Top-Rated Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, Women

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/802260 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Locker Room Talk: A Woman’s Struggle to Get Inside Author: Melissa Ludtke Narrator: Melissa Redmond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 45 minutes Release date: September 17, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: While sportswriters rushed into Major League Baseball locker rooms to talk with players, MLB Commissioner Bowie Kuhn barred the lone woman from entering along with them. That reporter, twenty-six-year-old Sports Illustrated reporter Melissa Ludtke, charged Kuhn with gender discrimination, and after the lawyers argued Ludtke v. Kuhn in federal court, she won. Her 1978 groundbreaking case affirmed her equal rights, and the judge's order opened the doors for several generations of women to be hired in sports media. Locker Room Talk is Ludtke's gripping account of being at the core of this globally covered case that churned up ugly prejudices about the place of women in sports. Kuhn claimed that allowing women into locker rooms would violate his players' 'sexual privacy.' She weaves these public perspectives throughout her vivid depiction of the court drama overseen by Judge Constance Baker Motley, the first Black woman to serve on the federal bench. She recounts how her lawyer, F. A. O. 'Fritz' Schwarz, employed an ingenious legal strategy that persuaded Judge Motley to invoke the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause in giving Ludtke access identical to that of her male counterparts. Locker Room Talk is both an inspiring story of one woman's determination to do a job dominated by men and an illuminating portrait of a defining moment for women's rights.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/811960 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Her Space, Her Time: How Trailblazing Women Scientists Decoded the Hidden Universe Author: Shohini Ghose Narrator: Asha Vijayasingham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 32 minutes Release date: September 17, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Women physicists and astronomers from around the world have transformed science and society, but the critical roles they played in their fields are not always well-sung. Her Space, Her Time, authored by award-winning quantum physicist Shohini Ghose, brings together the stories of these remarkable women to celebrate their indelible scientific contributions. In each chapter, Ghose explores a scientific topic and explains how the women featured revolutionized that area of physics and astronomy. In doing so, she also addresses particular aspects of women's experiences in physics and astronomy: in the chapter on time, for instance, we learn of Henrietta Leavitt and Margaret Burbidge, who helped discover the big bang and the cosmic calendar; in the chapter on space exploration, we learn of Anigaduwagi (Cherokee) aerospace scientist Mary Golda Ross, who helped make the Moon landings possible; and in the chapter on subatomic particles, we learn of Marietta Blau, Hertha Wambacher, and Bibha Chowdhuri, who contributed to the discovery of the building blocks of the universe. Her Space, Her Time is a story of scientific innovation, inspirational leadership, and overcoming invisibility that will leave a lasting impression on any listener curious about the rule-breakers and trendsetters who illuminated our understanding of the universe.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/809071 to listen full audiobooks. Title: One Tough Dame: The Life and Career of Diana Rigg Author: Herbie J Pilato Narrator: Herbie J Pilato Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 55 minutes Release date: September 16, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: One Tough Dame: The Life and Career of Diana Rigg offers a sweeping portrait of the revered performer’s life and career. Deemed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1994, Diana Rigg (1938–2020) initially found fame as super sleuth Mrs. Emma Peel in the 1960s BBC/ABC-TV espionage series, The Avengers. A classically trained and multi-award-winning thespian, Rigg is known for her diverse body of work ― from her big-screen debut in 1969 as Countess Teresa di Vincenzo, wife of James Bond in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, to her Tony Award–winning, leading role in Medea on Broadway, culminating with her Emmy-nominated portrayal as Lady Olenna Tyrell on the heralded small-screen gem, Game of Thrones. This eclectic volume traces Rigg’s career as a renowned star of television, film, and the stage. The author includes insights from rare, archived interviews, encompassing both video dialogues conducted by the University of Kent and Oxford Union. The meticulously curated archival material is further complemented by equally rare  retrospections drawn from diverse media sources and hitherto unpublished accounts from the people who knew Rigg best, affording readers an unprecedented, all-encompassing glimpse into her private world. With exclusive commentary from Rupert Macnee (son of Riggs’s Avengers costar and dear friend Patrick Macnee); the show’s stunt coordinator/director Ray Austin; actors Samuel West, Bernie Kopell, Barbara Barrie, Juliet Mills, John Schuck, and Damon Evans; director Bruce Beresford; and documentarian David Naylor, among others, One Tough Dame delivers an in-depth perspective of a beloved, brave, brilliant, and trailblazing actor.