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Liberating the Queen
Hosted by Susie & Layla Moschkau · EN
A mother-daughter team, learning about women that aren't in the history textbooks, we see at school.
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012 – Thank you!
Dec 15, 201800:03:22Tap to summarizeThis was a large goal to tackle, but we did 12 episodes of tremendous warrior women! It’s because of people like you that listen and support women in history! We don’t know what the future holds, but want to say a huge heartfelt THANK YOU! We are filled with love and gratitude as we enter the new year!
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011- Edmonia Lewis
Nov 14, 201800:19:17Tap to summarizehttps://liberatingthequeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/ltq_s1_e11.mp3 Edmonia Lewia Quotes: “There is nothing so beautiful as the free forest. To catch a fish when you are hungry, cut the boughs off a tree, make fire to roast it, and eat it in the open air, is the greatest of all luxuries. I would not stay a week pent up in cities, if it were not for my passion for Art.” “I was … declared to be wild — they could do nothing with me. Often they said to me, ‘Here is your book, the book of Nature; come and study it.’ “I thought I knew everything when I came to Rome, but I soon found that I had everything to learn.” Regarding how she became an artist: “well, it was a strange selection for a poor girl to make, wasn’t it? I suppose it was in me … I became almost crazy to make something like the thing which fascinated me.” “I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture, and to find a social atmosphere where I was not constantly reminded of my color. The land of liberty had not room for a colored sculptor.” “I am going back to Italy to do something for the race – something that will excite the admiration of the other races of the earth.” “I shall never live in America.” “The Good Spirit always sends me friends.” ― Edmonia Lewis References Buick, Kirsten Pai (2010). Child of the Fire: Mary Edmonia Lewis and the Problem of Art History’s Black and Indian Subject. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-4266-3. Retrieved 1 February 2017. Chadwick, Whitney (2012). Women, Art, and Society (5th ed.). New York, NY: Thames and Hudson. ISBN 9780500204054.“The Death of Cleopatra”. Smithsonian American Art Museum (museum catalog record). Retrieved 1 August 2018. Edmonia Lewis, Harry Henderson and Albert Henderson, Edmonia Lewis website, edmonialewis.com. 2012. Edmonia Lewis, Provenance and: Minnehaha, Marble, 1868, Edmonia Lewis and: Indian Combat, and: Indian Combat, Marble, 1868, Edmonia Lewis and: Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, Marble, 1864, Edmonia Lewis and: My Name is Sissieretta Jones, and: Sissieretta Jones, Carnegie Hall, 1902, Project MUSE, 2016. Girls Who Rocked the World, Michelle Roehm McCann and Amelie Welden, 2012. Gold, Susanna W. (Spring 2012). “The death of Cleopatra / the birth of freedom: Edmonia Lewis at the new world’s fair”. Biography. 35: 318–324 – via EBSCO. Hartigan, Lynda Roscoe (1985). Sharing Traditions: Five Black Artists in Nineteenth-Century America: From the Collections of the National Museum of American Art. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press. OCLC 11398839. Richardson, Marilyn (July 1995). “Edmonia Lewis’ The Death Of Cleopatra: Myth And Identity”. The International Review of African American Art. 12 (2): 36. Retrieved 1 February 2017. Richardson, Marilyn (Summer 2008). “Edmonia Lewis at McGrawville: The early education of a nineteenth-century black women artist”. Nineteenth-Century Contexts. 22 (2): 239–256 – via EBSCOhost. Woods, Naurice Frank (1993). Insuperable Obstacles: The Impact of Racism on the Creative and Personal Development of Four Nineteenth Century African American Artists. Cincinnati: Union Institute. Retrieved 1 February 2017. Want more? Check out other episodes!
