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Pregnant women in America’s prisons are being shackled to their beds; others are being sterilized. Correctional institutions claim the policies are...
- Added: Mar 13, 2013
- Length: 29:00
It's women's history month, and despite hundreds of years of working hard for equality, women still get paid less and make less over the course of ...
Bought by KUPR low power FM and WOUB
- Added: Mar 13, 2013
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 2
Anthropologist Margaret Mead had a lot to do with the "sexual revolution" in the 1960's
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:36
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
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
Goldman was repeatedly arrested and incarcerated during her life on charges of "inciting to riot" or disseminating birth control information, consi...
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- Added: Feb 28, 2013
- Length: 02:28
- Purchases: 1
SB371 imposing increased sanctions on health clinics that provide abortion services passed this Indiana State Senate yesterday. Despite the nationa...
- Added: Feb 28, 2013
- Length: 10:14
One amazing woman, Anila Ali, is transforming the stereotypes of Muslims in America through her work as a teacher, journalist, author, and activist...
- Added: Feb 26, 2013
- Length: 08:04
From: Jennifer Dunn
Series: China's One Child Policy: Stories of Struggles with its Unintended Consequences
Series: China's One Child Policy: Stories of Struggles with its Unintended Consequences
Since the implementation of the one child policy in China 3 decades ago, a severe gender imbalance has emerged. This imbalance is evidence of famil...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUER, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 01, 2013
- Length: 07:01
- Purchases: 4
In her new book, Professor Beth E. Richie addresses the issue of marginalized communities throughout America, and the unique risk they harbor for B...
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- Added: Jan 28, 2013
- Length: 28:56
- Purchases: 1
The Violence Against Women Act, first signed into law in 1994, has generally been a non-contentious issue, with members of all political parties su...
- Added: Jan 25, 2013
- Length: 08:50
Excerpts from the anonymous blog "What to Expect When You Are Aborting."
- Added: Dec 29, 2012
- Length: 07:51
(Short commentary under 2 minutes)
When the votes are counted, the election night parties are over and the mud-slinging stops, voters (according to...
- Added: Nov 15, 2012
- Length: 04:59
Lynn Sweet, Washington Bureau Chief for the Chicago Sun Times talks with series host Martha Burk on what it's like to cover the presidential campai...
- Added: Nov 14, 2012
- Length: 28:30
Contraception as a right of privacy? The Supreme Court say, ‘Yes’!
Bought by KZYX, Spokane Public Radio, and WGBH Radio Boston
- Added: Nov 06, 2012
- Length: 53:29
- Purchases: 3
Highly frustrated at this bold resistance right under their noses, the Nazi Powers-That-Be identified and arrested Sophie, her brother and one othe...
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 03:08
- Purchases: 1
Smith-Robinson was voted the SNCC's Executive Secretary (its chief administrator) and, as such, was a focused and militant Black Power proponent.
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:38
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
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
Stone proceeded to live the life of a lecturer on abolition and women's rights.
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:54
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
