Dames Deferred - The Mercury 13     Further Reading: Ackmann, Martha (2003). The Mercury 13: The Untold Story of Thirteen American Women and the Dream of Space Flight. Nolen, Stephanie (2002). Promised the Moon: The Untold Story of the First Women in the Space Race Music: I Should Fly - Vermillion Lies Click to listen in new window

'Queen' Bess Coleman and Pancho Barnes Click to listen in new window Further Reading: Bessie Coleman: Queen Bess: Daredevil Aviator by Doris L. Rich Pancho Barnes: The Happy Bottom Riding Club: The Life and Times of Pancho Barnes by Lauren Kessler (2001) The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club directed by Amanda Pope (2009) Music: "Don't Stop" by the Parting Gifts  

Mamie "Peanut" Johnson and Lyudmilla Pavlichenko   Click to listen in new window Further Reading: Mamie "Peanut" Johnson A Strong Right Arm by Michelle Green Interview on Youtube by Visionary Project Mamie 'Peanut' Johnson, Pitching Pioneer, Interview Fresh Air, NPR 2/18/2003 Mamie Johnson: Peanut Who Stood Tall in Negro Leagues Podcast interview of Mamie before an elementary school class.  Lyudmilla Pavlichenko  Women in War and Resistance by Kazimiera J. Cottam

Lady Hester Stanhope and La Maupin Click to listen in new window Further Reading: Lady Hester:  Lady Hester: Queen of the East by Lorna Gibb. (2005) Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope by Dr. Meyron. (1845)   La Maupin By the Sword: A History of Gladiators, Musketeers, Samurai, Swashbucklers, and Olympic Champions by Richard Cohen (2003) Queens of Song by Ellen Clayton (1865) Wonderful Characters: Comprising Memoirs and Anecdotes of the Most Remarkable Persons of Every Age and Nation by Henry Wilson (1830) The Sketchbook of Character by E.L. Carey and A. Hart (1835) Dictionnaire des Theatres de Paris and Anecdotes Dramatiques by Francois Parfaict Women in Men's Guise by Oscar Gilbert (1932) Gallant Ladies by Rogers    

Cora Hubbard and Belle Starr: Wild West Outlaws. Click to listen in new window Further Reading: Cora Hubbard: Bedside Book of Bad Girls: Outlaw Women of the Old West by Michael Rutter Tales Never Told Around the Campfire: True Stories of Frontier America by Mark Dugan Ozarks, Gunfire and Other Notorious Incidents by Larry Wood Cora Hubbard: Female Bank Robber in Missouri by Larry Wood Belle Starr: Women of the Wild West by Katherine Kohn http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/star-bel.htm Music: The Devil Had a Hold of Me - Gillian Welch

Dames of the Circus: Lillian Leitzel and Millie-Christine McCoy Click to listen in new window Further reading: Millie-Christine: Fearfully and Wonderfully Made; Joanne Martell; John F. Blair Publisher (2001) Biographical Sketch of Millie Christine, the Carolina Twin, Surnamed the Two-Headed Nightingale and the Eighth Wonder of the World Music: Little Egypt by the Coasters

Tallulah Bankhead and Dorothy Parker: Droll dames. Click to listen in new window Further Reading: Tallulah Bankhead Tallulah Bankhead: My Autobiography by Tallulah Bankhead (1952) Tallulah Bankhead by Byrony Lavery (1999) Tallulah Bankhead: A Scandalous Life by David Bret (1996) Tallulah ragging on Bette Davis on The Big Show Tallulah and Marlena sparring on the radio Tallulah and Groucho sparring on the radio  Tallulah on Batman. The Black Widow Strikes Again 1,2,3 and Caught in the Spider's Web 1,2,3 Dorothy Parker 'What Fresh Hell Is This?' by Marion Meade. (2006). Music: This Party Took a Turn for the Douche - Garfunkel and Oates

Sr. Lt. Lydia Vladimirovna aka Lilya Litvyak Right click here and save as to download Further Reading: Wings Women and War by Reina Pennington (1997) Soviet Women in Combat in WWII by Kazimiera J. Cottam (1983) Also, online commentary by Ms. Cottam on the likelihood of the cheating death rumors. 

Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu and The Harvard Computers Special thanks to Bil Sanford for putting science into English for us. Dame is a Four Letter Word - Episode 14 : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive Right click here and save as to download Further Reading: Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu: Question of Parity Conservation in Weak Interactions by T.D. Lee and C.N. Yang; The Physical Review (October 1, 1956)  Reversal of the Parity Conservation Law in Nuclear Physics prepared by Ralph P. Hudson. Famed Physicist Chien-Shiung Wu Dies at 84 by Bob Nelson; The Columbia University Record. (1997) Beta Decay and Quark-Antiquark Non-Parity in Collision-Induced Gravity by Gary C. Vezzoli; Progress in Physics. (April 2009) The Harvard Computers Miss Leavitt's Stars: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Discovered How to Measure the Universe by George Johnson (2005) Woman Astronomer: The Harvard Computers Wellesley College Astronomy Department: Annie Jump Cannon Antonia Caetana de Paiva Pereira Maury - Vassar College Encyclopedia - Vassar College Characteristics of the spectral classes - Spectra Music: Doris Day: Tic,Tic,Tic Hum: Stars

Nellie Bly and Anna Politkovskaya: Plucky investigative journalists. Right click here and save as to download Further Reading: Nellie Bly: Nellie Bly: Daredevil, Reporter, Feminist by Brooke Kroeger (1994) 10 Days in a Madhouse by Nellie Bly Around the World in 72 Days by Nellie Bly Six Months in Mexico by Nellie Bly Nellie Bly Resource Site (online archive of Nellie's writing) Transcript of PBS American Experience I'm not the only one curious about McGinty - There's a children's book about him. And the tradition of stunt reporting continues to the modern age Anna Politkovskaya "A Small Corner of Hell: Dispatches from Chechnya" by Anna Politkovskaya, The University of Chicago Press (2003).  Whose Truth? by Georgi M. Derluguian (2003) "Nothing But the Truth" by Anna Politkovksaya, Novaya Gazeta (2007) "A Russian Diary: A Journalist's Final Account of Life, Corruption, and Death in Putin's Russia" by Anna Politkovskaya (2006) Music: Monster Hospital by Metric