Episode 14: The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill
“legal subordination of one sex to another is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances…”
Episode 13: “Ain’t I a Woman?” by Sojourner Truth
“I feel safe in the midst of my enemies, for the truth is all powerful and will prevail.”
Episode 12: Speeches from The Seneca Falls Convention
“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal”
Episode 11: Letters on the Equality of the Sexes, by Sarah Grimke
“I am in search of truth; and no obstacle shall prevent my prosecuting that search.”
Episode 10: On the Equality of the Sexes, by Judith Sargent Murray
“Thus, if a man is superior to a woman because he’s bigger, then a cow is superior to a man.”
Episodes 8 & 9: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, by Mary Wollstonecraft
“Taught from infancy that beauty is woman’s sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body…”
Episode 7: Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen, by Olympe de Gouges
“Women, wake up! …Acknowledge your rights!”
Episode 6: The Creation of Feminist Consciousness, by Gerda Lerner
“the constant inventing of the wheel”
Episode 5: Mary, Mother of God: Women in Early Christianity – with guest Sophie Allebest
“in dangers, in doubts, in difficulties, think of Mary”
Episodes 3 & 4: The Creation of Patriarchy, by Gerda Lerner
“Patriarchy is a historic construct; it has a beginning; it will have an end.”