Queens and Rebels: Recent Episodes

Marta Cholovska

Women's history

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First hand recollection of women's experiences in WW2. 

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Sources:

  • Moorehead, Caroline. “The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich Review – for 'Filth' Read Truth.” The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 2 Aug. 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/aug/02/unwomanly-face-of-war-svetlana-alexievich-review.

  • Aleksievich, Svetlana. Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II; Trans. by Richard Pevear. RANDOM House, 2017.

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Spooktober special - Part 3 of 3 on Jack the Ripper's victims.  Who were the woman behind the infamous crimes? Let's take a trip to the darkest parts of London and find out.

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Sources:

  • Rubenhold, Hallie. The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper. Black Swan, 2020.

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Spooktober special - Part 2 of 3 on Jack the Ripper's victims.  Who were the woman behind the infamous crimes? Let's take a trip to the darkest parts of London and find out.

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Sources:

  • Rubenhold, Hallie. The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper. Black Swan, 2020.

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Spooktober special. Part 1 of 3 on Jack the Ripper's victims.  Who were the woman behind the infamous crimes? Let's take a trip to the darkest parts of London and find out. 

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Sources:

  • Rubenhold, Hallie. The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper. Black Swan, 2020.

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Vengeance, sainthood, taxes and a one bad-ass Queen. 

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Sources:

  • The Rus' Primary Chronicle. Translated by Leonid Makhnovets, Dnipro Publishing, 1990.

  • Hruševsʹkyj Mychajlo Serhijovyč. History of Ukraine - Rus'. Translated by Marta Daria Olynyk et al., Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, 2010.

  • Plokhy, Serhii. The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine. Basic Books, 2021.

  • Subtelny , Orest. Ukraine: A History. 4th ed., University of Toronto Press, 2009.

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Homosexuality now re-criminalized faced brutal repression.  Stalin's death brought gradual and limited freedoms that unfortunately omitted attitudes and laws on gay life.   

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Sources:

  • Healey, Dan. Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia: the Regulation of Sexual and Gender Dissent. University of Chicago Press, 2004.

  • Guskov, Kirill. “Gay Life in Stalin's Gulag.” OpenDemocracy, 11 Dec. 2018, www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/gay-life-in-stalins-gulag/.

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Homosexuality criminalized and re-criminalized and what happened in between. 

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Sources:

  • Healey, Dan. Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia: the Regulation of Sexual and Gender Dissent. University of Chicago Press, 2004.

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Queer life in post-revolutionary Russia. 

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Sources:

  • Healey, Dan. Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia: the Regulation of Sexual and Gender Dissent. University of Chicago Press, 2004.

  • History.com Editors. “Russian Revolution.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 9 Nov. 2009, www.history.com/topics/russia/russian-revolution.

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Life of gay men and women in tsarist Russia on the cusp of revolution. 

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Sources:

  • Healey, Dan. Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia: the Regulation of Sexual and Gender Dissent. University of Chicago Press, 2004.

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A revolutionary writer, Loraine brought a queer and feminist perspective to her tireless civil rights campaign.

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Sources:

  • Ingle, Zachary. “‘White Fear’ and the Studio System: A Re-Evaluation of Hansberry's Original Screenplay of ‘A Raisin in the Sun.’” Literature/Film Quarterly, vol. 37, no. 3, 2009, pp. 184–193.

  • Lipari, Lisbeth. “LORRAINE HANSBERRY: (May 19, 1930–January 12, 1965).” Writers of the Black Chicago Renaissance, edited by STEVEN C. TRACY, University of Illinois Press, 2011, pp. 193–217.

  • Sehgal, Parul. “The Brief, Brilliant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 14 Apr. 2021, www.nytimes.com/2021/04/14/books/review-radical-vision-lorraine-hansberry-biography-soyica-diggs-colbert.html.

  • “Lorraine Hansberry Quotes.” PBS, Public Broadcasting Service, 18 May 2020, www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/lorraine-hansberry-quotes/14401/.

  • Fonseca, Sarah. “The Double Life of Lorraine Hansberry (Out Magazine, September 1999).” Medium, Medium, 23 Oct. 2020, girlsinmitsouko.medium.com/the-double-life-of-lorraine-hansberry-out-magazine-september-1999-a60c1d471d49.

  • Whitney, Joel. “Lorraine Hansberry Was an Unapologetic Radical.” Jacobin, jacobinmag.com/2020/12/lorraine-hansberry-raisin-in-the-sun-playwright.

