History, as we know it, is a story told by and about men. Kings, conquerors, inventors, philosophers; a parade of 'Great Men.' But where are the women? The answer is not that they were absent, but that they were systematically written out. This testimony is an act of historical excavation. We are going to break open the archive to reveal not a void, but a vibrant, parallel history that has been there all along: the Matriarchive.

This episode will launch a polemical assault on the "Great Man Theory" of history. The historical autopsy will expose the mechanisms of this erasure: the denial of education and property rights, the attribution of women's work to male relatives or collaborators, and the historical discipline's traditional focus on public, political, and military spheres (coded male) over the domestic, social, and cultural spheres (c ...