Cat Bohannon on the female body

The Great Women Artists

Katy Hessel

Arts

4.8 • 877 Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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I am so excited to say that my guest on the GWA Podcast is the author, poet, scholar, and scientific researcher Cat Bohannon. Now, while this episode is not going to be centred totally on art, it is going to be looking closely at women’s bodies – and what might have contributed to the lack of knowledge about women in wider history. Because Cat Bohannon is renowned for her acclaimed book “Eve” that revolutionises our understanding of the female human body, and how a focus on male subjects in science has left women “under-studied and under-cared for”. Spanning from the Jurassic period to the present day, Eve hones in on the impact of what females’ exclusion from scientific research has done for our bodies (and world). Through chapters headed under womb, foot, brain, or milk, it recasts the traditional story of evolutionary biology, by placing women at the centre. Because, as she argues, it’s not just a case of sexism – that we don’t know enough about the female body – it’s because the data actually isn’t there. For example, general anaesthetics weren’t tested on women until 1999. I’m interested in getting to the root of these issues, as well as speaking about how art might correspond to this. Because as well as being a holder of a PhD from Columbia University in the evolution of narrative and cognition, Bohannon has published widely, including essays and poems for Science Magazine and the Georgia Review. And I can’t wait to find out more. -- Cat's book: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/446844/eve-by-bohannon-cat/9781529156171 https://www.waterstones.com/book/eve/cat-bohannon/9781529151237 -- THIS EPISODE IS GENEROUSLY SUPPORTED BY THE LEVETT COLLECTION: https://www.famm.com/en/ https://www.instagram.com/famm_mougins // https://www.merrellpublishers.com/9781858947037 Follow us: Katy Hessel: @thegreatwomenartists / @katy.hessel Sound editing by Nada Smiljanic Music by Ben Wetherfield

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome back to the Great Women Artist's podcast. It's great to have you here
0:05.9	and do we have an exciting episode for you? But just before we get to this, I am so excited to say
0:11.4	that this series is supported by the Levitt Collection, a vast and varied art collection of which
0:17.2	a major portion is dedicated to work by women artists.
0:21.5	Christian Levitt's support for women in the arts is such that after publishing the major book,
0:26.2	Abstract Expressionists, The Women in 2003, he has now opened the first private museum in Europe
0:33.7	dedicated entirely to female artists in Mujan, Nican in the south of France.
0:40.6	FAM, which stands for female artists of the Mujan Museum, unveils to the public over 100 works
0:47.6	created by more than 80 female artists from around the world.
0:51.6	The museum exhibits a breathtaking array of artworks from the Leveck
0:55.8	collection, including paintings, sculptures and photographs by top women artists who have marked
1:01.4	the major artistic movements from the 19th century to the present day. Tickets are on sale
1:06.7	at www.fam.com and in the meantime, stay tuned by following at FAMM underscore Mujan. I hope you enjoy
1:16.0	this episode.
1:21.7	Hello everyone and welcome to The Great Woman Artist's podcast with me, Katie Hessel. Some of you might know me from The Great Women Artists with me, Katie Hessel.
1:33.0	Some of you might know me from The Great Women Artists, an Instagram account I set up in October 2015,
1:38.8	which celebrates female artists on a daily basis, ranging from young graduates to old masters.
1:44.8	Well, in a similar fashion to the Instagram, this podcast is all about celebrating female artists from a variety of backgrounds and histories. And I am so excited to be interviewing
1:50.2	artists on their career or artists, writers, curators or general art lovers on the women
1:55.4	artist who means most of them. What I want this podcast to do is celebrate female artists in all different capacities
2:02.2	so you, the listener, can gain a look into the greatest female artists working now or from art
2:07.9	history. I am so excited to say that my guest on the Great Woman Artist's podcast is the
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