Dame is a Four Letter Word

Dames Deferred - The Mercury 13  Further Reading:Ackmann, Martha (2003). The Mercury 13: The Untold Story of Thirteen American Women and the Dream of Space Flight.Nolen, Stephanie (2002). Promised the Moon: The Untold Story of the First Women in the Space Race Music:I Should Fly - Vermillion LiesClick to listen in new window

'Queen' Bess Coleman and Pancho BarnesClick to listen in new window Further Reading: Bessie Coleman:Queen Bess: Daredevil Aviator by Doris L. Rich Pancho Barnes:The Happy Bottom Riding Club: The Life and Times of Pancho Barnes by Lauren Kessler (2001)The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club directed by Amanda Pope (2009)Music: "Don't Stop" by the Parting Gifts 

Mamie "Peanut" Johnson and Lyudmilla PavlichenkoClick to listen in new window Further Reading:Mamie "Peanut" JohnsonA Strong Right Arm by Michelle GreenInterview on Youtube by Visionary ProjectMamie 'Peanut' Johnson, Pitching Pioneer, Interview Fresh Air, NPR 2/18/2003Mamie Johnson: Peanut Who Stood Tall in Negro LeaguesPodcast interview of Mamie before an elementary school class.  Lyudmilla Pavlichenko Women in War and Resistance by Kazimiera J. Cottam

Lady Hester Stanhope and La MaupinClick to listen in new windowFurther Reading:Lady Hester: Lady Hester: Queen of the East by Lorna Gibb. (2005)Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope by Dr. Meyron. (1845) La MaupinBy the Sword: A History of Gladiators, Musketeers, Samurai, Swashbucklers, and Olympic Champions by Richard Cohen (2003)Queens of Song by Ellen Clayton (1865)Wonderful Characters: Comprising Memoirs and Anecdotes of the Most Remarkable Persons of Every Age and Nation by Henry Wilson (1830)The Sketchbook of Character by E.L. Carey and A. Hart (1835)Dictionnaire des Theatres de Paris and Anecdotes Dramatiques by Francois ParfaictWomen in Men's Guise by Oscar Gilbert (1932)Gallant Ladies by Rogers  

Cora Hubbard and Belle Starr: Wild West Outlaws.Click to listen in new windowFurther Reading: Cora Hubbard:Bedside Book of Bad Girls: Outlaw Women of the Old West by Michael RutterTales Never Told Around the Campfire: True Stories of Frontier America by Mark DuganOzarks, Gunfire and Other Notorious Incidents by Larry WoodCora Hubbard: Female Bank Robber in Missouri by Larry WoodBelle Starr: Women of the Wild West by Katherine Kohnhttp://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/star-bel.htmMusic: The Devil Had a Hold of Me - Gillian Welch

Dames of the Circus: Lillian Leitzel and Millie-Christine McCoyClick to listen in new windowFurther reading:Millie-Christine: Fearfully and Wonderfully Made; Joanne Martell; John F. Blair Publisher (2001)Biographical Sketch of Millie Christine, the Carolina Twin, Surnamed the Two-Headed Nightingale and the Eighth Wonder of the WorldMusic: Little Egypt by the Coasters

Tallulah Bankhead and Dorothy Parker: Droll dames.Click to listen in new windowFurther Reading:Tallulah BankheadTallulah Bankhead: My Autobiography by Tallulah Bankhead (1952)Tallulah Bankhead by Byrony Lavery (1999)Tallulah Bankhead: A Scandalous Life by David Bret (1996)Tallulah ragging on Bette Davis on The Big ShowTallulah and Marlena sparring on the radioTallulah and Groucho sparring on the radio Tallulah on Batman. The Black Widow Strikes Again 1,2,3 and Caught in the Spider's Web 1,2,3Dorothy Parker'What Fresh Hell Is This?' by Marion Meade. (2006).Music: This Party Took a Turn for the Douche - Garfunkel and Oates

Sr. Lt. Lydia Vladimirovna aka Lilya LitvyakRight click here and save as to downloadFurther Reading:Wings Women and War by Reina Pennington (1997)Soviet Women in Combat in WWII by Kazimiera J. Cottam (1983)Also, online commentary by Ms. Cottam on the likelihood of the cheating death rumors. 

Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu and The Harvard ComputersSpecial thanks to Bil Sanford for putting science into English for us.Dame is a Four Letter Word - Episode 14 : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive Right click here and save as to downloadFurther Reading:Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu:Question of Parity Conservation in Weak Interactions by T.D. Lee and C.N. Yang; The Physical Review (October 1, 1956) Reversal of the Parity Conservation Law in Nuclear Physics prepared by Ralph P. Hudson.Famed Physicist Chien-Shiung Wu Dies at 84 by Bob Nelson; The Columbia University Record. (1997)Beta Decay and Quark-Antiquark Non-Parity in Collision-Induced Gravity by Gary C. Vezzoli; Progress in Physics. (April 2009)The Harvard ComputersMiss Leavitt's Stars: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Discovered How to Measure the Universe by George Johnson (2005)Woman Astronomer: The Harvard ComputersWellesley College Astronomy Department: Annie Jump CannonAntonia Caetana de Paiva Pereira Maury - Vassar College Enc

Nellie Bly and Anna Politkovskaya: Plucky investigative journalists.Right click here and save as to downloadFurther Reading:Nellie Bly:Nellie Bly: Daredevil, Reporter, Feminist by Brooke Kroeger (1994)10 Days in a Madhouse by Nellie BlyAround the World in 72 Days by Nellie BlySix Months in Mexico by Nellie BlyNellie Bly Resource Site (online archive of Nellie's writing)Transcript of PBS American ExperienceI'm not the only one curious about McGinty - There's a children's book about him.And the tradition of stunt reporting continues to the modern ageAnna Politkovskaya"A Small Corner of Hell: Dispatches from Chechnya" by Anna Politkovskaya, The University of Chicago Press (2003). Whose Truth? by Georgi M. Derluguian (2003)"Nothing But the Truth" by Anna Politkovksaya, Novaya Gazeta (2007)"A Russian Diary: A Journalist's Final Account of Life, Corruption, and Death in Putin's Russia" by Anna Politkovskaya (2006)Music: Monster Hospital by Metric

The Trung Women and The Night Witches:Right click here and save as to downloadFurther Reading:The Trung WarriorsWhen Heroism is Not Enough: Three Women Warriors of Vietnam, Their Historians and World History by Professor Marc Jason Gilbert.From Co-Loa to the Trung Sisters' Revolt: Viet-Nam as the Chinese Found It by Stephen O'Harrow. (1978)Hai Ba Trung (The Trung Sisters) The Night Witches"We, of course, would have preferred to have been called 'night beauties,' but, whichever, we did our job." - Galina Beltsova, pilotA Dance with Death: Soviet Airwomen in WWII edited by Anne Noggle and Christine White (2001)Wings Women and War by Reina Pennington (1997)Unit Cohesion Among the Three Soviet Women's Air Regiments During World War II, by Jessica Bhuvasorakul (2004)Soviet Women in Combat in WWII by Kazimiera J. Cottam (1983)For pretty pictures:Some awesome soul's Flickr: Some of these are Night Witches, some are other Soviet women who served in WWII.Battlefields: Night Witches and Motherland, Garth

Trieu Thi Trinh and Maria Quitéria de Jesus Meideiros: Women in combat? Yea, they've been tearing up battlefields for centuries upon centuries. Listen up.Right click here and save as to downloadFurther Reading:Trieu Thi TrinhVietnam, A Long History by Khac Vien NguyenVietnam, A Comprehensive History by Kim Vinh PhamThe Birth of Vietnam by Keith TaylorVietnamese Tradition on Trial by David MarrMaria QuiteriaCross-dressing to Liberate Her Country and Herself: Revisiting the Life Trajectory of the Joan d' Arc of Brazil by Ivani Vassoler (2004).Biography of Quiterias by Lima (1976).Historical fiction based on Quiterias by Helio Polvora (2004).Music: Rebel Girl by Bikini Kill

