
Episode 9: What Does the Right Kind of Woman Sound Like?
Shrill, strident, bossy. These are the misogynistic slurs women often face when they run for elected office. In this episode, we meet Rena Cook, a voice coach in Oklahoma whoâs training progressive, female candidates on how to subvert our inbuilt biases about womenâs voices. Plus, we look back on what the 1977 National Womenâs Conference did (and didnât) do for feminism.
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