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Start Over Format Sound Recording Date 1998 Unit Women, Gender, and Sexuality Program

1. Sister Talk: Anne Firor Scott (26:38)

Date:
1995/2000
Summary:
Anne Firor Scott, Professor at Duke University, writer, activist and pioneer in the history of women, discusses her work and the importance of the African-American women activists and their part in the expansion of the "Black Middle Class."

3. Sister Talk: Bella de Paul (27:56)

Date:
1998-02
Summary:
Bella DePaulo, professor of social psychology, has focused on the field of study of day to day lies. In this episode she discusses Bill Clinton scandal and lying.

4. Sister Talk: David Sadker (31:38)

Date:
1998-12
Summary:
David Sadker author of Failing at Fairness: How American Schools Cheat Girls and Phyllis Learner discuss the history of gender equity in schools

5. Sister Talk: Dorothy Wong (23:28)

Date:
1998-08
Summary:
Dorothy Wong discusses the Buddhist cultural heritage of Japan, and her work in the field as an art historian.

6. Sister Talk: Ellen Contini Morava (31:25)

Date:
1995/2000
Summary:
Ellen Contini Morava, program chair of linguistics and professor of anthropology at the University of Virginia, discusses the different feminist moral stands on the Clinton White House's controversy.

7. Sister Talk: Ellen Phipps (25:22)

Date:
1998-09
Summary:
Ellen Phipps is a Certified Therapeutic Recreation Specialist and the Director of the Adult Day Care at Jefferson Area Board for Aging (JABA) in Charlottesville discusses how caring for an elderly adult is a women's issue in regards to assistance as well as care giving.

8. Sister Talk: Erin Davis (30:03)

Date:
1995/2000
Summary:
Erin Davis discusses her dissertation focusing on the lives of people living in a different a gender from the one assigned to them at birth, and further explains the newer term of transsexuality.

9. Sister Talk: Eugene Foster (29:00)

Date:
1998-11
Summary:
Doctor Eugene A. Foster discusses his role as the organizer of the chromosomal research on Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings to determine the paternity of her children.

10. Sister Talk: Franny Nudelman (28:46)

Date:
1998-07
Summary:
Franny Nudelman, professor at the department of English at the University of Virginia, discusses her book John Brown's Body focusing on masculinity and the representation of martyrdom during the Civil War.