Madison BookBeat

Stu Levitan, Andrew Thomas, Sara Batkie, David Ahrens, Lisa Malawski

Madison BookBeat highlights local Wisconsin authors and authors coming to Madison for book events. It airs every Monday afternoon at 1pm on WORT FM.

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Madison BookBeat

Episodes (86)

Monday Tara Mulder on what ancient birth stories can teach us
Jun 30th Dennis McNally, "The Last Great Dream: How Bohemians Became Hippies and Created the Sixties."
Jun 8th Poet Lisa Fishman on the potential of space on a page

Madison BookBeat

Jul 13, 2026
53¾ minutes
42 MB

On this episode of Madison BookBeat, host Sara Batkie is joined by UW classics professor and author Tara Mulder to discuss her new book, A Womb of One's Own, now available from University of California Press. In the well-trod history of the Roman Empire, a pivotal moment has long gone unnoticed: It was in ancient Rome that medical men first set their sights on childbirth, the traditional domain of female midwives. Taking us to the dawn of Western obstetrics, A Womb of One's Own offers a feminist account of how, against a long tradition of midwifery, male doctors began claiming...

Madison BookBeat

Tara Mulder on what ancient birth stories can teach us

Stu Levitan, Andrew Thomas, Sara Batkie, David Ahrens, Lisa Malawski

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