What happens when women’s knowledge threatens men’s power?
This episode follows the shift from witches and midwives to medical degrees and “scientific authority,” revealing how the medical establishment grew by excluding the very women who had been healing for centuries. We also trace the surprising moral panic around women on bicycles—and how these old anxieties still animate today’s gender politics.
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