Infinite Women

Historian Pamela Toler introduces us to Sigrid Schultz, the subject of her biography The Dragon From Chicago: The Untold Story of an American Reporter in Nazi Germany.

Get the book: https://bookshop.org/a/115788/9780807019603

Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Pamela-Toler-on-Sigrid-Schultz-transcript.pdf

Regular listeners may recognize Dr. Beth Hubble, professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Montana, from previous episodes about transgender histories, the French medieval writer Marie de France, Italian-French feminist writer Christine de Pizan, and the 17th-century Ethiopian nun Walatta Petros. Now she’s back to tell us about someone quite a bit more recent: Moroccan feminist writer and sociologist Fatema Mernissi.

Transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Beth-Hubble-on-Fatima-Mernissi-transcript.pdf

Biographer Sheila Isenberg joins us to discuss the subject of her book, Muriel's War: An American Heiress in the Nazi Resistance.

Get the book: https://sheilaisenberg.com/muriels-war

Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Sheila-Isenberg-on-Muriel-Gardiner-transcript.pdf

Dr. Alison Parker, Richards Professor of American History at the University of Delaware, tells us about her research into the life and work of Civil Rights activist Mary Hamilton.

Regular listeners may recall Dr. Parker from her previous episode about “unceasing militant” Mary Church Terrell: https://www.infinite-women.com/women/mary-church-terrell/

Transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Alison-Parker-on-Mary-Hamilton-transcript.pdf

Lydia Reeder, author of The Cure for Women: Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi and The Challenge to Victorian Medicine that Changed Women's Lives Forever returns to discuss another part of her book, Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the rest cure.

Get the book: https://lydiareeder.com/the-cure-for-women-overview/

Transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Lydia-Reeder-on-Charlotte-Perkins-Gilman-transcript.pdf

Dr Suzanne Leonard, Professor of Race, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Simmons University, is the author of the upcoming book, A Feminist Guide to Marriage, as well as Wife, Inc.: The Business of Marriage in the Twenty-First Century and Fatal Attraction and co-editor of Imagining We in the Age of I: Romance and Social Bonding in Contemporary Culture.

Get the book: https://www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-press/publications/a-feminist-guide-to-marriage/

Transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Suzanne-Leonard-on-feminist-marriage-transcript.pdf

Dr. Beth Hubble, professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Montana, returns to tell us about 17th-century Ethiopian noblewoman turned nun Walatta Petros.

Transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Beth-Hubble-on-Walatta-Petros-transcript.pdf

Madeleine Thompson, Site Administrator for the Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office Museum in Washington D.C., tells us about the life and legacy of the founder of the American Red Cross.

Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Madeleine-Thompson-on-Clara-Barton-transcript.pdf

Dr Jessica Scott, an associate professor of gender studies at West Virginia Wesleyan College, joins us to discuss her book Home Is Where Your Politics Are: Queer Activism in the U.S. South and South Africa.

Get the book: https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/home-is-where-your-politics-are/9781978836075/

Transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Jessica-Scott-on-queer-activism-in-the-US-South-and-South-Africa-transcript.pdf

Biographer Amy Reading tells us about the subject of her book, The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at the New Yorker, which was a finalist for a Pulitzer and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Get the book: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-world-she-edited-amy-reading

Transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Amy-Reading-on-Katharine-S.-White-transcript.pdf