Podcasts about women's liberation

There isn't a week that I don't hear the phrase ‘work-life balance'. In this episode I look at what it means, how it has changed over the years and what we can do to try to get it right.What is work-life balance?: https://www.forbes.com/sites/maurathomas/2022/07/26/what-does-work-life-balance-even-mean/Severance: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11280740/Womens Liberation and WLB: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4079063/#:The Great Resignation: https://hbr.org/2022/03/the-great-resignation-didnt-start-with-the-pandemicFreelancing pros and cons: https://medium.com/@mrmunifali/the-5-pros-and-cons-of-freelance-work-15e1dbb375c6 Why Google perks may not be what good working life is about: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/18/google-amazon-microsoft-perks-dont-matter-this-is-what-keeps-talented-people-from-quitting.htmlWork is good for us: https://www.bmj.com/content/353/bmj.i2191Boiling frogs: https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/lessons-from-a-burnt-out-psychologist/202406/the-boiling-frog-syndrome-a-metaphor-for-burnout Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

**UNLOCK FULL EPISODE ON PATREON** https://www.patreon.com/BareBactrian We're HORNY for the Holidays round here! Follow Sibley and Basil on Twitter: https://twitter.com/NeoBactrian https://twitter.com/sibl3ywbrn Check out Sibley's Substack, Love, Sex, and Payment Plans: https://sexloveandpaymentplans.substack.com/ This week, Basil is joined by smut-peddler and whore-appreciator Sibley Webern to discuss one of the oldest pasttimes around: Whoring. Put aside any notion you had that little ole Basil is a Prude™, today in the Tora Bora Barebactrian Goon Cave, we're getting HORNY! Sibley tells us about his non-fiction personal narrative writing, Human Trafficking™ as a money/power grab for NGOs and the state, and treating whores like whores and Women™ like Women™. We demystify the NGO anti-sex work Reformed Whores and Johns and the sexlecticts from the workplace to the strip club. We Discuss (times correspond to full episode): 9:30 - Sibley basil-fanboying calm from understanding Raceplay™ 15:30- White chicks: playing the fuck game on hard mode 18:30 - White Privilege doesn't mean honey booboo they mean sydney sweeny; "karen is a slur" 23:56 - white people are the most oppressed people in the world 26:20 - Leftist reformed whore-enjoyers 28:32 - feminist anti-sexwork leftist whores trying to have their onlyfans cake and eat it too 31:00 - women opening up their traps  32:20 -  Men prostrating themselves women to signal Normalcy pussy voodoo 34:17 - Paywall payment plan  36:02 - The Sexlecticts™ of being the Reformed Whore Buyer™ or the Based Tr--y™ 37:39 - Tumblr Feminist for Pussy 39:22 - Living in my vindication era for 2024 39:55 - The appeal of sweaty man ass/Sibley's Conversion Therapy Session 41:04 - Is Basil a Top or a Bottom (he's VOLCEL!) and his Coming Out™ story 42:54 - Will basil marry a woman or have a confirmed-bachelor perpetual roommate? 47:40 - Basil on allowing himself to talk about sex and culture  48:38 - a pornified society through the gaze of the overweight mulatto and her homosexual BFF vs. through the gaze of normal men 53:36 - Why are you, a BAPist, not a findom? 55:12 - Prostitution as a source for Blackmail and the Human Trafficking™ NGO psy-op 58:03 - The Myth of Starvation Sex Work™  01:01:26 - Men and Women both view sex as transactional - and feminists *hate* this fact 01:01:58 -  Nothing makes people recoil more than being confronted with an ungrappled-with truth 01:02:53 - The Connection between Whoring and Womens Liberation™ 01:04:59 - Women's™ idea of Consent™ 01:06:22 - Radfem rant/Ashley St. Claire  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/barebactrian/support

Back in 1970, a group of women from the Womens Liberation movement stormed the stage of the Miss World Competition in front of an audience of millions on Television.  When film maker Rebecca Frayn heard this story and found out that the evidence of the court case that put the patriarchy in the dock had been destroyed she spent a decade un-earthing the story to create a film with Keira Knightly as lead alongside Gugu Mbatha Raw that told the story in 2020. Before that she created a feature film of the story of Nobel Peace prize laureate, Aung San Suu Kyi and her exile in Burma under house arrest, missing the death of her husband and giving up the right to see her children or play a part ion their lives to serve her country. Rebecca began her career almost forty years ago and has also focussed on the stories of controversial but legendary German film director and photographer Leni Riefenstahl and  unravels the true extent of her involvement with the Nazi party, A profile of the celebrated American photographer Annie Leibovitz, plus successful screen-writer  and director, Nora Ephron who was trained by her mother from an early age to cannabalise her life for material. In todays episode, you will hear how Rebecca learned to speak up and get over her fear of public speaking and who inspired her to create and cover the stories of women globally. This is our first LIVE episode recorded at WOM Radio cafe  for WOM-AN,  a night of women storytellers, spoken word artists and poetic performances at the end of my very first Womens voice activation Retreat. We will unleash some of that LIVE material next week, but photos are on instagram: @theresetrebel. 