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010- Sister Kenny
Oct 15, 201800:18:39Tap to summarizehttps://liberatingthequeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/ltq_s1_e10.mp3 New York World-Telegram and the Sun newspaper staff photographer – Elizabeth Kenny 1950 – Coloured by Loredana Crupi Kenny was born in rural Australia to Mary and Michael Kenny in 1880. Her early education was a mix of homeschooling and structured before she broke her wrist at 17. That’s when she met her future mentor Aeneas McDonnell and discovered her love of medicine while reading through McDonnell’s books but in no way was there a direct line from this to Kenny being a master nurse. Instead, she moved through a variety of careers from Sunday school teacher to agricultural broker, to working at a midwife’s cottage. That’s where she started to learn the nursing craft. After earning a recommendation, she moved back ‘home’ to Nobby and became a ‘Bush Nurse’. ‘Bush nursing’ was the general term given to the push by Lady Rachel Dudley in Tasmania to provide trained nursing in remote areas. 51 centers opened focused on maternal and child health, with just a tinge of ‘soft eugenics’ as was common at the time with white communities as they made the first contact with previously isolated communities. So in 1910, Kenny had just treated her first case and had her patient recover. Her next step was to open and operate a cottage hospital for just that purpose until WW1. At that point, she sold her hospital and enlisted, traveling to England to join the Australian Army Nursing Service. Since she wasn’t a trained/certified nurse, she used a letter from her mentor McDonnell and after a month-long trial, she was accepted. She served on ships returning troops to Australia and it was there that she was promoted to ‘Sister’ a title she would use for the rest of her life. She made 16 trips back and forth between England and Australia before being honorably discharged after an illness. In 1932, Brisbane saw a large uptick in polio cases. Kenny and friends established an ad hoc clinic behind a hotel, but after success, she moved into the hotel itself. Her first official evaluation occurred in 1934, after which she established ‘Kenny’s Clinics’ in several cities. So its worth noting that conventional treatments at the time involved putting kids in braces and strapping them to beds/boards sometimes for months a time and then later fitted with heavy metal braces; think Forrest Gump. Kenny’s method was super duper different; she expressly didn’t believe in braces because she believed they caused ‘bad gait’ patterns. Her clinic still exists in a way today, having united with Abbott Northwestern Hospital in 1975, renaming it Courage Kenny Rehabilitation Institute after a second merger with the Courage Institute. But her larger impact was basically the creation of the foundation of rehab, the idea that we should treat muscles not be resting/restricting them, but by applying heat/using slow/steady muscle movements/strength training etc. Sister Kenny Quotes: He who angers you conquers you. It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life. Panic plays no part in the training of a nurse. Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route. ― Elizabeth Kenny References Sister Elizabeth Kenny Quotes Movie: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038948/?ref_=nv_sr_1 Source https://opedge.com/Articles/ViewArticle/2008-11_09?mf=1 http://www.polioplace.org/people/sister-elizabeth-kenny https://www.britannica.com/biography/Elizabeth-Kenny http://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/B/Bush%20nursing.htm http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/kenny-elizabeth-6934 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_poliomyelitis http://www.mnopedia.org/thing/sister-kenny-institute https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/polio/symptoms-causes/syc-20376512 Want more? Check out other episodes!
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009- Sappho
Sep 15, 201800:33:45Tap to summarizehttps://liberatingthequeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/ltq_s1_e9.mp3 Sappho and Erinna in the Garden Mytelene by Simeon Solomon. Fine Art Photographic Library/Corbis via Getty Images Sappho of Lesbos was a lyrical poet in the times of ancient Greece, and beyond. She was honored in statuary and praised by figures such as Solon and Plato. Much like the tales of Robin Hood, there are disputes on whether Sappho was a myth or an actual being. We know someone wrote poetry using this name so I will let you be the judge. Very little is known of her life and of the nine volumes of her work which were widely read in antiquity only fragments survived. My understanding, many were aware that once there had existed a highly praised female poet from the actions of others, and they preserved those poems. Some written works were composed concerning her during her lifetime or shortly after because later writers knew the outline of her life but, aside from inscriptions. She is one of the first songwriters we know of or at least wrote songs down. She is also on the first people to refer to the moon as a sliver, we see as a collective term today. Sappho style was melodic and sensual; she wrote songs and poems of love, lust, and yearning for more. The target of her affections was mostly female, and often girls who were selected and sent to study art with her. She has a deep connection with these women that when they left, she would often write wedding songs for them. Sappho’s poetry was applauded in her time for its homoerotic content (though scholars disparaged it later), suggesting that in ancient Greece people were open to same-sex relationships. It is speculated that in the later times her works were destroyed due to same-sex relationships