Latest Womenshistory Podcast Episodes
Laying the Groundwork: Women in American Architecture, Spring 1977
New Angle: Voice - April 09, 2024 11:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 148 ratingsThat was some party. Even though I didn’t make it to the splashy opening, I did attend the transformational exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, our subject in this episode. A rarely used sculpture gallery was filled with ranks and files of cheap drafting tables, their tops tilted to display what ...
Episode 69 - Sister Mary Ignatius Davies
Dead Ladies Show Podcast - March 08, 2024 05:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsWelcome to Season Seven! In this episode, we bring you…the woman known as the “Mother Theresa of Reggae! Sister Mary Ignatius, a white Jamaican Catholic nun dedicated her life to the Alpha Boys’ School in Kingston, where she taught football, cricket, boxing, table tennis and dominoes ...
Guest Episode from Her Half of History - Ellen Craft, a First-Class Escape
Dead Ladies Show Podcast - February 12, 2024 18:43 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsWe're working on our next season, which starts in March! So, in this bonus show, we're sharing a guest episode from the podcast Her Half of History. Her Half of History covers women’s history in short episodes that fit into a series, like Women Who Seized Power, Women Who Escaped Slavery, and...
Architecture, Family Style – The Lives and Work of Sarah Harkness and Jean Fletcher
New Angle: Voice - December 20, 2023 15:34 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 148 ratingsSarah Pillsbury, or Sally as she was better known by her peers, and Jean Bodman were both architects who married architects. As an architect who also married an architect, my perspective may be more inside baseball on the professional side, but utter awe and fascination on the family end. I’m...
Episode 68 - June Tarpé Mills
Dead Ladies Show Podcast - October 21, 2023 16:22 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsIn this episode, the last of Season Six, we bring you a show live from PodFest Berlin! DLS-ers Susan Stone and Katy Derbyshire joined the city’s fine and friendly podcasters at the yearly event in front of a small but perfectly formed audience. From that event, producer Susan brings us th...
Episode 67 - Amrita Sher-Gil
Dead Ladies Show Podcast - September 13, 2023 22:02 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsIn this episode, we hear once again from our friends at Dead Ladies NYC. Nafisa Ferdous presents Amrita Sher-Gil, a queer, feminist, Hungarian-Indian artist, writer, and art critic who left a profound impact on art despite her untimely death. Sher-Gil was an incredibly charismatic non-conform...
Episode 66 - Doreen Massey
Dead Ladies Show Podcast - August 17, 2023 10:43 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsIn this episode, we encounter the show’s very first featured geographer. UK-born Doreen Massey was a pioneer in her field. She challenged existing ideas about space, place and power, was compassionate, politically active, and hopeful. She worked in academia and as a public intellectual, inc...
Anna Wagner Keichline: The Legacy of Invention
New Angle: Voice - August 14, 2023 11:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 148 ratings1913 was the year of the grand march for suffrage in Washington DC, the 250,000 marchers and attendees eclipsed the coverage the following day of the inauguration of Woodrow Wilson. Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, population 4216, had its own march, on the fourth of July. Costumes were di rigeur, wit...
Episode 65 - Romy Schneider
Dead Ladies Show Podcast - July 12, 2023 13:53 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsIn this episode, we bring you the story of an actress whose off-screen life was as dramatic and tragic as many of the characters she portrayed. Born in Vienna in 1938, Romy Schneider was said to have the star power of Greta Garbo or Marilyn Monroe. She is perhaps best known for her portrayal ...
Episode 64 - Hildegard Knef
Dead Ladies Show Podcast - June 14, 2023 23:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsIn this episode, DLS co-founder Katy Derbyshire has the story of a deutsche Diva — an iconic German actress and singer and best-selling author known for her glamour and scandal, her smoky voice and sweeping false eyelashes. Hildegard Knef was also an unreliable narrator and a serial fabulato...
HOSTS WITH THE MOST- Avery and Rita
I Don't Know Her - June 03, 2023 18:43 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsIn which our intrepid podcasters update you all about what's been going on and where things are going.
Amaza Lee Meredith: Love and Home
New Angle: Voice - May 31, 2023 08:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 148 ratingsI picked up a free glossy real estate magazine with an enticing photograph of summer leisure pursuits under the title Sag Harbor: A Whale of a Good Time. We traveled out there in early spring, collecting voices of preservation, community, celebrity, and long tenured summer families as we search...
Episode 63 — Djuna Barnes
Dead Ladies Show Podcast - May 11, 2023 14:10 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsIn this episode, translator Laura Radosh introduces us to the fascinating and troubled writer Djuna Barnes. The journalist, novelist, and artist mixed with everyone from James Joyce to Peggy Guggenheim, and was at the center of Bohemian life in 1920s New York and Paris, though perhaps not quite...
The Art We Must Live With: Ada Louise Huxtable and Architecture Criticism
New Angle: Voice - April 19, 2023 08:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 148 ratingsAnyone who writes about American architecture of the mid twentieth and early 21 st century measures their critical achievement with the yardstick drawn by Ada Louise Huxtable. With countless articles for two great daily newspapers, this petite New Yorker had a gigantic influence on our under...
Episode 62 - Leonor Fini
Dead Ladies Show Podcast - April 13, 2023 12:40 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsOur story for this episode comes from our friends at the Dead Ladies Show NYC, which is organized and hosted by Molly O’Laughlin Kemper with Sheila Enright. Photographer, professional eccentric and guinea pig lover JR Pepper tells the tale of artist Leonor Fini, a glamorous, passionate iconocla...
