The 3 Best The Exploress Podcast Episodes
1) A Lady's Life in Mid-19th Century America (Season 1, Episode 1)
Mid-19th century America was a pretty buttoned-up place. Or was it? For women, marriage and family was their destiny, their lives confined to a small and private sphere. They could toil, but they coul...Show More
2) Armed and Dangerous: Amazons and the Real Warrior Women Who Intimidated Ancient Greece, Part 1
The ancient Greeks told lots of stories about the Amazons: the mythic bands of warrior women that Hellanikos of Lesbos described as “a host of golden-shielded, silver-axed, man-loving, boy-killing fem...Show More
3) We Shall Overcome: Elizabeth Keckley & Harriet Tubman, Part 1
Elizabeth Keckley and Harriet Tubman spent decades in bondage, suffering everything the "peculiar institution" promised before finding very different paths to freedom. What they did with that freedom ...Show More
4) Heroines of the Harlem Renaissance with Victoria Christopher Murray
Season 6, Episode 11. Welcome back to Exploress Book Club! Join me in talking to Victoria Christopher Murray, author of the historical fiction novel Harlem Rhapsody, as she talks about the unsung hero...Show More
5) A Lady's Life in the Viking Age, Part 5: Shield Maidens and Sorceresses
Season 6, Episode 10. In this series, we're exploring what life was like for women in the Viking (Norse) Age. In this episode, we're exploring one of our favorite Viking archetypes - the shield maiden...Show More
6) A Lady's Life in the Viking Age, Part 4: Weavers, Traders, Raiders, and Slaves
Season 6, Episode 9. In this series, we're exploring what life was like for women in the Viking (Norse) Age. In this episode, we're going to talk about one of a lady's most involved and important task...Show More
7) Lesbian Fashion History with Eleanor Medhurst
Season 6, Episode 8. Happy Pride Month! Join me and Eleanor Medhurst to discuss her book 'Unsuitable: A History of Lesbian Fashion,' which explores the intersection of fashion, identity, and politics ...Show More
8) The Wild Times of Julie D'Aubigny
Season 6, Episode 7. If you were living in Paris in the late 1600s and happened to pick up a newspaper, you might have read about the latest exploits of a beautiful and talented opera singer. She was ...Show More
9) Ladies Who Sleuth in Regency England with Alison Goodman
Season 6, Episode 6. Welcome to Exploress Book Club! Join me in talking to Alison Goodman, author of The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies, as she tells us what life was really like for the la...Show More
10) 1,001 Nights with Al-Khayzuran
Season 6, Episode 5. One Thousand and One Nights – the famed collection of stories in which the vizier’s daughter, Scheherazade, agrees to wed a paranoid king who marries a new bride each night only t...Show More