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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: 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. Sister Talk: Gertrude Frasier (29:49)

Date:
1995/2000
Summary:
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.

8. Sister Talk: Helena Lewis (29:23)

Date:
1995/2000
Summary:
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.

9. Sister Talk: Janet Beizer (08:07)

Date:
1995/2000
Summary:
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.

10. Sister Talk: Karen Holt (29:30)

Date:
1995/2000
Summary:
Karen Holt, director of the Equal Opportunity Office at the University of Virginia, discusses sexual harassment and the recent Supreme Court decisions.