Episode 61: Women and Power: A Manifesto, by Mary Beard
“Women in power are seen as…taking something to which they are not quite entitled.”
Episode 60: Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong, by Angela Saini
“Removing stereotype threat can improve both men’s and women’s academic achievement.”
Episode 59: Girls and Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape, by Peggy Orenstein
“…girls learn to suppress their own feelings in order to avoid conflict, to preserve the peace…”
Episode 58: Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family, by Anne-Marie Slaughter
“the single best indicator that an unmarried middle-class woman will end up bankrupt.”
Episode 57: Men Explain Things to Me, by Rebecca Solnit
“women fight wars on two fronts, one for…the putative topic…and one simply for the right to speak”
Episode 56: Bad Feminist, by Roxane Gay
“to recognize misogyny in so many forms, some great and some small, and know you’re not imagining things.”
Episode 55: feminism is for everybody, by bell hooks
“Females were as socialized to believe sexist thinking and values as males…”
Episode 50: The Gender Knot, by Allan G. Johnson
“…every man’s standing…is enhanced by the male monopoly over authority in patriarchal societies.”
Episode 49: Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women
“…equality, security, liberty and dignity of all human beings.”
Episode 48: The Sacred Hoop, by Paula Gunn Allen
“as women held unquestioned power…attempts at total conquest of the continents were bound to fail.”