{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"","title":"Radium Girls and Rocket Dreams: Clare Winger Harris","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/6a28001ca917ce4c7065c483/f3e9f40a-a4fb-4b01-a469-aaea2204abff.jpg?height=200","description":"Clare Winger Harris became the first woman to publish science fiction in the pulp magazines when her story 'The Fate of the Poseidonia' appeared in Amazing Stories in 1927 — the same year that the Radium Girls' lawsuit against US Radium Corporation was making headlines, and women's relationship to technology and industry was being violently negotiated. Harris wrote about futures in which technology transformed domestic and social life, at a time when Hugo Gernsback's editorial gatekeeping was actively marginalizing women from the genre he was defining. This episode examines Harris as a case study in how women's voices were present from the very beginning of pulp SF, and how the genre's origin myth of male engineering heroes erased them. It connects the Radium Girls' story — women workers poisoned by the technology they were told to trust — to Harris's speculative visions of women in technological futures.","author_name":"Atween Studios"}