Tag Archives: Feminism
Women’s Literary Studies, Part 3 of 3
Elaine Showalter discusses the history of American feminism and feminist theory through the study of women writers, and the status of the women’s movement in the mid-1980s. At the time of this conversation, Showalter was professor of English at Rutgers … Continue reading
Posted in Episodes, Showalter, Elaine
Tagged Feminism, Feminist Literature, Literary Criticism, Women's Liberation Movement
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Women’s Literary Studies, Part 2 of 3
Leila Ahmed, Deborah Kaplan, Patricia Meyer Spacks, and Joan Hinde Stewart discuss feminism in the realm of cultural and literary criticism. In the mid-1980s, what were some of the implications of feminism for the production and study of literature, in both … Continue reading
Posted in Ahmed, Leila, Episodes, Kaplan, Deborah, Spacks, Patricia Meyer, Stewart, Joan Hinde
Tagged Feminism, George Eliot, Jane Austen, Literary Criticism, Louisa May Alcott, Middle East -- Feminism, Virginia Woolf
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American Talk, Part 2 of 3: Language and Gender
Is American English sexist? How does the language we speak reflect, embrace, and modify our social and individual notions of the connections between gender and speech? Cheris Kramarae addresses these and other questions about language and usage. At the time of … Continue reading
Posted in Episodes, Kramarae, Cheris
Tagged English - U.S. - Usage, Feminism, Gender, Linguistics, Sociolinguistics
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(1) Feminism in America; (2) Review of “Woman and the Demon”
What is the status of feminism in America in 1984? Elizabeth Fox-Genovese discusses its origins, and its impact on women, social classes, and politics. She defines feminism, and compares and contrasts feminism to the women’s movement. The episode concludes with … Continue reading
Posted in Episodes, Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth, Spacks, Patricia Meyer
Tagged Feminism, Humanities, Politics, Women's Movement
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Women, Nature, and Society: Response to “Back to Nature”
This recording opens by replaying Werner Dannhauser’s commentary on Soundings on (“Back to Nature,” February 20, 1983, Episode #125), in which he stated his views on the women’s movement, feminism, and social values. A response to Dannhauser follows [4:40] from Leila … Continue reading
Posted in Ahmed, Leila, Dannhauser, Werner, de Grazia, Margreta, Episodes, Spacks, Patricia Meyer, Woodmansee, Martha
Tagged Feminism, Gender equality, Women's Movement
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Feminism, East and West
Leila Ahmed and Herbert Bodman discuss Western notions about women in the Middle East and the Islamic world in the 1980s. Where do these ideas originate and are the perceptions accurate? What is the status of feminism in the Middle … Continue reading
Posted in Ahmed, Leila, Bodman, Herbert, Episodes
Tagged Feminism, Middle East
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The State of the Language, Part 4 of 5
Ronald Butters, Margreta de Grazia, Connie Eble, and Michael Montgomery discuss connections between language and social issues, how linguists view those connections, and whether language is a device for racial, sexual, ethnic, or economic discrimination. Their main points of elaboration … Continue reading
Posted in Butters, Ronald R., de Grazia, Margreta, Eble, Connie, Episodes, Montgomery, Michael
Tagged English language, Feminism, Sexism
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A Dilemma of Feminism
Mary Armfield Hill discusses her biography Charlotte Perkins Gilman: The Making of a Radical Feminist, 1860-1896. Hill speaks about Gilman’s ideas about social justice, her rejection of social Darwinism, and theories about women’s liberation. Hill reflects on her work as a biographer … Continue reading
Posted in Episodes, Hill, Mary Armfield
Tagged Biography, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Feminism, Feminism in Literature
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Observations from Overseas About American Culture, Part 2 of 2
No audio file has been found for this episode. Please contact the National Humanities Center library if you know where we can acquire a copy. The speakers are Muriel Bradbrook, Ralph Elliott, and Alfred Hornung. All of the speakers were … Continue reading
Posted in Bradbrook, Muriel, Elliott, Ralph, Episodes, Hornung, Alfred
Tagged Culture, Europe, Feminism, Humanities, Religion, United States
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Education and Feminism
Anne Firor Scott discusses feminism and women’s voluntary associations in nineteenth-century America, arguing that women’s actions and lives are too complicated to fit within strict categories of feminist and anti-feminist, but should be regarded on a continuum. Scott discusses the first … Continue reading
Posted in Episodes, Scott, Anne Firor
Tagged Feminism, Women's history -- U.S.
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