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The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective
- By: Sara Lodge
- Narrated by: Christine Rendel
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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From Wilkie Collins to the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the traditional image of the Victorian detective is male. Few people realize that women detectives successfully investigated Victorian Britain, working both with the police and for private agencies, which they sometimes managed themselves. Sara Lodge recovers these forgotten women’s lives. She also reveals the sensational role played by the fantasy female detective in Victorian melodrama and popular fiction, enthralling a public who relished the spectacle of a cross-dressing, fist-swinging heroine.
By: Sara Lodge
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The Tin Ticket
- The Heroic Journey of Australia's Convict Women
- By: Deborah J. Swiss
- Narrated by: Corinne Davies
- Length: 13 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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The Tin Ticket takes us to the dawn of the nineteenth century and into the lives of Agnes McMillan, whose defiance and resilience carried her to a far more dramatic rebellion; Agnes's best friend Janet Houston, who rescued her from the Glasgow wynds and was also transported to Van Diemen's Land; Ludlow Tedder, forced to choose just one of her four children to accompany her to the other side of the world; Bridget Mulligan, who gave birth to a line of powerful women stretching to the present day. It also tells the tale of Elizabeth Gurney Fry, a Quaker reformer who touched all their lives.
By: Deborah J. Swiss
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The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902
- Immigrant Housewives and the Riots That Shook New York City
- By: Scott D. Seligman
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902 tells the twin stories of mostly uneducated women immigrants who discovered their collective consumer power and of the Beef Trust, the midwestern cartel that conspired to keep meat prices high despite efforts by the U.S. government to curtail its nefarious practices.
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Cléopâtre - Un rêve de puissance
- By: Maurice Sartre
- Narrated by: Marie Daguerre
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Cléopâtre est la plus célèbre des reines de l’Antiquité et l’objet de tous les fantasmes : femme fatale, Égyptienne avide et cruelle, maîtresse et épouse des hommes les plus puissants de Rome... Elle fut en réalité la reine grecque d’un royaume prestigieux, dernier vestige de l’empire d’Alexandre le Grand. Avec un regard critique, utilisant textes, inscriptions, images et monnaies, Maurice Sartre écarte les mythes, brise les idées reçues et brosse le juste portrait d’une souveraine lucide et volontaire.
By: Maurice Sartre
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Prehistorias - Cuentos de mujeres que forjaron el mundo
- By: Marga Sánchez Romero, Clàudia Capdevila - ilustrador
- Narrated by: Elisabet Bargalló
- Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Las historias más poderosas son las que aún no se han contado. Quizá te hayan contado que hace mucho, mucho tiempo, en la Prehistoria, todo estaba dominado por hombres que cazaban y peleaban. Quizá te hayan dicho que esos hombres fueron los únicos responsables de las pinturas rupestres, los que curaban y los que guerreaban. Pero, quizá, eso no sea así... Porque en la Prehistoria, también hubo mujeres, niños y niñas. ¡Vaya si los hubo! Y ellos también fueron fundamentales. Esas mujeres fueron guerreras, cazadoras, curanderas, recolectoras, tejedoras.
By: Marga Sánchez Romero, and others
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The Icon and the Idealist
- Margaret Sanger, Mary Ware Dennett, and the Rivalry That Brought Birth Control to America
- By: Stephanie Gorton
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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In the 1910s, as the birth control movement was born, two leaders emerged: Margaret Sanger and Mary Dennett. Sanger would go on to found Planned Parenthood, while Dennett’s name has largely faded from public awareness. Each held a radically different vision for what reproductive autonomy and birth control access should look like in America. Few are aware of the fierce personal and political rivalry that played out between Sanger and Dennett over decades—a battle that had a profound impact on the lives of American women.
By: Stephanie Gorton
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The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective
- By: Sara Lodge
- Narrated by: Christine Rendel
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
From Wilkie Collins to the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the traditional image of the Victorian detective is male. Few people realize that women detectives successfully investigated Victorian Britain, working both with the police and for private agencies, which they sometimes managed themselves. Sara Lodge recovers these forgotten women’s lives. She also reveals the sensational role played by the fantasy female detective in Victorian melodrama and popular fiction, enthralling a public who relished the spectacle of a cross-dressing, fist-swinging heroine.
By: Sara Lodge
-
The Tin Ticket
- The Heroic Journey of Australia's Convict Women
- By: Deborah J. Swiss
- Narrated by: Corinne Davies
- Length: 13 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The Tin Ticket takes us to the dawn of the nineteenth century and into the lives of Agnes McMillan, whose defiance and resilience carried her to a far more dramatic rebellion; Agnes's best friend Janet Houston, who rescued her from the Glasgow wynds and was also transported to Van Diemen's Land; Ludlow Tedder, forced to choose just one of her four children to accompany her to the other side of the world; Bridget Mulligan, who gave birth to a line of powerful women stretching to the present day. It also tells the tale of Elizabeth Gurney Fry, a Quaker reformer who touched all their lives.
By: Deborah J. Swiss
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The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902
- Immigrant Housewives and the Riots That Shook New York City
- By: Scott D. Seligman
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902 tells the twin stories of mostly uneducated women immigrants who discovered their collective consumer power and of the Beef Trust, the midwestern cartel that conspired to keep meat prices high despite efforts by the U.S. government to curtail its nefarious practices.
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Cléopâtre - Un rêve de puissance
- By: Maurice Sartre
- Narrated by: Marie Daguerre
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Cléopâtre est la plus célèbre des reines de l’Antiquité et l’objet de tous les fantasmes : femme fatale, Égyptienne avide et cruelle, maîtresse et épouse des hommes les plus puissants de Rome... Elle fut en réalité la reine grecque d’un royaume prestigieux, dernier vestige de l’empire d’Alexandre le Grand. Avec un regard critique, utilisant textes, inscriptions, images et monnaies, Maurice Sartre écarte les mythes, brise les idées reçues et brosse le juste portrait d’une souveraine lucide et volontaire.
By: Maurice Sartre
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Prehistorias - Cuentos de mujeres que forjaron el mundo
- By: Marga Sánchez Romero, Clàudia Capdevila - ilustrador
- Narrated by: Elisabet Bargalló
- Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Las historias más poderosas son las que aún no se han contado. Quizá te hayan contado que hace mucho, mucho tiempo, en la Prehistoria, todo estaba dominado por hombres que cazaban y peleaban. Quizá te hayan dicho que esos hombres fueron los únicos responsables de las pinturas rupestres, los que curaban y los que guerreaban. Pero, quizá, eso no sea así... Porque en la Prehistoria, también hubo mujeres, niños y niñas. ¡Vaya si los hubo! Y ellos también fueron fundamentales. Esas mujeres fueron guerreras, cazadoras, curanderas, recolectoras, tejedoras.
By: Marga Sánchez Romero, and others
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The Icon and the Idealist
- Margaret Sanger, Mary Ware Dennett, and the Rivalry That Brought Birth Control to America
- By: Stephanie Gorton
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In the 1910s, as the birth control movement was born, two leaders emerged: Margaret Sanger and Mary Dennett. Sanger would go on to found Planned Parenthood, while Dennett’s name has largely faded from public awareness. Each held a radically different vision for what reproductive autonomy and birth control access should look like in America. Few are aware of the fierce personal and political rivalry that played out between Sanger and Dennett over decades—a battle that had a profound impact on the lives of American women.
By: Stephanie Gorton