Infinite Women

Dr. Beth Hubble, professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Montana, tells us about 14th century Italian-French writer, philosopher and feminist Christine de Pizan.

Transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Beth-Hubble-on-Christine-de-Pizan-transcript.pdf

Dr Kate Culkin, author of Emerson’s Daughters: Ellen Tucker Emerson, Edith Emerson Forbes, and Their Family Legacy, introduces us to the sisters and their mother, Lidian Jackson Emerson.
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Magda Keaney, Head Curator of International Art at the National Gallery of Australia, and former Senior Curator Photographs at the National Portrait Gallery London, joins us to discuss the work of photographer Francesca Woodman. The NGA recently purchased a work by Woodman called Blueprints for a Temple (II) that is on display now through the end of January 2027. https://nga.gov.au/exhibitions/blueprints-for-temples/

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Melissa Chim, a librarian from Excelsior University, tells us about Hannah Cullwick, an 1800s maid of all work in the UK and how her unconventional marriage highlights the era's power dynamics and other realities life for working class women of the time.
Transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Melissa-Chim-on-Hannah-Cullwick-transcript.pdf

Lucy Haigh, a PhD student in history at the University of Sheffield, tells us about Alexandra of Denmark - Danish princess, British queen, fashion icon and multiply disabled woman.
Transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Lucy-Haigh-on-Alexandra-of-Denmark-transcript.pdf