#15-, 16- and 17-22 The Second Coming of Joan of Arc – a 3-part radio drama
Joan of Arc led an army to victory at seventeen. At eighteen, she arranged the coronation of a king. At
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Society and culture
#14-22 Indigenous Climate Action … Eriel Deranger on resistance to fossil fuel mining
The rousing keynote address by Eriel Tchekwie Deranger of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation, at the American Public Health Association
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#13-22 The mother of motherhood studies … Dr. Andrea O’Reilly broke an academic taboo
Around 1997, Dr. Andrea O’Reilly began writing, editing, publishing, and organizing around the study of mothering and brought it forward
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#12-22 Kenya Politics and Women … on the eve of new national elections
Zuleikha Hassan is one of the most outspoken members of Kenya’s Parliament. This episode covers several years of her political
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#11-22 The Orgasm Gap … why big pharma created Female Sexual Dysfunction
Dr. Leonore Tiefer gave the keynote address at a conference on The Medicalization of Sex, organized by the Simon Fraser
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#9-22 and #10-22 Wade in the Water, parts 1 and 2
As of 2022 Juneteenth is a US federal holiday. First celebrated by Black communities in Texas, it marks June 19th, 1865,
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#08-22 Leymah Gbowee on Peacemaking … women must make spaces for ourselves in all the negotiations, Nobel Laureate said
Shortly before she was announced as a Nobel Peace Laureate, Leymah Gbowee was on a book tour in the US.
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#07-22 Battered Women’s Defense … Why would she kill her husband?
Speaking to a group of attorneys in Kansas City, forensic psychologist Dr. Lenore Walker explains the development of battered women’s
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#06-22 Let ‘Em Eat Cake! … Marie Antoinette’s famous phrase. If she said it, why?
An “Aural Tapestry.” Food journalist Lizet Kruyff cooks Marie Antoinette’s favourite cake from her childhood – an Austrian kugelhopf, while
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#05-22 WINGS’ 36th Birthday … Recalling an interview from our 20th year
May 13, 2022, is the 36th anniversary of the release of WINGS’ first edition. Much of the early history and
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