Infinite Women

Dr Nina Baker tells us about the women in her book, “Supposed Killed or Drowned by Enemy Action at Sea,” about Scottish merchant navy women who died as a result of enemy action in the First and Second World Wars.

Transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Nina-Baker-on-Merchant-Navy-seawomen-transcript.pdf

Get the book: https://cramptonmoorhousepublishing.blogspot.com/2026/04/new-book-just-out-supposed-killed-or.html

Dr Lorana Bartels is a Professor of Criminology at the Australian National University and Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Canberra and University of Tasmania. We discuss links between victimization and criminality, meaning the ways in which being victimized can make women more likely to commit crimes themselves.

Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Lorana-Bartels-on-victimization-and-criminality-transcript.pdf

Historian Pamela Toler introduces us to Sigrid Schultz, the subject of her biography The Dragon From Chicago: The Untold Story of an American Reporter in Nazi Germany.
Get the book: https://bookshop.org/a/115788/9780807019603
Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Pamela-Toler-on-Sigrid-Schultz-transcript.pdf

Regular listeners may recognize Dr. Beth Hubble, professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Montana, from previous episodes about transgender histories, the French medieval writer Marie de France, Italian-French feminist writer Christine de Pizan, and the 17th-century Ethiopian nun Walatta Petros. Now she’s back to tell us about someone quite a bit more recent: Moroccan feminist writer and sociologist Fatma Mernissi.

Transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Beth-Hubble-on-Fatima-Mernissi-transcript.pdf

Biographer Sheila Isenberg joins us to discuss the subject of her book, Muriel's War: An American Heiress in the Nazi Resistance.
Get the book: https://sheilaisenberg.com/muriels-war
Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Sheila-Isenberg-on-Muriel-Gardiner-transcript.pdf