Dorothy Pitman Hughes (1938-present) is a community organizer and child welfare advocate, who was a leader of the Women's Movement in the 1970s.History classes can get a bad rap, and sometimes for good reason. When we were students, we couldn't help wondering... where were all the ladies at? Why were so many incredible stories missing from the typical curriculum? Enter, Womanica. On this Wonder Media Network podcast we explore the lives of inspiring women in history you may not know about, but definitely should.Every weekday, listeners explore the trials, tragedies, and triumphs of groundbreaking women throughout history who have dramatically shaped the world around us. In each 5 minute episode, we'll dive into the story behind one woman listeners may or may not know–but definitely should. These diverse women from across space and time are grouped into easily accessible and engaging monthly themes like Educators, Villains, Indigenous Storytellers, Activists, and many more.  Womanica is hosted by WMN co-founder and award-winning journalist Jenny Kaplan. The bite-sized episodes pack painstakingly researched content into fun, entertaining, and addictive daily adventures. Womanica was created by Liz Kaplan and Jenny Kaplan, executive produced by Jenny Kaplan, and produced by Liz Smith, Grace Lynch, Maddy Foley, Brittany Martinez, Edie Allard, Lindsey Kratochwill, Adesuwa Agbonile, Carmen Borca-Carrillo, Taylor Williamson, Ale Tejeda, Sara Schleede, and Alex Jhamb Burns. Special thanks to Shira Atkins. Original theme music composed by Miles Moran.We are offering free ad space on Wonder Media Network shows to organizations working towards social justice. For more information, please email Jenny at pod@wondermedianetwork.com.Follow Wonder Media Network:WebsiteInstagramTwitter

When the daughter of a trailblazing feminist moves to small town NSW, the only women's organisation she can join is the Country Women's Association. How will she fit in?

7:10 Jacob speaks with Dr Patricia Ranald, the Convener of the Australian Fair Trade and Investment Network (AFTINET). The World Trade Organisation is set to meet tomorrow to debate a waiver on a controversial trading agreement related to COVID-19 vaccines. The original waiver on the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights was proposed by South Africa and India in 2021 and would enable more equitable production and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines. The waiver has been blocked for over a year by the EU, Switzerland, and the UK who face immense lobbying from pharmaceutical companies.  7:30 Jason Fowler from the Environment Centre of Northern Territory (ECNT) tells Jacob about a recent case that was launched against the Australian Government, who approved an oil drilling project off the north coast of Australia in the Tiwi Islands. You can read the background brief to the case here.  7:50 Claudia talks with Yorta Yorta and Wurundjeri educator and artist Lyn Thorpe about her experience teaching at the Northland Secondary School in the 90s which was one of the many schools that Jeff Kennet shut down and the only to survive. The story of the school is told in an exhibition currently on at the Melbourne Museum, Fight for Survival. 8:10 Writer Nadia Wheatley discusses her latest work, Radicals- Remembering the 60s which she's coauthored with longtime friend Meredith Burgmann. The book looks back on an era of political change and activism during the time of the Vietnam war, Womens Liberation and Indigenous Land Rights, it is part memoir, part biography and looks at 20 activists including Gary Foley and Margaret Reynolds. The book launches in Melbourne on Thursday, 6pm at Trades Hall.

"Who run the world?" Girls. But then why do we keep telling them it's so hard for them to make it in a man's world? Why is the rate of young girls "transitioning" and rejecting biological realities about themselves at an historic high? Why do girls always want to be "one of the boys"? All of these messages, not to mention the sexual pressure put on young women to embrace promiscuity because "men get to," are destroying young women and girls and progressivism is to blame.Sadly, there is nothing progressive about disregarding the uniqueness of womanhood and femininity. In this follow up episode to "Raising Boys," Ciara and Jessi take on the dangerous influences the culture is having on girls, how they view their place in the world as women, and how the sexual revolution has caused irreparable damage to our impressionable and fragile daughters.*Parental discretion is advised, as this episode contains adult themes that may not be suitable for younger listeners.Show Notes:Episode 38: Raising Boys https://www.buzzsprout.com/1538023/9516739-ep-38-raising-boysEpisode 19: Sex, Submission, and Standing Up to Sin https://www.buzzsprout.com/1538023/8539917-ep-19-sex-submission-and-standing-up-to-sinEpisode 21: Husbands, Hierarchy, and Headship in the Home https://www.buzzsprout.com/1538023/8622240-ep-21-husbands-hierarchy-and-headship-in-the-homeThe Federalist- Women and STEM https://thefederalist.com/2018/04/12/science-male-female-brains-helps-explain-women-dont-choose-tech-careers/The Guardian: Smashing the Patriarchy https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/nov/02/smashing-the-patriarchy-why-theres-nothing-natural-about-male-supremacyIrreversible Damage https://www.amazon.com/Irreversible-Damage-Transgender-Seducing-Daughters/dp/1684510317The Flipside of Feminism https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1935071270/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i5Where's Mom? The High Calling of Wife and Mother in Biblical Perspective https://www.amazon.com/Wheres-Calling-Mother-Biblical-Perspective/dp/0997588624Guttmacher- Abortion Rates Demographics https://www.guttmacher.org/sites/default/files/report_downloads/us-abortion-patients-table1.pdfHome Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001D1SRXW/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0Find us here:Crosswise on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/crosswisepodcast/Crosswise on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/crosswisepodcastCrosswise on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/crosswise/id1544007646

