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Wise Women (s1)

Episode Title Guest Related Content

Hypatia of Alexandria

Edward Watts, Professor of History, University of California San Diego Ancient Renaissance Woman

Hildegard von Bingen

Jennifer Bain, Professor of Musicology and of Gender and Women's Studies, Dalhousie University Mystic, Composer, Polymath

Elisabeth of Bohemia

Lisa Shapiro, Professor of Philosophy, McGill University The Philosophical Princess

Margaret Cavendish

Karen Detlefsen, Professor of Philosophy and Education, University of Pennsylvania Margaret the First

Mary Astell

Allauren Samantha Forbes, Professor of Philosophy and of Gender and Social Justice, McMaster University The First English Feminist

Im Yunjidang

Hwa Yeong Wang, Professor of Philosophy, Duke Kunshan University The First Confucian Feminist

Mary Wollstonecraft

Sylvana Tomaselli, Professor of History, St. John's College, Cambridge University A Vindication of Mary Wollstonecraft

Nísia Floresta

Nastassja Pugliese, Professor of Education and of Philosophy, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Brazil's First Feminist?

Wise Women (s2)

Episode Title Guest Related Content

Anna Julia Cooper

Kathryn Sophia Belle, Founding Director, Collegium of Black Women Philosophers The Birth of Black Feminism

Simone Weil

Rebecca Rozelle-Stone, Professor of Philosophy & Ethics, University of North Dakota Looking, Listening, Liberating

Emma Goldman

Candace Falk, Founding Director, The Emma Goldman Papers Research Project Philosopher of Anarchism

Elizabeth Anscombe

Rachael Wiseman, Reader in Philosophy, University of Liverpool Philosopher of Action

Iris Murdoch

Eva-Maria Düringer, Professor of Philosophy, University of Tübingen The Philosopher-Novelist

Judith Jarvis Thomson

Elizabeth Harman, Professor of Philosophy and Human Values, Princeton University The Trolleyologist