Women Who Went Before

A podcast by Rebekah Haigh & Emily Chesley

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17 Episodes

  1. The Pee Test: Pregnancy and Childbirth in Ancient Egypt

    Published: 12/19/2024
  2. Blemished Brides: Women’s Bodies and Disability in Ancient Judaism

    Published: 12/5/2024
  3. Veiled But Not Hidden in Ancient Greece

    Published: 11/14/2024
  4. Virginity and the Hype About Hymens

    Published: 10/31/2024
  5. Wandering Wombs: Greco-Roman Gynecology and Women’s Health

    Published: 10/17/2024
  6. Bodily Matters: The Lifecycle of an Ancient Woman

    Published: 10/3/2024
  7. Out of Pandora’s Box, Recovering Hope

    Published: 1/24/2023
  8. In Her Own Words: Ancient Women Authors

    Published: 1/11/2023
  9. Suffering Witches to Live: Jewish Women and the Legacies of Religious Law

    Published: 12/6/2022
  10. Women Get a Head: Gender and Other Weapons

    Published: 11/22/2022
  11. Scepter and Sword: African Warrior Queens

    Published: 11/8/2022
  12. Was the Oldest Profession a Profession?

    Published: 10/25/2022
  13. “The Two Breasts of the Father”: Does Your God Look Like You?

    Published: 10/11/2022
  14. Fall Girl: Theology, Gender, and How Eve Ruined Us All

    Published: 9/27/2022
  15. Ghostwriting the Daughters of Men

    Published: 9/13/2022
  16. Invisible Women and How they Make History

    Published: 8/30/2022
  17. Missing, Presumed…Absent? Where Were All the Ancient Women?

    Published: 8/16/2022

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Women Who Went Before is on a gynocentric quest into the ancient world. Join hosts Rebekah Haigh and Emily Chesley as they interview the world’s top scholars and unearth the lives of women from the past. It’s a history podcast and detective journey in one, sifting through texts and tropes to find the women who lived beneath. | Season 2 episodes every other Thursday!