#26 and 27-22 The Stolen Revolution
Iranian women were at the forefront of the 1979 revolution. But after the Shah was deposed, Ayatollah Khomeini’s new regime
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#25-22 DURGA PUJA … Kolkata celebrates a fierce Goddess
Durga is a major Hindu Goddess, whose many powers include motherhood, war, and the destruction of all evil. Puja is
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#23-22 Unlearning patriarchy … War and the dream of an artificial world
In this interview, Professor Claudia von Werlhof states that capitalism is just the latest phase of an age-old patriarchal dream
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#21-22 Privatized Feminism, Commodified Love … Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Hochschild in dialogue
Just before Labour Day 2022, renowned US journalist and writer Barbara Ehrenreich died. In 2000, she was about to release
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#20-22 Apostasy is a Women’s Issue … A movement against the hegemony of religion in public life
In a recent edition of the Australian program Accent of Women, host Jiselle Hanna very cautiously takes on the topic
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#13-22 The mother of motherhood studies … Dr. Andrea O’Reilly broke an academic taboo
Around 1997, Dr. Andrea O’Reilly began writing, editing, publishing, and organizing around the study of mothering and brought it forward
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#12-22 Kenya Politics and Women … on the eve of new national elections
Zuleikha Hassan is one of the most outspoken members of Kenya’s Parliament. This episode covers several years of her political
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#11-22 The Orgasm Gap … why big pharma created Female Sexual Dysfunction
Dr. Leonore Tiefer gave the keynote address at a conference on The Medicalization of Sex, organized by the Simon Fraser
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#08-22 Leymah Gbowee on Peacemaking … women must make spaces for ourselves in all the negotiations, Nobel Laureate said
Shortly before she was announced as a Nobel Peace Laureate, Leymah Gbowee was on a book tour in the US.
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#07-22 Battered Women’s Defense … Why would she kill her husband?
Speaking to a group of attorneys in Kansas City, forensic psychologist Dr. Lenore Walker explains the development of battered women’s
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