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By The Remedial Herstory Project
The podcast currently has 7 episodes available.
Join us this month as we discuss our September read, The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis by Maria Smilios. Hosts Victoria and Katherine will unpack the challenges of science narratives, the various shapes of racism in 20th C America and our love of medical horror. Whether you’ve had a chance to pick up this excellent book yet, or are waiting for it to arrive, listen along with us!
Donate to our partner, the Remedial Herstory Project at https://www.remedialherstory.com/donate.html
Check out the Women's and Gender History Book Club socials at https://linktr.ee/wghbc
Buy the book and support independent bookstores at https://bookshop.org/shop/womensgenderhistorybook
Join the Book Club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1196889-women-s-gender-history-book-club
And learn more about the Remedial Herstory Project at www.remedialherstory.com
Shop RHP Gear: http://www.remedialherstory.com/store
Support this Work: http://www.remedialherstory.com/giving
Host: Victoria Plutshack and Katherine Coumes
Editor: Tyler Cardwell
Producer: Haley Brook
In this super-special August episode of the Hidden Half Book Review, Victoria and Katherine congregate, confabulate and converse about all things Bluestockings: The First Women’s Movement with its author, Susannah Gibson! We’ll unpack the stories of the wondrous women, from Elizabeth Montagu to Hester Mulso to Catherine Macauley, exploring the 18th C intellectual history that laid the foundations for the future of women’s rights in the UK.
Check out the Women's and Gender History Book Club socials at https://linktr.ee/wghbc
Buy the book and support independent bookstores at https://bookshop.org/shop/womensgenderhistorybook
And learn more about women's history with our partner, the Remedial Herstory Project at www.remedialherstory.com
Join the Book Club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1196889-women-s-gender-history-book-club
Shop RHP Gear: http://www.remedialherstory.com/store
Support this Work: http://www.remedialherstory.com/giving
Host: Victoria Plutshack and Katherine Coumes
Editor: Tyler Cardwell
Producer: Haley Brook
In our July episode of the Hidden Half Book Review, join Victoria and Katherine as we talk all things Vagabond Princess: The Great Adventures of Gulbadan by Ruby Lal. We’ll dig into the missing Gulbadan at the center of this biography, the historical context of harems, and reflect on the power of women’s stories as history.
Check out the Women's and Gender History Book Club socials at https://linktr.ee/wghbc
Buy the book and support independent bookstores at https://bookshop.org/shop/womensgenderhistorybook
And learn more about women's history with our partner, the Remedial Herstory Project at www.remedialherstory.com
Join the Book Club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1196889-women-s-gender-history-book-club
Shop RHP Gear: http://www.remedialherstory.com/store
Support this Work: http://www.remedialherstory.com/giving
Host: Victoria Plutshack and Katherine Coumes
Editor: Tyler Cardwell
Producer: Haley Brook
In our June episode of the Hidden Half Book Review, join Victoria and Katherine as we explore Female Husbands: A Trans History by Jen Manion. An excellent scholarly addition to our shelf of trans histories, we’ll recount the stories that touched us, consider the linguistics of transing gender, and get a little bit sentimental about the importance of seeing ourselves in history.
Check out the Women's and Gender History Book Club socials at https://linktr.ee/wghbc
Buy the book and support independent bookstores at https://bookshop.org/shop/womensgenderhistorybook
And learn more about women's history with our partner, the Remedial Herstory Project at www.remedialherstory.com
Join the Book Club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1196889-women-s-gender-history-book-club
Shop RHP Gear: http://www.remedialherstory.com/store
Support this Work: http://www.remedialherstory.com/giving
Host: Victoria Plutshack and Katherine Coumes
Editor: Tyler Cardwell
Producer: Haley Brook
In our May episode of the Hidden Half Book Review, join Victoria and Katherine as we discuss Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon. A fascinating read, we’ll break down how Bohannon skillfully addresses gender essentialism, what aspects of the female body grossed us out (or inspired us!) and whether we finally bought the argument that homo sapiens were, at some point, matriarchal.
Check out the Women's and Gender History Book Club socials at https://linktr.ee/wghbc
Buy the book and support independent bookstores at https://bookshop.org/shop/womensgenderhistorybook
And learn more about women's history with our partner, the Remedial Herstory Project at www.remedialherstory.com
Join the Book Club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1196889-women-s-gender-history-book-club
Shop RHP Gear: http://www.remedialherstory.com/store
Support this Work: http://www.remedialherstory.com/giving
Host: Victoria Plutshack and Katherine Coumes
Editor: Tyler Cardwell
Producer: Haley Brook
In Episode 02 of the Hidden Half Book Review we pick up the classic, The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich. Join Victoria and Katherine as they learn a little more background on the Soviets in WWII, discuss the sidelining of women’s history, and recall the stories from the trenches that stayed with them.
Check out the Women's and Gender History Book Club socials at https://linktr.ee/wghbc
Buy the book and support independent bookstores at https://bookshop.org/shop/womensgenderhistorybook
And learn more about women's history with our partner, the Remedial Herstory Project at www.remedialherstory.com
Join the Book Club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1196889-women-s-gender-history-book-club
Shop RHP Gear: http://www.remedialherstory.com/store
Support this Work: http://www.remedialherstory.com/giving
Host: Victoria Plutshack and Katherine Coumes
Editor: Tyler Cardwell
Producer: Haley Brook
In this inaugural episode of the Hidden Half Book Review Victoria and Katherine discuss our March book read, The Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China by Jung Chang. Listen along to hear more about this incredible book, spanning Cixi's rise to power, her decades-long career as empress regnant, and the almost Shakespearean ending to her life and her dynasty.
Check out the Women's and Gender History Book Club socials at https://linktr.ee/wghbc
Buy the book and support independent bookstores at https://bookshop.org/shop/womensgenderhistorybook
And learn more about women's history with our partner, the Remedial Herstory Project at www.remedialherstory.com
Join the Book Club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1196889-women-s-gender-history-book-club
Shop RHP Gear: http://www.remedialherstory.com/store
Support this Work: http://www.remedialherstory.com/giving
Host: Victoria Plutshack and Katherine Coumes
Editor: Tyler Cardwell
Producer: Haley Brook
The podcast currently has 7 episodes available.