Infinite Women

Kayla Branstetter, a professor of English at Crowder College, joins us to discuss her book Don’t Be an Athena and her research on narrative medicine and the ways women’s pain is often minimized or dismissed by systems meant to help them.

Get the book: https://www.ozarkhollowpress.com/product-page/don-t-be-an-athena

Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Kayla-Branstetter-on-narrative-medicine-transcript.pdf

Engineering historian Dr. Nina C. Baker returns to tell us about inventor Margaret E. Knight.

Transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Nina-Baker-on-Margaret-E.-Knight-transcript-.pdf

Dr Llewellyn Negrin is an Adjunct senior researcher in the School of Creative and Performing Arts at the University of Tasmania who studies fashion as an embodied artform.

She was involved in the Costume Art exhibition at The Met in New York, which will be on display through 10 January 2027: https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/costume-art

Transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Llewellyn-Negrin-on-fashion-as-embodied-art-transcript.pdf

Dr. Georgia Munro-Cook, a research fellow in the Centre for Social and Cultural Research at Griffith University, is the author of Building the WNBA: From Dunking Divas to Political Leaders. She joins us to discuss the history, evolution and impact of the league.

Transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Georgia-Munro-Cook-on-the-WNBA-transcript.pdf

Dr Céline Leboeuf is an Associate Professor in Philosophy at Florida International University and author of the new book, The Tyranny of Thinness: Understanding and Resisting the Pressure to Be Skinny.

Get the book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/826797/the-tyranny-of-thinness-by-celine-leboeuf/

Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Celine-Leboeuf-on-the-_tyranny-of-thinness_-transcript.pdf

Julia Cooke, author of Starry and Restless: Three Women Who Changed Work, Writing, and the World, tells us about journalist, author and travel writer Mickey Hahn.

Get the book: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250436092/starryandrestless/

Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Julia-Cooke-on-Mickey-Hahn-transcript.pdf

Nancy Bernhard, author of The Double Standard Sporting House, joins us to discuss “fallen” women in the U.S. in the 19th century and women’s health and medical treatments.

Get the book: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Double-Standard-Sporting-House/Nancy-Bernhard/9798896360520

Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Nancy-Bernhard-on-fallen-women-and-womens-health-in-1800s-New-York-transcript.pdf

Nancy Hudgins joins us to discuss the subject of her middle-grade biography, Books Good Enough For You: The Storied Life of Ursula Nordstrom, Editor of Extraordinary Children’s Books.

Get the book: https://nancyhudgins.com/books/books-good-enough-for-you/

Transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Nancy-Hudgins-on-Ursula-Nordstrom-transcript.pdf

Dr Nina Baker tells us about the women in her book, “Supposed Killed or Drowned by Enemy Action at Sea,” about Scottish merchant navy women who died as a result of enemy action in the First and Second World Wars.

Transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Nina-Baker-on-Merchant-Navy-seawomen-transcript.pdf

Get the book: https://cramptonmoorhousepublishing.blogspot.com/2026/04/new-book-just-out-supposed-killed-or.html

Dr Lorana Bartels is a Professor of Criminology at the Australian National University and Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Canberra and University of Tasmania. We discuss links between victimization and criminality, meaning the ways in which being victimized can make women more likely to commit crimes themselves.

Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Lorana-Bartels-on-victimization-and-criminality-transcript.pdf