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/739040 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ordinary Disasters: How I Stopped Being a Model Minority Author: Anne Anlin Cheng Narrator: Anne Anlin Cheng Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 18 minutes Release date: September 10, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: The most personal writing yet to come from a noted scholar of race: a bold and moving look at race, gender, aging, and immigration that examines, through lenses both intimate and political, what it means to be an Asian American woman living in America today. Part memoir, part cultural criticism, part history, Anne Anlin Cheng’s original essays focus on art, politics, and popular culture. Through personal stories woven with a keen eye and an open heart, Cheng summons up the grief, love, anger, and humor in negotiating the realities of being a scholar, an immigrant Asian American woman, a cancer patient, a wife of a white man, and a mother of biracial children . . . all in the midst of the (extra)ordinary stresses of recent years. Ordinary Disasters explores with lyricism and surgical precision the often difficult-to-articulate consequences of race, gender, migration, and empire. It is the story of Chinese mothers and daughters, of race and nationality, of ambition and gender, of memory and forgetting, and the intricate ways in which we struggle for interracial and intergenerational intimacies in a world where there can be no seamless identity.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/739394 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Scam Goddess: Lessons from a Life of Cons, Grifts, and Schemes Author: Laci Mosley Narrator: Laci Mosley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 56 minutes Release date: September 10, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A delightfully subversive essay collection from Laci Mosley, host of the award-winning “Scam Goddess” podcast, about the frauds, cons, and schemes that make up our world—and how the scammer mindset has affected her own upbringing, career, friendships, love life, and more. ​ From an early age, comedian and actress Laci Mosley knew her path would be riddled with scams, cons, robberies, and frauds. Little ones. Ones that didn’t hurt people or get her in trouble. But ones that would get her where she needed to be. “You see,” she writes, “everyone’s a scammer and everything’s a scam. Some people are better at it than others, but we all do it. The system wasn’t built for people like me. Scamming saved me and has taught me how to navigate a messy and unfair world while looking out for myself, too.” In Scam Goddess, Laci recounts how her scammer instincts have guided her throughout her life—from a religious childhood in rural Texas, to a stint as a city bartender at what might have been a drug front, to swindling her way past the gatekeepers of Hollywood—recounting the greatest true-crime scam stories that inspired her along the way. Whether it’s by the beauty industry, capitalism, or the people we date, we’re all getting scammed. In this book, Laci identifies the secrets to flipping the script and coming out ahead.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/777411 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Never Far Apart Author: Ellen Foster, Kitty Salsberg Narrator: Kitty Salsberg, Elva Mai Hoover Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 27 minutes Release date: September 10, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Kati and her younger sister, Ilonka, arrive in Canada with painful memories from the Holocaust, which has taken both of their parents. Their harrowing time alone in the Budapest ghetto is fresh in their minds, as are their fragile hopes to be adopted. But their lives in Toronto are far from what they expected, and full of broken promises. As the sisters navigate their new surroundings, they each grow fiercely strong and independent, while holding onto the comfort that they will be Never Far Apart. Introduction by Adara Goldberg

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/795956 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Stolen Family: Captive in Saudi Arabia Author: Johanne Durocher Narrator: Teri Schnaubelt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 8 minutes Release date: September 10, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Canadian Nathalie Morin's four children cannot leave Saudi Arabia without exit visas signed by Nathalie's abusive husband. Her mother chronicles her decades-long struggle to bring her daughter and four grandchildren home to safety in Montreal.