  • “Lorraine Hansberry Biography.” Chicago Public Library, www.chipublib.org/lorraine-hansberry-biography/.

  • “American RadioWorks - Say It Plain, Say It Loud.” APM Reports - Investigations and Documentaries from American Public Media, americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/blackspeech/lhansberry.html.

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Amazons' journey from barbarous arch-enemies of Greeks to kick-ass women we all know and love today.

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Sources:

  • Blundell, Sue. Women in Ancient Greece. British Museum Press, 1995.

-Hardwick, Lorna. “Ancient Amazons - Heroes, Outsiders or Women?” Greece & Rome, vol. 37, no. 1, 1990, pp. 14–36.

  • Tyrrell, William Blake. “AMAZON CUSTOMS AND ATHENIAN PATRIARCHY.” Annali Della Scuola Normale Superiore Di Pisa. Classe Di Lettere e Filosofia, vol. 12, no. 4, 1982, pp. 1213–1237.

  • Franklin, Margaret. “Boccaccio's Amazons and Their Legacy in Renaissance Art: Confronting the Threat of Powerful Women.” Woman's Art Journal, vol. 31, no. 1, 2010, pp. 13–20.

  • The Project Gutenberg EBook of The History Of Herodotus, by Herodotus, Release Date: December 1, 2008 [EBook #2707]

  • Foreman, Amanda. “The Amazon Women: Is There Any Truth Behind the Myth?” Smithsonian.com, Smithsonian Institution, 1 Apr. 2014, www.smithsonianmag.com/history/amazon-women-there-any-truth-behind-myth-180950188/.

  • Hawkins, Derek. “Amazons Were Long Considered a Myth. These Discoveries Show Warrior Women Were Real.” The Washington Post, WP Company, 1 Jan. 2020, www.washingtonpost.com/science/2019/12/31/amazons-were-long-considered-myth-these-discoveries-show-warrior-women-were-real/.

  • Man, John. “The Real Amazons: How the Legendary Warrior Women Inspired Fighters and Feminists.” HistoryExtra, 26 Nov. 2020, www.historyextra.com/period/ancient-greece/the-real-amazons-how-the-legendary-warrior-women-inspired-fighters-and-feminists/.

  • Cartwright, Mark. “Amazon Women.” World History Encyclopedia, World History Encyclopedia, 28 May 2021, www.worldhistory.org/amazon/.

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The life of Thomas Jefferson’s daughters. Some born into privilege some into slavery.

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Sources:

  • Kerrison, Catherine. Jefferson's Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America. Ballantine Books, 2019.

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The life of Thomas Jefferson’s daughters. Some born into privilege some into slavery.

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Sources:

  • Kerrison, Catherine. Jefferson's Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America. Ballantine Books, 2019.

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The life of Thomas Jefferson’s daughters. Some born into privilege some into slavery.

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Sources:

  • Kerrison, Catherine. Jefferson's Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America. Ballantine Books, 2019.

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One of the O.G. feminists, authors and advocate for Egyptian independence. 

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Sources:

  • Shaʻrāwī Hudá. Harem Years: the Memoirs of an Egyptian Feminist. Virago, 1986.

  • Kahf, Mohja. “HUDA SHA'RAWI'S ‘MUDHAKKIRATI’: THE MEMOIRS OF THE FIRST LADY OF ARAB MODERNITY.” Arab Studies Quarterly, vol. 20, no. 1, 1998, pp. 53–82.

-Weber, Charlotte. “Between Nationalism and Feminism: The Eastern Women's Congresses of 1930 and 1932.” Journal of Middle East Women's Studies, vol. 4, no. 1, 2008, pp. 83–106.

  • Julia Lisiecka. Re-reading Huda Shaarawi’s “Harem Years”– Bargaining with the Patriarchy in the Changing Egypt. The SOAS Journal of Postgraduate Research, Vol. 8 (2015).

  • Hossain, Anushay. “Outside the Harem: Egyptian Feminist's Life Reminds Us To Keep Fighting.” Forbes, Forbes Magazine, 28 June 2013, www.forbes.com/sites/worldviews/2013/06/27/outside-the-harem-egyptian-feminists-life-reminds-us-to-keep-fighting/?sh=3887e48f578f. 

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Who were the working women of the medieval world.

