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Kate Clinton: I Told You So

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 body shows;

Men and Feminism: Seal Studies

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.

Sarah Waters: The Little Stranger

Sarah Waters discusses her new book, The Little Stranger, a haunted house story set in 1940s Britian.

Achy Obejas: Ruins

Achy Obejas discusses her new book Ruins, which tells the story of Usnavy, a young man who eagerly signed on for all the promises when the Cuban Revolution triumphed in 1959.

Means of Reproduction: How Women's Freedom Will Determine the World's Future

Michelle Goldberg

Michelle Goldberg exposes the global war on women's reproductive rights and its disastrous and unreported consequences for the future of global development, as described in her new work, The Means of Reproduction: How Women's Freedom Will Determine the World's Future.

Cathy Wilkerson: My Life as a Weatherman

Cathy Wilkerson

Cathy Wilkerson, an activist in the civil rights movement, Students for a Democratic Society, and the Weathermen, was one of two women to survive an explosion in the basement of her family's townhouse, which killed three Weathermen, forcing the group underground.

Black Women's Resistance in the US South and South Africa

Pamela Brooks shares from her new book Boycotts, Buses, and Passes: Black Women's Resistance in the US South and South Africa.

Media’s Mixed Messages to Women

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.