The United Nations Decade for Women, 1976-85, brought attention worldwide to women’s issues in politics, culture, and social development. How has the status of women in the modern world changed during the first two-thirds of the twentieth century? With regard to issues of popular as well as academic concern–such as socioeconomics and philosophy–what societal questions do women find important in the mid-1980s? In the first segment, Sara Ruddick discusses feminist philosophy and “maternal thinking.”
At [17:00], Ernestine Friedl and Kate Young address the social and political attitudes of and toward women.
At the time of this interview, Ruddick was professor of philosophy at The New School for Social Research.
Friedl, a Fellow at the National Humanities Center (1985-86), was professor of anthropology at Duke University.Young was professor at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex.
This edition of Soundings was conducted by Wayne J. Pond.
