Allen Davis talks with Studs about his recently published biography "American Heroine: The Life and Legend of Jane Addams" A Nobel Peace Prize winner, Jane Addams was one of the founders of Hull House, a social reformer, a suffragist and pacifist. Allen Davis discusses her life. Interview begins with an excerpt of Jessie Binford talking about Jane Addams and Hull House Chicago (1863362-3-1).

Discussing women and women's rights with Dr. Marlene, Nancy Stokely, and Janet Tenney. They discuss the women's suffrage movement, gender equality, and women's roles. Includes the women's suffrage song "The New America" by Elizabeth Knight.

Discussing the topic of women and freedom with Marlene Dixon, Nancy Stokely, and Janet Tenney. They discuss feminism, women's rights, and the women's liberation movement. Includes a Elizabeth Knight/Julia Ward Howe song called "Hallelujah".

Program includes an excerpt of a 1963 interview with Mary Parparis(T2180).

Physician Anne Sidon, psychiatrist Susan Fisher, and attorney Sandra Nye discuss womens' changing roles in society and its connection with mental health problems and solutions. The group discusses domestic violence, and notes how the normalization of divorce affects the mental health of women and the parental roles between father and mother. Studs plays “She Sits on the Table” - Tom Paxton (1980).

Discussing the arrest and subsequent trial of peace demonstrators at the Great Lakes Naval Base near Waukegan, Illinois with Sister Dorothy Gartland.

Discussing the Chicago community of midwives and the book "The New Our Bodies, Ourselves: a Book By and For Women" (published by Simon & Schuster) with one of the book's authors Norma Swenson and midwife and author Ina May Gaskin.