Her Half of History
Why don't women's clothes have more pockets? Who are the female writers and artists my education forgot to include? How does a woman go about seizing control of her government? What was it like to be a female slave and how did the lucky ones escape? When did women get to put their own name on their credit cards? Is the life of a female spy as glamorous as Hollywood has led me to believe?
In short, what were the women doing all that time? I explore these and other questions in this thematic approach to women's history.
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The Daughters of Genghis Khan (ep. 14.3)
15 min
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14.2 Olympias, Mother of Alexander the Great
22 min
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14.1 Helena, Mother of Constantine the Great
20 min
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Mrs. Santa Claus
21 min
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Laundry: An Interview with the History Fix Podcast
39 min
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Announcement on Series 14
3 min
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Bonus Episode: Women Who Got Elected
15 min
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13.14 Why Beauty Mattered (and has anything cha...
21 min
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13.13 Losing a Breast to Gain a Life
21 min
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13.12 In the Eye of the Beholder
19 min
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13.11 The Witch's Mark
21 min
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13.10 Body Art: Tattoos and Henna
20 min
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13.9 Cosmetics in the Modern World
17 min
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13.8 Cosmetics in the Pre-Modern World
19 min
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13.7 A Bad Hair Day in Ancient Rome
11 min
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13.6 The History of Hair
17 min
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13.5 The Quest for a Hairless Body
16 min
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13.4 Chinese Footbinding
20 min
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13.3 To Boost or to Bind: A History of the Bust
21 min
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13.2 The Corset
22 min
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13.1 The Ideal Body Shape, Historically Speaking
22 min
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Mayans, Aztecs, and Chocolate by Pamela Toler
11 min
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Peggy Shippen Arnold by 2 Complicated 4 History
62 min
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Ain't I a Woman? by Sojourner Truth
7 min
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12.15 Alexandra Feodorovna, Last Empress of Russia
23 min