Tag: Women's History

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.

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.

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.                                                           

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/         

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.

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:

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.

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/

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