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Sources:

  • Ale, Beer, and Brewsters in England: Women's Work in a Changing World, 1300-1600

By Judith M. Bennett, John R Hubbard Professor

  • Hanawalt, Barbara A. “Medieval English Women in Rural and Urban Domestic Space.” Dumbarton Oaks Papers, vol. 52, 1998, pp. 19–26.

  • "Women, Gender, and Medieval Historians," coauthored with Ruth Mazo Karras, in The Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe, Judith M. Bennett and Ruth Mazo Karras, eds. (Oxford University Press, 2013), 1-17.

  • Gies, Frances, and Joseph Gies. Women in the Middle Ages. Harper Perennial, 2018.

  • Medieval Prostitution In Secular Law: The Sex Trade In Medieval London, Paris And Toulouse, Suzanne Meade, McMaster University, September 2001

  • Youngs, Deborah. “Servants and Labourers on a Late Medieval Demesne: The Case of Newton, Cheshire, 1498-1520.” The Agricultural History Review, vol. 47, no. 2, 1999, pp. 145–160.

  • Crowston, C. (2008). Women, Gender, and Guilds in Early Modern Europe: An Overview of Recent Research. International Review of Social History, 53(S16), 19-44.

  • Mount, Toni. “What Was Life like for a Medieval Housewife?” HistoryExtra, 26 Nov. 2020, www.historyextra.com/period/medieval/middle-ages-women-life-marriage-housewives-role-jobs-wear-clothes-husbands/.

  • Laumonier, Lucie. “Medieval Working Women: Their Role in the Trades of Southern France in the 14th Century.” Medievalists.net, 14 Mar. 2021, www.medievalists.net/2021/03/medieval-women-working/.

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The only woman to rule in her own right through out China's imperial history, Wu Zetian remains a controversial figure to this day.  Was her reputation of exceptional cruelty and sexual immorality deserved?  Listen and find out. 

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Sources:

  • Tung, Jowen R. Fables for the Patriarchs: Gender Politics in Tang Discourse. Rowman and Littlefield, 2000.

  • Rothschild, N. Harry. Emperor Wu Zhao and Her Pantheon of Devis, Divinities, and Dynastic Mothers. Columbia University Press, 2018.

  • Dash, Mike. “The Demonization of Empress Wu.” Smithsonian.com, Smithsonian Institution, 10 Aug. 2012, www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-demonization-of-empress-wu-20743091/.

  • Valdez, Teresa “No One Mourns the Wicked: The Female Emperor Wu Zhao.” StMU History Media, 10 Nov. 2017, stmuhistorymedia.org/no-one-mourns-the-wicked-the-female-emperor-wu-zhao/.

  • Meekins, Jeannie. Wu Zetian: First Empress of China: A 15-Minute Biography. Learning Island, 2019.

  • Lee, Yuen Ting “Wu Zhao: Ruler of Tang Dynasty China.” Association for Asian Studies, 19 May 2020, www.asianstudies.org/publications/eaa/archives/wu-zhao-ruler-of-tang-dynasty-china/.

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Abolitionist, educator, lecturer, editor, journalist, civil-rights advocate, and lawyer.

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Sources:

  • Streitmatter, Rodger. Raising Her Voice African-American Women Journalists Who Changed History. The University Press of Kentucky, 2015.

  • “Myseum's Micro-Histories - Mary Ann Shadd.” Myseum, 28 Aug. 2019, www.myseumoftoronto.com/programming/microhistories-mary-ann-shadd/.

  • https://static.torontopubliclibrary.ca/da/pdfs/37131055345060d.pdf

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During the first wave of the Caribbean immigration to Canada a lot of women came as nurses or as a part of the West Indian Domestic Scheme. What was their immigration experience like? What challenges did they face? Listen and find out.

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Sources:

  • Lawson, Erica. “The Gendered Working Lives of Seven Jamaican Women in Canada: A Story about ‘Here’ and ‘There’ in a Transnational Economy.” Feminist Formations, vol. 25, no. 1, 2013, pp. 138–156.

  • Gooden, Amoaba. “Community Organizing by African Caribbean People in Toronto, Ontario.” Journal of Black Studies, vol. 38, no. 3, 2008, pp. 413–426.

  • Iacovetta, Franca, and Marlene Epp. Sisters or Strangers?: Immigrant, Ethnic and Racialized Women in Canadian History. University of Toronto Press, 2016.

