Dames Deferred - The Mercury 13 Further Reading: Ackmann, Martha (2003). The Mercury 13: The Untold Story of Thirteen American Women and the Dream of Space Flight. Nolen, Stephanie (2002). Promised the Moon: The Untold Story of the First Women in the Space Race Music: I Should Fly - Vermillion Lies Click to listen in new window...
'Queen' Bess Coleman and Pancho Barnes Click to listen in new window Further Reading: Bessie Coleman: Queen Bess: Daredevil Aviator by Doris L. Rich Pancho Barnes: The Happy Bottom Riding Club: The Life and Times of Pancho Barnes by Lauren Kessler (2001) The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club directed by Amanda Pope (2009) Music: "Don't Stop" by the Parting Gifts...
Mamie "Peanut" Johnson and Lyudmilla Pavlichenko Click to listen in new window Further Reading: Mamie "Peanut" Johnson A Strong Right Arm by Michelle Green Interview on Youtube by Visionary Project Mamie 'Peanut' Johnson, Pitching Pioneer , Interview Fresh Air, NPR 2/18/2003 Mamie Johnson: Peanut Who Stood Tall in Negro Leagues Podcast interview of Mamie before an elementary school class. Lyudmilla Pavlichenko Women in War and Resistance by Kazimiera J. Cottam...
Lady Hester Stanhope and La Maupin Click to listen in new window Further Reading: Lady Hester: Lady Hester: Queen of the East by Lorna Gibb. (2005) Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope by Dr. Meyron. (1845) La Maupin By the Sword: A History of Gladiators, Musketeers, Samurai, Swashbucklers, and Olympic Champions by Richard Cohen (2003) Queens of Song by Ellen Clayton (1865) Wonderful Characters: Comprising Memoirs and Anecdotes of the Most Remarkable Persons of Every Age and Nation by Henry Wilso...
Cora Hubbard and Belle Starr: Wild West Outlaws. Click to listen in new window Further Reading: Cora Hubbard: Bedside Book of Bad Girls: Outlaw Women of the Old West by Michael Rutter Tales Never Told Around the Campfire: True Stories of Frontier America by Mark Dugan Ozarks, Gunfire and Other Notorious Incidents by Larry Wood Cora Hubbard: Female Bank Robber in Missouri by Larry Wood Belle Starr: Women of the Wild West by Katherine Kohn http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/star-bel.htm Music: The Devi...
Dames of the Circus: Lillian Leitzel and Millie-Christine McCoy Click to listen in new window Further reading: Millie-Christine: Fearfully and Wonderfully Made; Joanne Martell; John F. Blair Publisher (2001) Biographical Sketch of Millie Christine, the Carolina Twin, Surnamed the Two-Headed Nightingale and the Eighth Wonder of the World Music: Little Egypt by the Coasters...
Tallulah Bankhead and Dorothy Parker: Droll dames. Click to listen in new window Further Reading: Tallulah Bankhead Tallulah Bankhead: My Autobiography by Tallulah Bankhead (1952) Tallulah Bankhead by Byrony Lavery (1999) Tallulah Bankhead: A Scandalous Life by David Bret (1996) Tallulah ragging on Bette Davis on The Big Show Tallulah and Marlena sparring on the radio Tallulah and Groucho sparring on the radio Tallulah on Batman. The Black Widow Strikes Again 1 , 2 , 3 and Caught in the Spider's...
Sr. Lt. Lydia Vladimirovna aka Lilya Litvyak Right click here and save as to download Further Reading: Wings Women and War by Reina Pennington (1997) Soviet Women in Combat in WWII by Kazimiera J. Cottam (1983) Also, online commentary by Ms. Cottam on the likelihood of the cheating death rumors....
Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu and The Harvard Computers Special thanks to Bil Sanford for putting science into English for us. Dame is a Four Letter Word - Episode 14 : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive Right click here and save as to download Further Reading: Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu: Question of Parity Conservation in Weak Interactions by T.D. Lee and C.N. Yang; The Physical Review (October 1, 1956) Reversal of the Parity Conservation Law in Nuclear Physics prepared by Ralph P. Hudson. Famed P...
