Podcast: “Women Who Went Before” Season 2
Oct. 22, 2024
Women have bodies. They live in them, and they experience the world through them. In Season 2, Women Who Went Before follows an ancient woman’s life cycle, tracing her many embodied experiences. Through interviews with important scholars, the podcast season looks at menstruating bodies, clothed bodies, birthing bodies, disabled bodies, violated bodies, raced bodies, erotic bodies, and ascetic bodies. For many women in antiquity, their sex and gender shaped both how they encountered the world and how the world encountered them—not unlike today.