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From Paper Bags to Circular Saws -- Who Thunk 'Em Up?
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
The old saying "necessity is the mother of invention" may be true, but it leaves out an important component -- the real "mothers" and "aunts" and "...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2024
  • Length: 03:00
The philosophers who invented the modern self
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: TTBOOK Favorites of the Week for PRX Remix
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Just over 200 years ago, a group of renegade German writers and philosophers came together in a small town and forever changed who we think we are....

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 20:18
  • Purchases: 1
D-day: 150,000 Men, and One Woman
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
Two and one-half minute commentary on D-day in 1941, and the only woman who made the landing at Normandy.

Bought by KVNF, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Prairie Public, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KRZA and more


  • Added: May 12, 2023
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 8
A Few Good Women -- in the French Pantheon At Last
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
The French Pantheon was created in 1790 to honor those who have done great service to the country. The motto over the door reads "To great men, a g...

  • Added: Mar 23, 2023
  • Length: 02:58
737: Generation Witch / 738: Rituals Of Fear, 10/29/2022
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Generation Witch" - They’ve been hunted and silenced and burned at the stake, but witches are still practicing the craft. We take you fr...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:58
701: Shapeshifting / 702: Finding Your Voice, 6/25/2022
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Shapeshifting" - Seals that can turn into women, men who transform into wolves… Stories about shape-shifting are among the oldest in the...

  • Added: Jun 24, 2022
  • Length: 01:59:00
Conor Casey, Labor Archivist at the Labor Archives of Washington, Part 3
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Irene Hall
Interview by Mike Dumovich: Conor reports on the lifelong labor activist Irene Hull.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 22, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Conor Casey, Labor Archivist at the Labor Archives of Washington, Part 2
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Anna Louise Strong
Interview by Mike Dumovich: Conor describes Anna Louise Strong, a 20th-century American journalist, activist, and supporter of the labor movement.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WYAP


  • Added: Jan 15, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Conor Casey and Crystal Rogers, Archivists for the Labor Archives of Washington, Part 1
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Conor Casey & Crystal Rogers
Interview by Mike Dumovich: Crystal and Conor report on the ‘Women in Labor History’ project. Song: Rebel Girl: written by Joe Hill, arranged and...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 08, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
“Learn Yourself” with Conor Casey, Labor Archivist for the Labor Archives of Washington, Ellie Belew, author, and Megan Cornish, retiree from Seattle City Light, Part 2
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Ellie Belew and Megan Cornish
Interview by Mike Dumovich: Conor, Ellie, and Megan continue their conversation about Seattle City Light’s Electrical Trades Program and how the f...

  • Added: Sep 18, 2020
  • Length: 28:01
Part 3 What Future Holds
From: The Story Exchange
Series: 100 Years of Power
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In 2020, six diverse women run for president, and Nancy Pelosi takes the House. With experts Molly Ball, Kelly Dittmar, Ronnee Schreiber and Glynda...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Jun 30, 2020
  • Length: 25:15
  • Purchases: 1
Part 2: Slow Burn of Progress
From: The Story Exchange
Series: 100 Years of Power
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From Eleanor Roosevelt to Shirley Chisholm, women begin to win control over their lives and bodies. With historians Susan Ware and Gina Luria Walke...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Jun 30, 2020
  • Length: 38:44
  • Purchases: 1
“Learn Yourself” with Conor Casey, Labor Archivist for the Labor Archives of Washington, Ellie Belew, author, and Megan Cornish, retiree from Seattle City Light, Part 2
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
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Interview by Mike Dumovich: Conor, Ellie, and Megan continue their conversation about Seattle City Light’s Electrical Trades Program and how the f...

