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Essays On Air: The female dwarf, disability, and beauty
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For centuries, women with dwarfism were depicted in art as comic or grotesque fairytale beings. But artists are challenging these portrayals and notions of beauty and physical difference.
Essays On Air, a podcast from The Conversation, brings you the best and most beautiful writing from Australian researchers.
Today, Western Sydney University researcher Debra Keenahan is reading her essay, titled The female dwarf, disability, and beauty.
Find us and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, in Pocket Casts or wherever you get your podcasts.
Additional audio
Snow by David Szesztay
Oboe Sonata in C minor “Farewell” by Dee Yan Key
Game of Thrones quote from HBO (used under fair dealing)
Sound effects from Orange Free Sounds and Free Sound
Today’s episode was recorded by Sunanda Creagh and edited by Jerwin De Guzman.
17 episodes
Manage episode 214401704 series 1931250
For centuries, women with dwarfism were depicted in art as comic or grotesque fairytale beings. But artists are challenging these portrayals and notions of beauty and physical difference.
Essays On Air, a podcast from The Conversation, brings you the best and most beautiful writing from Australian researchers.
Today, Western Sydney University researcher Debra Keenahan is reading her essay, titled The female dwarf, disability, and beauty.
Find us and subscribe in Apple Podcasts, in Pocket Casts or wherever you get your podcasts.
Additional audio
Snow by David Szesztay
Oboe Sonata in C minor “Farewell” by Dee Yan Key
Game of Thrones quote from HBO (used under fair dealing)
Sound effects from Orange Free Sounds and Free Sound
Today’s episode was recorded by Sunanda Creagh and edited by Jerwin De Guzman.
17 episodes
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