Lectures tagged "Women's Issues"


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The ABC's of Breast Cancer Prevention
April Speed
January 13, 2010
00:43:20
Dekalb Medical breast disease specialist and surgeon April Speed focuses on how to be a good steward of breast health and make diet or lifestyle changes that will minimize the risk of developing breast cancer.
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.
Lauren Grodstein: Friend of the Family
Lauren Grodstein
December 8, 2009
00:32:47
Lauren Grodstein reads from her new novel, A Friend of the Family, which tackles the precarious balance of family expectations and the widely-felt consequences that can result when those expectations are interrupted.
Diary From Great Brewster Island: Girls Night Out in the 1890s
Stephanie Schorow
November 19, 2009
00:36:50
Author Stephanie Schorow explores the lives of four remarkable women who, on a hot July day in 1891, set off for 10 days of "roughing it" on Great Brewster Island and kept a diary of their summer adventure on their "enchanted isle." Now in the collection of the Schlesinger Library at Harvard Univers
Sarah Hrdy: Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding
Sarah Hrdy: Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
November 18, 2009
01:15:14
Anthropologist and primate sociobiologist Sarah Blaffer Hrdy discusses her newest book, Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding, in which she emphasizes the need to consider our Pleistocene ancestors' peculiar mode of child-rearing.
Arguing Affirmative Action / What’s the Purpose?
Arguing Affirmative Action / What’s the Purpose?
Michael Sandel
November 8, 2009
00:55:00
Lecture Seventeen: "Arguing Affirmative Action" Students discuss the issue of affirmative action and college admissions. Is it "just" for schools to consider race and ethnicity as a factor in admissions? Does it violate individual rights?
Murder in the Name of Honor
Murder in the Name of Honor
Rana Husseini
November 6, 2009
00:39:10
Journalist, feminist, and human rights defender Rana Husseini discusses her new book Murder in the Name of Honor: The True Story of One Woman's Heroic Fight Against an Unbelievable Crime.
Mary Karr: Lit, a Memoir
Mary Karr: Lit, a Memoir
Mary Karr
November 6, 2009
00:44:49
Poet and memoirist Mary Karr discusses her most recent memoir, Lit.