I speak with Professor Merry Wiesner-Hanks, Distinguished Professor Emerita of University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and former president of the World History Association. Merry has written books like A Concise History of the World and Early Modern Europe. We talk about women's history in general and the misconceptions about the lives of women in the past. 

See here for a teaching worksheet for this episode at my website

https://www.davidsherrin.com/cwh

Additional books she recommends are:

Lieutenant Nun: Memoir of a Basque Transvestite in the New World by Catalina de Erauso

A Medieval Life: Cecilia Penifader of Brigstock by Judith Bennett