أفضل بودكاسات Rebekah Haigh (2024)

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Bodily Matters: The Lifecycle of an Ancient Woman 16:07

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Send us a text In a time when society is thinking passionately about bodily rights and who gets to make decisions about women’s bodies, Season 2 turns to history. Women in the ancient world mattered, and so did their bodies—maybe learning about them can give us new questions as we face our own world. In our season intro episode, meet an ancient hig…

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Out of Pandora’s Box, Recovering Hope 58:39

1+ y ago58:39

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Send us a text On the Season 1 finale we talk with Dr. Deborah Lyons about ancient Greek myths, breaking cultural boxes, and why we should all strive to be killjoys. Pandora's box, Penelope's gifts, Helen's beauty in Sappho's poetry, and more. Why does it matter that Pandora didn't actually have a box in the earliest versions of the myth? How were …

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In Her Own Words: Ancient Women Authors 59:58

1+ y ago59:58

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Send us a text In the penultimate episode of season 1, “In Her Own Words: Ancient Women Authors,” we talk with historian and classicist Dr. Kate Cooper about gatekeeping, the privilege of individualism, and those rare surviving moments when women wrote for themselves. The famous Greek poet Sappho, who wrote of love and loss. Faltonia Betitia Proba,…

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Suffering Witches to Live: Jewish Women and the Legacies of Religious Law 59:19

2y ago59:19

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Send us a text In Episode 8 our hosts talk with Dr. Elizabeth Shanks Alexander about whether women can keep track of their own periods, religious law as a boys’ club, and why ancient rabbis cared about witchery. Episode show notes: https://womenwhowentbefore.com/suffering-witches-to-live. Women Who Went Before is written, produced, and edited by Em…

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Women Get a Head: Gender and Other Weapons 47:02

2y ago47:02

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Send us a text Dr. Caryn Tamber-Rosenau explains how two lethal women perform gender in the Hebrew Bible. Judith and Jael were talented Jewish heroines who skillfully played their hands (and bodies) to save their people from invading armies. How might the stories about Clytemnestra and the Ugaritic goddess Anat have shaped these biblical narratives…

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Scepter and Sword: African Warrior Queens 56:24

2y ago56:24

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Send us a text Dr. Solange Ashby teaches us about Nubian warrior queens, Hollywood stereotypes about Egyptian women, and why you shouldn’t trust Wikipedia. Meet the powerful, voluptuous queens of Meroe—Amanirenas, Amanitore, Amanishakheto. While Roman noblewomen were supposed to stay hidden at home, these queens were ruling and leading their troops…

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Was the Oldest Profession a Profession? 53:04

2y ago53:04

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Send us a text We interview Dr. Thomas A. J. McGinn about Roman prostitution, marriage laws, and a strange Cinderella story. What was a paterfamilias and how did they determine a woman’s life? Were prostitutes merely doing their civic duty? Why did early Christians call the Roman government the pimp-in-chief? Autonomy and agency are the overarching…

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“The Two Breasts of the Father”: Does Your God Look Like You? 49:18

2y ago49:18

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Send us a text We talk to Dr. Susan Ashbrook Harvey about how gender shaped ancient thinking about God, women's church choirs, and the complex web of metaphors for the divine within Syriac Christianity. Women Who Went Before is written, produced, and edited by Rebekah Haigh and Emily Chesley. The music is composed and produced by Moses Sun. This ep…

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Fall Girl: Theology, Gender, and How Eve Ruined Us All 50:19

2y ago50:19

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Send us a text MacArthur Fellow and NYT bestselling author Dr. Elaine Pagels joins us to talk about manic pixie dream girls, lost Gnostic texts, and why being a heretic might not be so bad. Stereotypes about women aren't solely a modern phenomenon. Two pervasive archetypes in early Christian writings were the devil's gateway and bride of Christ . W…

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Ghostwriting the Daughters of Men 50:15

2y ago50:15

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Send us a text We explore ancient Jewish fan fiction, why makeup made the angels fall, and the ever-present problem of ghostwriting with Dr. Annette Yoshiko Reed in Season 1 Episode 2, "Ghostwriting the Daughters of Men: Whose Writing Is it Anyway?" You've heard of the human fall story in Genesis 3, but what about the angelic fall stories in Genesi…

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Invisible Women and How they Make History 57:44

2y ago57:44

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Send us a text We talk to Dr. Sarit Kattan Gribetz about history’s nameless faces, the news negativity bias, and how to raid ancient texts to find women. How were women named and anonymized in Jewish and Christian texts? When did bene Yisra’el mean "sons of Israel" in the Hebrew Bible, and when did it include the daughters too? What do we know abou…

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Missing, Presumed…Absent? Where Were All the Ancient Women? 20:53

2y ago20:53

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Send us a text In our season intro we ask: Why aren't women in our ancient history textbooks? What is antiquity? How were women imagined in ancient Mediterranean societies? And why does women's history matter? Meet the North African woman Perpetua, whose prison diary from Carthage is one of the few surviving literary texts written by an ancient wom…

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Women Who Went Before

Rebekah Haigh & Emily Chesley

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Bodily Matters: The Lifecycle of an Ancient Woman 16:07

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Out of Pandora’s Box, Recovering Hope 58:39

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In Her Own Words: Ancient Women Authors 59:58

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Suffering Witches to Live: Jewish Women and the Legacies of Religious Law 59:19

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Women Get a Head: Gender and Other Weapons 47:02

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Scepter and Sword: African Warrior Queens 56:24

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Was the Oldest Profession a Profession? 53:04

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“The Two Breasts of the Father”: Does Your God Look Like You? 49:18

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Fall Girl: Theology, Gender, and How Eve Ruined Us All 50:19

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Ghostwriting the Daughters of Men 50:15

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Invisible Women and How they Make History 57:44

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Missing, Presumed…Absent? Where Were All the Ancient Women? 20:53

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