Dame is a Four Letter Word
All the female historical figures left off the bulletin board for women's history month because they didn't fit the mold.
- Update frequency
- every 27 days
- Episodes
- 17
- Years Active
- 2011 - 2014
Dames Deferred: A special Moon Landing anniversary edition
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). Promis…
Tue 22 Jul 2014
Episode 20: Aviators
'Queen' Bess Coleman and Pancho Barnes Click 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 L…
Sat 29 Jun 2013
Episode 19: Dames who got aim
Mamie "Peanut" Johnson and Lyudmilla Pavlichenko Click to listen in new window Further Reading: Mamie "Peanut" Johnson A Strong Right Arm by Michelle Green Interview on Youtube by Visionary Proj…
Mon 24 Dec 2012
Episode 18: Dame Adventurers
Lady Hester Stanhope and La Maupin Click to listen in new window Further Reading: Lady Hester: Lady Hester: Queen of the East by Lorna Gibb. (2005) Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope by Dr. Meyron.…
Mon 05 Nov 2012
Episode 17: Outlaws
Cora Hubbard and Belle Starr: Wild West Outlaws. Click to listen in new window Further Reading: Cora Hubbard: Bedside Book of Bad Girls: Outlaw Women of the Old West by Michael Rutter Tales Never Tol…
Sat 29 Sep 2012
Episode 16: Circus Performers: Whoot! Whoot!
Dames of the Circus: Lillian Leitzel and Millie-Christine McCoy Click to listen in new window Further reading: Millie-Christine: Fearfully and Wonderfully Made; Joanne Martell; John F. Blair Publishe…
Thu 13 Sep 2012
Episode 15 - Funny Dames
Tallulah Bankhead and Dorothy Parker: Droll dames. Click to listen in new window Further Reading: Tallulah Bankhead Tallulah Bankhead: My Autobiography by Tallulah Bankhead (1952) Tallulah Bankhead b…
Fri 27 Jul 2012
Special Minisode - Lydia Litvyak
Sr. Lt. Lydia Vladimirovna aka Lilya Litvyak Right click here and save as to download Further Reading: Wings Women and War by Reina Pennington (1997) Soviet Women in Combat in WWII by Kazimiera J. Co…
Sun 08 Jul 2012
Episode 14: Dame Physicists (ish)
Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu and The Harvard Computers Special thanks to Bil Sanford for putting science into English for us. Dame is a Four Letter Word - Episode 14 : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Arc…
Tue 26 Jun 2012
Episode 13 - Reporters
Nellie Bly and Anna Politkovskaya: Plucky investigative journalists. Right click here and save as to download Further Reading: Nellie Bly: Nellie Bly: Daredevil, Reporter, Feminist by Brooke Kroeger …
Mon 28 May 2012
Episode 12: Dame Warriors 2: Because Sometimes You Need a Posse
The Trung Women and The Night Witches: Right click here and save as to download Further Reading: The Trung Warriors When Heroism is Not Enough: Three Women Warriors of Vietnam, Their Historians and W…
Thu 26 Apr 2012
Episode 11: Soldiers
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 download Fur…
Tue 27 Mar 2012
Slightly Inebriated Historical Travelogue of St. Petersburg.
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 tr…
Sun 11 Mar 2012
The Unlucky Sophia
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 R…
Thu 08 Mar 2012
Episode 10: Queens
Queen Boudica (aka: Boudicca or Boadicea) and Catherine the Great (Ekaterina the 2nd) Right click here and save as to download Further Reading: Queen Boudica: "Boudica: Iron Age Warrior Queen" by Ric…
Tue 07 Feb 2012
Episode 9: Dames Mathematica
Ada Lovelace and Emmy Noether - Dames of Mathematics Right click here and save as to download Further Reading: Ada Lovelace "Ada: The Enchantress of Numbers" by Betty Toole (2010) "The Calculating Pa…
Fri 30 Dec 2011
Episode 8: Dames of Philosophy
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 f…
Sat 10 Dec 2011
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