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.”
Episode 2: The Chalice and the Blade, by Riane Eisler
“…warfare and the war of the sexes are neither divinely nor biologically ordained”
Introduction
everyone, regardless of gender, can benefit from learning about patriarchy