Bought by WMPG and KVSC


  • Added: Dec 27, 2019
  • Length: 27:59
  • Purchases: 2
“Learn Yourself” with Conor Casey, Labor Archivist for the Labor Archives of Washington, Ellie Belew, author, and Megan Cornish, retiree from Seattle City Light, Part 1
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
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Interview by Mike Dumovich: Conor, Ellie, and Megan examine Seattle City Light’s Electrical Trades Program and how the first trade’s women were tr...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KVSC


  • Added: Dec 20, 2019
  • Length: 28:01
  • Purchases: 2
Women Warriors: The Voices of Change - Chapter 11, Hell Hath No Fury Like a Women Scorned
From: Crossover Media Max Horowitz
Series: Women Warriors - The Voices of Change podcast series
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Women Warriors: The Voices of Change multimedia concert performed by Orchestra Moderne NYC, under the direction of Amy Andersson, features the musi...

Bought by WOUB


  • Added: Sep 20, 2019
  • Length: 04:51
  • Purchases: 1
“Learn Yourself” with Conor Casey, Labor Archivist for the Labor Archives of Washington, Ellie Belew, author, and Megan Cornish, retiree from Seattle City Light, Part 2
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: High Voltage Women by Ellie Belew
Interview by Mike Dumovich: Conor, Ellie, and Megan continue their conversation about Seattle City Light’s Electrical Trades Program and how the f...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2019
  • Length: 27:59
“Learn Yourself” with Conor Casey, Labor Archivist for the Labor Archives of Washington, Ellie Belew, author, and Megan Cornish, retiree from Seattle City Light, Part 1
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: High Voltage Women by Ellie Belew
Interview by Mike Dumovich: Conor, Ellie, and Megan examine Seattle City Light’s Electrical Trades Program and how the first trade’s women were tr...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2019
  • Length: 28:01
The Glass Ceiling & The Ivory Tower (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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- Women shut out of tenure-track positions at the nation's universities - How you dress affects your perceived competence - A history of female pre...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: Dec 02, 2016
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 1
The Glass Ceiling & The Ivory Tower (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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- Women shut out of tenure-track positions - How you dress affects your perceived competence - A history of female candidates for president - The u...

Bought by WCNY, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WLPR , WRST-FM Oshkosh, KEDT and more


  • Added: Dec 02, 2016
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 8
The Book of Judith
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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The spirit of Judith cries out to us even if the names of her enemies are masked, even if exiled to the Apocrypha, even though she was -- but a wom...

  • Added: Jul 19, 2016
  • Length: 02:31:22
A Room of One's Own
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Retellings
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Publisher and fiction writer, Danielle Dutton, discusses the poetics of suburbia and the roadblocks of women in publishing. In the second half Prof...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2016
  • Length: 20:51
Dr. Halle Tanner Dillon Johnson: Healthcare in 1894
From: My Account of It
Series: My Account of It
Caption: Dr. Halle Tanner Dillion Johnson was the first woman and the first black woman to practice medicine in Alabama. She was licensed in 1891.
Here's an account of healthcare in the rural Alabama. This account was written in 1894. Listen.

  • Added: Mar 01, 2016
  • Length: 06:39
Puzzling Out African American Genealogy
From: Missouri Audio Project
Series: Summer Story Workshop, 2015
Caption: Monica Hand, Credit: Meredith Turk
Monica Hand visits the unmarked slave graves of Jewell Cemetery in Columbia, Missouri, together with geneaologist Traci Wilson-Kleekamp.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 17, 2015
  • Length: 07:22
  • Purchases: 1
O my Homunculus
From: Pop Up Archive
Series: Popcast
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In this Popcast, hear about the surprising podcast-like feel of a 1972 radio documentary about Sylvia Plath.

  • Added: Sep 15, 2015
  • Length: 04:38
#1504- Feminism and Religion: Gina Messina-Dysert
From: Sandburg Media
Series: Things Not Seen: Conversations about Culture and Faith [Standard Clock]
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On today's show, we have an in-depth conversation about the experience of women in religious communities and in the academic study of religion with...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2015
  • Length: 59:30