Season 1 Episode 16
Many scholars who study the evolution of humanity - sociologists, anthropologists, biologists - have come to the conclusion that we, all of us, would not have survived, let alone have evolved into th…
Published on 2 years, 8 months ago
Season 1 Episode 14
Every major religion in the world today features a male deity. Or as Miriam Robbins Dexter puts it: “Man was created in God's image and woman wasn't.”
How does it affect women of the world - that we…
Published on 2 years, 8 months ago
Season 1 Episode 13
We know that our sexuality is central and significant to our human existence. Human sexuality is a complex package of functions - biological surely, but also it allows us crucial intimate connections…
Published on 2 years, 9 months ago
Season 1 Episode 12
The battle for control of reproduction is as old as time, and since women alone have the power to create new life, women’s bodies continue to be the de facto battlefield for that power struggle.
Po…
Published on 2 years, 9 months ago
Season 1 Episode 11
We are in our 6th millennia of patriarchy, and as this episode’s guest Susan Hawthorne puts it, “the publicity program for patriarchy has been going for some 5,000 years”. As a poet, author and found…
Published on 2 years, 10 months ago
Season 1 Episode 10
If we were to devise a mechanism by which male power writ large can reach the innermost center of female power - and maim or destroy it - it would look like the internet-fueled sexual exploitation in…
Published on 2 years, 10 months ago
Season 1 Episode 9
What happens in the course of our childhood that shapes girls and boys so differently? Why do men and women end up with such vastly different psychologies and moralities? Those are questions Carol Gi…
Published on 2 years, 11 months ago
Season 1 Episode 8
Centuries before psychoanalysis was born, William Shakespeare was analyzing the root causes of male violence and giving detailed, intimate, almost microscopic second-to-second descriptions of what go…
Published on 2 years, 11 months ago
Season 1 Episode 7
We may think of military and war as strictly male pursuits - but governments and militaries all over the world spend a lot of man-hours strategizing about the different kinds of women they need to co…
Published on 3 years ago
Season 1 Episode 6
If we ask what the key instruments are, by which male power and control is maintained - family court is right at the top of the list. As an institution, family court operates in near-total secrecy, c…
Published on 3 years ago
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