Women's History – Victor E. History

Season 6, Episode 1- “1950s North Carolina Women’s Prison Riots” with Chelsea Kiefer

Photo of a Christmas program in the Raleigh Women’s Prison. Chelsea discusses this image in the episode.

Season six begins with a familiar guest, Chelsea Kiefer. Chelsea joins Hollie to discuss “When the Powerless Stand Up: Social Dynamics in 1950s North Carolina Women’s Prison Riots.” She discusses riots that happened in 1954 and 1956 that occurred in the women’s prison in Raleigh, North Carolina. These riots, both motivated by very different circumstances, demonstrate that the women felt that rioting was the only way they could create change. However, the riots resulted in even less power for these women in an era before the major inmate rights movements.

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Selected Bibliography:

“18 Women Inmates Riot.” The New York Times, September 23, 1956.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1956/09/23/95810601.html?pageNumber=59.

Alexander, Michelle. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. New York: New Press, 2020.

Faith, Karlene. Unruly Women: The Politics of Confinement and Resistance. New York: First Seven Stories Press, 2011.

“History of NC Prisons.” North Carolina Department of Public Safety.
https://www.doc.state.nc.us/admin/page1.htm.

“Prison Quiet After Riot Over Death of Tied Girl.” Norfolk Journal and Guide, August 28, 1954. The State Library of North Carolina. Raleigh, NC.

Book recommended by Hollie in the episode: https://www.hughryan.org/house-of-d

Are you interested in a history degree? We have online and on campus B.A. programs and we also have online and on campus M.A. programs in history or public history. Learn more at https://www.fhsu.edu/history/academic-program

S5-E4 “Pauline Sabin and the Campaign Against Prohibition” with Whitney Befort

In this episode, junior history education major Whitney Befort joins Hollie Marquess to discuss Pauline Sabin and her efforts to repeal the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Whitney covers her early life, her involvement in politics, and how she mobilized women all over the country to dismantle Prohibition in the U.S.

Selected Bibliography:

Sabin, Pauline Morton. “I Change My Mind on Prohibition.” Outlook, June 13, 1928. https://www.unz.com/print/Outlook-1928jun13-00254/.

“Women Will Battle For Dry Law Repeal.” The Atlanta Constitution (Atlanta, GA), March 1, 1932. https://archive.org/details/per_atlanta-constitution_1932-03-01_64_261/page/n13/mode/2up.

Ambrose, Hugh, and John Schuttler. Liberated Spirits: Two Women Who Battled Over Prohibition. New York: Berkely, 2018.

Neumann, Caryn E. “The End of Gender Solidarity: The History of the Women’s Organization for National Prohibition Reform in the United States, 1929-1933.” Journal of Women’s History 9, no. 2 (1997): 31-51. https://doi.org/10.1353/jowh.2010.0564.

“The Repeal of Prohibition.” Prohibition: An Interactive History. The Mob Museum. Accessed October 30, 2023. https://prohibition.themobmuseum.org/the-history/the-end-of-prohibition/repeal-of-prohibition/.

S5 Episode 3- “Women and Mourning Culture in the Victorian Era” with Kylah Smith

“Mourning dress, 19th century” is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.5.

In episode Kylah Smith, junior history major, visits with Hollie about Victorian Era America’s mourning customs. She unpacks how mourning practices differed based on gender, social status, and relationship to the deceased.

Selected Bibliography:

“The Fashion of Mourning.” Godey’s Lady’s Book (March 1875).

“The Social Duty of a Woman: A Visit of Sympathy.” Cassell’s Family Magazine (1894).

McDaniel, Katherine. “Angels in Black: Victorian Women in Mourning.” City of Greeley Museums. Accessed November 5, 2023. https://greeleymuseums.com/victorian-women-in-mourning/.

Strange, Julie-Marie. “‘She Cried a Very Little’: Death, Grief and Mourning in Working-Class Culture, c. 1880-1914.” Social History 27, no. 2 (May 2002): 143–61.

Season 4, Episode 7- FHSU History Alumna Brianna Buller

Brianna Buller at Royal Holloway in London

In the final episode of Season 4, Hollie is joined by Brianna Buller. Brianna earned her B.A. in History at FHSU and went on to a M.A. in Public History at Royal Holloway in London. The two discuss her time at both universities, her Threads of Herstory Project, and adventures in Europe.

https://www.threadsofherstory.com/

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Are you interested in a history degree? We have online and on campus B.A. programs and we also have online and on campus M.A. programs in history or public history. Learn more at https://www.fhsu.edu/history/academic-programs/

S4, Episode 5- “Child-free Women in the early 20th century” with Chelsea Kiefer

Chelsea Kiefer, senior history major at FHSU, joins Hollie Marquess to discuss child-free women in the first half of the 20th century. She unpacks rates of child-free women, methods to prevent pregnancy (including horrifying ones like a condom that looks like a chef hat and ones that are reusable), and Eugenic postcards.

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-example of Eugenics postcard

In the episode, Chelsea and Hollie mention a condom that looks like a chef hat. We are not using an image of the reusable condoms here, but you can use your imagination for that.

S 4, E3 “Jacqueline Cochran and the creation of the Women’s Flying Training Detachment” with Kayla Nelson

Kayla Nelson, graduate Public History major at FHSU, joins Hollie to discuss female aviation pioneer Jacqueline Cochran, who advocated that women had women pilots had the skills and abilities to fly for the war effort during WWII. She formed the Women Flying Training Detachment and eventually headed the Women’s Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs).