This week, Nicole joins socialist feminist activist Emma Hendrick to discuss the tasks of the women's movement in Ireland today, the limitations of the MoreMná campaign and liberal approaches calling for more involvement of women in politics which ignore the role of class and exclude working-class, Traveller, migrant and trans women, and the impact of Covid on women already burdened with the pressures of unpaid domestic labour. --- Rupture Radio is a weekly podcast looking at news, politics and culture from a socialist perspective. It is produced by members of the RISE network within People before Profit, and is linked to Rupture - Ireland's eco-socialist quarterly. Check out the magazine at rupture.ie Anyone who would like to support the podcast can do so on our Patreon. This will also allow you to get extra content and have a say in topics and interviews we take on. Sign up today at https://www.patreon.com/ruptureradio Any comments or queries please send them to LeftInsidePod@gmail.com or get in touch on Twitter. See you next week, cheers! Social media: Rupture Radio https://twitter.com/RuptureRadio_ Rupture Magazine https://twitter.com/RuptureMag_ Emma https://twitter.com/Emm511 Further Listening: Rupture Radio International Women's Day Special w/ RISE activists Nicole, Jess and Diana - https://anchor.fm/ruptureradio/episodes/International-Womens-Day-Special-erv69v Further Reading: Emma's Rebel article on how a movement of the whole working class, and not the election of more women establishment politicians, will deliver liberation http://www.rebelnews.ie/2021/03/08/working-class-women-iwd/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ruptureradio/message

Grace Pettis and I celebrate her phenomenal album, Working Woman, by trading feminist country and roots music. We also discuss how Grace uses her platform to benefit people who are marginalized in the music industry, and what being a woman really means. Here's that Spotify playlist of feminist country music that Grace and I mentioned. Learn more about Meg Christian on Making Gay History. Grace Pettis -- “Any Kind of Girl” (Working Woman) (7:17) Eurythmics/Aretha Franklin -- “Sisters Are Doing It for Themselves” (11:26) Chicago Women's Liberation Rock Band -- “Papa, Don't Lay That Shit on Me” (Papa, Don't Lay That Shit On Me) (18:22) Allison Russell -- “Persephone” (Outside Child) (21:03) Meg Christian -- “Ode to My Gym Teacher” (31:06) Shaniah Twain -- “Man, I Feel Like a Woman” (38:56)   Next week's topic: Interview w/ Reggie Harris Podcast intro by Alma Contra, music from Two Cow Garage's “Stars & Gutters” Send me music via SubmitHub!  Get A&T gear and Rainbow Rodeo at the merch page! Send me money via Ko-fi or Patreon. Find Rachel and her comic via https://linktr.ee/rachel.cholst

Brigid Ó Coileáin and Esperanza Fonseca join Breht to discuss proletarian and Marxist feminism, the history and power dynamics of the sex trade, the rhetoric and ideology of liberal feminism, the role pornography plays in society, the importance of anti-imperialism for women's emancipation, and much, much more! Check out the Probably Cancelled Podcast here: https://probablycancelledpod.libsyn.com/website Check out Esperanza's writings here: https://proletarianfeminist.medium.com/ Learn more here: https://linktr.ee/estrellaroja   Outro Music: "The Men Who Rule the World" by Garbage ----- Support Rev Left Radio: https://www.patreon.com/RevLeftRadio or make a one time donation: PayPal.me/revleft LEARN MORE ABOUT REV LEFT RADIO: www.revolutionaryleftradio.com

Dale Kent is a Professor of Italian history who grew up in Australia. Rejecting her Christian Science upbringing, Dale forged an unapologetic life of her own design. She lived and worked in Europe and then in the US where she taught at the University of California for 25 years

