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Bitchy History

ProfessorMeredith

Part history lesson, part feminist rant. Bitchy History is what happens when a cultural historian finally snaps. Each episode unravels the myths America tells about itself, exposes the gender politics underneath, and traces the lineage of our modern disasters straight back to their historical roots. It’s educational, cathartic, and probably banned in Florida. www.bitchyhistory.com

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37:37

You Know You Love Me: A Conversation with Lindsay...

Bitchy History ·

2026/04/06

Gossip Girl was never just a teen soap about rich kids in absurd headbands making terrible decisions on the Upper East Side. It was also a glittery little blueprint for influencer culture, public shaming, digital surveillance, aspirational wealth, and the deeply American habit of packaging cruelty as glamour.In this episode of Bitchy History, I’m joined by Lindsay Denninger to talk about her book You Know You Love Me: How Gossip Girl Changed Pop Culture as We Know It, why female-centered pop culture

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23:50

Seneca Falls and the Limits of “Universal” Womanhood

Bitchy History ·

2026/04/05

We love to treat the Seneca Falls Convention as the moment feminism began.A group of women gathered, declared that “all men and women are created equal,” and kicked off the fight for the vote. Simple. Inspiring. Done.Except… not quite.In this episode, we take a closer look at what actually happened in 1848—and what didn’t get included in that story. Because while the Declaration of Sentiments used universal language, the reality of the movement was much more specific.We’ll break down:* how abolition

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32:43

Before Seneca Falls: Black Women Were Already Political

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2026/03/22

The women’s rights movement didn’t begin in 1848.Long before the Seneca Falls Convention, Black women were already speaking publicly about freedom, citizenship, labor, and political power in a nation that denied them all four. In this episode, we move beyond the tidy origin story and look at the women who came first—Maria W. Stewart, Sojourner Truth, and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper—and how their work reshapes what we think we know about the fight for women’s rights.Because the question was never

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50:49

Miss Mitchell’s Comet

Bitchy History ·

2026/03/08

Maria Mitchell discovered a comet, but she also calculated data for the U.S. Coast Survey, built one of the first rigorous observatory programs for women in the United States, supported abolition, worked alongside suffragists, and challenged institutional pay inequality. In this episode, Professor Meredith steps back and lets her sister lead a conversation about a woman who refused to be professionally contained. We talk about celestial navigation, the science of comets, Quaker radicalism, and why

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34:23

The Vibe That Binds: Divine Feminine and the Politics...

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2026/03/01

For the final episode of Arc III: Pretty Cages, we’re ending where containment gets subtle.No laws.No contracts.No sermons about obedience.Just vibes.In recent years, the language of the “divine feminine” has exploded across social media and wellness culture. Women are encouraged to soften, surrender, receive, flow, and “drop into their feminine energy.” We’re told that masculine and feminine energies are natural polarities. That men and women are wired differently. That harmony depends on

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32:05

Good Girls Don’t: The Cage of Reputation

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2026/02/22

This isn’t the story you were told about girlhood in the 1950s.It’s the story about the girls who disappeared.In postwar America, Britain, and Ireland, “good girl” culture wasn’t just a moral vibe. It was infrastructure. If you got pregnant, you vanished. If you reported harm, you risked social death. If you disrupted the script, institutions activated.Between 1945 and 1973, more than 1.5 million American women surrendered babies for adoption. In England and Wales, approximately 185,000 children

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31:08

Happily Ever After (Terms and Conditions Apply)

Bitchy History ·

2026/02/15

Marriage is sold to women as safety.Not just emotional safety. Structural safety. Safety from poverty. Safety from suspicion. Safety from being treated like a free-floating problem in a world that prefers women attached to something male and respectable.But historically? Marriage wasn’t just romance.It was paperwork.In this episode of Bitchy History, we break down the legal architecture underneath “happily ever after” and ask a simple question:If marriage is voluntary… why has leaving it been so

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52:55

Bianca's Cure and Dr. Gigi Berardi

Bitchy History ·

2026/02/10

This week on the podcast, I’m joined by Dr. Gigi Berardi — professor, journalist, and now historical novelist — to talk about her forthcoming book Bianca’s Cure, a Renaissance-set novel about women’s knowledge, early science, and what happens when a woman refuses to stay in the role history assigns her.The conversation fits perfectly with the arc we recently wrapped up on the podcast, which has focused on how women across history are punished for stepping out of line. Why Bianca Capello?Berardi’s

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60:56

How to Be a Woman (Victorian Edition)

Bitchy History ·

2026/02/08

The Victorian “Angel in the House” was supposed to be gentle, pure, domestic, and self-sacrificing. She was praised endlessly for her virtue, placed on a pedestal, and told she was the moral center of the family and the nation.She was also legally erased by marriage, economically dependent, sexually policed, medically controlled, and blamed for everyone else’s bad behavior.In this episode of Bitchy History, we rip the lace off the Cult of Domesticity and examine how it functioned as a full-blown

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35:30

From Knights to Nice Guys: The Afterlife of Chivalry

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2026/02/01

People love to say “chivalry is dead.”In this episode, we pull apart what “chivalry” actually is—and why it keeps coming back every time gender roles get uncomfortable. Because chivalry was never just about manners. It was a system. A story that turned hierarchy into romance, control into care, and women’s safety into something conditional.We start in the present, where “chivalry is dead” gets used to complain about modern dating, workplace dynamics, and public etiquette. Then we go back to the

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42:09

Matilda Joslyn Gage and the Politics of Being...