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Selected Bibliography:

Cochran, Jacqueline. “American Women Pilots” 3 September 1943, Box 14, Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) Series, Eisenhower Presidential Library. https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/sites/default/files/file/cochran_BinderJJ.pdf.

Landdeck, Katherine Sharp. The Women with Silver Wings: The Inspiring True Story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II. New York: Crown, 2021.

Smith, Hannah. “The Women Airforce Service Pilots of WWII: A Tactical Necessity with Strategic Implications.” Air & Space Power History 69, no. 1 (2022). https://www.afhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Spring2022Issue_All-1.pdf.

Olds, Robert. “To all women holders of licenses,” 29 July 1941, Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) Series, Box 2, Subseries I: Pre-WASP Files, Eisenhower Presidential Library. https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/sites/default/files/file/cochran_BinderA.pdf.

War Department. “Jacqueline Cochran Named Director of Women’s Flying Training in Army,” 14 September 1942, Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) Series, Box 2, Subseries I: Pre-WASP Files, Eisenhower Presidential Library. https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/sites/default/files/file/cochran_BinderCC.pdf.

S3 Episode 6- “Edythe Eyde: A Queer Media Pioneer” with Lucy Martin

Junior Lucy Martin joins Hollie Marquess to discuss Edythe Eyde and her contributions to Queer Media that helped to shape a lesbian identity and inspire the LGBTQ Civil Rights movements at mid-century. Eyde wrote the first lesbian newsletter in the U.S., “Vice Versa” and also sang about queer life.

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After you listen to Lucy’s episode, check out https://makinggayhistory.com/podcast/bonus-episode-edythe-eydes-gay-gals-mixtape/ so you can hear her songs.

While working at RKO Pictures, Edythe’s boss told her to “look busy” and so she typed her lesbian newsletter with carbon copies to distribute.

Selected Bibliography:

Ben, Lisa. “Vice Versa,” Queer Music Heritage. https://queermusicheritage.com/viceversa0.html (Copies of Vice Versa)

Eyde, Edythe. Interview by Eric Marcus, n.d. in “Edyth Eyde aka Lisa Ben.” October 26, 2016, Making Gay History: LGBTQ Oral Histories from the Archives, produced by Pineapple Street Media, podcast, 15:33, https://makinggayhistory.com/podcast/episode-1-3/.

Edye, Edythe. Interview by Eric Marcus, n.d. in “Bonus Episode- Edyth Eyde’s Gay Gal’s Mixtape.” October 11, 2017, Making Gay History: LGBTQ Oral Histories from the Archives, produced by Pineapple Street Media, podcast, 13:23, https://makinggayhistory.com/podcast/bonus-episode-edythe-eydes-gay-gals-mixtape/.

Hansen, Rob. “Tigrina (Edythe Edye).” http://www.fiawol.org.uk/fanstuff/THEN%20Archive/LASFS/Tigrina.htm.

Legare, Lydia. “Lisa Ben’s Songbook.” https://lydialegare.wixsite.com/lisabenssongbook.

Marcus, Eric. Making History: The Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Equal Rights, 1945-1990; An Oral History. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1992.

S2, Episode 4-“Women’s Roles in Food Preparation in the Holodomor” with Alissa Zajac

Season 2 Episode 4

“Memorial ‘the Holodomor’; 1932-1933 (death by hunger) in Kyiv, Ukraine” by Andrew J.Swan is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.

In the years 1932-1933, Ukraine suffered a famine that historians estimate killed over four million Ukrainians. As a result of the famine, women had to come up with different survival strategies and methods for procuring and preparing food for themselves and their families. Senior history major Alissa Zajac joins Hollie Marquess to discuss women’s roles in food procurement and preparation during the Holodomor.

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Selected Bibliography:

Bohdan Klid, and Alexander J. Motyl. The Holodomor Reader: A Sourcebook on the Famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine. Toronto: CIUS Press, 2012.

Borysenko, Valentyna. A Candle in Remembrance: An Oral History of the Ukrainian Genocide of 1932-1933. New York: Ukrainian Nation Women’s League of America, 2010.

Applebaum, Anne. Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine. New York: Doubleday, 2017.

Kis, Oksana. “Defying Death: Women’s Experience of the Holodomor, 1932-1933.” Aspasia 7, no. 1 (January 1, 2013).

Kis, Oksana. “Women’s Experience of the Holodomor: Challenges and Ambiguities of Motherhood.” Journal of Genocide Research 23, no. 4 (October 2, 2021): 527–46.

S2, Episode 2- “Nursing Under Fire” with Lizz Dobmeyer

“Red Cross Nurse” by east_lothian_museums is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.

In this episode, Lizz Dobmeyer, a master’s student in the FHSU History Department online, joins Hollie to discuss “Nursing Under Fire: The Experiences and Achievements of World War I Allied Nurses on the Western Front.”

You can find this episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, or any of the major podcast platforms. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode.

Selected Bibliography:

Powell, Anne. Women in the War Zone: Hospital Service in the First World War. Stroud: The History Press, 2013.

Hallett, Christine E. Containing Trauma: Nursing Work in the First World War. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2011.

Hallett, Christine E. Veiled Warriors: Allied Nurses of the First World War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021.

Harris, Kirsty. More than Bombs and Bandages: Australian Army Nurses at Work in World War I. Newport: Big Sky Publishing Pty, Limited, 2016.

Moore, Wendy. No Man’s Land the Trailblazing Women Who Ran Britain’s Most Extraordinary Military Hospital during World War I. New York, NY: Basic Books, 2020.

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