Episodes

  • SSV Re-Vamp: A Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolf V2
    Aug 6 2020

    She Speaks Volumes S1-E1: A Room of One’s Own 

    This is a re-vamp of the original episode

    A Room of One’s Own written by Virginia Woolf, 1929 

    Originally published by Hogarth press.  This edition published by Penguin Random House

    Also available at Gutenberg:  http://gutenberg.ca/ebooks/woolfv-aroomofonesown/woolfv-aroomofonesown-00-h.html 

    Excerpts read by: Fiona Thraille

    Episode Glossary:

    The Verneys: A prominent British family that left a legacy of letters and papers detailing life until 1693. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verney_family_of_Middle_Claydon

    The Hutchinsons: I am not sure….

    Cleopatra: Queen of the Ptolemaic Region: 51–30 BC  - VW is referencing Shakespeare’s tragedy: Anthony and Cleopatra. 

    Lady MacBeth: From Shakespeare’s Macbeth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Macbeth 

    Rosalind: From Shakespeare’s As You Like It. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalind_(As_You_Like_It) 

    Clytemnestra: raped and forced into marriage by the tyrant Agamemnon, she avenged herself and the death of her eldest daughter Iphigenia by murdering him with the help of her lover Aegisthus. 

    Antigone: In Greek mythology Antigone is the daughter of Jocasta and her son Oedipus (Oedipus Rex), VW’s reference is most likely to the play and charchter in Sophocles play Antigone. 

    Phaedra: Cretan princess, half-sister of the Minotaur. Phaedra falls passionately in love with her stepson Hippolytus, but it is unrequited. Phaedra tells her husband Theseus that Hippolytus tried to rape her and Theseus calls in a favour from Posiedon who summons a bull from the sea that scares his horse and kills Hippolytus. 

    Cressida: refers most likely to Shakespeare’s Cressida, from the play Troilus and Cressida, which is based on the Boccaccio’s Il Filostrato, a telling of a Trojan legend originally by Benoît de Sainte-Maure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cressida 

    Desdemona: From Shakespeare’s play Othello: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desdemona 

    The Duchess of Malfi: A play by John Webster premiered 1614, about the Italian aristocrat Giovanna d'Aragona, Duchess of Amalfi. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanna_d%27Aragona,_Duchess_of_Amalfi 

    Millamant: from the play The Way of the World by William Congreve, a restoration comedy that premiered in 1700. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Way_of_the_World 

    Clarissa: The main character in the novel ‘

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    24 mins
  • A Room of One's Own part 2
    Aug 11 2020

    A discussion about a Room of One's Own and exploring if women have achieved equality in writing and publishing with Brooke Warner, publisher at She Writes Press and author of Write on, Sisters!

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    26 mins
  • PT 1: REVAMP: Christine de Pizan, The Book of the City of Ladies
    Sep 3 2020

    She Speaks Volumes: a primer for 500 years of feminist history, and philosophy 

    Created by: Daniella Sorrentino. Feral Culture Lab - feralculturelab.com 

    Episode 2: The Book of the City of Ladies:

    Written by Christine de Pizan - 1405 

    Excerpts read by: Leanne Woodward: https://www.leannenarrates.com 

    Two translations of The Book of the City of Ladies were used to create this episode:

    The excerpt is from the Penguin 1999 edition, translated by Rosalind Brown-Grant

    https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/352/35288/the-book-of-the-city-of-ladies/9780141907581.html

    My notes, and the blog posts were based on the translation by Earl Jeffrey Richards published by Persea Books in 1998

    https://www.perseabooks.com/the-book-of-the-city-of-ladies

    PLEASE: whenever possible support your local bricks and mortar bookstore

    Christine de Pisan: Christine de Pisan, (born 1364, Venice [Italy]—died c. 1430), prolific and versatile French poet and author whose diverse writings include numerous poems of courtly love, a biography of Charles V of France, and several works championing women.

    https://www.britannica.com/biography/Christine-de-Pisan

    The British Library has a digitized copy of The Book of the City of Ladies, illuminated by Christine de Pizan. https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/the-book-of-the-city-of-ladies 

    To support She Speaks Volumes please donate at: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/FeralCulture 

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    30 mins
  • PT 2: Christine de Pizan, The Book of the City of Ladies
    Sep 6 2020

    She Speaks Volumes:

    Created by: Daniella Sorrentino

    Marilynn Desmond is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Binghamton University. She (co-authored with Pamela Sheingorn), Myth, Montage and Visuality in Late Medieval Manuscript Culture: Christine de Pizan's Epistre Othea. 2003, and is the author of "Christine de Pizan: gender, authorship and life-writing," in The Cambridge Companion to Medieval French Literature 2008, p. 123-135. I will post a bibliography for her on my website. Show notes will be updated to reflect this. 

    Two translations of The Book of the City of Ladies were used to create this episode:

    The excerpt is from the Penguin 1999 edition, translated by Rosalind Brown-Grant

    https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/352/35288/the-book-of-the-city-of-ladies/9780141907581.html

    My notes, and the blog posts were based on the translation by Earl Jeffrey Richards published by Persea Books in 1998

    https://www.perseabooks.com/the-book-of-the-city-of-ladies

    PLEASE: whenever possible support your local bricks and mortar bookstore - 


    To comment email: hello@shespeaksvolumes.ca OR https://www.facebook.com/FeralCulturePodcasts


    Visit the website for more information on Christine de Pizan and the authors in the series.:


    www.shespeaksvolumes.ca 

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    29 mins
  • REVAMP Dialogue on the Infinity of Love, Tullia d'Aragona
    Sep 17 2020

    She Speaks Volumes is produced by feralculturelab.com

    Created by Daniella Sorrentino dsorrentino.com 

    Support the podcast at: Buy Me A Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/FeralCulture

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    Episode #3: Dialogue on the Infinity of Love by Tulia d’Aragona 

    Published by University of Chicago Press as part of The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe Series. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/series/OVIEME.html

    Edited and Translated by Rinaldina Russell, and Bruce Merry. 

