Women Who Went Before

A gynocentric podcast on the ancient world

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    • 0: Missing, Presumed…Absent?
    • 1: Invisible Women & How They Make History
    • 2: Ghostwriting the Daughters of Men
    • 3: Fall Girl
    • 4: “The Two Breasts of the Father”
    • 5: Was the Oldest Profession a Profession?
    • 6: Scepter and Sword
    • 7: Women Get a Head
    • 8: Suffering Witches to Live
    • 9: In Her Own Words
    • 10: Out of Pandora’s Box, Recovering Hope
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Podcast Episodes

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Season 1

  • Episode 0 “Missing, Presumed…Absent? Where Were All the Ancient Women?“
  • Episode 1 “Invisible Women and How They Make History,” with Sarit Kattan Gribetz
  • Episode 2 “Ghostwriting the Daughters of Men: Whose Writing Is It Anyway?” with Annette Yoshiko Reed
  • Episode 3 “Fall Girl: Theology, Gender, and How Eve Ruined Us All,” with Elaine Pagels
  • Episode 4 “‘The Two Breasts of the Father’: Does Your God Look Like You?” with Susan Ashbrook Harvey
  • Episode 5 “Was the Oldest Profession a Profession?” with Thomas A. J. McGinn
  • Episode 6 “Scepter and Sword: African Warrior Queens,” with Solange Ashby
  • Episode 7 “Women Get a Head: Gender and Other Weapons,” with Caryn Tamber-Rosenau
  • Episode 8 “Suffering Witches to Live: Jewish Women and the Legacies of Religious Law,” with Elizabeth Shanks Alexander
  • Episode 9 “In Her Own Words: Ancient Women Writers,” with Kate Cooper
  • Episode 10 “Out of Pandora’s Box, Recovering Hope,” with Deborah Lyons – New
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