  • Canada, Parks. “West Indian Domestic Scheme (1955–1967).” Canada.ca, Government of Canada, 31 July 2020, www.canada.ca/en/parks-canada/news/2020/07/west-indian-domestic-scheme-19551967.html.

    • Hébert, Paul. “Immigration Policy, the West Indies, and Canadian Black Activism in the 1960s.” AAIHS, 25 Aug. 2016, www.aaihs.org/immigration-policy-the-west-indies-and-canadian-black-activism-in-the-1960s/.

  • NewsAmericas, et al. “Caribbean News, Latin America News.” Caribbean and Latin America Daily News, 27 Apr. 2016, www.newsamericasnow.com/10-fast-facts-about-caribbean-immigrants-in-canada/.

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Rich, powerful and mysterious. The Queen of Sheba (Saba) captured the imagination of many, but did she actually exist?

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Sources:

  • Mamman Musa Adamu "The Legend of Queen Sheba, the Solomonic Dynasty and Ethiopian History: An Analysis", African Research Review, Vol. 3 (1), 2009.

  • Suzanne Conklin Akbari "Where Is Medieval Ethiopia? Mapping Ethiopic Studies within Medieval Studies" Getty Publications, 2019, pp. 80-91.

  • Toy, C. H. “The Queen of Sheba.” The Journal of American Folklore, vol. 20, no. 78, 1907, pp. 207–212.

  • Campbell, Colin. “Was There a Queen Of Sheba? Evidence Makes Her More Likely.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 4 Feb. 1986, www.nytimes.com/1986/02/04/science/was-there-a-queen-of-sheba-evidence-makes-her-more-likely.html.

  • “Archaeologists Strike Gold in Quest to Find Queen of Sheba's Wealth.” The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 12 Feb. 2012, www.theguardian.com/science/2012/feb/12/archaeologists-and-quest-for-sheba-goldmines.

  • Delano, Photograph by James Whitlow, et al. “In Search of the Real Queen of Sheba.” Travel, 11 Nov. 2020, www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/destinations/africa/ethiopia/mysterious-queen-sheba-legend-church-archaeology/.

  • “Two Riddles of the Queen of Sheba.” Metmuseum.org, www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/465954.

  • “In Search of Myths &Amp Heroes . The Queen of Sheba.” PBS, Public Broadcasting Service, www.pbs.org/mythsandheroes/myths_four_sheba.html.

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Queen, warrior, mother, rebel, symbol of freedom - Lakshmi Bai did it all.

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Sources:

  • Toler, Pamela D. Women Warriors: an Unexpected History. Beacon Press, 2020.

  • Bridgeman/aci, et al. “India's Warrior Queen Didn't Back down from the British.” History Magazine, 6 Oct. 2020, www.nationalgeographic.com/history/magazine/2020/09-10/india-warrior-queen-lakshmi-bai-fought-british-rule/.

  • “The Sikhs in the Punjab.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., www.britannica.com/place/India/The-Sikhs-in-the-Punjab.

  • Staff, HistoryNet. “Who Is Manikarnika? The Real Story of Lakshmi Bai, the Rani of Jhansi.” HistoryNet, HistoryNet, 14 Nov. 2019, www.historynet.com/who-is-marnikarnika-legendary-hindu-queen-lakshmi-bai.htm.

  • “Rani Lakshmibai of Jhansi: the Heroic Queen Dubbed India's 'Joan of Arc'.” HistoryExtra, 26 Nov. 2020, www.historyextra.com/period/victorian/manikarnika-who-was-rani-lakshmibai-how-did-she-die-hero-queen-jhansi-lakshmi-bai-east-india-company-bollywood/.

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The idea is that nuns renounced the secular world, denounced procession and devoted themselves to prayer, but did they really?  Listen and find out. 

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Sources:

- Schulenburg, Jane Tibbetts. “Women's Monastic Communities, 500-1100: Patterns of Expansion and Decline.” Signs, vol. 14, no. 2, 1989, pp. 261–292. JSTOR, Accessed 19 Dec. 2020.

- POWER, EILEEN. MEDIEVAL ENGLISH NUNNERIES: c. 1275 to 1535 (Classic Reprint). FORGOTTEN Books, 2015.

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In a world where opportunities for women were severely limited, heading a monastery offered recognition, power and freedom in varying degrees.

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Sources:

  • Yin, Steph. “In an Ancient Nun's Teeth, Blue Paint - and Clues to Medieval Life.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 9 Jan. 2019, www.nytimes.com/2019/01/09/science/10-archaeology-teeth-painting.html.

