Infinite Women

Biographer Lorissa Rinehart tells us about the U.S.’s first Congresswoman and the subject of her new book, Winning the Earthquake: How Jeannette Rankin Defied All Odds to Become the First Woman in Congress.

Get the book: https://www.panmacmillan.com.au/9781250353047/

Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Lorissa-Rinehart-on-Jeannette-Rankin-transcript.pdf

Dr. Doris Gutsmiedl-Schümann, co-Investigator for AktArcha, a project researching early female archaeologists from German-speaking areas, tells us about such women’s careers in archaeology, including as antiquarians, collectors, excavators, or museum workers.

More about the project and various women's stories: https://aktarcha.hypotheses.org/

Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr.-Doris-Gutsmiedl-Schumann-on-early-German-speaking-archaeologists-transcript.pdf

Dr Kimberly Voss, a professor of journalism at the Nicholson School of Communication and Media at the University of Central Florida. Her books include The Food Section: Newspaper Women and the Culinary Community, Politicking Politely: Well-Behaved Women Making a Difference in the 1960s and 1970s, Re-Evaluating Women’s Page Journalism in the Post-World War II Era: Celebrating Soft News, and Vivian Castleberry: Challenging the Traditions of Women’s Roles, Newspaper Content, and Community Politics.

Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Kimberly-Voss-on-women-in-US-journalism-in-the-1950s-and-60s-transcript.pdf

Dorina Pojani is an Associate Professor of urban planning at The University of Queensland and co-author of Early Planning Utopias: A Feminist Critique, which is available now from Anthem Press: https://anthempress.com/early-planning-utopias-pb

Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Dorina-Pojani-on-the-gender-divide-in-urban-planning-transcript.pdf

Maggie Hennefeld is a Professor of Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota and author of Death by Laughter: Female Hysteria & Early Cinema. Maggie is also affiliated with the Women Film Pioneers Project (read about her Cinema's First Nasty Women project), and joins us to discuss women's laughter and film, and how the archives of feminist film comedy can help inspire creativity and resistance in our political culture today.

Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Maggie-Hennefeld-on-womens-comedy-and-laughter-in-film-and-activism-transcript.pdf

Mayukh Sen, author of Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood's First South Asian Star, tells us about the life, career and complex legacy of this too-often-overlooked icon.

Get the book: https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324050827

Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Mayukh-Sen-on-Merle-Oberon-transcript.pdf

Dr Quah Ee Ling, associate professor of Culture & Society at Western Sydney University, discusses her new book, Fire Dragon Feminism: Asian Migrant Women's Tales of Migration, Coloniality and Racial Capitalism.

Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Quah-Ee-Ling-on-Fire-Dragon-Feminism-transcript.pdf

Get the book: https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/fire-dragon-feminism-9781350447820/

Sara Sheridan is the author of several novels including On Starlit Seas, inspired by the “brilliant Georgian travel writer” Maria Graham. We also discuss creative ways to memorialize women's lives beyond statues and plaques.

Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Sara-Sheridan-on-Maria-Graham-and-creative-memorialization-transcript.pdf

June Thomas, author of A Place of Our Own: Six Spaces That Shaped Queer Women's Culture, guides us through lesbian bars, feminist bookstores, softball pitches, communes, sex toy stores and holiday destinations.

Transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/June-Thomas-on-queer-womens-spaces-transcript.pdf

April White, author of The Divorce Colony, joins us to discuss How Women Revolutionized Marriage and Found Freedom on the American Frontier.

Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/April-White-on-Sioux-Falls-Divorce-Colony-transcript.pdf