being rejected by churches and dignitaries. Sappho has remained an important cultural and literal figure; her works continue to be studied and translated. Speculation on her life remains popular in the form of fictionalized tales and ardent research. For a woman who has been dead for over two thousand years, this is quite an achievement. Sappho Quotes: “You may forget / but let me tell you this / someone in some future time /will think of us” ― Sappho, The Art of Loving Women “their heart grew cold / they let their wings down” ― Sappho, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho “Stand and face me, my love, / and scatter the grace in your eyes.” ― Sappho, Sweetbitter Love: Poems of Sappho “What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.” ― Sappho “What cannot be said will be wept.” ― Sappho “The gleaming stars all about the shining moon / Hide their bright faces, when full-orbed and splendid / In the sky she floats, flooding the shadowed earth / with clear silver light.” ― Sappho References Bolen, Jean Shinoda. Goddesses in Everywoman.: A New Psychology of Women. New York; NY, 1984. 15-17. Fantham, Elaine, Helen Peet Foley, Natalie Boymel Kampen, Sarah B. Pomeroy, and Alan H. Shapiro. Women in the Classical World. New York, 1994. Garland, Robert. “Mother and Child in the Greek World.” History Today 36.3 (1986):40. Latimore, Richmond. The Odyssey of Homer: A Modern Translation. New York: Evanston, 1967.29. Lefkowitz, Mary R., and Maureen B. Fant. Women’s Life in Greece and Rome. Maryland: Baltimore, 1982. Katz, Marilyn A. “Sappho and Her Sisters: Women in Ancient Greece.” Journal of Women in Culture & Society 25.2 (2000): 505-532. Murnaghan, Sheila. Introduction. Odyssey. By Homer.Trans. Stanley Lombardo. Cambridge, 2000. xl-lxiii. Pantel, Pauline Schmitt, ed. A History of Women in the West: I. From Ancient Goddesses to Christian Saints. Massachusetts: Cambridge, 1992. 18-33. Pomeroy, Sarah B. Goddesses, Whores, Wives and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity. New York. 1975. Seltman, Charles. Women in Antiquity. 1956. Connecticut: Westport, 1979. Sappho. The Lyric Songs of the Greeks; the extant fragments of Sappho, Alcaeus, Anacreon, and the minor Greek monodists. Trans. William Peterson. Boston: Badger, 1918. 13-50. < http://www.classicpersuasion.org/pw/sappho/sappeter.htm&gt; Want more? Check out other episodes!
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008- Shirley Chisholm
Aug 15, 201800:31:59Tap to summarizehttps://liberatingthequeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ltq_s1_e8.mp3 Decades before Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton, there was Shirley Chisholm. As the first black woman to run for president for a major political party she was years ahead of her time. So why don’t more people know about her? Shirley Chisholm made history as she announced her candidacy for the White House. Her bid for the top job was short-lived, but the symbolism is as powerful today as it was then. Shirley Anita was born on November 20, 1924, in Brooklyn, New York. The oldest of four daughters Inspired by her grandmother, Mary McLeod Bethune, and Eleanor Roosevelt. Nursery school teacher while earning her Masters from Columbia University in 1952. 1960s Shirley developed an interest in politics. From 1965 to 1968 she was a Democrat in the New York State Assembly. In the New York State Assembly, she was able to secure unemployment benefits for those working in the domestic field. 1968- elected to Congress from NY, making her the first African American woman in this position. She served 7 terms appointed to the Veterans’ Affairs Committee, and then eventually the Education and Labor Committee. In 1972 she became the first African-American and female to make a bid to become United States President, running for the Democratic nomination. She served as Secretary of the House Democratic Caucus from 1977 to 1981. Shirley Chisholm was instrumental in improving the lives of inner-city residents in her terms in government. She worked to improve healthcare, social services, and education. She retired from Congress in 1982 1983 she taught sociology and politics 1993 nominated as US ambassador to Jamaica but her health prevented her to accept 2005, January 1st, she passed away at the age of 80 2015 she was awarded the presidential medal of honor Shirley Chisholm Quotes: “If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.” “Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.” “The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, ‘It’s a girl’.” “My God, what do we want? What does any human being want? Take away an accident of pigmentation of a thin layer of our outer skin and there is no difference between me and anyone else.” “In the end, anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing – anti-humanism.” “I have no intention of just sitting quietly and observing. I intend to speak out immediately in order to focus on the nation’s problems,” Chisholm said of her new role. Her victory, against the backdrop of the civil rights era, was a huge milestone, but with it came challenges. “Can you imagine being a woman, and black in congress then?” says Congresswoman Barbara Lee, who represents the 13th District of California and is one of 35 African-American women who has served in Congress to date. The first black woman, and the second ever female on the influential rules committee in Congress, she shattered a lot of glass ceilings, says Lee. “Some of the men in Congress did not respect her, she just stood out and they didn’t get her. But she wouldn’t back down. She didn’t go along to get along, she went to change things.” Shirley Chisholm Campaign Button, 1972 There are of course many other salient quotes from Chisholm which delineate her positions and perspectives. Among them are: “At present, our country needs women’s idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.” “Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.” “You don’t make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.” “Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.” The National Visionary Leadership Project has a series of oral history interviews with Ms. Chisholm in its archives, conducted by journalist Renee Poussaint. References Anderson, Delores Joan. “Black Women and Politics: Intersectionality of Race and Gender and the Transformative Production of Knowledge in Political Science.” Ph.D. diss., The Union Institute, 2000. Barnwell, Cherron Annette. “The Dialogics of Self in the Autobiographies of African-American Public Women: Ida B. Wells, Shirley Chisholm, Angela Davis and Anita Hill.” Ph.D. diss., Howard University, 2002. Brownmiller, Susan. Shirley Chisholm. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1970. Canas, Kathryn Anne. “Barbara Jordan, Shirley Chisholm, and Lani Guinier: Crafting Identification Through the Rhetorical Interbraiding of Value.” Ph.D. diss., The University of Utah, 2002. Chisholm, Shirley. The Good Fight. New York: Harper & Row, 1973. ___. Unbought and Unbossed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1970. Duffy, Susan, comp. Shirley Chisholm: A Bibliography of Writings by and About Her. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1988. Falk, Erika A. “Women, Press, and the Presidency.” Ph.D., diss., University of Pennsylvania, 2001. Gallagher, Julie A. “Women of Action, In Action: The New Politics of Black Women in New York City, 1944-1972.” Ph.D. diss., University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2003. Haskins, James. Fighting Shirley Chisholm. Los Angeles: Dutton Books, 1975. Hicks, Nancy. The Honorable Shirley Chisholm: Congresswoman From Brooklyn. New York: Lion Books, 1971. Marshall-White, Eleanor. Women: Catalysts For Change; Interpretive Biographies of Shirley St. Hill Chisholm, Sandra Day O’Connor, and Nancy Landon Kassebaum. New York: Vantage Press, 1991. Ralph Nader Congress Project. Citizens Look at Congress: Shirley Chisholm, Democratic Representative from New York. Washington, D. C.: Grossman Publishers, 1972. Scheader, Catherine. Shirley Chisholm: Teacher and Congresswoman. Berkeley Heights, N.J.: Enslow Publishers, Inc., 1990. “Shirley Anita Chisholm” in Black Americans in Congress, 1870-2007. Prepared under the direction of the Committee on House Administration by the Office of History & Preservation, U.S. House of Representatives. Washington: Government Printing Office, 2008. “Shirley Anita Chisholm” in Women in Congress, 1917-2006. Prepared under the direction of the Committee on House Administration by the Office of History & Preservation, U.S. House of Representatives. Washington: Government Printing Office, 2006. Williamson, Dorothy Kay. “Rhetorical Analysis of Selected Modern Black American Spokepersons on the Women’s Liberation Movement.” Ph.D., diss., The Ohio State University, 1980. Want more? Check out other episodes!
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007- Grace Hopper
Jul 15, 201800:26:02Tap to summarizehttps://liberatingthequeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ltq_s1_e7.mp3 Grace Hopper’s work with computers helped NASA communicate with Apollo astronauts, and still helps scientists keep track of far-flung spacecraft. Grace Brewster Murray was born on December 9, 1906 in New York City. The first winner of “Computer Science Man of the Year” award from the Data Processing Management Association in 1969 Awarded 40 honorary degrees from universities First person from the United States and the first woman from any country to be made Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society in 1973 First woman to receive the National Medal of Technology as an individual in 1991 [Grace Hopper appears to be] ‘all Navy’, but when you reach inside, you find a ‘Pirate’ dying to be released” Jay Elliot, author Grace Hopper Quotes: “Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, “We’ve always done it this way.” I try to fight that. That’s why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise”” “We’re flooding people with information. We need to feed it through a processor. A human must turn information into intelligence or knowledge. We’ve tended to forget that no computer will ever ask a new question.” “To me programming is more than an important practical art. It is also a gigantic undertaking in the foundations of knowledge.” “A ship in port is safe; but that is not what ships are built for. Sail out to sea and do new things.” References A-0 System. (n.d.). Wikipedia. Retrieved October 18th, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-0_programming_language Colvey, Scott. April 8, 2009. Cobol hits 50 and keeps counting. The Guardian. Retrieved October 21st, from http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2009/apr/09/cobol-internet-programming Dickason, Elizabeth. (n.d.). Looking Back: Grace Murray Hopper’s Younger Years. About.com. Retrieved October 18th, from http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bl_Grace_Murray_Hopper.htm Grace Hopper. (n.d.). Wikipedia. Retrieved October 18th, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper Grace Hopper. (n.d.). Wikiquote. Retrieved October 18th, from http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper Green, Judy & LaDuke, Jeanne. 2009. Pioneering Women in American Mathematics: The Pre-1940 PhD’s. American Mathematical Soc. Moran, Mickey. 1989. 1930s America – Feminist Void? The Student Historical Journal 1988-1989. Retrieved October 18th, from http://www.loyno.edu/~history/journal/1988-9/moran.htm Rossiter, Margaret W. 1982. Women Scientists in America: Struggles and Strategies to 1940. JHU Press. Want more? Check out other episodes!