  • Katz, Brigit. “A Medieval Nun Wanted to Escape Her Convent-so She Faked Her Death.” Smithsonian.com, Smithsonian Institution, 12 Feb. 2019, www.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews-arts-culture/medieval-nun-wanted-escape-her-conventso-she-faked-her-death-180971477/.

  • Schulenburg, Jane Tibbetts. “Women's Monastic Communities, 500-1100: Patterns of Expansion and Decline.” Signs, vol. 14, no. 2, 1989, pp. 261–292. JSTOR, Accessed 19 Dec. 2020.

  • Gies, Frances, and Joseph Gies. Women in the Middle Ages. HarperPernennial, 2018.

  • POWER, EILEEN. MEDIEVAL ENGLISH NUNNERIES: c. 1275 to 1535 (Classic Reprint). FORGOTTEN Books, 2015.

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Female divinities, humans and monsters in ancient Greek mythology.  What impact they had on cultural history and what attitudes they reflected.

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Sources:

  • Blundell, Sue. Women in Ancient Greece. British Museum Press, 1995.

  • Mary R. Lefkowitz. "Women in Greek Myth" The American Scholar , Spring 1985, Vol. 54, No. 2 pp. 207-219.

  • Susan R. Bowers. “Medusa and the Female Gaze.” NWSA Journal, vol. 2, no. 2, 1990, pp. 217–235. 

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A woman who defied America’s most powerful family - a story of Washington’s run-away slave.  (Part 2 of 2)

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Sources:

  • Dunbar, Erica Armstrong. Never Caught: the Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge. 37 Ink, 2020.

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A woman who defied America’s most powerful family - a story of Washington’s run-away slave.  (Part 1 of 2)

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Sources:

  • Dunbar, Erica Armstrong. Never Caught: the Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge. 37 Ink, 2020.

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A conclusion to the story of war, glamor and betrayal.  May-ling (youngest) is now Taiwan's First Lady.  Ching-ling (mid.) is basking in communist glory...kind of.  Ei-ling (oldest) is living a private and privileged life in exile. 

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Sources:

  • CHANG, J. . BIG SISTER, LITTLE SISTER, RED SISTER: Three women at the heart of twentieth-century china. Published October 29th 2019 by Vintage Digital.

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Continuing the story of the three sisters that shaped 20th century China.  May-ling (youngest) is now China's First Lady.  Ching-ling (mid.) is stepping up her support for the communist cause.  Ei-ling (oldest) is making a lot of money.

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  • CHANG, J. . BIG SISTER, LITTLE SISTER, RED SISTER: Three women at the heart of twentieth-century china. Published October 29th 2019 by Vintage Digital.

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This one is about: Glamour, war and the three sisters that shaped 20th century China.  Ei-ling (oldest) made herself one of China's richest women.  Ching-ling (mid.) became Mao's vice-chair.  May-ling (youngest) was a major political figure in pre-Communist China.

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Sources: 

  • CHANG, J. . BIG SISTER, LITTLE SISTER, RED SISTER: Three women at the heart of twentieth-century china. Published October 29th 2019 by Vintage Digital.

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This one is about: An infamous witch-hunting manual, sexism, and a nest full of peckers. 

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Sources:

  • Neave, Dorinda. "The Witch in Early 16th-Century German Art." Woman's Art Journal 9, no. 1 (1988): 3-9. 

  • Schuyler, Jane. "THE "MALLEUS MALEFICARUM" AND BALDUNG'S "WITCHES' SABBATH"." Source: Notes in the History of Art 6, no. 3 (1987): 20-26.

  • Smith, Moira. "The Flying Phallus and the Laughing Inquisitor: Penis Theft in the "Malleus Maleficarum"." Journal of Folklore Research 39, no. 1 (2002): 85-117. 

  • https://www.history.com/topics/folklore/history-of-witches

  • https://worldhistorycommons.org/malleus-maleficarum-witch-hunter-manual

  • https://projects.history.qmul.ac.uk/thehistorian/2020/01/24/the-malleus-maleficarum-an-earthquake-in-the-early-witch-craze/

  • http://www.malleusmaleficarum.org/

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This one is about: Maria Prymachenko - a soul as vibrant as her art.

