After a long day of work or child care, it's time for an on-line girls' night out, with a chat room of your own. Is this the feminization of the Web? Or just the "Ladies' Home Journal on-line? In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge, the new women's Internet culture. Also, film-maker Holly Morris celebrates "adventure divas." And Joyce Carol Oates goes "Blonde" -- with a life of Marilyn Monroe.
Kate Bornstein is the author of "Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us," and a transgendered performance artist. She performs sections of her piece "Y2 Kate" and tells Judith Strasser why she hopes our culture will be able to move beyond the traditional ideas of male and female. Also, journalist and historian Ruth Rosen talks with Judith Strasser about her history of the women's movement, called "The World Split Open." Rosen says young women take the movement's achievements for granted, and says it's been successful because it affects women from all races and classes.SEGMENT 2:
Ann Marie Dobosz, an editor at Ms. magazine, tells Judith Strasser why she's disappointed in the new "women's culture" she finds on cable TV and the Web. She says it's all the same old beauty advice. Geoffrey Darby, head of production for Oxygen Media tells Steve Paulson why he disagrees. And, Holly Morris, producer of the new PBS series "Adventure Divas," tells Jim Fleming about her series' program on Cuba; about working with her mother, who executive produces the series; and about staying in touch while traveling alone.SEGMENT 3:
Joyce Carol Oates tells Steve Paulson that it was Norma Jean Baker, not Marilyn Monroe who interested her enough to write "Blonde." She says Marilyn never got over her unhappy childhood and sought approval through her appearance and sex appeal - she had to be sewn into her dresses! Despite acting classes in New York, she never succeeded in her efforts to be taken seriously as an actress.Cassette copies are available at 1-800-747-7444. Ask for program number 00-06-04-B.
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