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/766263 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Deaf Girl: A Memoir of Hearing Loss, Hope, and Fighting Against the Odds Author: Abigail Heringer Narrator: Abigail Heringer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 13 minutes Release date: September 10, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: An inspiring story of hearing loss and hope from The Bachelor’s first deaf contestantAbigail Heringer made her television debut as an instant fan-favorite on season 25 of The Bachelor. Stepping out of the limousine, she approached her bachelor with a playful declaration: she would be staring at his lips all night for two compelling reasons—her profound deafness since birth, and because he had some nice lips!But Abigail’s journey wasn’t always marked by such confidence. Growing up deaf and introverted, she dreaded being the center of attention, fearing her disability would burden those around her. Among her hearing peers, she felt like an outsider, simply labeled as “the deaf girl.” And after receiving a cochlear implant at the age of two, she subsequently struggled to find her place in the Deaf community too. Caught in between two worlds and grappling to define her identity as a deaf woman, Abigail felt like she belonged in neither.Supported by her family, particularly her deaf older sister Rachel, Abigail has come to understand that while being deaf is part of her identity, it doesn’t define her. Throughout her journey, marked by challenges and adversity, Abigail has grown into her own strongest advocate, discovering a new voice that is confident, fearless, and empowered—a voice that enables her to proudly reclaim the title of “the deaf girl” she once resisted and rewrite it as a testament to her resilience and strength.Hopeful, vulnerable, and uplifting, The Deaf Girl shares Abigail’s journey of navigating life with a profound hearing loss and her transformation from merely accepting her disability to embracing it wholeheartedly. This memoir serves as an inspiring reminder for anyone who has ever felt like an outsider or struggled to embrace their differences, showcasing that every voice is worthy of being heard. “The Deaf Girl is an incredibly moving and uplifting memoir. Abigail’s heartfelt and sincere reflections on growing up as an outsider and her journey to embrace her identity reveal a remarkable tale of resilience and courage … An inspiring book filled with hope.”—Cat Mathes, President & CEO of John Tracy Center

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/816257 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Wilde Stille (Ungekürzt) Author: Raynor Winn Narrator: Kaja Sesterhenn Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 11 minutes Release date: September 10, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Das Leben entwickelt sich selten so, wie wir es planen. Raynor Winn und ihr Mann Moth erlebten dies hautnah, als sie mitten im Leben alles verloren und sich auf die rund 1000 Kilometer lange Wanderung entlang des South West Coast Path begaben. Nach dieser Wanderung haben sich die beiden in einer kleinen Stadt an der englischen Küste niedergelassen und versuchen, sich wieder an das Leben mit einem Dach über dem Kopf zu gewöhnen. In Ihrem zweiten Buch 'Wilde Stille' erzählt Raynor Winn: - wie die Wanderung ihr Leben verändert hat; - wie es dem Ehepaar gelingt, wieder ein 'normales' Leben zu führen; - was Raynor bewegte, ihr erstes Buch zu schreiben; ... und wie ihr Leben weitergeht. Natürlich hält das Leben neue Herausforderungen für das Ehepaar bereit. Werden sich Ray und Moth trotz aller Schwierigkeiten ein neues Abenteuer zutrauen? Hören Sie die Fortsetzung ihrer bewegenden Geschichte!

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/813139 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Entre azul y buenas noches Author: Samantha Flores, Antoine Rodríguez Narrator: Terry Holiday, Antoine Rodríguez, Samantha Flores, Oscar López Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 18 minutes Release date: September 5, 2024 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Esta es la autobiografía de Samantha Flores, trans-activista mexicana, nacida en 1932 en Orizaba, Veracruz; fundadora de Laetus Vitae, la primera casa de día totalmente gratuita de la Ciudad de México, y de América Latina, para gente mayor LGBTQ+ Bautizada Vicente Aurelio, Samanthase encamina hacia los senderos de la masculinidad, por los cuales los tropiezos y las trampas son frecuentes: niño afeminado, sensible, es seducido, a sus doce años, por el atlético y viril David que le promete amor eterno en la iglesia de San José. Asus diecinueve años, deja Orizaba para emanciparse y liberarse en la Ciudad de México. Tras haber concluido sus estudios de hotelería, trabaja como recepcionista en varios hoteles, pero a Samantha le gusta el mundo de la farándula y de la diversión nocturna. Frecuenta los bares y antros de moda en los cuales circulan deseos y erotismos diversos. Ahí conoce a varias actrices y a la famosa Xóchitl, Reina travesti de la noche,gracias a quien Vicente empieza a convertirse en Samantha, en los años sesenta, cuando la categoría «transgénero» aún no existía. Esta autobiografía es una escritura a cuatro manos. Antoine Rodríguez fungió como técnico para grabar el relato oral de Samantha, editarlo y restituirlo fielmente con el léxico, la prosodia y el ritmoparticulares de la autobiógrafa. El epílogo da cuenta de los procesos de subjetivación de Samantha y propone una genealogía de las teorías acerca de las identidades trans. Esta autobiografía es el primer texto hispanoamericano de una mujer trans mayor de noventa años. «Samantha Flores es una leyenda viviente. Una mujer de la que todas deberíamos aprender. Samantha Flores deja en este libro muchas de las claves para que las mujeres trans tengamos vidas dignas.» -MORGANNA LOVE, cantante, actriz y autora de En el cuerpo correcto