Go-Getters: Ann Bannon

Womanica

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History, Society & Culture, Education

4.3 • 920 Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Ann Bannon (1932 - present) is a lesbian pulp fiction author. The height of her success was in the late 50s and early 60s with her paperback books like Odd Girl Out, which gave a voice to closeted queer women around the country.

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This month we're talking about Go-Getters. Women who purposefully—or accidentally!—acquired life-changing wealth, good fortune, or influence.

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0:00.0	Once upon a time, Amazon Music met audiobooks and listeners everywhere rejoiced.
0:05.8	Oh yeah.
0:06.6	Because now they could listen to one audiobook title a month from an enormous library of popular audiobook titles, including romanticity,
0:15.3	autobiographies, true crime, and more.
0:19.3	Suddenly listeners didn't mind sitting in traffic or even missing their flight.
0:23.4	Amazon Music Unlimited now includes Audible.
0:25.8	No way.
0:26.4	Download the Amazon Music app now to start listening.
0:29.2	Terms apply.
0:30.2	Before there was internet fraud and phone scams.
0:33.5	There were always swindlers.
0:35.5	Female swindlers too.
0:37.4	Discover the stories of women from the past who not only survived, but frived as con-artists and thieves.
0:46.7	How did they use their feminine characteristics to swindle in a world where men made the rules?
0:56.8	Join me, Lucy Worsley, historian and author,
1:02.6	and my all-female team in ladies swindlers, wherever you get your podcasts.
1:11.7	Hello, from Wonder Media Network, I'm Jenny Kaplan, and this is Womanica.
1:18.3	This month we're talking about go-getters, women who purposefully, or in some cases accidentally,
1:25.4	acquired life-changing wealth, good fortune, or influence. A 1950s housewife sits on her couch reading a book.
1:33.3	It's a book she hides from her husband and children. In the stillness of her house, she turns the pages and feels something she's never felt before.
1:42.3	The book is about queer love, and it's the first time she's seen feelings like hers,
1:46.8	the one she's tried to ignore, openly acknowledged.
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