Ever seen a 'Magic Mike' or 'Thunder Down Under,' or any other choreographed male dance (strip) show? If so, have you ever wondered how they got started or to go even deeper have you ever wondered if they played a part in the women's liberation movement? Probably not, and neither had we until we discovered the incredibly engaging and fascinating Dr. Natalia Petrzela, a NYC based Historian, Author, Teacher, Activist and podcast host.  Natalia co-produced and hosted the podcast "Welcome to Your Fantasy," which chronicles the history of the "Chippendales." If you don't know what that is, you're about to find out! But that isn't all we wanted to chat to Natalia about, we wanted to talk about how the beginning of an all-male strip show that was originally JUST for women, may we be so bold to say, could have had a hand (or other body parts ;) in shaping the women's liberation movement and how that has translated into where we are today. Natalia shares her POV, expertise and some fun tidbits on the "Chippendale's" guys. Grab a stiff drink and tune in! Listen to the 'Welcome to Your Fantasy' podcast exclusively on Spotify. Follow Dr. Natalia Petrzela @nataliaptrzela and @chippendalesrevealed  Follow us @herspective_podcast Thank you to our sponsor VitalityMD. Use promotional code HERSPECTIVE100 for $100 off the O-shot or Viveve treatments. Book a consultation at www.vitalitymd.com. Thank you to our sponsor House of Hayla for supporting HERspective. Use coupon code HERSPECTIVE20 for 20% off your first order of any Generation ll shoes from www.houseofhayla.com

By Margaret Benson, from https://monthlyreview.org/2019/09/01/the-political-economy-of-womens-liberation/ Read by Rochelle Charlton-Laine

The joy of freedom after the struggle. Our women are excelling in all areas of society but are they truly free?

Sophie Walker is an activist, journalist and founding leader of the Women's Equality Party.   Her most recent book, 'Fives Rules' for Rebellion: 'Let's Change the World Ourselves' presents a five-step journey to incorporating activism into our lives.   She talks to Krishnan about fighting for equality by channelling rage and engaging in good faith with one another.    Note: This episode was recorded when the tragic news of Sarah Everard's disappearance was still in its early stages.   Producer: Rachel Evans  

Geoff reads the next chapter and discusses how men are completely and utterly manipulated.

Satan has tried to make woman become discontent with their honorable role of wife and mother and this has not only led to an increase in abortion and breast cancer, but also has robbed them of blessings beyond compare to what this world offers.

Here in the first part of our episode on the Motorway Incident, we discuss with Sadiq Amin whether moving towards Gender Equality and Women's Liberation are essential prerequisites for protecting women from such incidents in the future. Available on Google Podcasts and Apple Podcasts. Just search for IslamPod on your podcast player. For Comments and Feedback: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Nussrah-Magazine-102962918171768/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/NUSSRAH_PAK1

This week Maggie and Harmony bring on special guest, Zine Queen Meg to talk about the intersection between art and activism. In this episode: Zine History https://bit.ly/2CPCWBf #BoringSelfCare https://www.instagram.com/makedaisychains/?utm_source=ig_embed Hungry for a Conspiracy https://www.etsy.com/listing/171714034/hungry-for-a-conspiracy-conspiracy Plants Against the Patriarchy https://etsy.me/31noqe2 RAIX Zine https://issuu.com/raixzine1 The Tenth http://thetenthmagazine.com/ True Laurels http://www.truelaurels.com/read Article about True Laurels https://imposemagazine.com/bytes/bookish/laurence-bumey-true-laurels-zine Passive Voice is For Cowards https://www.instagram.com/p/CAv9UpUhhlu/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link What We're Reading: Liane Moriarty https://bookshop.org/books?keywords=Liane+Moriarty The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (a Hunger Games Novel) https://bookshop.org/a/9908/9781338635171 War and Peace https://bookshop.org/a/9908/9781400079988 Parable of the Talents https://bookshop.org/a/9908/9781538732199 They Can't Kill Us All https://bookshop.org/a/9908/9780316312493 Revolution in Rojava: Democratic Autonomy and Women's Liberation in Syrian Kurdistan https://bookshop.org/a/9908/9780745336596 Shades of Milk and Honey https://bookshop.org/a/9908/9780765325600 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire https://bookshop.org/a/9908/9780545791427 Are you feeling overwhelmed about racial inequality in the U.S.? We are too! Here's some resources we've found useful. If you have any additional resources you'd like to share feel free to email us at Rebelgirlsbookclub@gmail.com. https://bit.ly/2BlrFIv To follow our episode schedule go here https://medium.com/rebel-girls-book-club/read-along-with-the-show-bde1d80a8108 Follow our social media pages at Instagram https://www.instagram.com/rgbcpod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/RebelGirlsBookClub/ Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/101801516-rebel-girls and Twitter https://twitter.com/RebelGirlsBook1 Or you can email us at RebelGirlsBookClub@gmail.com. Our theme song is by The Gays and our image is by Mari Talor Renaud-Krutulis. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rgbc/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rgbc/support

