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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
Caption: Emma Sokoloff-Rubin & friends
This is the story of a father-daughter research team who spent 10-years studying the Brazilian Women’s Movement of the 1980s.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Feb 28, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
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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
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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
Caption: Dorianne Laux
Dorianne Laux discusses the deconstruction of the alphabet as part of her creative process. "What the Body can Say," is read as the poem of the we...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2013
  • Length: 29:05
Caption: Anti-nuclear demonstration in front of Japanese Diet , Credit: Matthias Lambrecht
For International Women’s Day and the second anniversary of the Fukushima disaster listen again as three prominent female activists tell their stor...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Reina del Cid
Reina del Cid grew up in Fargo. She attended the University of Minnesota on a scholarship awarded to her by The Jackie Robinson Foundation. Despite...

Bought by WTIP and KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 25, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Ethnically Parsi, Diana grew up in the Indian state of Maharashtra, and went to boarding school there. She talks about how she and her family have ...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2013
  • Length: 03:09
Caption: Pink and Yellow Lady Slippers
Judy Sorum constructs beautiful glowing stained glass panels.

  • Added: Feb 09, 2013
  • Length: 23:11
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On January 24, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta lifted the ban on women serving in combat roles in the military. War News Radio reporter Amy DiPie...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2013
  • Length: 03:47
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Africa's economies are growing fast, and this is partly linked to entrepreneurship. Women make up a large number of African entrepreneurs, so when ...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2013
  • Length: 12:35
Caption: Women working WWII, Credit: Creative Commons
How does a woman's age affect her life at work? Hillary Clinton may be going gangbusters at 65, but can the rest of us hope for a fruitful career l...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2013
  • Length: 14:30
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Bobby speaks with Jayne Freeman, a Childbirth Educator certified through the CEA/MNY (Childbirth Education Association of Metropolitan New York). J...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2013
  • Length: 01:28:13
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Better late than never, I talk with Sara Gazarek about one of last year's best jazz vocalist recordings, her third album, Blossom and Bee. She tal...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2013
  • Length: 25:14
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Singer Jacqui Sutton talks about the long road to a new sound -- Frontier Jazz -- as well as her band and some of the songs on her new album.

  • Added: Feb 04, 2013
  • Length: 05:15
Caption: Georgiana Molloy
Georgiana Molloy (March 30, 1830): An early settler in Western Australia, who is remembered as one of the first botanical collectors in the colony...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2013
  • Length: 01:59
Caption: A proud grandmother shows of her grandson in Southern China
Pressed by paternal grandparents to have a boy, couples in China engage in creative ways of tricking the system and having a son without openly vio...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Feb 01, 2013
  • Length: 05:59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Alberta Hunter
The four blues vocalists in this hour are not well known. That certainly doesn’t mean they aren’t worthy of praise and recognition: Alberta Hunter...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 28, 2013
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
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This podcast talks about the many versions of Cinderella told around the world and the different kinds of footwear she wore to the ball. My persona...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2013
  • Length: 21:08
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This segment is about the ongoing battle of women everywhere fighting for gender equality.

  • Added: Jan 23, 2013
  • Length: 28:00
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Danielle Sosin's novel, "The Long Shining Waters," tells three stories of three women living around the shores of Lake Superior in three distinct t...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 17, 2013
  • Length: 02:58
  • Purchases: 1
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Today on Voices of Our World we speak with two women who may provide some insight into whether or not the effects of the so-called “year of the wom...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2013
  • Length: 28:00
Caption: Caroline Fraser
Originally published from 1932 to 1943, Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books are classics of children's literature, beloved by millions. Now T...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 04, 2013
  • Length: 14:51
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Fatima and Her Daughter, Rana
Fatima Alsamawi, a recent immigrant to the United States from Iraq, experiences the sweet freedom of driving for the first time.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 02, 2013
  • Length: 04:42
  • Purchases: 1
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Radio Curious brings you part one of a two-part conversation about the struggle to regulate the most powerful engine of human behavior-sexuality. W...

  • Added: Dec 31, 2012
  • Length: 29:01