DOCTOR - Magnus Hirshfeld pt. 2
I Don't Know Her - March 31, 2023 08:55 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsAt the top, the hosts talk about all of the big changes they experienced in 2022 and what they hope to accomplish in 2023. Then Avery tells part two of Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld’s tale. Hirschfeld was the founder of the first gay rights organization as well as the world’s first sex institute. In par...
Episode 60 - Emmy Noether
Dead Ladies Show Podcast - March 16, 2023 09:46 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsDead Ladies Show Podcast Episode 60 - Emmy Noether For our 60th episode, we bring back the presenter who appeared in our very first podcast episode, writer and translator Karen Margolis. Drawing from her own history in higher mathematics, Karen ably tells the tale of Germany’s Emmy Noet...
Episode 61 - Emmy Noether
Dead Ladies Show Podcast - March 16, 2023 09:46 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsDead Ladies Show Podcast Episode 61 - Emmy Noether For this episode, we bring back the presenter who appeared in our very first podcast episode, writer and translator Karen Margolis. Drawing from her own history in higher mathematics, Karen ably tells the tale of Germany’s Emmy Noether,...
Ray Eames: Beauty in the Everyday
New Angle: Voice - March 08, 2023 09:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 148 ratingsNew Angle: Voice is back! We kick off Season Two with Ray Kaiser Eames. Many know Ray Eames as the small, dirndled woman behind her more famous husband. In this episode, we uncover the talented artist who saw the world full of color, the industrial designer bending plywood in the spare bedroom, ...
Episode 60 - Delia Derbyshire
Dead Ladies Show Podcast - February 14, 2023 22:52 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsIn this episode, we’re going to hear about woman who is sometimes called a sculptress of sound — “the unsung heroine of British electronic music” — Delia Derbyshire, ably presented by our very own DLS co-founder Katy Derbyshire. A working-class girl from Coventry, England, Delia studie...
Episode 59 - Delia Derbyshire
Dead Ladies Show Podcast - February 14, 2023 22:52 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsIn this episode, we’re going to hear about woman who is sometimes called a sculptress of sound — “the unsung heroine of British electronic music” — Delia Derbyshire, ably presented by our very own DLS co-founder Katy Derbyshire. A working-class girl from Coventry, England, Delia studie...
LANDOWNER - Biddy Mason
I Don't Know Her - February 11, 2023 22:58 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsThe hosts start the show talking about Tyre Nichols and giving an update on Rita's ex-husband Nic before diving into the story of Biddy Mason, a formerly enslaved woman who became one of the first African-American women to own real estate in Los Angeles. Over her life Biddy amassed an impressive...
Episode 59 - Berenice Abbott
Dead Ladies Show Podcast - January 20, 2023 14:30 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsDead Ladies Show Podcast - Berenice Abbott Welcome to our first podcast of 2023! In this episode, we zoom in on photographer Berenice Abbott. This American artist has a bit of a six-degrees-of separation going on with a number of our previous Dead Ladies, including Baroness von Freytag-Lor...
DOCTOR - Magnus Hirshfeld
I Don't Know Her - January 14, 2023 01:15 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsAt the top, the hosts talk about all of the big changes they experienced in 2022 and what they hope to accomplish in 2023. Then Avery tells part one of Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld’s tale. Hirschfeld was the founder of the first gay rights organization as well as the world’s first sex institute. His pr...
ACTIVIST - Felicitas Méndez
I Don't Know Her - December 30, 2022 11:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsThe hosts talk about their Christmas traditions then Rita tells the story of Felicitas Méndez, a Puerto Rican civil rights activist who scored a major legal victory in California schools, which played a part in ending de jure segregation in the United States.
Episode 58 — Ruth Asawa
Dead Ladies Show Podcast - December 14, 2022 11:06 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsEpisode 58 — Ruth Asawa It’s our final podcast of 2022! DLS co-founders Florian Duijsens and Katy Derbyshire join producer Susan Stone to toast the holiday season, chat about this year’s good news in Dead Ladies, and to introduce our featured Dead Lady, artist Ruth Asawa. Born to Japanese...
GENDER PIONEER - Karl Baer
I Don't Know Her - November 26, 2022 21:36 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsAvery and Rita read The Great British Baking Show for filth for the infamous Mexican episode. Then Avery tells a tale close to their heart. Karl M. Baer was born an intersex child whose parents raised him to be a girl, causing years of internal and external strife for him. As a young adult he me...
Episode 57 - Angela Carter
Dead Ladies Show Podcast - November 17, 2022 09:41 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsTo kick off Season 6 of the Dead Ladies Show Podcast, writer Leon Craig brings us the story of award-winning English author Angela Carter. Known for her feminist, gothic and erotic sensibilities and re-inventing folk and fairy tales for her now seminal collection The Bloody Chamber, Carter’s lif...
SPECIAL EFFECTS DESIGNER - Millicent Patrick
I Don't Know Her - November 11, 2022 11:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsThe hosts start the show talking about recording in the new podcast studio at the Spokane Central Library, and about their favorite episodes. Then Rita tells the story of Millicent Patrick, an actress, animator, makeup artist, and special effects designer who blazed a trail through Hollywood tha...
ACTIVIST - Pauline Morton Sabin
I Don't Know Her - October 28, 2022 19:08 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsThe hosts discuss monetized feminism and then dig into the story of Prohibition and the woman who helped overturn it. Pauline Morton Sabin was a wealthy woman who switched political parties and became the voice and face of the movement to end Prohibition.