Resurfacing Women's Contributions in Podcasting History Radio Survivor Podcast

Women made significant contributions to the initial development of podcasting that have been forgotten. Historian Jennifer Hyland-Wang has been resurfacing these contributions, and drawing parallels with women’s contributions to the formative years of radio. She joins us on this episode to share this history and examine the ways in which the structural biases of the podcast industry have minimized women.

Show Notes:



* She Podcasts

* Craft Lit Podcast

* “Clara, Lu and Em”

* “Clara, Lu and Em” at the Internet Archive

* Edison Research: The Infinite Dial 2018

* “Producing a Radio Housewife:Clara, Lu ‘n’ Em, Gendered Labor, a nd the Early Days of Radio“

* Society for Cinema and Media Studies

* DTFT The Podcast, by Julia Barton

* PodcastRE

* This American Life on “Vocal Fry”

* Podcast #14 includes Matthew’s report on the censoring of Mae West