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.”
Episode 47: WomanSpirit Rising, edited by Carol Christ and Judith Plaskow
“If God is male, then the male is god.”
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…”