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006 – Two first for female doctors
Jun 15, 201800:30:38Tap to summarizehttps://liberatingthequeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/ltq_s1_e6.mp3 Fe del Mundo Doctor Fe Del Mundo lead studies that evolved incubators and improved the practices in how we treat jaundice. Her whole life, spanning eight decades, was dedicated to pediatrics in the Philippines “[Del Mundo] humorously relates that when she arrived in Boston and went to the dormitory assigned her in a letter from the director of the hospital housing, much to her surprise, she found herself in a men’s dorm. Unknowingly the Harvard officials had admitted a female to their all-male student body. But because her record was so strong, the head of the pediatrics department saw no reason not to accept her. Thus, upsetting Harvard tradition, she became the first Philippine woman and the only female at the time to be enrolled at the Harvard Medical School.” Awards 1966 Elizabeth Blackwell Award for “outstanding service to mankind”. 1977 Ramon Magsaysay Award for outstanding public service. 1977 15th International Congress of Pediatrics award as the most outstanding pediatrician and humanitarian Susan La Flesche Picotte Susan La Flesche Picotte, was born in 1865 and grew up on the Omaha Reservation. In 1884 she attended the Hampton Institute in Virginia and later earned a medical degree at the Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania. She is the first Native American woman to become a doctor in the United States. After receiving her degree, Susan returned to the reservation and worked as a physician. In 1894 she began working in private practice. Susan treated everyone and was a huge advocate for better health care. Later she founded a reservation hospital, which was named in her honor. La Flesche Picotte died in 1915. Podcast Sources: Cogan, Frances B. (1989). All-American Girl: The Ideal of Real Womanhood in Mid-Nineteenth-Century America. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press. ISBN 082031062X. DeJong, David (1993). Promises of the Past: A History of Indian Education in the United States. Golden, CO: North American Press. ISBN 1555919057. Diffendal, Anne P. (January 1994). “The LaFlesche Sisters: Victorian Reformers in the Omaha Tribe”. Journal of the West. 33 (1). En.wikipedia.org. (2018). Fe del Mundo. [online] Available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fe_del_Mundo [Accessed 13 Jun. 2018]. Hoxie, Frederick (1984). A Final Promise: The Campaign to Assimilate the Indians, 1880–1920. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 0803223234. Hms.harvard.edu. (2018). 1871-1920 | HMS. [online] Available at: http://hms.harvard.edu/departments/joint-committee-status-women/resources/interesting-reports/matriculation-women-harvard-medical-school/1871-1920 [Accessed 13 Jun. 2018]. Mathes, Valerie Sherer (1990). “Nineteenth Century Women and Reform: The Women’s National Indian Association”. American Indian Quarterly. 14 (1). Morantz-Sanchez, Regina Markell (1985). Sympathy and Science: Women Physicians in American Medicine. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195036271. Pcij.org. (2018). PCIJ findings: What’s flawed, fuzzy with drug war numbers? | Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism. [online] Available at: http://pcij.org/i-report/2007/fe-del-mundo.html [Accessed 13 Jun. 2018]. Rmaf.org.ph. (2018). The Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation • Honoring greatness of spirit and transformative leadership in Asia. [online] Available at: http://www.rmaf.org.ph/newrmaf/main/awardees/awardee/profile/190http://www.rmaf.org.ph/newrmaf/main/awardees/awardee/profile/190 [Accessed 13 Jun. 2018]. Speroff, Leon (2003). Carlos Montezuma, M.D. : a Yavapai American Hero : the Life and Times of an American Indian, 1866–1923. Portland, Oregon: Arnica Publishing. ISBN 0972653546. Starita, Joe (2016). A Warrior of the People: How Susan La Flesche Overcame Racial and Gender Inequality to Become America’s First Indian Doctor. New York: St. Martin’s Press. ISBN 978-1-250-08534-4. Swetland, Mark (August 1994). “”Make Believe White Men” and the Omaha Land Allotments of 1871–1900″. Great Plains Research. 4 (2). Tong, Benson (1997). “Allotment, Alcohol and the Omahas”. Great Plains Quarterly. 17 (1). Tong, Benson (1999). Susan LaFlesche Picotte, M.D.: Omaha Indian Leader and Reformer. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 0806131403. Recommended Reading A Doctor to Her People: Dr. Susan LA Flesche Picotte (The Great Heartlanders Series)Jul 1999 by J. L. Wilkerson Fe Del Mundo: Filipino Doctor – ThoughtCo. https://www.thoughtco.com/filipino-doctor-fe-del-mundo-1991718 Homeward the arrow’s flight: The story of Susan La Flesche, (Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte)1995 by Marion Marsh Brown Magnificent minds. by Noyce, P. (n.d.). Susan La Flesche Picotte, M.D.: Omaha Indian Leader and ReformerMar 2000 by Benson Tong and Dennis Hastings Want more? Check out other episodes!