Bitchy History ·

2026/01/25

Matilda Joslyn Gage should be one of the most recognizable names in the history of American women’s rights. Instead, she’s often treated like an optional footnote.In this arc finale, we take Gage seriously on her own terms: not just as a suffrage leader, but as a political thinker and historian who refused to make women’s freedom small or respectable. Gage didn’t want the vote as a polite reform. She wanted structural change — especially an end to the church–state logic that had justified women’s

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28:44

No One Is Coming to Save Us: The Combahee River...

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2026/01/18

When pundits complain that “identity politics is ruining everything,” they’re accidentally name-dropping a group of Black lesbian feminists in 1970s Boston.This episode tells the history behind the buzzword: the Combahee River Collective. We follow their journey from the National Black Feminist Organization to forming their own Boston-based collective; their work on welfare, housing, reproductive injustice, and racist violence; the murders of Black women in Boston that pushed them to write; and the

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39:48

Heresy, Sedition, and Other Names for Women Talking

Bitchy History ·

2026/01/04

In this episode, I start with a guy in my YouTube comments insisting I “teach feminism, not history” and then take him on a little field trip to 17th-century Boston. Quaker women like Margaret Fell and Mary Dyer weren’t marching under a “feminist” banner, but they were doing something genuinely explosive for their time: preaching, publishing, and claiming spiritual authority in public while female. We’ll look at the theology that made that possible, the Puritan panic that tried to shut it down, and

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36:24

Cookies, Community, and Conspiracy Theories: The...

Bitchy History ·

2025/12/07

Every few years, the Girl Scouts accidentally start a culture war.You’d think an organization best known for cookies and camping would be safely boring. Instead, they keep ending up at the center of national freakouts: heavy metal lawsuits over Thin Mints, boycotts over “woke” cookies, outrage over letting trans girls join, hand-wringing because some troops show up at marches or dare to talk about things like civil rights and bodily autonomy.On paper, it looks absurd. In practice, it tells us a lot

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31:21

A Brief History of Setting Women on Fire

Bitchy History ·

2025/11/30

Buy Me A CoffeeThis episode is about witch hunts, but not the Halloween kind. We’re talking about how early modern Europe went from relying on women healers and midwives for everything to torturing and killing them as witches, and how that panic helped clear the way for male-dominated, professional medicine.I walk through how climate crisis, war, plague, and sky-high infant mortality created a pressure cooker where someone had to be blamed, and the woman who literally had her hands on the body, your

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18:35

Joan of Arc: The Original Girlboss (Who Got Burned...

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2025/11/23

Joan of Arc has been everything to everyone: saint, witch, nationalist mascot, feminist icon, medieval teenager who simply refused to stay in her lane. In this episode, we cut through six centuries of myth to get to the girl in the armor — the one who heard divine voices, out-strategized grown men, terrified theologians, and paid for it with her life.We look at how a France in crisis accidentally created its most enduring symbol, how Joan’s gender-bending authority sparked a medieval moral panic,

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22:29

The Real First Thanksgiving

Bitchy History ·

2025/11/18

Thanksgiving is right around the corner for my American listeners, so let’s revisit an early episode of Bitchy History today, because it’s seasonal. Remember that Thanksgiving is a propaganda holiday and the Puritans sucked. But while it may be a sham, as Buffy reminds us, it’s a sham with yams. Get full access to Bitchy History at www.bitchyhistory.com/subscribe

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22:38

Women and the Black Plague: Death, Dowries, and Doing...

Bitchy History ·

2025/11/17

The Black Death (1347–1351) killed ~40% of Europe and blew a hole in the labor market. Women stepped in, running farms, shops, and guild work; inheriting property; training apprentices; and powering textiles, silk, and brewing. Then, as populations recovered, elites used laws, guild charters, inheritance rules, and moral panics to shove women back to the margins. Crisis granted responsibility; recovery revoked rights.Sources & further reading* Judith M. Bennett, Ale, Beer, and Brewsters in England.*

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23:35

Exporting the Binary: How the Empire Made “Man” and...

Bitchy History ·

2025/11/10

Episode SummaryEmpires didn’t just conquer continents—they colonized identity. This episode unpacks how European colonialism exported a rigid gender binary across the globe, dismantling Indigenous systems of gender and sexuality while dressing patriarchy up as “civilization.” From the witch trials of Europe to the British census in India, from Two-Spirit resistance to modern decolonial feminism, this is the long and brutal story of how gender became empire’s favorite export.Sources and Reading

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23:03

Gender Is a Scam, Part II – Science, Panic, and...

Bitchy History ·

2025/11/02

Welcome back to Bitchy History, where we cheerfully dismantle the greatest hits of misogyny—and this week, we’re putting science itself on the stand.In Part I, we met the philosophers and theologians who invented “woman” as a cosmic afterthought. Now, in Part II, we enter the age of lab coats, skull calipers, and nervous diagnoses—the glorious 19th and 20th centuries, when “objective” men in frock coats declared that female ambition caused infertility, reading led to madness, and housework was the

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