Infinite Women

Dr Jill Inderstrodt, a Research Scientist at Regenstrief Institute, joins us to talk about the intersections of technology and maternal health.

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Dr Jill Hasday, a distinguished professor at the University of Minnesota Law School, joins us to discuss her book We the Men: How Forgetting Women's Struggles for Equality Perpetuates Inequality.

Get the book: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/we-the-men-9780197800805

Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Jill-Hasday-on-how-forgetting-womens-struggles-for-equality-perpetuates-inequality-transcript.pdf

Lydia Reeder, who regular listeners may recall from our episode on the revolutionary Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi, returns to tell us about the women from her first book, Dust Bowl Girls: The Inspiring Story of the Team That Barnstormed Its Way to Basketball Glory.

Get the book: https://lydiareeder.com/dust-bowl-girls-overview/

Transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Lydia-Reeder-on-Dust-Bowl-Girls-transcript.pdf

Dr Rebecca Wilkin and Dr Angela Hunter, have recently reconstructed Louise Dupin's Work on Women, which is now available in English for the first time thanks to their efforts and “presents an in-depth feminist treatise of the French Enlightenment, featuring an original claim about the modernity of gender inequality that informed the work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Dupin's secretary.”

Get the book: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/louise-dupins-work-on-women-9780190090104

Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Rebecca-Wilkin-and-Dr-Angela-Hunter-on-Louise-Dupins-Work-on-Women-transcript.pdf

Dr Mary Spongberg, Senior Deputy Vice Chancellor of Research at Southern Cross University, discusses how to fight entrenched biases in institutional settings, with a focus on on sexism in research, and how gender shapes who is studying what and how.

Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Mary-Spongberg-on-gender-bias-in-research-transcript.pdf

Dr Courtney Jarrett tells us about sharing the stories of incredible women from history and today through her children's book, Muncie Women A-Z.

Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Courtney-Jarrett-on-sharing-local-history-with-children-transcript.pdf

Cleo O'Callaghan Yeoman and Kate Ferrier, PhD candidates in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh, tell us about Scottish author Susan Edmonstone Ferrier. Kate is also a distant relative of Susan’s.

Transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Cleo-OCallaghan-Yeoman-and-Kate-Ferrier-on-Susan-Edmonstone-Ferrier-transcript.pdf

Dr Vanessa R. Corcoran, a medieval historian and an advising dean at Georgetown University, joins us to discuss depictions of the Virgin Mary and how they reflect medieval society.

Transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Vanessa-R.-Corcoran-on-the-Virgin-Mary-in-medieval-art-transcript.pdf

Dr Zoë Burgess, Senior Research Fellow at the University of West London’s London School of Film, Media and Design and Film Curator at Wessex Film & Sound Archive. She tells us about her research into gender and class in the WFSA’s Amateur Film Collection, focusing on the early years of film from 1895 to 1950.

Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Zoe-Burgess-on-mid-century-amateur-filmmakers-transcript.pdf

Dr Shaune Lakin, Senior Curator of Photography at the National Gallery of Australia, joins us to discuss Australian modernist photographer Olive Cotton. The exhibition "Olive Cotton and Her Contemporaries" (https://nga.gov.au/exhibitions/making-it-modern-olive-cotton-and-her-contemporaries/) will be at the Gippsland Art Gallery in Victoria through 22 February, then at Cowra Regional Art Gallery in New South Wales from 14 March to 10 May. Cotton’s work is also currently on display at the NGA as part of the "Women Photographers 1853–2018" (https://nga.gov.au/exhibitions/women-photographers/) collection display that will be up until 1 March 2026.

Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Shaune-Lakin-on-Olive-Cotton-transcript.pdf