PRX - Pieces for Topic: Women
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Our guests are Anne-Marie Slaughter, the author of "Unfinished Business" (and the infamous Atlantic article "Why Women Still Can't Have It All"), a...
- Added: Oct 14, 2015
- Length: 53:58
- Purchases: 7
What if an influential teacher set you on your life's path? What would that teacher say if she met you today?
- Added: Sep 21, 2015
- Length: 19:07
Blobs + Heartbreak is the third episode of the podcast Last Best Stories produced by Jule Banville. It features two stories: The first (9:06), "Cri...
- Added: Sep 03, 2015
- Length: 15:05
"I sat my kid down and said 'do you wanna be a girl?' And she said 'no, I am a girl'"
Bought by XRAY.fm
- Added: Aug 14, 2015
- Length: 23:30
- Purchases: 1
A story about the transformative power of loss. How one tiny life can become so large, that you begin to see it everywhere and in everything that y...
Bought by XRAY.fm
- Added: Jul 31, 2015
- Length: 20:02
- Purchases: 1
Anna Reidy is unable to forget the sound of the "war games" her family involved her in when she was a child, in this detailed report on the organiz...
- Added: Jul 29, 2015
- Length: 10:55
An intimate conversation about the death of a child. What happens after the hardest thing happens?
- Added: Jun 25, 2015
- Length: 31:27
This piece investigates the particular difficulties of struggling with addiction as a mother.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 02, 2015
- Length: 08:45
- Purchases: 1
We all know the stereotypes, but the traditional family roles have shifted. Almost half of women are now the primary breadwinners. On this episode,...
- Added: May 06, 2015
- Length: 53:59
- Purchases: 6
Israel Story's Mother's Day Special is the most unusual, unpredictable and touching tale you've heard in a while. Full hour and promo are now avai...
Bought by WYSO, WVPE, WZEN.org, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, and WNYC
- Added: Apr 24, 2015
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 5
This April, sisters of Alpha Xi Delta sorority chapters across the country are working to raise awareness for Autism. Syracuse University sorority ...
- Added: Apr 06, 2015
- Length: 04:05
Julie had never planned to be a mother. When her partner of ten years suffered a near fatal stroke and moved back home with his family, she found h...
Bought by KALW
- Added: Apr 01, 2015
- Length: 10:58
- Purchases: 1
One day at the clinic, a medical interpreter breaks protocol to cure a wound no other doctor can see.
- Added: Feb 06, 2015
- Length: 02:57
On christmas day, the propellor on a four-seater cessna died, along with the engine. Robin Holleran and her brother-in-law found themselves floatin...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 30, 2015
- Length: 11:38
- Purchases: 1
A stay-at-home dad in France is unusual. And this one blogs!
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Nov 16, 2014
- Length: 04:09
- Purchases: 1
Behind the scenes and before the downbeat… join concert pianist and host Lara Downes backstage in the Green Room for a look into the real lives of ...
- Added: Nov 04, 2014
- Length: 10:00
Photographing childbirth isn't always easy or convenient, but Emily Goodstein says it's a deeply rewarding job.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 30, 2014
- Length: 06:23
- Purchases: 2
Lia Cinquegrano confirms she does not ever want to have a baby.
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Oct 27, 2014
- Length: 05:01
- Purchases: 1
Madeleine Leung describes the moment she realized she may not want to become a mother.
- Added: Oct 27, 2014
- Length: 04:19
29 year old Kate hasn't eaten for six months. She has been hospitalised 11 times this year. She's had an eating disorder since she was a teenager. ...
- Added: Oct 27, 2014
- Length: 51:41
"I didn't really want to have children. It's just that I got pregnant."
-Shirley, 57, Nebraska
- Added: Oct 22, 2014
- Length: 06:15
"We had a final discussion early in our marriage. ... He said, 'Are you sure?' I said, 'I am, my dear.' And we've never looked back."
-Beverly, 72,...
- Added: Oct 22, 2014
- Length: 03:21
"My sense has been that most men ultimately really do want children, and I think many of longer relationships -- that's been part of the end."
-Bet...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 22, 2014
- Length: 01:53
- Purchases: 1
After Annie Cho gave birth to her son this spring, she struggled to make traditional Chinese "confinement" practices (hygiene rules + special postp...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 22, 2014
- Length: 08:54
- Purchases: 1
A narrative weaving together the voices and stories of women who, by choice or chance, do not have children and what they are doing with their love...
- Added: Oct 19, 2014
- Length: 15:41