    Music from Free Music Archive:

    Lady in Waiting [Instrumental] by Kathleen Martin

    Excerpts from Cosi Fan Tutte by Mozart performed by MIT Symphony Orchestra Soprano: Emily Marvosh from the Album An Opera Evening. 

    Tullia d’Aragona read by Vita Wulff: 

    Benedetto Varchi rad by Tomaso Thellung: http://www.tomasothellung.blog/

    Poet, philosopher, and Courtesan Tullia d’Aragona was born in Rome at the height of the Renaissance to Giulia Campana, herself a courtesan.  This was a golden era for the courtesan that waned over Tullia’s life as the church extended its reach and influence over Italian states one by one. 

    Read more about Tullia d’Aragona here: http://www.projectcontinua.org/tullia-d-aragona/

    The Dialogue on the Infinity of Love is one of a few surviving examples of Tullia d’Aragona’s work. The Dialogue as a literary form has a long history; the first examples date back to the third millennia BCE from the Mahabrata, and to Plato in the west. The dialogue is a literary form rendered by way of a conversation between two or more people.  Plato’s The Symposium being the most well-known dialogue and perhaps the first to address the subject of love. A subject which was which was explored in numerous dialogues in the Renaissance period. Of all the dialogues we know of from the Mahabrata  onwards, only the Dialogue on the Infinity of Love was written by a woman and explores a feminine view on the subject of love and desire.

    Listen to the other podcasts in this series: 






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    26 mins
  • Dialogue on the Nature of Love
    Sep 26 2020

    Thanks for listening!

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    The text I used for Part 1 of episode 3 is:

    Dialogue on the Infinity of Love by Tulia d'Aragona translated by Rinaldina Russel and Bruce Merry, published by The Chicago University Press as part of The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe series.

    I used music from Youtube audio library: Yonder Hill and Dale by Aaron Kenny

    Guests this episode:

    Fabian Deuchert,

    Jessica North O'Connell: Great Goddess Alive - Aboutgreatgoddessalive.com

    Terry Van Roon

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    33 mins
  • A Reluctant Nun; provocateur and feminist Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
    Oct 1 2020

    She Speaks Volumes, the primer for over 500 years of feminist history, and philosophy is produced by Feral Culture Lab - feralculturelab.com 

    Created by Daniella Sorrentino - dsorrentino.com

    Excerpts in this episode are from Poems, Protest and a Dream, published in 1997 by Penguin Random House. Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden. 

    Sor Juana is voiced by Paola Poucel

    Music: Madre la de los primores - written and composed by Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz. Performed by the L.A. Camerata, directed by Marylin Winkle 

    You can watch a YouTube video of the performance here.

    ‘ Like in much of Europe Sor Juana’s career options would have been limited to wife, whore, or nun.’ 

    In this episode we are listening to excerpts from a letter “Response to the Most Illustrious Poet Sor Fillotea’ written by Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, the 17th century Mexican poet, philosopher, playwright, composer, nun and feminist. Sor Juana was born just outside of Mexico City in 1648. A brilliant and opinionated nun, one who has powerful political allies was seen as an existential threat by the patriarchal Church.  Sor Juana is particularly aware that being a woman is no small part of the repercussions from her Athenagoric letter. Throughout her letter she asserts that the inherent misogyny within the church is hypocritical, and misguided.

    considering the total antipathy I had toward matrimony, the convent was the least disproportionate and ( most honourable decision I could makeSor Juana Ines de la Cruz - from Response to the Most Illustrious Poet Sor Fillotea

    Read more about Sor Juana

    To support She Speaks Volumes please consider donating with the Buy Me A Coffee link. All proceeds help me pay for voice actors, music, and production costs. 

    If you want to learn more about Feral Culture Lab productions, and sign up for the monthly newsletter please visit feralculturelab.com 

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    27 mins
  • More Christine de Pizan-The Book of The City of Ladies
    Oct 9 2020

    She Speaks Volumes:

    Created by: Daniella Sorrentino

    Marilynn Desmond is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Binghamton University. She (co-authored with Pamela Sheingorn), Myth, Montage and Visuality in Late Medieval Manuscript Culture: Christine de Pizan's Epistre Othea. 2003, and is the author of "Christine de Pizan: gender, authorship and life-writing," in The Cambridge Companion to Medieval French Literature 2008, p. 123-135. I will post a bibliography for her on my website. Show notes will be updated to reflect this. 

    Two translations of The Book of the City of Ladies were used to create this episode:

    The excerpt is from the Penguin 1999 edition, translated by Rosalind Brown-Grant

    https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/352/35288/the-book-of-the-city-of-ladies/9780141907581.html

    My notes, and the blog posts were based on the translation by Earl Jeffrey Richards published by Persea Books in 1998

    https://www.perseabooks.com/the-book-of-the-city-of-ladies

    PLEASE: whenever possible support your local bricks and mortar bookstore - 

    To comment email: hello@shespeaksvolumes.ca OR https://www.facebook.com/FeralCulturePodcasts

    Visit the website for more information on Christine de Pizan and the authors in the series.:

    www.shespeaksvolumes.ca 


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    27 mins