Nellie Bly and Anna Politkovskaya: Plucky investigative journalists. Right click here and save as to download Further Reading: Nellie Bly: Nellie Bly: Daredevil, Reporter, Feminist by Brooke Kroeger (1994) 10 Days in a Madhouse by Nellie Bly Around the World in 72 Days by Nellie Bly Six Months in Mexico by Nellie Bly Nellie Bly Resource Site (online archive of Nellie's writing) Transcript of PBS American Experience I'm not the only one curious about McGinty - There's a children's book about him....
The Trung Women and The Night Witches: Right click here and save as to download Further Reading: The Trung Warriors When Heroism is Not Enough: Three Women Warriors of Vietnam, Their Historians and World History by Professor Marc Jason Gilbert. From Co-Loa to the Trung Sisters' Revolt: Viet-Nam as the Chinese Found It by Stephen O'Harrow. (1978) Hai Ba Trung (The Trung Sisters) The Night Witches "We, of course, would have preferred to have been called 'night beauties,' but, whichever, we did our...
Trieu Thi Trinh and Maria Quit é ria de Jesus Meideiros: Women in combat? Yea, they've been tearing up battlefields for centuries upon centuries. Listen up. Right click here and save as to download Further Reading: Trieu Thi Trinh Vietnam, A Long History by Khac Vien Nguyen Vietnam, A Comprehensive History by Kim Vinh Pham The Birth of Vietnam by Keith Taylor Vietnamese Tradition on Trial by David Marr Maria Quiteria Cross-dressing to Liberate Her Country and Herself: Revisiting the Life Traject...
Lindsay, Sasha and Laurin with a snowman-spy caught not far from the banks of the Neva. Right click here and save as to download *This travelogue is dedicated to Crystal Veytia, who was one of our traveling buddies and who left this world far too soon shortly after our trip to St. Petersburg. RIP and much love mija. Old Nevsky Prospect - 1905 Music: DDT-Black Dog Petersburg...
When Sophia of Stettin came over to Russia to be the heir’s betrothed, she took her new name of Catherine upon converting to Russian Orthodoxy. She could have kept her old name, Sophia was a proper Russian name, but some think Elizabeth felt it an imprudent choice, considering the history of another woman with that name who was quite the usurper. She probably didn’t want to give Catherine any ideas in that area. Little did she know. Well, whether Catherine thought much on her name change at the ...
Queen Boudica (aka: Boudicca or Boadicea) and Catherine the Great (Ekaterina the 2nd) Right click here and save as to download Further Reading: Queen Boudica: "Boudica: Iron Age Warrior Queen" by Richard Hingley and Christina Unwin. "The Annals" by Tacitus. (Boudica's story was rediscovered in this book around 1360) Catherine the Great Catherine the Great: A Short History by Isabel de Madriaga Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K Massie Catherine the Great: Love, Sex and Power by...
Ada Lovelace and Emmy Noether - Dames of Mathematics Right click here and save as to download Further Reading: Ada Lovelace "Ada: The Enchantress of Numbers" by Betty Toole (2010) "The Calculating Passion of Ada Byron" by Joan Baum (1986) "Ada, Countess of Lovelace, Byron's only Legitimate Daughter" by Doris Langley Moore (1977) "Ada: A Life and Legacy" by Dorothy Stein (1985) Sketch of the Analytical Engine by L. Menebrea. Notes by Ada Lovelace. (1843) Great comic on Hark a Vagrant Unbelievably...
Simone de Beauvoir and Hannah Arendt: Logical ladies possessing giant intellects. Forget the teachings which say that women are solely emotional creatures, incapable of sophisticated reasoning. The fact is that females have repeatedly proved throughout history that they're just as logical as their male counterparts. Listen up. Note: Apologies on the delay, we had some sound quality/technical issues while recording. Right click here and save as to download Further Reading: Simone de Beauvoir: "A ...
