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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 | |
 | Mary Midgley | Clare MacCumhaill, Professor of Philosophy, Durham University | Against Scientism | |
 | 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 |