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Babies on Demand: Reproduction in a Technological Age
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
Caption: In vitro fertilization (IVF) in progress. , Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
At the beginning of the 19th century women in the United States had an average of seven or eight children. By 1900 they had only three or four, and...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2014
  • Length: 40:27
Radio Retrospective: The First Woman of Sound Effects
From: Katy Sewall
Series: Radio Retrospective
Caption: Ora Nichols (left) and the CBS Sound Effects Team, Credit: Wikipedia
Ora Nichols lead the sound effects team that brought "War of the Worlds" to life on the radio. That doesn't mean she got along with Orson Wells. Me...

Bought by WMMT, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and Troy Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 01, 2014
  • Length: 04:41
  • Purchases: 3
Leroy Moton Remembers Viola Luizzo Murder as Civil Rights Turning Point
From: Sara Karl
Caption: Leroy Moton in 1965, Credit: Encyclopedia of Alabama
Connecticut man remembers a murder that changed course of the civil rights movement.

  • Added: Nov 13, 2014
  • Length: 04:16
The Witches' Hammer
From: Hold That Thought
Caption: Agnes Sampson and witches with devi, Credit: Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
How magic and law shaped the witch trials of early modern Europe

  • Added: Oct 28, 2014
  • Length: 29:33
Glass Armonica
From: Ben Harden
Caption: Carolinn Skyler player the largest Armonica in the world
Carolinn Skyler plays a very peculiar musical instrument. In fact, there’s a good chance you’ve never heard of it. But the sound of it might me fam...

Bought by PRX Remix, Radio Newark, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Aug 25, 2014
  • Length: 04:43
  • Purchases: 4
Maria, Lena and Me
From: Karla Murthy
Caption: Maria Yudina
Maria Yudina was one of the most fearless and provocative Russian musicians of her time. She challenged not only the traditional rules of classical...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 20, 2014
  • Length: 22:48
  • Purchases: 3
A Woman's Shortcut
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
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Join Gloria Steinem, Jane Wyatt, Snow White, Lucille Ball, Rex Harrison, Diana Ross & the Supremes,George Burns & Gracie Allen, James Brown and a c...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2014
  • Length: 58:12
Two Women for Peace: Peace Pilgrim and Sister Peggy O'Neill [Peace Talks Radio] (29:00)
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
Caption: Peace Pilgrim & Peggy O'Neill
Two women, two elders, who deep into the later years of life, made peace their goal – one, Catholic Sister Peggy O’Neill landed in war-ravaged El S...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI and KUNM


  • Added: Mar 07, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 2
Two Women for Peace: Peace Pilgrim and Sister Peggy O'Neill [Peace Talks Radio] (59:00 / 54:00)
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
Caption: Peace Pilgrim / Peggy O'Neill
Two women, two elders, who deep into the later years of life, made peace their goal – one, Catholic Sister Peggy O’Neill landed in war-ravaged El S...

Bought by KUHF, High Plains Public Radio, KUOW, KUOW, KUOW and more


  • Added: Mar 06, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
The Mirabal Sisters
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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They and their husbands helped to form the 14th of June Movement, named for the 1959 organized uprising against the Trujillo regime.

  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 02:55
Rani Lakshmibai
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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After re-establishing her power, whenever the armies of other Indian lords attacked Jhansi, Lakshmibai was reportedly seen riding horseback into ba...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 03:11
Margaret Mead
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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Anthropologist Margaret Mead had a lot to do with the "sexual revolution" in the 1960's

  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 02:36
Maggie Kuhn
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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Maggie Kuhn left no stone unturned to leave the world in a better state than she found it. No topic was off limits. In fact, she even talked about ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 02:50
  • Purchases: 2
Lucy Parsons
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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Lucy Parsons fought tirelessly and effectively for the rights of political prisoners, people of color, workers, the homeless and women.

  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 02:33
Lucretia Mott
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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Lucretia Mott advocated for world peace, racial justice, women's rights, and compassion for the poor and imprisoned.

  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 02:32
Lillian Hellman
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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We might imagine that the plays Hellman wrote against fascism during World War II and her fundraising for anti-Nazis imprisoned in France would hav...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 02:39
Lilian Ngoyi
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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Six countries and countless meetings with radical women later, Ngoyi boldly returned to South Africa, expecting to be arrested -- which she, needle...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 02:18
Laura Smith Haviland
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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After the Civil War, Haviland became a one-woman cyclone of activity, organizing refugee camps and establishing schools, volunteering as a teacher ...

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 02:26
  • Purchases: 1
Ida Lewis
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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What got Lewis all the recognition, accolades, awards, articles, honors, and even financial rewards, were the many times she climbed in a lifeboat ...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 02:40
  • Purchases: 1
Huda Sha'arawi
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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By World War I, Sha'arawi had established a women's welfare society to raise money for poor women, had helped to found a union for educated Egyptia...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 02:34
Gabrielle Petit
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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For nearly two years, using multiple false identities, Petit not only gathered and passed information, but assisted the underground resistance and ...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 02:19
Fannie Lou Hamer
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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Older, overworked, frustrated and unwell, Hamer's famous line "I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired" appears on her tombstone. But she mainta...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 02:41
  • Purchases: 1
Emma Goldman
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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Goldman was repeatedly arrested and incarcerated during her life on charges of "inciting to riot" or disseminating birth control information, consi...

Bought by Radio Catskill


  • Added: Feb 28, 2013
  • Length: 02:28
  • Purchases: 1
Blanche Stuart Scott
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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Scott -- called "The Tomboy of the Air" -- was part of Curtiss' exhibition team, flying upside down and plummeting to the earth in "death dives," ...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2013
  • Length: 02:21
Miss Subways
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Audio History Project
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Beauty pageants promote the fantasy of the ideal woman. But for 35 years, the Miss Subways contest in New York City celebrated the everyday working...

Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 26, 2013
  • Length: 08:26
  • Purchases: 2