Lectures tagged "feminism"

The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson
Jerome Charyn
March 9, 2010
00:36:08
Novelist and Finalist for the 2005 PEN/Faulkner Award Jerome Charyn reads from his new novel, The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson.
Danielle Ofri on Foreign Immigrants and US Health Care
Danielle Ofri
February 3, 2010
Writer and practicing internist Danielle Ofri discusses her newest book, Medicine in Translation: Journeys with My Patients. For 15 years, Dr. Danielle Ofri has cared for patients at Bellevue, the oldest public hospital in the country and a crossroads for the world's cultures.
Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough: All Things at Once
Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough: All Things at Once
Mika Brzezinski
January 8, 2010
00:57:30
Mika Brzezinski, journalist and co-host of MSNBC's Morning Joe, talks about her new book All Things at Once, with fellow journalist and former congressman Joe Scarborough.
Civil War Wives
Carol Berkin
October 12, 2009
00:46:21
Carol Berkin, Presidential Professor at Baruch College in New York, discusses her revelatory new book, Civil War Wives. It focuses on the life and times of three wives -- Julia Dent Grant,wife Of U.S.
Kate Clinton: I Told You So
Kate Clinton
May 27, 2009
01:03:47
Comedian Kate Clinton shares from her third book, I Told You So, which spans refreshingly disparate topics: sexual hypocrisy and gay marriage; 9/11 and its aftermath; girls gone wild and boys gone to war; Hillary Clinton and US politics; baptism and waterboarding; intelligent design and bod
Men and Feminism: Seal Studies
Shira Tarrant
May 26, 2009
00:47:43
Shira Tarrant, an expert in gender politics, feminism, pop culture, and masculinity, addresses the question of why men should care about feminism in the first place.
Jane Hirshfield Reads "For What Binds Us"
Jane Hirshfield
April 1, 2009
00:02:17
American poet Jane Hirshfield reads her poem, "For What Binds Us".
Media’s Mixed Messages to Women
Caryl Rivers
March 29, 2009
01:21:05
Caryl Rivers and Rosalind Barnett discuss current research on women and work, which finds that the mass media proliferates messaging that is in extreme conflict with the reality of women's lives.