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Advocacy American History & Politics Feminism, Women, Women's Studies
  • Nicola Geiger talks to Studs Terkel

    Oct. 21, 1974
  • 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.

  • Laurel Snyder discusses prostitution and the COYOTE organization

    Aug. 26, 1980

    Laurel Snyder describes to Studs Terkel her journey into prostitution and her involvement in the organization COYOTE, which advocates for the rights of sex workers and the decriminalization of prostitution.

  • Jo Freeman, Mary Jean Collins-Robson, and Naomi Weisstein

    Jo Freeman, Mary Jean Collins-Robson, and Naomi Weisstein discuss women's rights and liberation ; part 1

    Mar. 25, 1970

    Jo Freeman, Mary Jean Collins-Robson, and Naomi Weisstein discuss women's rights and the struggle for equal rights and liberation, Title VII, their support for NOW, the National Organization of Women, as well as the upcoming Women's Strike for Equality.

  •  Susan Catania, Clara Day, and Margaret Klimkowski

    Illinois state representative Susan Catania, Clara Day and Marguerite Klimkowski discuss the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)

    Nov. 1, 1978

    Discussing the Equal Rights Amendment with Illinois Representative Susan Catania and political activists Clara Day and Margaret Klimkowski.

  • Gloria Steinem

    Discussing the book "Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem" with the author, feminist and women's rights activist Gloria Steinem

    Jan. 30, 1992

    Program includes an excerpt of a 1982 interview with Steinem.

  • Barbara Kingsolver discusses her book "Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983"

    Sep. 17, 1990

    Since no men were allowed to picket against the Phelps Dodge Corp., Mexican American women showed up and according to Kingsolver’s book, “Holding the Line,” the picket lines were a brand new experience for the women. Some of the women had to get their husbands’ permission to picket. The group of women found their lives transformed not only with their cause but with new bonds of friendship from the other women.

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