PRX - Pieces for Topic: Women
Can't find it?
Try Advanced Search
Conversations about where women are (and aren't) in pop culture, from the impact of "Free to Be You and Me" to the evolution of Wonder Woman.
- Added: May 03, 2013
- Length: 51:30
This show covers a variety of topics including medicine, music, an unconventional road trip and summer camp for grownups. Program Directors: please...
Bought by WRVO
- Added: Mar 03, 2013
- Length: 01:29:40
- Purchases: 1
They and their husbands helped to form the 14th of June Movement, named for the 1959 organized uprising against the Trujillo regime.
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:55
After re-establishing her power, whenever the armies of other Indian lords attacked Jhansi, Lakshmibai was reportedly seen riding horseback into ba...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 03:11
Anthropologist Margaret Mead had a lot to do with the "sexual revolution" in the 1960's
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:36
Maggie Kuhn left no stone unturned to leave the world in a better state than she found it. No topic was off limits. In fact, she even talked about ...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:50
Lucy Parsons fought tirelessly and effectively for the rights of political prisoners, people of color, workers, the homeless and women.
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:33
Lucretia Mott advocated for world peace, racial justice, women's rights, and compassion for the poor and imprisoned.
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:32
We might imagine that the plays Hellman wrote against fascism during World War II and her fundraising for anti-Nazis imprisoned in France would hav...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:39
Six countries and countless meetings with radical women later, Ngoyi boldly returned to South Africa, expecting to be arrested -- which she, needle...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:18
After the Civil War, Haviland became a one-woman cyclone of activity, organizing refugee camps and establishing schools, volunteering as a teacher ...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:26
What got Lewis all the recognition, accolades, awards, articles, honors, and even financial rewards, were the many times she climbed in a lifeboat ...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:40
By World War I, Sha'arawi had established a women's welfare society to raise money for poor women, had helped to found a union for educated Egyptia...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:34
For nearly two years, using multiple false identities, Petit not only gathered and passed information, but assisted the underground resistance and ...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:19
Older, overworked, frustrated and unwell, Hamer's famous line "I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired" appears on her tombstone. But she mainta...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:41
Goldman was repeatedly arrested and incarcerated during her life on charges of "inciting to riot" or disseminating birth control information, consi...
- Added: Feb 28, 2013
- Length: 02:28
Scott -- called "The Tomboy of the Air" -- was part of Curtiss' exhibition team, flying upside down and plummeting to the earth in "death dives," ...
- Added: Feb 28, 2013
- Length: 02:21
Beauty pageants promote the fantasy of the ideal woman. But for 35 years, the Miss Subways contest in New York City celebrated the everyday working...
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Feb 26, 2013
- Length: 14:15
- Purchases: 1
You know the stereotype: white guy in a lab coat with crazy hair and an experiment gone awry. But the picture of science is changing. In this episo...
Bought by WAMC
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Tituba (March 1, 1692): A 17th-century slave. She is one of the first to be accused of practicing witchcraft during the Salem Witch trials in 1692.
- Added: Feb 02, 2013
- Length: 01:59
Elizabeth Veale Macarthur (March 2, 1795): Perhaps one of the greatest figures of Australia’s history. Her husband is known as “the father of Aust...
- Added: Feb 02, 2013
- Length: 01:59
Sarah Kemple Knight (March 3, 1705): Since its publication in 1825, Knight's journal, composed as an account of her round trip journey from Boston ...
- Added: Feb 02, 2013
- Length: 01:59
Wetamo and Mary Rowlandson (March 4, 1676): Mary, a Puritan minister's wife, was captured during the war in an Indian raid on Lancaster, Massachuse...
- Added: Feb 01, 2013
- Length: 01:59
Abigail Stoneman (March 5, 1770): Newport Rhode Island's first woman Inn owner and a remarkably ambitious and versatile business person for her day...
- Added: Feb 01, 2013
- Length: 01:59
Pauline Leon (March 6, 1792): She addressed the National Assembly on behalf of Parisian women, suggesting that a female militia be formed so that ...
- Added: Feb 01, 2013
- Length: 01:59
