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The Welfare Debate
Barbara Ehrenreich
Trash Media: The Tabloidization of the News
Barbara Ehrenreich
Once upon a time sleaze stories were associated with the likes of the National Enquirer. They would confront you while you were in line at supermarket checkout counters. Now, sexcapades, sensationalism and infotainment are pervasive. Step right up, it’s showtime! Media circuses feature such big-time acts as Amy and Joey, Nancy and Tonya and of […]
Feminism in the ’90s
Barbara Ehrenreich
Speaking before a university audience in Montreal, Barbara Ehrenreich talks about feminism in the U.S., how it is perceived abroad, and what a just and humane vision for a new feminism might look like. According to her thesis, we are now in a post-patriarchal society in which the power of men over women in the […]
Political Correctness
Barbara Ehrenreich
Political correctness and Multiculturalism are volatile and controversial issues in the United States today. We would be led to believe by the likes of Allan Bloom and Dinesh D’Souza and by Newsweek and The New Republic that western civilization, as represented by the U.S., is under attack. Its basic institutions, the colleges and universities have […]
Violence and Militarism
Barbara Ehrenreich
In this powerful and persuasive presentation, Barbara Ehrenreich connects the deep strains of violence and militarism that are embedded in our culture. Domestic violence has its counterpart in international affairs. U.S. foreign policy, Ehrenreich contends, has much in common with the LAPD. Women, people of color and the poor are the main victims of Bush’s […]
Neruda & Modern Latin American Literature
Jorge Edwards
Pablo Neruda of Chile, 1904-1973, won the Nobel Prize in 1971. Jorge Edwards, a Chilean writer, discusses Neruda’s vast literary output. Edwards, who knew Neruda, describes how his work evolved from early romantic poetry to, after the Spanish Civil War, radical and political. Edwards has great insight into Neruda and the nuances and textures of […]
Hormonal Havoc: Your Body and the Chemical Experiment
Dianne Dumanoski
The chemical revolution to improve life has been in full swing since World War II. The unforeseen result has been global contamination, which has altered the chemical make-up of life itself. Compounds that mimic hormones are disrupting reproductive and developmental processes. Male sperm counts have dropped as much as fifty percent in recent decades, while […]
Women, Welfare and Poverty
Diane Dujon
Many Americans live one pink slip or one medical diagnosis from financial ruin. Once, hitting bottom meant welfare, but now, with the gutting of Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), many face a free-fall. To shift the national debate from how to eliminate welfare to how to eliminate poverty, Diane Dujon thinks we must […]
Reclaiming Democracy
Ronnie Dugger
Democracy as theory is celebrated and triumphant. Yet democracy as practice is anemic. Citizen participation is low. Voting continues to decline. Corporations wield tremendous economic and political power. Ordinary people are relegated to the sidelines. The two political parties have some differences but Clinton and others before him have basically turned the Democrats into Republican-lite. […]
Talking Heads: Radio & TV
Susan Douglas
Talk shows on radio and TV have become a kind of electronic surrogate for the town common. But what of the content? Susan Douglas says that it’s more than just guys and right-wing blondes shouting at one another. Underneath the rhetoric are layers of misogyny, homophobia, race and class bias. The backlash against feminism has […]
Talk Radio: Letting Boys Be Boys
Susan Douglas
Male dominated talk radio is central to the backlash against the feminist movement. The gains of women in the workplace threaten the traditional right wing. Limbaugh, Stern and their imitators fill the airwaves with their defense of male privilege. They yearn for the halcyon days of old where women were wombs and busy little bees […]
Media Representations of Women
Susan Douglas
Images of women are produced in Madison Avenue advertising agencies and then refracted through the prism of media. Feel-good lines like, “You’ve come a long way baby,” and “Never underestimate the power of a woman,” mask the mixed messages which heighten feelings of inadequacy and undermine self-esteem. Young girls are particularly vulnerable and are specifically […]

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