#46-19 Matilda Joslyn Gage, Renegade Suffragist
Historian Sally Roesch Wagner discusses her favourite US suffragist, Matilda Joslyn Gage. Gage modeled her feminism on the practices of
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#44-19 NGOs Lobby UN Commission on the Status of Women
In 2019, the UN Commission on the Status of Women took up the issue of Social Protection. The day before
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#43-19 Fasia – Afro-German survivor sang for peace
Her mother was German, her father a Liberian diplomat. When the Nazis came to power, young Fasia Jansen was sent
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#42-19 Winnie Mandela at Million Woman March
On October 25, 1997, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela addressed the first Million Woman March, held in Philadelphia. After an introduction summarizing the
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#40-19 Child Sex Work in Kenya … Girls below age of consent trade sex to feed their families
At Gasi Bay, Kenya, poverty exacerbated by drought is leaving foreign fishermen and local motorcycle transport drivers as the richest
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#39-19 Beyond the Sex Wars … Can a rift in the women’s movement be healed?
Speaking in a plenary at the US National Women’s Studies Association, Chapkis explores the ideological gulf between pro-prostitution and abolitionist
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#37-19 How 2nd Wave Broke … Sheila Tobias on Faces of Feminism
Sheila Tobias gives highlights from her book Faces of Feminism: An Activist’s Reflections on the Women’s Movement. She recalls a
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#36-19 Spiritual Politics of Marta Benavides … Grassroots organizing vs oligarchy in El Salvador
Marta Benavides’s parents were an indigenous healer and a bureaucrat. She grew up Catholic, was recruited to the Baptists, and
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#35-19 Starhawk … A Voice Along the Path
From the WINGS archives, in a recording from a book release of her novel Walking to Mercury and her handbook
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#34-19 Cameroon Major National Dialogue … Where were the women?
From Sept 30- Oct 4, 2019, the government of Cameroon held a Major National Dialogue to discuss ending conflict and
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