Legal scholar Aya Gruber on crimes against women, mass incarceration and her book "The Feminist War on Crime: The Unexpected Role of Women's Liberation in Mass Incarceration" from University of California Press. https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520304512/the-feminist-war-on-crime

Marianne Williamson, author, spiritual leader, politician, and activist and Down With Tyranny's Howie Klein; Congressman Alan Grayson author of "High Crimes: The Impeachment of Donald Trump"; Dr. Harriet Fraad, host of Capitalism Hits Home and one of the founding mothers of Women's Liberation; Andrew Miller, from the Industrial Workers of the World, whose latest article "The Double Speak of No Evil Foods" exposes union busting inside No Evil Foods --a vegan brand purportedly "saving the world" ; Emmy & Peabody Award Winning Author and Comedy Writer Jim Earl; Professor Harvey J. Kaye author of "Thomas Paine and the Promise of America";  Jackie "The Joke Man" Martling; Jazz Historian Professor Mike Steinel talks Bob Dylan; Professor Adnan Husain who teaches Medieval Mediterranean and Islamic World History at Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada; Janet Capron author of "Blue Money" whose latest piece in Public Seminar "Don’t Sell Your Mind” compares and contrasts her two careers, prostitution and medical advertising; Lance Jeffries unveils a new song "Ain't No More Cane on the Brazos"; Covid-19 Town Hall with The Irritable Immunologist and Henry Hakamaki; David and Emilio Fox answer listener mail Music by: Jim Mahood, Jay Danzig, Lance Jeffries, Tom Webber, Kathleen Ashe and Mike Steinel. Time Code: Jim Earl (4:51) Professor Mike Steinel (39:43) Andrew Miller (1:05:18) Congressman Alan Grayson (1:58:59) Professor Adnan Husain (2:50:44) Janet Capron (3:25:24) Marianne Williamson & Howie Klein (3:42:54) Dr. Harriet Fraad (4:40:57) Professor Harvey J. Kaye (5:47:32) Jackie "The Joke Man" Martling (6:45:20) The Irritable Immunologist & Henry Hakamaki (6:59:08) David and Emilio Fox answer your questions (7:49:15) 

This week Maggie and Harmony read the article "Remember, No One is Coming to Save Us" by Roxane Gay and use the article as a baseline for a discussion on allyship to the Black Lives Matter movement. They also read "For Our White Friends Desiring to be Allies," by Courtney Ariel, "I Don't Know What to Do With Good White People" by Brit Bennett, and use an excerpt from Untamed by Glennon Doyle Melton. In this episode, our hosts, with the help of the aforementioned texts, attempt to tackle white complicity, fragility, and silence and explore anti-racist action. Links to the texts: "Remember, No One is Coming to Save Us" by Roxane Gay https://nyti.ms/2Y7iyCx "For Our White Friends Desiring to be Allies," by Courtney Ariel https://bit.ly/2BJ3vrn "I Don't Know What to Do With Good White People" by Brit Bennett https://bit.ly/2Y97Awj Untamed by Glennon Doyle https://bit.ly/30hyRQ2 Referenced in the episode: https://n.pr/30ckGf3 https://wapo.st/3dDfZPi https://bit.ly/3cDwadZ https://bit.ly/2ANWBAh Resource list Are you feeling overwhelmed about racial inequality in the U.S.? We are too! Here's some resources we've found useful. If you have any additional resources you'd like to share feel free to email us at Rebelgirlsbookclub@gmail.com. https://bit.ly/2XCLZgD What we're reading: Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler https://bit.ly/30ctEZH The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd https://bit.ly/3eUFUC8 War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy https://bit.ly/2XCM8AH Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal https://bit.ly/3cGsIiT They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement by Wesley Lowery https://bit.ly/3dDgtVC Revolution in Rojava: Democratic Autonomy and Women's Liberation in the Syrian Kurdistan by Michael Knapp, Anja Flach, Ercan Ayboga https://bit.ly/2BJ4HLn Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by TERF-who-must-not-be-named https://bit.ly/3cLosic To follow our episode schedule go here https://bit.ly/2XF5uW7 You can email us at RebelGirlsBookClub@gmail.com. Our theme song is by The Gays and our image is by Mari Talor Renaud-Krutulis. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/RGBC/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/RGBC/support

