Infinite Women

Drs Wendy E. Chmielewski and Jill Norgren, co-creators of the digital history project Her Hat Was In The Ring (https://herhat.historyit.com/) and authors of a forthcoming book of the same name. The project traces 6,000 women who campaigned for elective office before 1920 and ratification of the 19th Amendment in the United States.

Transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Drs-Wendy-E.-Chmielewski-and-Jill-Norgren-on-women-running-for-offices-in-the-US-before-1920-transcript.pdf

Jane Eisner, author of the new book Carole King: She Made the Earth Move, joins us to talk about the life and work of the iconic singer-songwriter.

Get the book: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300259469/carole-king/

Transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Jane-Eisner-on-Carole-King-transcript.pdf

Bethany Mannon, Assistant Professor of English at Appalachian State University and author of I Grew Up in the Church: How Evangelical Women Tell Their Stories, discusses contemporary Evangelical Christian women writers.

Get the book: https://www.baylorpress.com/9781481318938/i-grew-up-in-the-church/

Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Bethany-Mannon-on-Evangelical-Christian-women-writers-transcript.pdf

Dr. Beth Hubble, professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Montana, tells us about 14th century Italian-French writer, philosopher and feminist Christine de Pizan.

Transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Beth-Hubble-on-Christine-de-Pizan-transcript.pdf

Dr Kate Culkin, author of Emerson’s Daughters: Ellen Tucker Emerson, Edith Emerson Forbes, and Their Family Legacy, introduces us to the sisters and their mother, Lidian Jackson Emerson.

Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Kate-Culkin-on-the-Emerson-women-transcript.pdf

Magda Keaney, Head Curator of International Art at the National Gallery of Australia, and former Senior Curator Photographs at the National Portrait Gallery London, joins us to discuss the work of photographer Francesca Woodman. The NGA recently purchased a work by Woodman called Blueprints for a Temple (II) that is on display now through the end of January 2027. https://nga.gov.au/exhibitions/blueprints-for-temples/

Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Magda-Keaney-on-Francesca-Woodman-transcript.pdf

Melissa Chim, a librarian from Excelsior University, tells us about Hannah Cullwick, an 1800s maid of all work in the UK and how her unconventional marriage highlights the era's power dynamics and other realities life for working class women of the time.

Transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Melissa-Chim-on-Hannah-Cullwick-transcript.pdf

Lucy Haigh, a PhD student in history at the University of Sheffield, tells us about Alexandra of Denmark - Danish princess, British queen, fashion icon and multiply disabled woman.

Transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Lucy-Haigh-on-Alexandra-of-Denmark-transcript.pdf

Dr. Whitney Dirks, author of Monstrosity, Bodies, and Knowledge in Early Modern England, tells us about 1600s Englishwoman Mary Herring and her conjoined twin daughters, Aquila and Priscilla.

Get the book: https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789462986671/monstrosity-bodies-and-knowledge-in-early-modern-england

Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr.-Whitney-Dirks-on-Mary-Herring-and-her-daughters-transcript.pdf

Author Gigi Berardi's latest novel, Bianca’s Cure, reimagines the story of Renaissance Italian noblewoman Bianca Capello. We discuss fact vs fiction and the lines between alchemy and science.

Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Gigi-Berardi-on-Bianca-Capello-transcript-.pdf