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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
Edna the Engineer: Who Gets to be a Scientist?
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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You know the stereotype: white guy in a lab coat with crazy hair and an experiment gone awry. But the picture of science is changing. In this episo...

Bought by WJCT, Harford Community Radio, WFHB, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 18, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
March 1: Tituba
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Uppity Women in History
Caption: Tituba
Tituba (March 1, 1692): A 17th-century slave. She is one of the first to be accused of practicing witchcraft during the Salem Witch trials in 1692.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Prairie Public, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Feb 02, 2013
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 3
March 2: Elizabeth Veale Macarthur
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Uppity Women in History
Caption: Elizabeth Veale Macarthur
Elizabeth Veale Macarthur (March 2, 1795): Perhaps one of the greatest figures of Australia’s history. Her husband is known as “the father of Aust...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Prairie Public, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Feb 02, 2013
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 3
March 3: Sarah Kemple Knight
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Uppity Women in History
Caption: Sarah Kemple Knight
Sarah Kemple Knight (March 3, 1705): Since its publication in 1825, Knight's journal, composed as an account of her round trip journey from Boston ...

Bought by Prairie Public, KISU, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Feb 02, 2013
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 3
March 4: Wetamo and Mary Rowlandson
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Uppity Women in History
Caption: Mary Rowlandson
Wetamo and Mary Rowlandson (March 4, 1676): Mary, a Puritan minister's wife, was captured during the war in an Indian raid on Lancaster, Massachuse...

Bought by Radio Catskill, KISU, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Feb 01, 2013
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 3
March 5: Abigail Stoneman
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Uppity Women in History
Caption: Abigail Stoneman
Abigail Stoneman (March 5, 1770): Newport Rhode Island's first woman Inn owner and a remarkably ambitious and versatile business person for her day...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KMXT, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Feb 01, 2013
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 3
March 6: Pauline Leon
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Uppity Women in History
Caption: Pauline Leon
Pauline Leon (March 6, 1792): She addressed the National Assembly on behalf of Parisian women, suggesting that a female militia be formed so that ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Prairie Public, KMXT, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Feb 01, 2013
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 4
March 7: Marie Dorion
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Uppity Women in History
Caption: Marie Dorion
Marie Dorion (March 7, 1814): the only female member of the Astor Expedition, also known as the Wilson Price Hunt Expedition. Dorion was a member ...

Bought by KUGS Bellingham, Wash., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Prairie Public, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Feb 01, 2013
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 4
March 8: Jeanne Baret
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Uppity Women in History
Caption: Jeanne Baret
Jeanne Baret (March 8, 1769): a member of Louis Antoine de Bougainville’s expedition on the ships La Boudeuse and Etoile in 1766–1769. Baret is re...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Prairie Public, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Feb 01, 2013
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 3

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