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Start Over Date 1999 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: Areshi Kaufa & Kelty Garvey (26:50)

Date:
1999-04
Summary:
Student leaders discuss the history of Take Back the Night beginning in the 1970s, and the importance of protesting against general violence and reclaiming safe spaces.

4. Sister Talk: Bella de Paulo (27:54)

Date:
1999-02
Summary:
Bella De Paulo, Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia, discusses her recent research on singles in society.

5. Sister Talk: Candice DeLong (30:14)

Date:
1999-04
Summary:
Special Agent Candice DeLong, profiling coordinator at the San Francisco division of the FBI, discusses criminal profiling for investigations of violent and sex crimes.

6. Sister Talk: Derek Nystrom (28:03)

Date:
1999-12
Summary:
Derek Nystrom discusses his dissertation for the English department at the University of Virginia on men's involvement in feminism and class identity in American film in the 1970s.

7. Sister Talk: Elisabeth Ladenson (27:55)

Date:
1999-10
Summary:
Elisabeth Ladenson, professor of French and comparative literature at Columbia University, discusses her book Proust's Lesbianism that focuses on the metaphors and symbols in Marcel Proust's novels.

8. 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.

9. Sister Talk: Ellen Fuller (28:21)

Date:
1999-11
Summary:
Ellen Fuller discusses her doctoral research focusing on women working in an American corporation in Japan and how they are adapting to cultural changes as well as the different choices that are a result of this new hybrid of American and Japanese culture in the workplace.

10. 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.