Queens and Rebels

Queens and Rebels

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Queens and Rebels episodes

  • 31: The Legend of Amazons

    Amazons' journey from barbarous arch-enemies of Greeks to kick-ass women we all know and love today.

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    Sources:

    - Blundell, Sue. Women in Ancient Greece. British Museum Press, 1995.
    -Hardwick, Lorna. “Ancient Amazons - Heroes, Outsiders or Women?” Greece & Rome, vol. 37, no. 1, 1990, pp. 14–36.
    - Tyrrell, William Blake. “AMAZON CUSTOMS AND ATHENIAN PATRIARCHY.” Annali Della Scuola Normale Superiore Di Pisa. Classe Di Lettere e Filosofia, vol. 12, no. 4, 1982, pp. 1213–1237.
    - Franklin, Margaret. “Boccaccio's Amazons and Their Legacy in Renaissance Art: Confronting the Threat of Powerful Women.” Woman's Art Journal, vol. 31, no. 1, 2010, pp. 13–20.
    - The Project Gutenberg EBook of The History Of Herodotus, by Herodotus, Release Date: December 1, 2008 [EBook #2707]
    - Foreman, Amanda. “The Amazon Women: Is There Any Truth Behind the Myth?” Smithsonian.com, Smithsonian Institution, 1 Apr. 2014, www.smithsonianmag.com/history/amazon-women-there-any-truth-behind-myth-180950188/.
    - Hawkins, Derek. “Amazons Were Long Considered a Myth. These Discoveries Show Warrior Women Were Real.” The Washington Post, WP Company, 1 Jan. 2020, www.washingtonpost.com/science/2019/12/31/amazons-were-long-considered-myth-these-discoveries-show-warrior-women-were-real/.
    - Man, John. “The Real Amazons: How the Legendary Warrior Women Inspired Fighters and Feminists.” HistoryExtra, 26 Nov. 2020, www.historyextra.com/period/ancient-greece/the-real-amazons-how-the-legendary-warrior-women-inspired-fighters-and-feminists/.
    - Cartwright, Mark. “Amazon Women.” World History Encyclopedia, World History Encyclopedia, 28 May 2021, www.worldhistory.org/amazon/.



    35 min
  • 30: Jefferson Sisters - Part 3

    The life of Thomas Jefferson’s daughters. Some born into privilege some into slavery.

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    Sources:

    - Kerrison, Catherine. Jefferson's Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America. Ballantine Books, 2019.

    40 min
  • 29: Jefferson Sisters - Part 2

    The life of Thomas Jefferson’s daughters. Some born into privilege some into slavery.

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    Sources:

    - Kerrison, Catherine. Jefferson's Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America. Ballantine Books, 2019.

    38 min
  • 28: Jefferson Sisters - Part 1

    The life of Thomas Jefferson’s daughters. Some born into privilege some into slavery.

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    Sources:

    - Kerrison, Catherine. Jefferson's Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America. Ballantine Books, 2019.

    42 min
  • 27: Huda Sha'arawi

    One of the O.G. feminists, authors and advocate for Egyptian independence. 

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    Sources:

    - Shaʻrāwī Hudá. Harem Years: the Memoirs of an Egyptian Feminist. Virago, 1986.

    - Kahf, Mohja. “HUDA SHA'RAWI'S ‘MUDHAKKIRATI’: THE MEMOIRS OF THE FIRST LADY OF ARAB MODERNITY.” Arab Studies Quarterly, vol. 20, no. 1, 1998, pp. 53–82.

    - Weber, Charlotte. “Between Nationalism and Feminism: The Eastern Women's Congresses of 1930 and 1932.” Journal of Middle East Women's Studies, vol. 4, no. 1, 2008, pp. 83–106.

    - Julia Lisiecka. Re-reading Huda Shaarawi’s “Harem Years”– Bargaining with the Patriarchy in the Changing Egypt. The SOAS Journal of Postgraduate Research, Vol. 8 (2015).

    - Hossain, Anushay. “Outside the Harem: Egyptian Feminist's Life Reminds Us To Keep Fighting.” Forbes, Forbes Magazine, 28 June 2013, www.forbes.com/sites/worldviews/2013/06/27/outside-the-harem-egyptian-feminists-life-reminds-us-to-keep-fighting/?sh=3887e48f578f. 

    37 min
  • 26: Working Women of Medieval Europe

    Who were the working women of the medieval world. 

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    Sources:

    - Ale, Beer, and Brewsters in England: Women's Work in a Changing World, 1300-1600

    By Judith M. Bennett, John R Hubbard Professor

    - Hanawalt, Barbara A. “Medieval English Women in Rural and Urban Domestic Space.” Dumbarton Oaks Papers, vol. 52, 1998, pp. 19–26.

    - "Women, Gender, and Medieval Historians," coauthored with Ruth Mazo Karras, in The Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe, Judith M. Bennett and Ruth Mazo Karras, eds. (Oxford University Press, 2013), 1-17.

    - Gies, Frances, and Joseph Gies. Women in the Middle Ages. Harper Perennial, 2018.

    - Medieval Prostitution In Secular Law: The Sex Trade In Medieval London, Paris And Toulouse, Suzanne Meade, McMaster University, September 2001

    - Youngs, Deborah. “Servants and Labourers on a Late Medieval Demesne: The Case of Newton, Cheshire, 1498-1520.” The Agricultural History Review, vol. 47, no. 2, 1999, pp. 145–160.

    - Crowston, C. (2008). Women, Gender, and Guilds in Early Modern Europe: An Overview of Recent Research. International Review of Social History, 53(S16), 19-44.