Journalisten Gloria Steinem var en av frontfigurerna för "den andra vågens feminism". Men hon uppmärksammades inte bara för sin aktivism, hon uppdaterade också synen på hur en feminist får se ut. Denna idag 86 år gamla amerikanska journalist, aktivist och feminist har  stått i rampljuset ända sedan det sena 1960-talet. Men just nu har Gloria Steinem aktualiserats tack vare den amerikanska tv-serien Mrs America. Det är en dramatisering om hur den kvinnorörelse i New York, som Gloria Steinem tillhörde, försökte driva igenom The equal rights amendment på 1970-talet, något som mötte motstånd av konservativa kvinnor på högerflanken. Det var på 1960-talet som Gloria Steinem hade sitt feministiska uppvaknande. Hon skulle bevakade en sammankomst där kvinnor vittnade om sina aborter, som då var illegala i New York. Gloria Steinem reagerade med att skriva en artikel med rubriken "After Black Power, Womens Liberation. Artikeln uppmärksammades i feministiska kretsar och gav Gloria Steinem möjligheten att skriva feministiskt färgade texter i en rad olika tidningar. Men intresset var vid tiden ändå begränsat bland landets redaktioner. Det väckte tanken om att starta en egen tidskrift. Mot alla odds fick Gloria Steinem och hennes kollegor igenom idén och tidningen Ms skapades. I år tilldelas Gloria Steinem den svenska utmärkelsen Gilel Storch Award, ett pris som delas ut till personer som genom sin verksamhet har bidragit till att främja demokratiska, universella och humanistiska värden. Vi pratar med Lizzie Scheja, VD för Gilel Storch Award och Judisk kultur i Sverige, om varför Gloria Steinem får priset. På omslaget till den första riktiga utgåvan av Ms syns superhjältinnan Wonder Woman. I arbetet med tidningen upptäckte Gloria Steinem att superhjältinnan var på nergång. Männen på serieförlaget DC Comics hade tagit bort hennes krafter och uniform. Det fick Gloria Steinem att protestera. Vi pratar med serietidningsexperten Fabian Nordlander om hur Gloria Steinem gav Wonder Woman återupprättelse. Vi berättar också om när Gloria Steinem wallraffade som "Playboy Bunny" på Hugh Hefners Playboyklubb i New York i början av 1960-talet. Under en månad arbetade Steinem på klubben, under falsk identitet, för att sedan skriva ett reportage om sina upplevelser. Vi pratar med journalisten Rachel Chang som fördjupat sig i Gloria Steinems månad som Playboy Bunny. Och så tittar vi närmare på Gloria Steinems signaturlook  pilotbågar med tonade glas, som hon brukade bära med håret innanför skalmarna. Veckans gäst är Maria Pia Boëthius, författare, journalist och debattör.

The opening speeches and presentations from Workers' Liberty forum, "Fifty years of women's liberation": discussing the gains women have made over the last fifty years and the case for socialist feminism. More online meetings at: www.workersliberty.org/c19-online Jill: 00:10 Kelly: 29:10 Why socialist feminism?: https://workersliberty.org/why-soc-fem Women's Fightback #24: https://workersliberty.org/workers-liberty-magazine/latest-issue/publications/womens-fightback/womens-fightback-24-march-2020 One woman has a good idea, she shares it, many people laugh, others smile politely, as two women decide to make it happen. So the first National Women’s Liberation Conference in the UK takes place in Oxford, in 1970. Initially to discuss women’s history, the conference, unknowingly, was about to make a significant contribution to the subject. More than three times the expected size, 600 women came together from around the UK. Sheila Rowbotham (mother of the good idea) said it was at that moment ‘a movement could be said to exist’. The conference focused less on women’s history, largely because so little had been written up at that point, and instead focused more on the position and experience of women in 1970. It voted to adopt four demands: Equal pay; Equal education and opportunity; 24 hour nurseries and; Free contraception and abortion on demand. The Women’s Liberation Movement of the 1970s gave voice, confidence and strength to millions of women. It was an organised expression of a greater period known as Second Wave Feminism.

In this episode, Aya Gruber, Professor of Law at the University of Colorado Law School, discusses her book "The Feminist War on Crime: The Unexpected Role of Women's Liberation in Mass Incarceration," which will be published by the University of California Press. Gruber argues that feminism has played an unexpected and important role in legitimizing and normalizing mass incarceration. Gruber is on Twitter at @ayagruber.This episode was hosted by Guy Hamilton-Smith, Legal Fellow at the Mitchell Hamline School of Law Sex Offense Litigation and Policy Resource Center. Hamilton-Smith is on Twitter at @G_Padraic. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Here we thoroughly examine the rules we were taught about proper sexual behaviour and if they really do guarantee us a happy and healthy love and sex life.

