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.”
Episodes 25-27: The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
“One is not born, but rather becomes, woman.”
Episode 24: “The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating A Caring Economics” by Riane Eisler
“policymakers always seem to find money for control and domination – for prisons, weapons, wars.”
Episode 23: “Open Letter to the Women of the World” and “Universal Declaration of Human Rights” by Eleanor Roosevelt
“We call on the governments of the world to encourage women everywhere to take a more active part”