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Sources:

  • https://www.ukrinform.ua/rubric-culture/2610303-maria-prijmacenko-1-akbi-noj-umiv-maluvati.html

  • https://ffr.org.ua/materials/2020/zhinki-yaki-zminyuvali-svit-mariya-primachenko

  • https://vogue.ua/ua/article/culture/art/chto-nuzhno-znat-o-marii-primachenko.html

  • https://www.amazingukraine.pro/culture/dyvovyzhni-kartyny-marii-prymachenko/

  • https://www.lustrum.com.ua/%D0%B6%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%82%D1%8F-%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%96%D1%97-%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B9%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%BE-%D0%B2-10-%D1%84%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%85/

  • https://gazeta.ua/articles/history/_mariya-prijmachenko-namalyuvala-zelenogo-slona-u-stalinskomu-kartuzi/476597

  • https://www.ibtimes.com/finnair-flies-plagiarism-scandal-thanks-marimekko-designer-1287633

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This one is about: Josephine Baker - One needs a hundred pairs of eyes to get around this woman. Spy, civil rights activist, war hero, mother of 12, actress, singer, dancer, sex symbol, fashion icon.

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Sources:

  • Shadow Lives: Josephine Baker and the Body of Cinema Author(s): Katherine Groo Source: Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media , Vol. 54, No. 1 (Spring 2013), pp. 7- 39 Published by: Drake Stutesman; Wayne State University Press

  • Josephine Baker's Colonial Pastiche Author(s): Matthew Pratt Guterl Source: Black Camera , Vol. 1, No. 2 (Summer 2010), pp. 25-37 Published by: Indiana University Press

  • Francis, Terri. "EMBODIED FICTIONS, MELANCHOLY MIGRATIONS: JOSEPHINE BAKER'S CINEMATIC CELEBRITY." Modern Fiction Studies 51, no. 4 (2005): 824-45.

  • Dudziak, Mary L. "Josephine Baker, Racial Protest, and the Cold War." The Journal of American History 81, no. 2 (1994): 543-70.

  • https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/siren-resistance-artistry-and-espionage-josephine-baker

  • https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/josephine-baker

  • https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2020/09/josephine-baker-biography-paris

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This one is about: Sappho - Aphrodite's earthly messenger who brought us brilliant poetry. 

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Sources:

  • Kivilo, Maarit. "SAPPHO." In Early Greek Poets' Lives: The Shaping of the Tradition, 167-200. LEIDEN; BOSTON: Brill, 2010.

  • Klinck, Anne L. "Sappho's Company of Friends." Hermes 136, no. 1 (2008): 15-29.

  • MOST, GLENN W. "REFLECTING SAPPHO." Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 40 (1995): 15-38.

  • https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/03/16/girl-interrupted

  • https://www.ancient.eu/Sappho_of_Lesbos/

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This one is about: Mae West - she's no angel, but when she's bad she's even better.

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Sources:

  • Curry, Ramona. "Mae West as Censored Commodity: The Case of "Klondike Annie"." Cinema Journal 31, no. 1 (1991): 57-84.

  • Hamilton, Marybeth. "Mae West Live: "SEX, The Drag, and 1920s Broadway"." TDR (1988-) 36, no. 4 (1992): 82-100.

  • Black, Gregory D. "Hollywood Censored: The Production Code Administration and the Hollywood Film Industry, 1930-1940." Film History 3, no. 3 (1989): 167-89.

  • https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2020/06/mae-west-autobiography-scandal

  • https://www.americanheritage.com/immortality-mae-west#4

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This one is about: Eve, the tempted and the temptress.

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Sources:

  • Afsar, Ayaz. "Speech Acts in the Story of Adam and Eve in the Bible and the Qur'ān." Islamic Studies 54, no. 3/4 (2015): 185-202.

  • 3 Genesis, 11:12

  • 1 Tim 2:11b:14

  • Leonard, Eugenie Andruss. "ST. PAUL ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN." The Catholic Biblical Quarterly 12, no. 3 (1950): 311-20.

  • Higgins, Jean M. "The Myth of Eve: The Temptress." Journal of the American Academy of Religion 44, no. 4 (1976): 639-47.

  • Arbel, Vita Daphna. "Guarding His Body, Mourning His Death, and Pleading for Him in Heaven: On Adam’s Death and Eve’s Virtues in the Greek Life of Adam and Eve." In Coming Back to Life: The Permeability of Past and Present, Mortality and Immortality, Death and Life in the Ancient Mediterranean, edited by Tappenden Frederick S. and Daniel-Hughes Carly, by Rice Bradley N., 103-26. Montreal: McGill University Library, 2017.

