Women Warriors: From Boudicca to Ukrainian Snipers

Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society

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Society, Sex, Scandal, Education, History

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

From Boudicca to Ukrainian snipers, battlefields have always contained a surprising number of women.

Today Kate is joined Betwixt the Sheets by Sarah Percy to get to the bottom of why women were allowed to be astronauts a full thirty years before they were allowed to fight in combat.

From women who disguised themselves as men in order to be allowed to fight, to the Soviet all-female regiments who Nazi Germany learnt to fear, they'll be discussing fearless women warriors on the frontline.

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0:00.0	Everyone leaves a legacy.
0:02.2	But a legacy can change over time as new generations
0:05.6	re-examine old preputations.
0:07.6	From Wundery and Gohanger podcasts, I'm F4hersh.
0:11.0	I'm Peter Frankapan, and in a brand new series,
0:14.0	we're exploring the lives of some of the biggest characters in history,
0:17.4	from Napoleon to Picasso.
0:19.2	And asking, what does their past tell us about our present?
0:23.4	This is legacy.
0:24.7	Follow now wherever you get your podcasts.
0:30.0	Hello, my lovely betwixters.
0:34.4	It's me, Kate Lister.
0:35.8	I am here to save you from yourselves.
0:39.5	Quite frankly, definitely save you from me,
0:41.7	save you from this podcast, save you from anything that would even vaguely
0:46.6	upset or offend you, because you are so special to me.
0:50.5	I wouldn't want you to be upset for a second,
0:53.6	which is why I am here, to let you know that this is an adult podcast,
0:58.4	spoken by adults to other adults in an adulty way.
1:00.5	And you should be an adult too.
1:03.5	There's definitely going to be some swearing.
1:05.1	There's discussions around warfare and bombs and fighting it.
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