Gender Studies Audio & Video

For centuries, a hidden current has run through the world’s wisdom traditions—a dark, positive, feminine energy represented by such striking symbolic figures as the Tibetan Buddhist Tara, the Black Madonna of Catholicism, and the Hindu Kali.

This speech, recited before court in 1873 is one of the greatest statements ever made on behalf of women's suffrage.

A spellbinding report from the front line of the gender wars, "Self-Made Man" is one woman's account of her undercover year as a man.

It's time to evolve beyond the macho jerk ideal, all spine and no heart, teaches David Deida. "It is also time to evolve beyond the sensitive and caring wimp ideal, all heart and no spine."

An award-winning Northwestern University psychology professor reveals how the cultural obsession with women's appearance is an epidemic that harms women's ability to get ahead and to live happy, meaningful lives, in this powerful, eye-opening work in the vein of Naomi Wolf, Peggy Orenstein, and Sheryl Sandberg.

In 1967, after a baby boy suffered a botched circumcision, his family agreed to a radical treatment.

Sheryl Sandberg--Facebook COO, ranked eighth on Fortune's list of the 50 Most Powerful Women in Business--has become one of America's most galvanizing leaders, and an icon for millions of women juggling work and family.

Informed by 18,000 interviews and bold insight from neuroscientists Sai Gaddam and Ogi Ogas, this groundbreaking study will likely rock many people's perceptions of what stimulates males and females....

What if you went to a school where it was actually alright to be who you really are?

In this lecture linguistics professor and bestselling author Deborah Tannen describes many of the basic differences between in communication between men and women.