clue, 1985

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Happy Halloween! What better way to celebrate spooky season than to talk about some horror? Women have been telling horror stories from the origin of the genre, and haunted house stories are an especially good way to explore and examine the everyday horrors of home life. Grab the Halloween candy you were planning to hand out tonight and sit back with me for a chat about some fantastic haunted house stories you’ll be dying to read.

Recommended Reading:

The Graveyard Apartment by Mariko Koike

The House Next Door by Anne Rivers Siddons

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez

Monster, She Wrote by Lisa Kroger and Melanie R. Anderson

Why Horror Seduces by Mathias Clasen

In this episode, I continue my conversation with author Roger Gilles about the ways that Tillie Anderson and the other forgotten female bike racers of the 1890s turned Victorian rules upside down. They pushed the boundaries on gender roles and women as bosses. And they proved to thousands upon thousands of spectators just how much pain and suffering a female athlete could withstand.

Recommended Reading:

Women on the Move by Roger Gilles

Muscle on Wheels by M. Ann Hall

Wheels of Change by Sue Macy

In the 1890s, a group of women burst onto the American bike racing scene. That they were competing publicly was shocking enough. But that they forced to the fore the conversation about whether women should be athletes, made them women to be reckoned with.

In this episode, I speak with Dr. Roger Gilles, the author of Women on the Move, a chronicle of female bike racers in the 1890s.

Recommended Reading:

Tillie the Terrible Swede by Sue Stauffacher

Women on the Move by Roger Gilles

After four failed attempts, Diana Nyad jumps into the ocean one last time. She braves the sharks, jellyfish, and overwhelming ocean currents to see, once and for all, whether her daring dream of swimming more than 100 miles from Cuba to Florida is possible.

Recommended Reading and Viewing:

Find a Way by Diana Nyad

The Other Shore

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Leading up to her 60th birthday, Diana Nyad decided she would attempt a feat of endurance that no one had ever accomplished before: she would swim more than 100 miles from Cuba to Florida...without a shark cage.

Recommended Viewing:

Ted Talk: Diana Nyad: Extreme Swimming with the World’s Most Dangerous Jellyfish

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