Infinite Women

Science journalist Matt Kaplan discuss themes and stories from his book I Told You So!: Scientists Who Were Ridiculed, Exiled, and Imprisoned for Being Right.

Transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Matt-Kaplan-on-scientists-being-attacked-for-being-right-transcript-.pdf

Dr Heidi R. Lewis, a Professor of Feminist & Gender Studies at Colorado College and author of the book Make Rappers Rap Again: Interrogating the Mumble Rap “Crisis,” joins us to discuss hip-hop and gender.

Transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Heidi-R-Lewis-on-hip-hop-and-gender-transcript.pdf

Diana Parsell, author of Eliza Scidmore: The Trailblazing Journalist Behind Washington's Cherry Trees, shares the story of the travel writer, conservationist, photographer and first female board member of National Geographic.

Get the book: https://dianaparsell.com/books/eliza-scidmore/

Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Diana-Parsell-on-Eliza-Scidmore-transcript.pdf

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