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005 – Buffalo Calf Road Woman
May 15, 201800:26:09Tap to summarizehttps://liberatingthequeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/ltq_s1_e5.mp3 Buffalo Calf Road Woman For this episode, we took a look at verbal accounts of Buffalo Calf Road Woman. Her history has been passed down many years to Cheyenne contemporaries. Two women play a significant role in telling her tale. Kate Big Head and Iron Teeth. Another author, Mari Sandoz also writes the flight north from Indian Territory based on verbal accounts of women who were there as well. Buffalo Calf Road Woman has a remarkable story. She was a young Cheyenne warrior woman just beginning to build her family when the Cheyenne people were in the midst of defending their land from the westward expansion. The Cheyenne and other native tribes endured attacks, massacres and fought against forced removals from the reservations. The Rosebud and Little Bighorn battles proved the tribes’ military strength but ultimately contributed to tragic consequences for the victors. As a young Cheyenne mother, Buffalo Calf Road Woman fought alongside her brother and husband at both battles in defense of Cheyenne freedom. Several brutal massacres of peaceful tribal groups led to widespread fear among the tribes and shocked the American public. No matter the bravery of the tribe they were fighting a losing battle. The US troops relentlessly pursued them and ensured they had little to no chance of survival. Buffalo Calf Road Woman, her husband Black Coyote and other Cheyenne were on the run for a long time and almost reached the point of starvation. Cheyenne warriors recorded Buffalo Calf Road Woman’s courageous ride into the Rosebud battle in a ledger drawing. Today the Cheyenne people still call the battle site “Where the Girl Saved Her Brother.” Each January since 1999, Cheyenne runners participate in a four-hundred-mile memorial run from Fort Robinson, Nebraska, to the Northern Cheyenne Reservation. They honor their ancestors who fought for their freedom and sovereignty, including Buffalo Calf Road Woman. (https://www.yellowbirdprograms.org/fortrobinsonrun) Podcast Sources: Agonito, R. P. (2007). Buffalo calf road woman: The story of a warrior of the little bighorn. Place of publication not identified: Center Point Pub. Agonito, Rosemary, and Wanda Sue. “Buffalo Calf Road, Heroic Cheyenne Warrior Woman.” Amazing Women In History, 23 May 2014, http://www.amazingwomeninhistory.com/buffalo-calf-road-cheyenne-warrior-woman/. Cavanaugh, Ray. “Retrobituaries: Buffalo Calf Road Woman, Custer’s Final Foe.” Mental Floss, 22 June 2017, mentalfloss.com/article/502013/retrobituaries-buffalo-calf-road-woman-custers-. Healy, Donna. “American Indian Images: Northern Cheyenne History Told in Photos, Interviews.” Billings (Mont.) Gazette. August 6, 2006. http://billingsgazette.com/news/features/magazine/american-indian-images/article_7879faa3-6215-52d0-a2f4-731c6c04a064.html. Hoxie, Frederick E., ed. Encyclopedia of North American Indians. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1996. Marquis, Thomas. Custer on the Little Big Horn. Lodi, Calif.: End-Kian Publishing Company, 1967. Michno, Gregory F. Lakota Noon: The Indian Narrative of Custer’s Defeat. Missoula, Mont.: Mountain Press, 1997. Little Bear, Richard, ed. We, The Northern Cheyenne People: Our Land, Our History, Our Culture.Lame Deer, Mont.: Chief Dull Knife College, 2008. Sandoz, M. (2005). Cheyenne autumn. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. Weist, Tom. A History of the Cheyenne People, rev. ed. Billings: Montana Council for Indian Education, 1984. Want more? Check out other episodes!
