WOMEN WHO
WENT BEFORE

Join podcast hosts Emily Chesley and Rebekah Haigh on a gynocentric quest into the ancient world

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  • “The hosts interview fascinating, brilliant scholars on each topic, and the hosts are fascinating, brilliant scholars in their own right.”

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Hosted by Emily Chesley and Rebekah Haigh

Emily Chesley and Rebekah Haigh 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.

Header Image Credit

“Female Figure.” Clay figurine from Predynastic period Egypt. Ca. 3500–3400 BCE. The Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, accession number 07.447.505. Used under a Creative Commons-BY license. Adapted and animated by Paul Vermeesch, 2024.