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Katherine Thorton, recruited by NASA, discusses her experiences as a woman astronaut. She was part of four different space missions, and obtained a PhD in physics from the University of Virginia.
Ellen Contina Morava, program chair of Linguistics at the University of Virginia, discusses the origin, stigmas, and the importance of considering Ebonics as a valid form of communication.
Dr. Margaret Mohrman, discusses the difference between herself and the male doctors in the ICU, and the importance of ethics in medicine in order to better serve the patients.
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."
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.
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.
Gene Brosok, music critic and program host of Listening of Women and Men for WOMR, discusses the exclusionary practices in the hiring of women and racial minorities in the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.
Gertrude Fraser, professor of Anthropology at the University of Virginia, discusses the Holsinger Studio Collection - a collection of local Charlottesville studio portraits, including a significant collection of portraits of African-Americans - on exhibit at the Carter Woodson Institute.