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Ms. Anthony, the grand-niece of Susan B. Anthony, comments on the women's liberation movement, her personal political life and her view of Christian life.
Born in Hamburg, Nicola Geiger, recalls her upbringing and her life under Nazi Germany. She lost two children in World War II. Later in life, she worked in both Japan and Korea. Geiger knew that she alone could not change the world but that she worked tirelessly to get other people to work on peace, too.
Interviewing Equal Rights Amendment activists, Marianne Bell and Shirley Wallace, who were fasting as a political statement, and Illinois state representative and outspoken advocate of ERA, Susan Cantania.
Madalyn Murray discusses her family history, feminism, and theology and how her experiences with those subjects have shaped her worldview.
Lady Dhanvanti Rama Rao discusses economic inequality, poverty, and the growing population in India. She discusses the need for family planning to combat these issues. Studs plays “A Morning Raga” - Ravi Shankar.
Lady Dhanvanti Rama Rao discusses economic inequality, poverty, and the growing population in India. She discusses the need for family planning to combat these issues. Studs plays “A Morning Raga” - Ravi Shankar.
Discussing battered women with the director of the Evanston Shelter for Battered Women, June Terpstra. Two women, Ann and Donna, talk about their experiences of abuse with their husbands.
Northeastern Illinois University professor June Sochen discusses her book "Movers and shakers;: American women thinkers and activists, 1900-1970". Sochen and Studs cover a wide range of female activists and radicals who fundamentally reshaped American society via their efforts in the labor movement and union organizing, the arts and culture, and research.
Ms. Binford talks with Studs about Jane Addams life and her dedication to social service with the women and children of Chicago. Ms.Binford discusses the creation of Hull House and the associated buildings and how deeply in need they were of the help.
Ms. Binford talks with Studs about Jane Addams' life and her dedication to social service with the women and children of Chicago. Ms.Binford discusses the creation of Hull House and the associated buildings and how deeply in need they were of the help.
Studs interviews Jessie Binford at her home at the Tall Corn Hotel in Marshalltown, Iowa. Ms. Binford reflects on growing up in Marshalltown and going to Hull House Chicago where she met Jane Addams. Ms. Binford talks to Studs about politics and the changes in technology. Includes an excerpt of a previous interview with Florence Scala.(1915178-3-1) Also, excerpts from 1963 interview with Ms. Binford(1851518-3-1, 3-2)
Terkel interviews activist and children's author Dagmar Wilson. She discusses how she goes from a children's author to an activist for anti-nuclear testing.
Even after Jessie Binford left Hull House due to its demolition, she corresponded with Florence Scala through hand-written letters. Scala learned that Binford was a country girl who lived in the big city of Chicago. Scala reads some of her letters from Binford. There is also an excerpt of Jessie Binford.
Elizabeth Janeway discusses her book "Man's World, Woman's Place" and the gender role women are taught since birth; reads passage from book; includes interview at 16:01 with a woman speaking against the Women's Movement during an outdoor protest.
Child labor laws, the eight hour work day, pensions, school reform, and low income housing are only some of the issues taken up by The League of Women Voters, as explained by Edna Pardo, Eleanor Revell and Beth Kink. Many believed theirs was solely a service organization to gain more women voters. The League of Women Voters is a good training ground for future women politicians, too.