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THE NEW FEMINISM
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Program 07-10-28-B |
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9/11 changed the American psyche. According to some reports, Americans wanted to eat comfort food, like macaroni and cheese, get married and have babies. They wanted leaders - male leaders - who were strong, who could rescue the female victims, like Jessica Lynch. Or did they? In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge, a feminist scholar says the media painted a false picture of heroic myth after September eleventh that put feminism firmly on the back-burner. Also, the feminism of torch singing.
SEGMENT 1:
Katha Pollitt is a celebrated feminist writer and columnist for The Nation magazine. Her new book is "Learning to Drive." She tells Anne Strainchamps that feminists are prone to the same foibles as anyone else and need to recapture the empowerment fostered by the openness of the early feminist movement.
SEGMENT 2:
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Susan Faludi writes about the effects of 9/11 on society, and especially on women, in her book "The Terror Dream." She tells Jim Fleming that the old patriarchal response to crises is no longer relevant. Also, Stacy Holman Jones is the author of "Torch Singing." She loves the music, but as an avowed feminist, she tells Jim Fleming she had to dig a little deeper to find empowering messages in the lovelore songs of Billie Holiday and Edith Piaf. And we hear musical examples.
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Wangari Maathai won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004. She tells Steve Paulson how she triumphed over discrimination and tribalism in her native land and became an environmental activist, planting trees all over her country. Maathai's memoir is called "Unbowed."
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Books:
| Susan Faludi, The Terror Dream
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| Stacy Holman Jones, Torch Singing (AltaMira Press) |  |
| Wangari Maathai, Unbowed: a Memoir (Knopf) |  |
| Katha Pollitt, Learning to Drive (Random House) |  |
Websites:
Music:
- -My Man/ Billie Holliday/ The Ultimate Collection/
Hip-O-Records
- -Dirty Blonde/The Bad Plus/ Give/Sony
- -Just a Girl/ No Doubt/ The Singles 1992-2003/Interscope
Records
- -Wokyiri Me/ Theo Yaw Boakye/ African Guitar
Summit/ CBC Records
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Distribution dates: week of 10/28/2007 - hour 2 |
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