# Elaine Tyler

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Life Underground: Fallout Shelters in Minnesota

We'd love to hear your thoughts about Minnesota Unraveled! Please fill out our survey ⁠here⁠. Dotted throughout the Twin Cities are fallout shelter signs. Chances are you’ve seen one of these black and yellow signs attached to a very sturdy building. Have you wondered: What purpose did they serv…

Season 4 - Episode 1: "Why am I the one who’s responsible for birth control?"

Season 4 - Episode 1: "Why am I the one who’s responsible for birth control?"   For transcripts visit our website, www.reallyweirdquestion.com For links to legal support, medical support / mutual aid, and mental health support, please visit the “Resources” page on our website, www.reallyweirdque…

100 Years of 100 Things: Birth Control

As our centennial series continues, Elaine Tyler May, professor emerita of American Studies and History at the University of Minnesota and the author of several books, including America And The Pill: A History of Promise, Peril, and Liberation (Basic Books, 2010) and Fortress America: How We Embrac…

The Other Gangs of New York

For the first-ever installment of Musical May, Ross and Ryan dig into 1961's "West Side Story"! They look at how the film depicts social anxieties around juvenile delinquency, reflects the Puerto Rican experiences of the Great Migration, and discuss some of the structural components of adapting a m…

EP 50 - What It Takes To Be a Great Recruiter and Founder w/Elaine Tyler

What happens when you build a fast-growing recruitment business, raise millions in investment… and realise you’ve completely lost yourself in the process?In this episode, I’m joined by Elaine Tyler — founder of Venatrix, a specialist SaaS sales recruitment firm, and a fearless voice for female foun…

Gender Is a Scam, Part II – Science, Panic, and Policing the Binary

Welcome back to Bitchy History, where we cheerfully dismantle the greatest hits of misogyny—and this week, we’re putting science itself on the stand. In Part I, we met the philosophers and theologians who invented “woman” as a cosmic afterthought. Now, in Part II, we enter the age of lab coats, sk…

The Violent Years, Pt. 1

Welcome to the first installment of a (3 part?) mini-series on my ongoing genre study project! In this episode, you'll hear about the origins of the teen movie- including the industrial and economic conditions that helped create them, the exploitation approach to film making, and much more! Also, …

Why Sales Leaders Keep Making Bad Hires (And How to Stop)

Most sales leaders hire on gut feel. Gut feel only predicts top performers 20% of the time — and the cost of a mis-hire goes far beyond a wasted salary. It drains coaching energy, damages team morale, and locks leaders into developing the wrong person instead of their best people. 📥 Download the Mo…

Meet the Cold War-Era Housewife, Complete with Pearls and Aprons - Invented: The Myth of the American Housewife - Episode 1

Invented: The Myth of the American Housewife - Episode 1 Meet the Cold War-Era Housewife, Complete with Pearls and Aprons With men back from World War II, working women are thrust back into the home – and become a potent new symbol of the American way of life. With so much surprising (and compl…