Lindsay, Sasha and Laurin with a snowman-spy caught not far from the banks of the Neva.Right click here and save as to download*This travelogue is dedicated to Crystal Veytia, who was one of our traveling buddies and who left this world far too soon shortly after our trip to St. Petersburg. RIP and much love mija.Old Nevsky Prospect - 1905Music: DDT-Black Dog Petersburg

When Sophia of Stettin came over to Russia to be the heir’s betrothed, she took her new name of Catherine upon converting to Russian Orthodoxy. She could have kept her old name, Sophia was a proper Russian name, but some think Elizabeth felt it an imprudent choice, considering the history of another woman with that name who was quite the usurper. She probably didn’t want to give Catherine any ideas in that area.Little did she know.Well, whether Catherine thought much on her name change at the time, I don’t know, but later on in her life, there was a work attributed to her where she commented on the regent Sophia  - “Much has been said about this princess, but I believe that she has not been given the credit she deserves...she conducted the affairs of the Empire for a number of years with all the sagacity that one could hope for. When one considers the business that passed through her hands, one cannot but concede that she was capable of ruling.”I had my own little geek out over Sophia, on my previous jo

Queen Boudica (aka: Boudicca or Boadicea) and Catherine the Great (Ekaterina the 2nd)Right click here and save as to downloadFurther Reading:Queen Boudica:"Boudica: Iron Age Warrior Queen" by Richard Hingley and Christina Unwin."The Annals" by Tacitus. (Boudica's story was rediscovered in this book around 1360)Catherine the GreatCatherine the Great: A Short History by Isabel de MadriagaCatherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K MassieCatherine the Great: Love, Sex and Power by Virginia RoundingCatherine the Great (PBS Documentary)Music: Etta James - Pay Back

Ada Lovelace and Emmy Noether - Dames of Mathematics Right click here and save as to downloadFurther Reading:Ada Lovelace"Ada: The Enchantress of Numbers" by Betty Toole (2010)"The Calculating Passion of Ada Byron" by Joan Baum (1986)"Ada, Countess of Lovelace, Byron's only Legitimate Daughter" by Doris Langley Moore (1977)"Ada: A Life and Legacy" by Dorothy Stein (1985)Sketch of the Analytical Engine by L. Menebrea. Notes by Ada Lovelace. (1843)Great comic on Hark a VagrantUnbelievably thorough historiography of Ada Lovelace on Victorian Geek, invaluable resource on who said what when about Ada's much-contended legacy.An Archetypal Bad Death: The Case of Ada Lovelace from Death in the Victorian Family by Patricia Jailand (2000)Emmy Noether"Modern Mathematicians" by Harry Henderson. (1996)."The Mother of Modern Algebra" by M.B.W Tent (2008).Great video lecture with Ransom Stephens:Music: "Don't Make me Prove it" - Veruca Salt

Simone de Beauvoir and Hannah Arendt: Logical ladies possessing giant intellects.Forget the teachings which say that women are solely emotional creatures, incapable of sophisticated reasoning. The fact is that females have repeatedly proved throughout history that they're just as logical as their male counterparts. Listen up.Note: Apologies on the delay, we had some sound quality/technical issues while recording.Right click here and save as to downloadFurther Reading:Simone de Beauvoir:"A Dangerous Liaison: A Biography of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre" by Carole Seymour-Jones (2008). The Overlook Press, Peter Mayer Publishers, Inc., New York. (2009)"The Second Sex." (1949) translated by H M Parshley, Penguin (1972); published by Jonathan Cape in 1953."Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter." by Simone de Beauvoir"The Prime of Life."  By Simone de Beauvoir"Philosophy as Passion" by Simone de BeauvoirStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Simone de Beauvoir Hannah Arendt:Origins of Tota