Drs Wendy E. Chmielewski and Jill Norgren on women running for offices in the US before 1920

Kayla Branstetter, a professor of English at Crowder College, joins us to discuss her book Don’t Be an Athena and her research on narrative medicine and the ways women’s pain is often minimized or dismissed by systems meant to help them. Get the book: https://www.ozarkhollowpress.com/product-page/don-t-be-an-athena Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Kayla-Branstetter-on-narrative-medicine-transcript.pdf

Engineering historian Dr. Nina C. Baker returns to tell us about inventor Margaret E. Knight.

Dr Llewellyn Negrin is an Adjunct senior researcher in the School of Creative and Performing Arts at the University of Tasmania who studies fashion as an embodied artform. She was involved in the Costume Art exhibition at The Met in New York, which will be on display through 10 January 2027: https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/costume-art Transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Llewellyn-Negrin-on-fashion-as-embodied-art-transcript.pdf

Dr. Georgia Munro-Cook, a research fellow in the Centre for Social and Cultural Research at Griffith University, is the author of Building the WNBA: From Dunking Divas to Political Leaders. She joins us to discuss the history, evolution and impact of the league. Transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Georgia-Munro-Cook-on-the-WNBA-transcript.pdf

Dr Céline Leboeuf is an Associate Professor in Philosophy at Florida International University and author of the new book, The Tyranny of Thinness: Understanding and Resisting the Pressure to Be Skinny. Get the book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/826797/the-tyranny-of-thinness-by-celine-leboeuf/ Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Celine-Leboeuf-on-the-_tyranny-of-thinness_-transcript.pdf