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Caption: Underwood & Underwood, Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
R. Marie Griffith discusses the how debates from the 1920s over birth control relate to religious and political controversies today.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 15, 2014
  • Length: 12:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Latin Waves host Sylvia Richardson speaks with Suzanne Kyra about healthy relationships. The importance of balance in our personal and professional...

  • Added: Sep 23, 2014
  • Length: 29:32
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Radio Curious discusses the erosion of gender equality in China with Leta Hong Fincher, the author of “Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Ine...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2014
  • Length: 58:02
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Writer Helen Thorpe provides a detailed account of what happened to the three women who served in the military during the last decade.

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Aug 05, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Kenna Fisher
On this episode of Strangers, Kenna, formerly known as Ken, came out 5 years ago. This is her story.

Bought by Public Radio for All, HowSound, and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Jul 15, 2014
  • Length: :00
  • Purchases: 3
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For the holiday weekend, we look back in history at Sara Payson Willis, a novelist, journalist, and feminist who wrote under the pseudonym "Fanny F...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: Jul 09, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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On the occasion of International Press Freedom Day, World Footprints was invited by the United Nations Foundation to attend a powerful event sought...

  • Added: May 21, 2014
  • Length: 01:00:06
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Radio Curious visits with Penny Rosenwasser, author of “Hope into Practice: Jewish Women Choosing Justice Despite Our Fears,” a book that explores ...

  • Added: May 07, 2014
  • Length: 29:01
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Owner of Wide Awake by Design, Heather Robertson talks to host Giovanna Rossi about helping women entrepreneurs achieve their personal and professi...

  • Added: Apr 24, 2014
  • Length: 22:42
Caption: Sharon Wirtz, left, talks to Marquell Hicks, right, in front of a panel from the NM AIDS Memorial Quilt, Credit: Katy Gross
N’MPower participant, Marquell Hicks, interviews quilt artists Sharon Wirtz and Jane Gabaldon, in a community engagement project between the Museum...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 10:00
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We begin the celebration of Women's History Month with a tribute to Maxine Kumin, who died on February 6, 2014 at the age of 88. A former Consultan...

Bought by KRZA, KVSC, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, and KQED


  • Added: Mar 07, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Radio Curious revisits a 2003 conversation with Alexandra Fuller, author of “Don’t Let’s Go To The Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood,” a memoir ab...

  • Added: Oct 07, 2013
  • Length: 29:01
Caption: Carla Kaplan
White upper-class women seeking to become honorary blacks. Unheard of –right? That’s what began to happen during what became known as the Black Ren...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 02, 2013
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Sara Farizan
A new novel by Sara Fraizan explores the issues of gender orientation. But, what sets this work apart from its predecessors is that it’s written fo...

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  • Added: Aug 20, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
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Women’s bodies serve as our children’s “first environments,” which is why food quality and safety are so important for pregnant and lactating women...

  • Added: Jun 21, 2013
  • Length: 28:00
Caption: Catherine Mich
Fifty years ago, on September 29, 1963, Pope John XXIII opened the second working section of The Second Vatican Council and asserted its agenda to ...

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  • Added: Jun 18, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Marinda Wu
Marinda Wu chose her particular graduate program because she wanted to work for a famous professor. But when she arrived, she was told the professo...

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: May 20, 2013
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Rumbidzai Dube, Daria "DJ" Hudson, Ingrid Cruz, Leehee Rothschild, Credit: Andrew Stelzer
What does it mean to be an ally in a political movement? From white Americans in the civil rights era, to Israelis in Palestine, to Latino-American...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: May 16, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Jean Houston
Author and philosopher Jean Houston offers a guidepost into the world of Dorothy and L Frank Baum in which she delves into the deeper messages held...

  • Added: May 01, 2013
  • Length: 27:55
Caption: Dr. Sara Gottfried
Despite what women are constantly told by their doctors and society – that weight gain, sleeplessness, diminished sex drive, hair loss and wrinkles...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 10, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Apr 06, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
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For our sixtieth (but far from the last) episode, we speak with Leslye Obiora, PhD, a person committed to community and women’s equality. Law profe...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2013
  • Length: 28:02
Caption: Woman in Handcuffs, Credit: Thisisbossi
Pregnant women in America’s prisons are being shackled to their beds; others are being sterilized. Correctional institutions claim the policies are...

  • Added: Mar 13, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Jamaica Kincaid
Jamaica Kincaid talks about the influence of her birthplace, the Caribbean island of Antigua, on her use of language and story telling, even though...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: Mar 13, 2013
  • Length: :00
  • Purchases: 1
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Mitch Skinner goes to San Diego Comic-Con and talks to men who write well-rounded female characters.

  • Added: Mar 05, 2013
  • Length: 05:04