A feminist approach to the bible may on the surface seem like a narrow lense in which to view scripture.  However, as you’ll hear in this episode, it is more accurate to say that the interpretations that we’ve been given since the beginning of biblical scholarship are far more limiting.  Especially if we believe the bible is to have a prominent place in modern Christianity. The conversation in this episode takes us through the damages and limited scope of the type of biblical interpretation taught in many churches.  How a women’s voice and experience is many times lost in scripture that value hierarchy, patriarchy and authority over context, evolving cultures and inclusivity.  And let’s not forget that the bible was originally written for men, by men. The discussion also takes us into the diverse thoughts and opinions within a feminist approach to the bible.  Bonnie provides us with three different ways in which some feminist scholars hold the bible. Learn what it means to be a rejectionist, a loyalist and a revisionalist.  Which one are you? The episode finished with a brand new segment called ‘I Would But…’  And despite Jeff’s efforts, everyone is kind and cordial in a game that could have taken a dark turn. Conversation on A Feminist Approach to the Bible (00:00:57) Segment (01:00:10) RELEVANT LINKS From Our Conversation A Feminist Approach to the Bible Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire (Book - Amazon Affiliate Link) Brian McLaren & Rev. Dr. Penny Nixon – The Age of Secular Christianity – 155 (Irenicast Episode) Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation by Mary Daly (Book - Amazon Affiliate Link… Comes from a rejectionist point of view) Women and the Word of God: A Response to Biblical Feminism by Susan T. Foh (Book - Amazon Affiliate Link… Comes from a loyalist point of view) Revisionist View Texts of Terror: Literary-Feminist Readings of Biblical Narratives by Phyllis Trible (Book - Amazon Affiliate Link… Comes from a revisionist point of view) Dr. Renita J. Weems (American biblical scholar, author, academic administrator, acclaimed speaker, and public intellectual) Literary Criticism Form Criticism Brainchild (Netflix TV Show) Little Women (2019 Film) Bible Series Irenicast Episodes Interpreting the Bible Part 1 – Literally Literature – 063 (Irenicast Episode) Interpreting the Bible Part 2 – A Scribed Meaning – 064 (Irenicast Episode) Interpreting the Bible Part 3 – Collecting Lenses – 065 (Irenicast Episode) The Song of Songs: Love Lyrics from the Bible by Marcia Falk  From Our 'I Would But...' 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Misbehaviour is a new film about the 1970 Miss World pageant which saw the first black Miss World and was also disrupted by the nascent Women's Liberation movement who threw flour bombs at host Bob Hope Sebastian Barry's play On Blueberry Hill is set in a prison cell where two men's stories of how they got there become intertwined. Abi Daré's novel The Girl With The Louding Voice is the tale of Adunni, a fourteen year old Nigerian girl who has to go into domestic service in Lagos but is determined to better herself A new retrospective of the work and life of Andy Warhol has just opened at Tate Modern in London, including many works never previoulsy exhibtited in the UK before Two new TV comedies with impeccable pedigrees - ITV's Kate and Koji (written by Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin - who wrote Outnumbered) and Breeders (co-produced by Chris Addison and Simon Blackwell) on Sky TV - have just started. Theyre very different.. are they very funny? Tom Sutcliffe guests are Sara Colllins, Alex Preston and Tiffany Jenkins. The producer is Oliver Jones Podcast Extra recommendations: Sara: Toni Mossion: The Pieces I Am + Fons Americanus by Kara Walker at Tate Modern Alex: The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins Tiffany: Music Clubs - Spin in OXford and House Concerts @42 in Edinburgh Tom: James Shapiro: Shakespeare In a Divided America Main image: Abi Daré © Alero Marcel

An International Women's Day special sees host Anna Smith joined by BAFTA-winning Misbehaviour director Philippa Lowthorpe to discuss Misbehaviour, the new film about the infamous Women's Liberation protests at the 1970 Miss World Competition. Anna also welcomes Marjane Satrapi (Persepolis), the Oscar-nominated director of the Marie Curie biopic Radioactive, and actress Kerry Fox (Shallow Grave), currently in Little Joe. Completing the panel is Contributing Editor of Screen International, Wendy Mitchell, to discuss the films Portrait of a Lady on Fire and Military Wives. All this plus surprise special guests in the audience. Girls On Film is an HLA production, exec produced by Hedda Archbold and audio produced by Jane Long. This episode was recorded in front of a live audience at the AllBright Mayfair. Become a patron of Girls On Film on Patreon here: www.patreon.com/girlsonfilmpodcast

March 8th is celebrated across the globe as International Women’s Day. The day is set aside to draw attention to the worldwide struggle for women’s rights and freedom from oppression. Sadly, throughout human history, women have suffered disproportionately in all cultures and epochs. But the world’s attempts to free or empower women have often led only to new forms of bondage. The true women’s liberation movement was inaugurated by the Lord Jesus when He came proclaiming the Kingdom of God. By considering four women’s encounters with Jesus, we can see the power that can be gained by giving Him our heart, body, mind, and entire life.

The corporate rebranding of International Women's Day (IWD) couldn't be further from the day's revolutionary roots, or any meaningful discussion of women's liberation. It negates any discussion of the nature of power under patriarchy, and how relations of power between women and men might be genuinely transformed.

Learn how Tantra changed my life and how you too can start living a more tantric life today.

We examine what real love is compared to fairy tale love and how we can have more real love in our lives.