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004 – Three Female Adventurers
Apr 15, 201800:38:47Tap to summarizehttps://liberatingthequeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/ltq_s1_e4.mp3 Three Female Adventurers Today we are going to talking about not one, not two but three fantastic female adventurers who dared to make their mark in history and travel the world. Spring is in the air and Minnesota; everyone is ready to bust out of there house. The first episode we were able to learn about Jean Barret, who was the first female to circumnavigate the globe. This episode we will break down three adventurers; Nellie Bly, Annie Londonberry, and Isabella Lucy Bird. All three females were born around the mid-1800’s, were non-conformist that didn’t pull any punches. They were ambitious modern thinkers at a time when woman supposed to be timid and obedient. Get settled in, for the first time we are trying a new format with three amazing travelers. Join Layla and me for a trip around the world. A photo of Annie in her biking attire riding on a bike. Annie Londonberry She was born Annie Cohen Kopchovsky in Riga, Latvia 1870. Her family set sail for America and a new life when Annie was just a child. I couldn’t find much about her childhood, earliest accounts have her married with three kids by 1892. That would make her 22 years old. Also in 1892, a group of men made a bet with one another that no woman could beat the record for cycling around the world. A man named Thomas Stevens had set the record ten years earlier. With some caveats, she would have do it in 15 months (Stevens took 32), starting with zero cash and earn $5000. There was speculation that any woman to attempt the challenge was to win $10,000 if she succeeded. Annie had never been on a bike before, she learned 3 days before her big ride. The New York World described her epic adventure as “the most extraordinary journey ever undertaken by a woman.” She was a celebrity and for a while was given her own column in the New York World, where she wrote about her journey (with her usual amount of creative license!) http://www.annielondonderry.com/learn.html “I am a journalist and ‘a new woman,’” she wrote, “if that term means that I believe I can do anything that any man can do.” Her first article was about her round-the-world bicycle adventure Isabella Bird wearing Manchurian clothing from a journey through China. Isabella Lucy Bird Isabella Lucy Bird wasn’t your stereotypical adventurer. She was a slightly stout, middle-aged woman from Yorkshire, England. She suffered from chronic health issues, which is one of the reasons started to travel. Her first sea voyage to the United States was to help with her insomnia and depression. She was an inspirational writer, see her quotes below. “She was a truly amazing woman,” says travel photography expert and author Deborah Ireland, who compiled a book on Ms. Bird. “She didn’t start learning photography until she was 60 years old. She decided to take up a new profession when most people are considering retirement. “It was financial necessity that started her travelling,” says Ireland. “At 40, she is thought to be unmarriable and went to Australia. We don’t know for sure but maybe it was thought she could get lucky there, but she just couldn’t handle the heat, the drunk men and the flies, and she tells her sister she must return home.” “In Hawaii there are none of the social constraints of colonial rule or Victorian moral correctness, and she observed that people can be truly very happy with very little.” “No one has an adventure like Ms Bird,” crowed The Spectator magazine, in its review of her next release, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, published in 1879. The book was another hit and includes a timeless description of the charismatic local outlaw Rocky Mountain Jim as “a man any women would fall in love with but who no sane woman would ever marry”. “No one was writing like this at the time,” says Ireland.”The Volga is a miserable steamer … the ship was damp, dark, dirty, old and cold.” “Her rivals were staying in five-star accommodation but Isabella could offer her readers danger, dirt and reality,” says Dr Julia Kuehn, of the University of Hong Kong, whose research interests include the travel writing of Victorian women. “This was her ‘wow factor’.” “People think it witty to ridicule everything Chinese, poke fun at these junks and their ‘pig-tailed’, long-coated crews, but their handling of them is masterly,” writes Bird. “There is genuine admiration and affection, and she refers to their bravery as they risk losing their footing on steep cliffs adjacent to the river,” says Ireland. “They are rough, truly, but as the voyage went on, their honest work, pluck, endurance, hardihood, sobriety and good nature won my sympathy and in some sort my admiration,” Bird writes <img loading="lazy" data-attachment-id="1005" data-permalink="https://liberatingthequeen.com/2018/04/15/004-three-female-adventurers/journalist-and-traveler-nellie-bly/" data-orig-file="https://liberatingthequeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/nellie_bly.jpg" data-orig-size="320,480" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"\u00a9 Bettmann/CORBIS","camera":"","caption":"ca. 1900 --- Here is a formal portrait of Nellie Bly (1867-1922), an American journalist and around the world traveler. --- Image by \u00a9 Bettmann/CORBIS","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"\u00a9 Corbis. 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003 – Hatshepsut
