HeyJaredIn Walks a Woman
We explore ideas from a woman's point of view. Think of us as the critical-thinking crossroads of literature, popular fiction, storytelling, history, feminism, anthropology, and pop culture.
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85. Kristin Hannah's THE WOMEN, a Nurse's Perspective, with Carmen Caffey (opens the original)
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Content Note: This episode discusses war, physical trauma and injury, PTSD, and suicide, as portrayed in the novel and in the historical record. Please take care while listening, and feel free to skip or pause as needed. IWAW Welcomes Guest Reader, Carmen Caffey RN: This episode takes a closer look at Kristin Hannah's #1 bestselling novel THE WOMEN (St. Martin's Press, 2024), the story of Frances "Frankie" McGrath, a young nurse who serves with the U.S. Army Nurse Corps during the Vietnam War an
84. Cat Bohannon on Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution (S6E8) (opens the original)
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You know the story: Eve came from Adam's rib--a variation on a theme. Science has believed some version of that for centuries, treating the female body as simply a lesser version of the male body. The belief in this story means researchers have long excluded female bodies from studies because hormones make the data "messier”--and besides, the thinking goes, bodies are bodies, regardless of gender. The result is a massive blind spot in medicine, built on the assumption that male-as-default was go
83. Eve Made in the USA: Steinbeck's East of Eden Part 2 (S6E7) (opens the original)
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In Part 2 of our analysis of John Steinbeck’s EAST OF EDEN, we look at the third and fourth parts of the novel. Adam Trask makes Cathy his Eve. Sadly for Adam, John Steinbeck openly said he made Cathy "Satan." And yet, regardless of how things started, was Steinbeck able to sustain Satanic Cathy/Kate for 600 pages? Yes…and no. If you are wondering how Netflix can build a whole series focusing on Cathy, this is the part of the book that makes it possible, and it's fascinating. Along the way, Sonj
82. Eve Made in the USA: Steinbeck's EAST OF EDEN, Part 1 (S6E6) (opens the original)
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In this 600+ page, semi-autobiographical epic by John Steinbeck, the Genesis story unfolds a little in Connecticut and a little in the Salinas Valley in California. Adam (Steinbeck's not subtle) meets a beautiful woman with a complicated but mysterious past...and he instantly makes her into the woman he wants her to be: his Eve. What could go wrong? REFERENCES: Kate Manne Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny The Kurt Vonnegut story mentioned is “Adam” from his 1968 collection Welcome to the Monkey H
81. Why Your Kids are Picky Eaters with Author Helen Zoe Veit (opens the original)
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Consider this your back-to-school episode! Time to shop for lunches and snacks, hoping we can find things that will appeal to our thoroughly picky children. We know picky eaters exist. No one denies that, but is it “natural” for kids to be picky eaters? Is there a biological cause? What if the answer is no? Join us for a fascinating episode with author Helen Zoe Veit, who spent over a decade researching the eating habits of American children. The results will astound you. And no, no one was forc
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