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Start Over Date 1997 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 Paulo (31:36)

Date:
1997-08
Summary:
Bella DePaulo, professor of social psychology at the University of Virginia, discusses her research focused on the significance of day to day lies.

4. Sister Talk: Bernice Sandler (30:58)

Date:
1997-09
Summary:
Doctor Bernice Sandler, whose focus has been on the "chilly climate" of women in society discusses the gendered interactions in every day lives that lead to domestic violence.

5. Sister Talk: Carol Hurd Green (29:15)

Date:
1997-05
Summary:
Carol Hurd Greene, Associate Dean at Boston College, discusses her experience teaching British & American Studies in the Czech Republic.

6. Sister Talk: Ellen Contini Morava (26:49)

Date:
1997-01
Summary:
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.

7. 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.

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: Gene Brosok (31:26)

Date:
1995/2000
Summary:
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.

10. Sister Talk: Gertrude Fraser (26:58)

Date:
1995/2000
Summary:
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.