In Your Face Women
Series produced by KSLU
Rebecca Hensley
Profiles of strong women we never hear about... but should!
This is the audio accompaniment of a book project about women we never hear about: women who climbed mountains, scalped their kidnappers, and held off the Roman troops longer than anyone else ever!
Rebecca Hensley is "tired of living in a world where the slang term for being weak is a slang term for a woman's genitals. I'm not asking for respect anymore. I'm giving it. To myself."
Through this series, Hensley profiles "the women whose stories made me sit up at my computer in the middle of the night and cackle gleefully, 'Well, go ahead on, Louise (or Conchita or Tegla or Ng Miu)!' and I’m presenting them here for your entertainment."
55 Pieces
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Her anthology entitled Sisterhood is Powerful, called one of the 100 most influential books of the 20th Century by the New York Library, covered su...
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:25
She's the one who told a bunch of Pentagon leaders -- when she was on the House Armed Services Committee -- that if they were women, they'd be preg...
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:23
Led by Raskova, three groups of women warriors (most of them about twenty-years-old or so) racked up a total record of 30,000 combat missions dropp...
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:43
When she was found guilty of treason and "political activism" (which wouldn't even have been considered a crime for a man), she was sentenced to die.
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:45
Sanger opened the first family planning and birth control clinic in the United States, where she began distributing, among other things, diaphragms...
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 03:00
Till used the broken body of her only child to give an entire nation a much needed object lesson.
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:30
Stone proceeded to live the life of a lecturer on abolition and women's rights.
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:54
"I have been crowned Queen of the Desert...I have nothing to fear...I am the sun, the stars, the pearl, the lion, the light from heaven.”
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:27
While birthing and raising five children, Pankhurst turned her home into a center where abolitionists, anarchists, activists and revolutionaries of...
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 03:00
Sirleaf has made education free and compulsory for all children in Liberia. She was responsible for the establishment of a Truth and Reconciliation...
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:41
Stanton eventually claimed that the 14th and 15th Amendments, in fact -- because of the way they were worded -- gave women the right to vote
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:51
In 1954, Tamana helped to organize the first Conference of the Federation of South African Women and she was elected to the organization's national...
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:48
Instructed in a "vision" to save men from a drunkard's fate by smashing the bottles waiting behind the bars of Kansas taverns, Nation went forth in...
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:47
Phoebe Ann Moses so fascinated a sharpshooting Irish immigrant named Frank Butler by beating him out of a hundred dollar bet that he married her an...
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:28
Annie Edson Taylor was the first to go over Niagra Falls in a barrel.
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:57
Nzingha formed an alliance with the Dutch and spent the rest of her days leading troops into battle against them.
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:36
Maathai worked to establish what came to be called the Green Belt Movement to combat desertification, deforestation, water crisis, and rural hunger...
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:58
In 2011, when Tawakkol Karman became the youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize ever.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:48
Shirley Muldowney was the first person to win two and then three National Hot Rod Association Top Fuel dragster championships.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:19
in 1790 the Yankees fully intended to turn this "New World" into their own nation. The Native Americans, on the other hand, indigenous to the conti...
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:36
