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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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Gertrude Fraser professor of Anthropology at the University of Virginia discusses her focus on medicine as a cultural system. She shares her life course as being a compilation of migratory movements starting from Jamaica to New York City.
Grace Hale, assistant professor of history at the University of Virginia, discusses her book Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940 that focuses on white racial identity and its meaning.
Gweneth West, associate professor in the drama department at the University of Virginia, discusses the practice of Costume Design and its connection to historical and cultural contexts.
Helena Lewis is a cultural historian of 20th Century France discusses the life of Jewish Russo-French "committed" writer Elsa Triolet. Her focus has been on surrealism and intellectuals from World War II.
Janet Beizer, associate professor of French at the University of Virginia, discusses her book Ventriloquized Bodies: Narratives of Hysteria in 19th Century France and her research on cultural conceptions of gender in Paris.
John Generri, research fellow at the Carter G. Woodson Institute at the University of Virginia, discusses the history of intellectual debates and cultural politics of Jazz from the early 1950s to mid 1960s.
Karen Holt, director of the Equal Opportunity Office at the University of Virginia, discusses the program's goals and sexual harassment in the White House.
Karen Holt, director of the Equal Opportunity Office at the University of Virginia, discusses sexual harassment and the recent Supreme Court decisions.
Kate Doyle, member of the National Security Archives, discusses the series, Human Rights Guatemala: A Nation Toward Peace, that focused on human right violations from 1960-1996.
Kathy Peiss, professor of history at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, discusses her latest book "Hope in a Jar: The Making of American Beauty Culture" that focuses on the historical context of the modern beauty industry.
Kyra Gaunt discusses the McIntire Arts Board sponsorship of the University of Virginia's Jazz Fest and the upcoming concerts where women are being represented.
Leslie Nuchow, New York singer songwriter, discusses her offer from the label Phillip Morris: Women Thing Music and what led to her to anti tobacco industry activism.
Lisa Eorio, research scientist at the University of Virginia, discusses the gender wage gaps and her dissertation focused on theory of Human Capital. Her research finds that women were obtaining less wage compensation, and concentrated in lower paying industries.
Lisa Lindquist Dorr, fellow at the Carter Woodson Institute at the University of Virginia, discusses her project concerning black on white rape in Virginia from 1900 to 1960s.
Author Luise White, discusses her book that focuses on the rumors of vampirism in Central Africa as well as the general phenomenon of rumors in our culture.
Martha Craven Nussbaum discusses her book "Love's Knowledge" and her work as an expert witness on Colorado's Amendment 2 dealing with sexual orientation and state laws.
Mary Gaston's has a great sensibility towards Jane Austen's literature. She discusses the morality and romanticism of Jane Austen's novels made into films (Emma, Sense and Sensibility).
Mary Hugues discusses her position as the Landscape Architect at the University of Virginia, and what landscape architecture entails. She focuses on the importance given to large scale public design projects in the work of landscape architects.
Mary Rorty, professor of philosophy and bioethics at the University of Virginia, discusses bio-medical ethics as a movement that began in the 1960s and its recent institutionalization.
Miki Liszt, dancer and founder of the Miki Liszt Dance Company, discusses her latest modern dance performance based on the book Veils and Words as an avenue of self-exploration and the veil as an Iranian-born woman.
Phillip Troutman, research fellow at the Carter G. Woodson Institute at the University of Virginia, discusses his dissertation focusing on family and market geography in the slave migration patterns in Antebellum Virginia.
Phyllis Lefller, director of the institute of public history at the University of Virginia, discusses the project of collecting the history of 9,500 women at the University of Virginia from 1920 to 1972.
Sandi Cooper, the Chair of the University Faculty Senate and professor of European History at CUNY, discusses her talk for the Curry School of Education regarding the endangered fate of public higher education. She focuses on New York City mayor's critique on the open-enrollment of public higher education.
Stephen Margulies, curator of works on paper at the Bayly Art Museum, discusses his new exhibit "The Power of Woe, the Power of Life: Images of Women in Prints from the Renaissance to the Present" and where his inspiration came from.
Stephen Margulies, curator of works on paper at the Bayly Art Museum, discusses his inspiration for the latest exhibit: Universes in Coalition- Men and Women in 19th Century Japanese Prints.
Susan Fraiman, associate professor of English at the University of Virginia, discusses "Crashing the Party: Women in the Academy Now" and feminist literary criticism.
Susan Fraiman, associate professor of English at the University of Virginia, discusses sex in the White House with a feminist lens, the issues over oral sex, and the public's perception of Monica Lewinski.
Virginia Himes, professor of Anthropology at the University of Virginia, discusses her course on Native American women using their published life histories.
Xiaolin Li was born in mainland China and obtained her PhD from the University of Maryland focusing on women in the military; in this episode she discusses Mulan and the history of women warriors in China.