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Speech on Women's Right to Vote
by Susan B. Anthony
Available on: Audio Download
This speech, recited before court in 1873 is one of the greatest statements ever made on behalf of women's suffrage.
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Understanding Conversations Between Women and Men
by Deborah Tannen
Available on: Audio Download
In this lecture linguistics professor and bestselling author Deborah Tannen describes many of the basic differences between in communication between men and women.
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Gay Marriage Debate
by Evan Wolfson
Available on: Online Video
Pace Law School hosts a debate on gay marriage with David Blankenhorn, author of The Future of Marriage, and Evan Wolfson, author of Why Marriage Matters: America, Equality, and Gay People's Right to Marry.
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Helen Fisher: The Science of Love, and the Future of Women
by Helen Fisher
Available on: Audio Download | Video Download | Online Video
Anthropologist Helen Fisher takes on a tricky topic -- love –- and explains its evolution, its biochemical foundations and its social importance. She closes with a warning about the potential disaster inherent in antidepressant abuse.
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Will Same-Sex Marriage Hurt America?
by Maggie Gallagher
Available on: Online Audio | Online Video
From ISI's Cicero's Podium: A Great Issues Debate Series.
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
by Mary Wollstonecraft
Available on: Audio Download
Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) is best known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman in which she argued that women are not naturally inferior to men, but only appeared to be because they lacked education.
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Gay Buddhist Fellowship Audio
Available on: Audio Download
Here is a selection of talks given at Gay Buddhist Fellowship in MP3 format. Each file is 10-15 M bytes in size.
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Muslim Women and Other Misunderstandings
by Diana Matar
Available on: Audio Download
Is there such a thing as the Muslim world?
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Isabel Allende: Tales of Passion
by Isabel Allende
Available on: Audio Download | Online Video | Video Download
Author and activist Isabel Allende discusses women, creativity, the definition of feminism -- and, of course, passion -- in this talk.
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Is Manliness A Virtue?
by Harvey C. Mansfield
Available on: Audio Download | Online Audio | Online Video
The Intercollegiate Studies Institute Lecture Program assists in sponsoring lectures each year at the college, university, and preparatory school levels.
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In Depth: Angela Davis
by Angela Davis
Available on: Online Video
Angela Y. Davis, author, activist, and professor of the history of consciousness at UC- Santa Cruz, joined us for a three-hour discussion about her life and work.
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Women of the World
by Susan Orlean
Available on: Online Audio | Online Video
Susan Orlean, author of The Orchid Thief and My Kind of Place, takes readers on an irresistible tour of the world via its subcultures...
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Toni Morrison: Lannan Readings & Conversations
by Toni Morrison
Available on: Online Audio
Toni Morrison has published seven novels.
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The Curious Costs of Gender Equality
by Allan Carlson
Available on: Audio Download | Online Audio
Allan Carlson is the president of the Howard Center for Family, Religion, and Society.
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Why So Slow? The Advancement of Women
by Virginia Valian
Available on: Online Video
Why do so few women occupy positions of power and prestige in every field?
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Planting the Seeds for Change
by Vandava Shiva
Available on: Online Video
Vandana Shiva is one of the world's most powerful voices for global environmental justice and cultural and ecological diversity.
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Reaching for the Stars
by Sally Ride
Available on: Online Video
Dr. Sally Ride, first woman in space and Professor of Physics at UC San Diego.
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Anne Waldman Class on Poetics and Female Writers
by Anne Waldman
Available on: Audio Download | Online Audio
First half of a class from Anne Waldman's month-long series on female writers, "Some Women Writers," during the summer of 1977.
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Hillary Clinton: Women and Public Leadership
by Hillary Rodham Clinton
Available on: Online Video
This speech, Women and Public Leadership, was part of the lecture series Because Politics Matters in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Eagleton Institute of Politics and the 35th anniversary of Eagleton's Center for American Women and Politics.
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No Place for a Woman
by Catherine Winter
Available on: Audio Download | Online Audio
In 1970, nearly half the women in the United States had paying jobs, but most women worked for low pay.
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Jane Fonda and Gloria Steinem
by Gloria Steinem
Available on: Audio Download | Online Video
Jane Fonda and Gloria Steinem discuss The Women's Media Center, their non-profit media organization.
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Gloria Steinem: Moving Beyond Words
by Gloria Steinem
Available on: Audio Download | Online Video
Moving Beyond Words delivered by Gloria Steinem at the Ford Hall Forum on May 12th, 1994.
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The Devil's Pool
by George Sand
Available on: Audio Download
George Sand is famous for flaunting the conventions of behavour expected of women of her standing in France at the time...
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Elizabeth Gilbert & Jen Chapin: Upstairs at the Square
by Elizabeth Gilbert
Available on: Audio Download | Online Audio
Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love, and singer Jen Chapin joined us for our first installment of Upstairs at the Square for an evening of reading, discussion, and music.
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Mother's Day for Peace: A Dramatic Reading of Julia Ward Howe's Mother's Day Proclamation
by Julia Ward Howe
Available on: Audio Download | Online Audio | Online Video
We feature a dramatic reading of Julia Ward Howe’s Mother’s Day Proclamation...
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