In the third episode - Morality, Medicine and Eroticism, host Disha Ray is in conversation with Dr. Shalini Shah discussing the themes of gender, sexuality, medicine and eroticism in Sanskrit literature from Ancient and Early Medieval India.

Dr. Shalini Shah is a Professor at the Department of History at the University of Delhi. She is the author of Love, Eroticism, and Female Sexuality in Classical Sanskrit Literature: Seventh-thirteenth Centuries, and Making of Womanhood: Gender Relations in the Mahabharata.

In the first episode of the Vagina Varsity Podcast, host Disha Ray is joined by Professor Mytheli Sreenivas, who is an Associate Professor of History and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the Ohio State University. Her work centers on the history of modern South Asia, with a focus on women’s and gender history, the history of sexuality and the family, colonialism and nationalism, and the cultural and political economy of reproduction. She is the author of Wives, Widows, and Concubines: The Conjugal Family Ideal in Colonial India where she explored several questions about the emotional life of families—whom to marry, whom to love, whom to care for—shaped, and were shaped by, shifting economic, political, and social relations during the last decades of colonial rule. In her latest book,  Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India, she writes about biological reproduction and how it became central to reproducing India as a modern nation-state and shows that reproduction was first called into public question in response to colonial-era crises, and was central to feminist, nationalist, and modernizing projects from the late nineteenth century.

In the first episode of the Vagina Varsity Podcast, host Disha Ray is joined by Helen King, who is Professor Emerita of Classical Studies and has taught at Liverpool, Reading, and the Open University. She has worked extensively on ancient ideas about creation, the role of women, and sacrifice to illuminate Hippocratic gynecology. Hysterical Wombs and Geeky Greeks unravels ideas about menstruation in ancient Greece, the alleged origins of the word 'hysteria', and the shapes and uses of some intriguing womb votives from antiquity. Discussion topics in this episode also include the ancient figure of Hippocrates, the story of the first midwife (or female physician) Agnodice, the fictitious tale of Cleopatra and her buzz-ing vibrator, and much more!