Episode 46: Gender Trouble, by Judith Butler
“Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.”
Episode 45: The Beauty Myth, by Naomi Wolf
“More women have more money and power and scope and legal recognition than we have ever had before; but in terms of how we feel about ourselves physically, we may actually be worse off than our unliberated grandmothers.”
Episode 44: Sister Outsider, by Audre Lorde
“Growing up, metabolizing hatred like daily bread, because I am black, because I am woman…”
Episode 43: ain’t i a woman, by bell hooks
“No history books used in public schools informed us about racial imperialism.”
Episode 42: Women, Race and Class by Angela Davis
“Black women…had to become strong, for their families and their communities…”
Episode 41: This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa
“.so often the women seem to feel no loss, no lack, no absence when women of color are not involved.”
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…”