Episodes 39 & 40: Roe v. Wade
“any interest of the State in…an inherently hazardous procedure …has largely disappeared.”
Episode 38: Title IX
“No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded…”
Episode 37: Our Bodies, Ourselves
“women, who remain single are seen as failures regardless of how successful and fulfilled…”
Episodes 35 & 36: Sexual Politics by Kate Millett
“Civilization has always been able to substitute other methods… for those of physical strength…”
Episode 34: The Equal Rights Amendment
“When you put your hand to the plow, you can’t put it down until you get to the end of the row.”
Episode 33: “Living the Revolution” by Gloria Steinem
“…destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.”
Gloria Steinem
Episodes 31 & 32: “Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and Female” by Frances Beal
“The oppression of women acts as an escape valve for capitalism…”
Episode 30: Jane Crow and the Law: Sex Discrimination and Title VII by Pauli Murray and Mary Eastwood
“[They] deny a particular group equality of opportunity…””
Episode 29: “Keep the Damned Women Out: The Struggle for Coeducation” by Nancy Weiss Malkiel
“the range of sex discrimination that was built into the fabric of American society.”
Episode 28: The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
“The only way for a woman…to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own.”