Rebel Women Podcast
by Ana Heermann
An informative look into the lives of well-known, lesser-known, and obscure women throughout history and into the current day, this podcast seeks to enlighten and inform its listeners in an engaging discussion perfect for the car ride to work or school. Each episode will delve in the remarkable life of one woman whose contributions changed how we understand, how we interact, or how we navigate the world.
Episodes
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Episode 6: Anne Sexton
The troubled and complicated life of the poet Anne Sexton is covered in this week's episode. This episode comes with a trigger warning as there are themes of abuse and suicide, so please proceed with caution. From her tumultuous upbringing, to delving back into writing poetry after a 10 year...
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Episode 5: Rigoberta Menchu
This week's episode features another Nobel Prize Winner, Rigoberta Menchu. Fighting for her people, the Maya of Guatemala, in 1980 she gave testimony about the atrocities her people had faced at the hands of the military regime that had taken power in the 1960's. Her tireless efforts to make the...
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Episode 4: Hatshepsut
The subject of today's episode is the longest reigning king of Egypt, Hatshepsut! For over twenty years in the late 1400's BC, Hatshepsut would make the unprecedented move to claim the throne of Egypt as a woman and heir to her father's throne. After ascension, ancient Egypt would become one of…
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Episode 3: Jill Wine-Banks
This week's episode brings us to the mid 1970's when the Watergate Scandal broke. The Rebel Woman of the day is Jill Wine-Banks who worked tirelessly on the Watergate prosecution team. Jill worked at a time where sexism was rampant, and women's rights had only just started taking shape in the…
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Episode 2: Selma van de Perre
This week's Woman du Jour is the life of Dutch Jewish Resistance fighter, Selma van de Perre, née Velleman. In this episode, I delve into her life as a young, 20 something woman who works as a courier for those fighting the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, and is eventually captured and...
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Episode 1: Marie Curie
In the first episode of Rebel Women Podcast, Marie Curie makes her appearance. A double Nobel Prize winner, once in physics and once in chemistry, Marie Curie was an incredible woman who discovered radioactivity and two elements. In this episode, your host, Ana Heermann, covers her young life and...
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Who do you think of when I say...
Who do you think of when I say, "Doctor," "Lawyer," or "Physicist?" By default, do you picture a man in those roles? Well I am here to change that with one Rebel Woman at a time! Tune in March 8th for the first of twelve episode, each featuring an ordinary woman that has done the extraordinary....
About this show
An informative look into the lives of well-known, lesser-known, and obscure women throughout history and into the current day, this podcast seeks to enlighten and inform its listeners in an engaging discussion perfect for the car ride to work or school. Each episode will delve in the remarkable life of one woman whose contributions changed how we understand, how we interact, or how we navigate the world.
Hosted by
Ana Heermann