  • Parker, Julie Faith. "Blaming Eve Alone: Translation, Omission, and Implications of עמה in Genesis 3:6b." Journal of Biblical Literature 132, no. 4 (2013): 729-47.

  • Petersen, Boyd Jay. ""Redeemed from the Curse Placed upon Her": Dialogic Discourse on Eve in the Woman's Exponent." Journal of Mormon History 40, no. 1 (2014): 135-74.

  • Boršić, Luka, and Ivana Skuhala Karasman. "Isotta Nogarola—The Beginning of Gender Equality in Europe." The Monist 98, no. 1 (2015): 43-52.

  • https://journals.msvu.ca/index.php/atlantis/article/view/4888/4086

  • http://www.tertullian.org/anf/anf04/anf04-06.htm#TopOfPage

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This one is about: Emma Goldman, the mother of Anarchy. Her biography and views on female emancipation.

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Sources:

  • Jewish Women's Archive. "Emma Goldman - A Dedicated Anarchist - Jacob Kershner."

  • Falk, Candace. "Emma Goldman." Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia. 27 February 2009. Jewish Women's Archive.

  • Jewish Women's Archive. "Emma Goldman's "What I Believe".

  • Waldstreicher, David. "Radicalism, Religion, Jewishness: The Case of Emma Goldman." American Jewish History 80, no. 1 (1990): 74-92.

  • GURSTEIN, ROCHELLE. "Emma Goldman and the Tragedy of Modern Love." Salmagundi, no. 135/136 (2002): 67-89.

  • Hemmings, Clare. "Sexual Freedom and the Promise of Revolution: Emma Goldman's Passion." Feminist Review, no. 106 (2014): 43-59.

  • Hemmings, Clare. "In the Mood for Revolution: Emma Goldman's Passion." New Literary History 43, no. 3 (2012): 527-45.

  • Kern, Robert W. "Anarchist Principles and Spanish Reality: Emma Goldman as a Participant in the Civil War 1936-39." Journal of Contemporary History 11, no. 2/3 (1976): 237-59.

  • Frankel, Oz. "Whatever Happened to "Red Emma"? Emma Goldman, from Alien Rebel to American Icon." The Journal of American History 83, no. 3 (1996): 903-42.

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This one if about: Lilith the original bad girl. Her journey from ancient Babylon to our pop culture.

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Sources:

  • Dan, Joseph. "Samael, Lilith, and the Concept of Evil in Early Kabbalah." AJS Review 5 (1980): 17-40.

  • Hoffeld, Jeffrey M. "Adam's Two Wives." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 26, no. 10 (1968): 430-40.

  • Patai, Raphael. "Lilith." The Journal of American Folklore 77, no. 306 (1964): 295-314.

  • Geduld, Harry M. "THE LINEAGE OF LILITH." The Shaw Review 7, no. 2 (1964): 58-61.

  • Braun, Sidney D. "LILITH: HER LITERARY PORTRAIT, SYMBOLISM, AND SIGNIFICANCE." Nineteenth-Century French Studies 11, no. 1/2 (1982): 135-53.

  • Michele Osherow. "The Dawn of a New Lilith: Revisionary Mythmaking in Women's Science Fiction." NWSA Journal 12, no. 1 (2000): 68-83.

  • Jody Elizabeth Myers. "The Myth of Matriarchy in Recent Writings on Jewish Women's Spirituality." Jewish Social Studies, New Series, 4, no. 1 (1997): 1-27.

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This one is about: Viola Irene Desmond - a civil rights activist, business pioneer and a one woman riot.  

Source:

  • Reynolds, Graham, and Wanda Robson. Viola Desmond: Her Life and Times. Roseway Publishing, an Imprint of Fernwood Publishing, 2018.

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This one is about: Tawosret - not a passive pawn, maybe a killer. Cleopatra - no carpets, no snakes and no Roman bs. 

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This one is about: Hatshepsut - a Pharaoh who dealt with her spoiled stepson by outshining him.   Nefertiti - not just a pretty face, but also a smart heretic.

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This one is about:  Merneith -  first recorded queen-regent of Ancient Egypt.  Neferusobek - first confirmed queen of Egypt that ruled as a pharaoh.

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Sources:

Cooney, K., 2018. When Women Ruled The World: Six Queens Of Egypt. National Geographic Books.