Ep 9 | The Real Frontier | 1 | The homesteaders trad wives would rather forget about (Megan Kate Nelson)
Mythologised Frontier imagery is all over the far right agenda
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The American Frontier you never hear about
Westward expansion is one story. There are many others.
Ep 8 | The Real Frontier | 2 | The American West you never hear about (Megan Kate Nelson, part 1)
" Most white Americans could not conceive of a successful woman in the American West if she was not a prostitute."
History's super confused ideas about women's sex lives
What can I say, girls will be girls...
Ep 7 | History's super confused ideas about women's sex lives (Kate Lister)
"Girls will be girls"
Ep 6 | The fire that started a gender war
How one of history's deadliest tragedies for women became a fight about what real men are made of
What is that primogeniture thing, anyway?
The rules of succession; or, how to pick your king (and avoid a queen)
Ep 5 | The gender pension gap of 1539, or how women got screwed by the Dissolution of Monasteries
Don't work but don't get married and don't count on a living pension
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20th century
"I refuse to be a footnote": the women who transformed war reporting
Rebecca West, Martha Gellhorn and Mickey Hahn covered near every conflict of the 20th century. They invented the literary journalism we know today.
Ep 4 | The mothers of war reporting (Julia Cooke)
"I refuse to be a footnote in somebody else's story"
Four World War II movies we should be making before making one about the weather
No flak to Pressure, but if we can make a blockbuster war movie about a meteorologist, surely we can make some about women too
"All work is sh*t" or how anti-Girl Boss feminism might have got it right
In the 1970s, Wages for Housework demanded pay for cooking and cleaning without any illusions about making it in the workplace
