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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."
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.
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.
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.
Johanna Drucker, the first Robertson Professor of the Media Studies Program at the University of Virginia, discusses how the new program will focus on history, criticisms and the deconstruction of media.
Karen Holt, director of the Equal Opportunity Office at the University of Virginia, discusses the new Diversity Initiative and how the hopes to bring change to admissions and hiring practices at the University.
Karen Holt, director of the Equal Opportunity Office at the University of Virginia, discusses sexual harassment and the recent Supreme Court decisions.
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 her experience as a person living with MS and the new grant that hopes to slow down the effects of MS in women through water aerobics fitness.
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.
Rebecca Young, 1999-2000 Bayly McIntire Graduate Student Fellow, discusses her dissertation that focuses on the relationship of non-conformist communities to art production in San Francisco in 1950's- '60s and her latest curation "African American Graphic Work of Contemporary Women Artists."
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.
A documentary film series and website about Virginia's history since the Civil War.
Episode 1– New Deal Virginia explores two significant changes in Virginia history: the creation of Shenandoah National Park and the electrification of rural Virginia. Both stories trace the effects of the federal government on the lives of everyday rural Virginians in the 1930s. Letters, maps, newspaper stories and teaching resources accompany this exploration and film (30 minutes).
Episode 3 – Massive Resistance became Virginia's policy to prevent school desegregation in the wake of the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision in 1954. Many of Virginia's white leaders resisted integration with all of their considerable political and legal means. The story of massive resistance and of black Virginians' protests against segregation began in the early 1950s and continues today. This two-part film (one hour) traces the history of massive resistance in Virginia and considers some of its legacies. "Massive Resistance" was an Emmy Nominee in 2000 of the Washington, D.C. Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and will be shown nationally on PBS in February 2002 for Black History Month.
Episode 4 – Virginia Fights World War II explores the transformative changes that Virginia experienced in World War II. Virginia mobilized hundreds of thousands of citizens during World War II and became the home base for a host of navy, army munitions, and defense industries. Virginia's soldiers fought in the Pacific and landed at Omaha Beach on D-Day. This two-part film (one hour) follows the stories of everyday Virginians, those who fought at D-Day and those who patrolled Virginia beaches, worked in the munition plants, flew missions in Europe, and fell in love during the war. This site contains the image archive for the film--over 1,600 images of Virginia or Virginians in World War II.