Podcast Episodes

A Worldwide Gauntlet

Season 2 Episode 35

No status puts a woman at greater vulnerability than that of being a migrant or refugee.

Anna Zobnina is a Strategy and Executive Director at European Network of Migrant Women, and she knows first-h…

Published on 1 year, 7 months ago

Lures and Traps

Season 2 Episode 34

If we think of patriarchy as a living, breathing, constantly evolving strategy that finds its expression at all levels of society - socially, economically, politically - its job number one is to cont…

Published on 1 year, 8 months ago

As Above, So Below; As Below, So Above

Season 2 Episode 33

In many ways, the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves in myths, religion, and history - are blueprints for our human lives. But the converse is also true - how we see ourselves, our attitudes, …

Published on 1 year, 9 months ago

A Strange Exchange

Season 2 Episode 32

In her new book Body Shell Girl, poet and sex trade survivor Rose Hunter brings us into the strange theater that takes place between sex buyers and prostitutes when money is exchanged for various sex…

Published on 1 year, 10 months ago

Our Brutal Fathers

Season 2 Episode 31

How did patriarchy first begin? The answers to that question are many and varied, and most often tries to explain it by one single factor - Agriculture! Private property! Men are stronger!

But - the …

Published on 1 year, 10 months ago

The Mother Line

Season 1 Episode 15

We may believe that violent patriarchy is an inevitable reality, that our current world culture simply is a result of our immutable human nature. A human nature that is in a constant and brutal compe…

Published on 1 year, 11 months ago

What On Earth Is Peace?

Season 2 Episode 30

In her recent book Femicide in War and Peace, Israeli anthropologist and femicide expert Shalva Weil says that “the dividing line between femicide in wartime and peacetime is very thin.” Trigger warn…

Published on 1 year, 11 months ago

Forever In Our Feelings

Season 2 Episode 29

In trying to explain inequality between the sexes - we often arrive at the idea that women inhabit the emotional realm, and that men inhabit the thinking realm - and in the hierarchy of realms, think…

Published on 2 years ago

Unwanted Sex

Season 2 Episode 28

The sexual exploitation industries have been extremely successful in penetrating (pun intended) every layer of society - and like Gail Dines calls it - “pornifying our culture”.

But amid full decrimi…

Published on 2 years ago

Systems of Peace

Season 2 Episode 27

Since it was published in 1987, Riane Eisler’s groundbreaking international bestseller The Chalice And The Blade has launched a full frontal challenge to the conventional story of our cultural origin…

Published on 2 years, 1 month ago