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Educators Feminism, Women, Women's Studies
  • Shirley Bryant, Nancy Fisher, and Nicole Mills

    Shirley Bryant, Nancy Fisher, and Nicole Mills discuss sex education

    Mar. 7, 1974

    Shirley Bryant, Nancy Fisher, and Nicole Mills discuss how a new sex education based in the importance of feelings and the use of contraception.

  • Lenore Griesing, Carol Kleiman, and Joan Smutny discuss women suffrage and the event they organized, "Woman Power Through Education"

    Mar. 1, 1969

    Studs interview with Lenore Griesing, Carol Kleiman, and Joan Smutny, organizers of "Woman Power through Education" at the National College of Education. Studs played a part of a recorded interview he had with Sybil Thorndike, a pacifist. The recording was about women's right to vote and political involvement. He also played part of a song that was played at Susan B. Anthony's birthday party but no title was given. The interview covered motherhood, education for women, family life, choices, and liberation.

  • June Terpstra and two women, Ann and Donna, discuss battered women

    Oct. 28, 1983

    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.

  • June Sochen discusses her book "Movers and Shakers"

    Dec. 17, 1973

    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.

  • Juliet Mitchell discusses women, family, and oppression

    Apr. 25, 1971

    An interview with teacher and lecturer, Juliet Mitchell, who is a Marxist. She shares her support for the women's movement and talks about issues that affect women especially gender inequality. Juliet also refers to some comparisons between British and American women's movement.

  • Joan Mellen in conversation with Studs Terkel

    Sep. 9, 1974
  • Interviewing State Representative Susan Catania and Professor June Sochen

    Jan. 31, 1989
  • Interviewing labor and women's rights activist, and educator June Rostan

    Jul. 1, 1992

    Program includes an excerpt of a 1978 interview with songwriter and labor rights activist Florence Reece.

  • Ann Firor Scott talks with Studs Terkel

    Dec. 3, 1970
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