    - Mount, Toni. “What Was Life like for a Medieval Housewife?” HistoryExtra, 26 Nov. 2020, www.historyextra.com/period/medieval/middle-ages-women-life-marriage-housewives-role-jobs-wear-clothes-husbands/.

    - Laumonier, Lucie. “Medieval Working Women: Their Role in the Trades of Southern France in the 14th Century.” Medievalists.net, 14 Mar. 2021, www.medievalists.net/2021/03/medieval-women-working/.

    42 min
  • 25: Empress (Emperor) Wu Zetian

    The only woman to rule in her own right through out China's imperial history, Wu Zetian remains a controversial figure to this day.  Was her reputation of exceptional cruelty and sexual immorality deserved?  Listen and find out. 

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    Sources:

    - Tung, Jowen R. Fables for the Patriarchs: Gender Politics in Tang Discourse. Rowman and Littlefield, 2000.

    - Rothschild, N. Harry. Emperor Wu Zhao and Her Pantheon of Devis, Divinities, and Dynastic Mothers. Columbia University Press, 2018.

    - Dash, Mike. “The Demonization of Empress Wu.” Smithsonian.com, Smithsonian Institution, 10 Aug. 2012, www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-demonization-of-empress-wu-20743091/.

    - Valdez, Teresa “No One Mourns the Wicked: The Female Emperor Wu Zhao.” StMU History Media, 10 Nov. 2017, stmuhistorymedia.org/no-one-mourns-the-wicked-the-female-emperor-wu-zhao/.

    - Meekins, Jeannie. Wu Zetian: First Empress of China: A 15-Minute Biography. Learning Island, 2019.

    - Lee, Yuen Ting “Wu Zhao: Ruler of Tang Dynasty China.” Association for Asian Studies, 19 May 2020, www.asianstudies.org/publications/eaa/archives/wu-zhao-ruler-of-tang-dynasty-china/.



    41 min
  • 24: Mary Ann Shadd Cary

    Abolitionist, educator, lecturer, editor, journalist, civil-rights advocate, and lawyer.

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    Sources:

    - Streitmatter, Rodger. Raising Her Voice African-American Women Journalists Who Changed History. The University Press of Kentucky, 2015.

    - “Myseum's Micro-Histories - Mary Ann Shadd.” Myseum, 28 Aug. 2019, www.myseumoftoronto.com/programming/microhistories-mary-ann-shadd/.

    - https://static.torontopubliclibrary.ca/da/pdfs/37131055345060d.pdf



    35 min
  • 23: First Wave of Caribbean Immigration to Canada

    During the first wave of the Caribbean immigration to Canada a lot of women came as nurses or as a part of the West Indian Domestic Scheme.  What was their immigration experience like?  What challenges did they face? Listen and find out.

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    Sources:

    - Lawson, Erica. “The Gendered Working Lives of Seven Jamaican Women in Canada: A Story about ‘Here’ and ‘There’ in a Transnational Economy.” Feminist Formations, vol. 25, no. 1, 2013, pp. 138–156.

    - Gooden, Amoaba. “Community Organizing by African Caribbean People in Toronto, Ontario.” Journal of Black Studies, vol. 38, no. 3, 2008, pp. 413–426.

    - Iacovetta, Franca, and Marlene Epp. Sisters or Strangers?: Immigrant, Ethnic and Racialized Women in Canadian History. University of Toronto Press, 2016.

    - Canada, Parks. “West Indian Domestic Scheme (1955–1967).” Canada.ca, Government of Canada, 31 July 2020, www.canada.ca/en/parks-canada/news/2020/07/west-indian-domestic-scheme-19551967.html.

    - - Hébert, Paul. “Immigration Policy, the West Indies, and Canadian Black Activism in the 1960s.” AAIHS, 25 Aug. 2016, www.aaihs.org/immigration-policy-the-west-indies-and-canadian-black-activism-in-the-1960s/.

    - NewsAmericas, et al. “Caribbean News, Latin America News.” Caribbean and Latin America Daily News, 27 Apr. 2016, www.newsamericasnow.com/10-fast-facts-about-caribbean-immigrants-in-canada/.

    34 min
  • 22: Searching for the Queen of Sheba

    Rich, powerful and mysterious.  The Queen of Sheba (Saba) captured the imagination of many, but did she actually exist? 

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    Sources:

    - Mamman Musa Adamu "The Legend of Queen Sheba, the Solomonic Dynasty and Ethiopian History: An Analysis", African Research Review,   Vol. 3 (1), 2009.

    - Suzanne Conklin Akbari "Where Is Medieval Ethiopia? Mapping Ethiopic Studies within Medieval Studies" Getty Publications, 2019, pp. 80-91.

    - Toy, C. H. “The Queen of Sheba.” The Journal of American Folklore, vol. 20, no. 78, 1907, pp. 207–212.

    - Campbell, Colin. “Was There a Queen Of Sheba? Evidence Makes Her More Likely.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 4 Feb. 1986, www.nytimes.com/1986/02/04/science/was-there-a-queen-of-sheba-evidence-makes-her-more-likely.html. 

    - “Archaeologists Strike Gold in Quest to Find Queen of Sheba's Wealth.” The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 12 Feb. 2012, www.theguardian.com/science/2012/feb/12/archaeologists-and-quest-for-sheba-goldmines.

    - Delano, Photograph by James Whitlow, et al. “In Search of the Real Queen of Sheba.” Travel, 11 Nov. 2020, www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/destinations/africa/ethiopia/mysterious-queen-sheba-legend-church-archaeology/.

    - “Two Riddles of the Queen of Sheba.” Metmuseum.org, www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/465954.

    - “In Search of Myths &Amp Heroes . The Queen of Sheba.” PBS, Public Broadcasting Service, www.pbs.org/mythsandheroes/myths_four_sheba.html.

    36 min

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