Mar 15, 201800:26:38Tap to summarizehttps://liberatingthequeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/ltq_s1_e3.mp3 Hatshepsut Birth/Death (1507–1458 BC) The first recorded female ruler of ancient Egypt to reign as a male with the full authority of Pharaoh is Queen Hatshepsut Our third episode is about an ancient Egyptian bad-ass, Queen Hatshepsut or as we call her Queen H. She is attributed to being one Egypt’s greatest and longest rulers. Somewhere in time, she was lost in the history books, some by her on doing and others by people trying to erase her existence as pharaoh. There is a lot of information about Hatshepsut out there, below is the bibliography for all citations used for this podcast. There continues to be a lot of questions and a lot of excitement around Hatshepsut and even a rumored movie. Early rise to power Her father was a great warrior Thutmose I (1520-1492 BCE) and her mother Ahmose was to be said a direct descendant of the sun Thutmose I had a son with his second wife and named him Thutmose II As Egyptian royal tradition depicts, Thutmose II was married to Hatshepsut at some point before she was 20 years old. After she was wed, Hatshepsut was elevated to the position of God’s Wife of Amun, the highest honor a woman could attain in Egypt after the position of queen and, actually, bestowing far more power than most queens ever knew. Thutmose II died while Thutmose III was still a child and so Hatshepsut became regent, controlling the affairs of state until he came of age. She began her reign as regent to her stepson Thutmose III (1458-1425 BCE) who would succeed her and, initially, ruled as a woman as depicted in statuary. In the seventh year of her regency, though, she changed the rules and had herself crowned Pharaoh of Egypt. She took on all the royal titles and names which she had inscribed using the feminine grammatical form but had herself depicted as a male pharaoh. Van de Mieroop writes Reign of Queen Hatshepsut Hatshepsut began her reign by marrying her daughter to Thutmose III and bestowing on Neferu-Ra the position of God’s Wife of Amun in order to secure her position. She presented herself as a direct successor to Ahmose, whose name the people still remembered as their great liberator, in order to further strengthen her position and defend against detractors who would claim a woman was unfit to rule. Her numerous inscriptions, monuments, and temples all demonstrate how unprecedented her reign was: no woman before her had ruled the country openly as pharaoh. She kept the economy moving; Set about commissioning building projects, such as her temple at Deir el-Bahri Sent out military expeditions. The exact nature of the military campaigns is unclear but their objectives were the regions of Syria and Nubia. It is likely that the campaigns were launched simply to uphold the tradition of the pharaoh as a warrior-king bringing wealth into the land through conquest, could have been seen as a continuation of Thutmose I’s campaigns in those regions (again, further legitimizing her position), or could have been fairly provoked. The pharaohs of the New Kingdom, the age of empire, placed great emphasis on keeping secure buffer zones around the country to avoid a repeat of what they saw as the “invasion”. Hatshepsut’s greatest efforts went into these building projects which not only elevated her name and honored the gods but employed the people. The scope and size of Hatshepsut’s constructions, as well as their elegant beauty, attest to a very prosperous reign. None of her projects could have been completed as they were if she were not in command of a wealth of resources Death Senenmut and Neferu-Ra had both died long before and there was no one at court, it seems, who had the power or inclination to change this policy. The wreckage of some of these works was dumped near her temple at Deir el-Bahri and excavations brought her name to light along with the inscriptions inside the temple which Champollion was so mystified by. Although there have been many theories over the years as to why Tuthmose III tried to blot Hatshepsut’s name from history, the most likely reason was that her reign had been unconventional and departed from tradition. The Egyptian belief that one lives on as long as one’s name is remembered, however, is exemplified in Hatshepsut. She was forgotten as the period of the New Kingdom continued and remained so for centuries. Once her name was found again by Champollion in the 19th century CE, and then by others throughout the 20th, she gradually came back to life and assumed her rightful place as one of the greatest pharaohs in Egypt’s history. It is unknown how or when she died, although there is speculation based on when pronouns started changing in Egyptian artifacts. As we continue to discover it will be exciting to see what else comes out from the stories of Queen H. Quotes “has become one of the most celebrated and controversial women of Egypt and the ancient world in general…… Whereas she had been represented as a woman in earlier statues and relief sculptures, after her coronation as king she appeared with male dress and gradually became represented with male physique. Her breasts did not show and she stood in a traditional man’s posture rather than a woman’s. Some reliefs were even re-carved to adjust her representation to appear more like a man.” Page 172. M. V. Mieroop, A history of ancient Egypt. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. “He [Amun] in the incarnation of the Majesty of her husband, the King of Upper and Lower Egypt, [Thutmose I] found her sleeping in the beauty of her palace. She awoke at the divine fragrance and turned towards his Majesty. He went to her immediately, he was aroused by her he imposed his desire upon her. He allowed her to see him in his form of a god and she rejoiced at the sight of his beauty after he had come before her. His love passed into her body. The palace was flooded with divine fragrance (van de Mieroop” Page 173. M. V. Mieroop, A history of ancient Egypt. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. Podcast Sources: Anderson, T. R., and T. A. Slotkin. “Maturation of the Adrenal Medulla–IV. Effects of Morphine.” Biochemical Pharmacology 24, no. 16 (August 15, 1975): 1469–74. Dorman, P. F. (1991). The tombs of Senenmut: the architecture and decoration of tombs 71 and 353. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. 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