Frankie Bridge is best known as one fifth of 'The Saturdays' and outside of music has established herself as a TV presenter & digital influencer. She became a Mind ambassador after opening up about her experiences of anxiety, depression and panic attacks, after her hospitalisation in May 2012. Having initially dealt with these issues in silence, she now sees that asking for help can save your life. She talks to Jane about her new book OPEN which features practical guidance and advice from the psychologist and psychiatrist who helped her. Fifty years on from the first Women’s Liberation Conference in 1970, Women's Place UK organised one last weekend. 900 women gathered to discuss ending violence against women and sex discrimination and to defend women only spaces and single sex services. We hear from some of the women who were there and Professor Sophie Scott and journalist, Helen Joyce discuss what they hope the event will achieve. And, Janice Okoh‘s new play ‘The Gift’ is directed by Dawn Walton and was inspired by the story of Sara Forbes Bonetta – born Omoba Aina in 1843. A Yoruba princess, Sara was taken into slavery, released to the Lieutenant-Commander of the HMS Bonetta, then offered as a gift to Queen Victoria. The play is set in both 1862 and the present day, and explores themes of cross-racial adoption, colonialism and what it means to be British. Janice Okoh and Dawn Walton join us to discuss the play. Presenter: Jane Garvey Producer: Ruth Watts

Next month sees the fiftieth anniversary of the first Women’s Liberation conference at Ruskin College, Oxford. The event produced four key demands for equal pay, equal education and job opportunities, free contraception and abortion on demand, and 24-hour nurseries – and it is widely seen as a defining moment in the development of Second Wave Feminism. Jenni discusses its significance and legacy with the organiser of the 1970 meeting, Sally Alexander and with the historian Selina Todd. In parts of of Uganda, men are pressuring their wives into breastfeeding them before their babies. New research has explored why and how men are doing this, and how the practice may be coercive. We’re joined by a researcher on the project, Dr Rowena Merritt, and BBC reporter in Kampala, Patricia Oyella. And, how do we break damaging relationship patterns and what does research tell us about what makes relationships strong and healthy? Jenni is joined by Penny Mansfield, co-director of the relationships charity One Plus One and Simone Bose who works for Relate. Presenter: Jenni Murray Producer: Ruth Watts

In this episode, Meghan Murphy speaks with Carol Downer, a pioneer of the women's liberation movement, putting women's health in women's hands.

Feel like you're always at work? In this wide-ranging discussion we cover the working-day, reproductive labour, the gig economy, unpaid internships and more.  Listen to the Proles as they take on 'Chapter 10 - The Working Day' from 'Capital - Volume I'  by Karl Marx.  Diagram mentioned: Working-day 1: A–––B–C.  Working-day 2: A–––B––C.  Working-day 3: A–––B–––C. Works and writers mentioned: Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation - Silvia Federici; Alexandra Kollontai; Leslie Feinberg; Breaking the Chains - A Socialist Perspective on Women's Liberation; Capitalist Realism - Mark Fisher; The Condition of the Working Class in England - Friedrich Engels.   Follow us on Twitter at @prolesbookclub and shoot us a DM if you need  links to companion resources. If you'd like to join the book club, you  can chip in a dollar to join our parent podcast's discord server. Proles  of the Round Table: https://www.patreon.com/prolespod Thanks to @NunezKeenan for the intro theme; you can find more of their  work here: http://tiny.cc/keenan Thanks to the Craig bot for helping us to record via Discord!

Maryam Namazie is a political activist, campaigner and blogger. She is the Spokesperson for Fitnah - Movement for Women's Liberation, Equal Rights Now, One Law for All Campaign against Sharia Law in Britain and the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain (CEMB). Maryam is an inveterate commentator and broadcaster on rights, cultural relativism, secularism, religion, political Islam and many other related topics. She is producer and host of Bread and Roses TV broadcast in English and Persian via New Channel TV and deemed ‘immoral’ and ‘corrupt’ by the Islamic regime of Iran. She is joined in conversation by Sadia Hameed, FiLiA and CEMB spokeswoman.Attend an event!4th July 2019: Evening on LGBT+ rights and apostasy, London31st Aug - Sept 1st, 2019: Celebrating Dissent Festival, De Balie in Amsterdam

When I posted my previous podcast about leaving a traumatic marriage, I didn't anticipate the response I'd get. I didn't anticipate hearing from so many women who had the same experience as I. Those responses inspired deep self-reflection. Why are so many women in this world living an un-liberated life of fear? Why was I living an un-liberated life. Why hadn't I realized it? Here I share my thoughts--the roots of my own insecurities, despite the gifts I have, and how that led to years of entrapment--and how, finally, after nearly six decades, I'm stepping out. The world NEEDS the gifts of women. And for that to happen, women HAVE to become free. Piano Music - "She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain," Traditional; arranged and performed by Jessica Roemischer

Listen in as Harry speaks with Sarah Archer, author of The Midcentury Kitchen. Ever wondered where those cool colors in the 50s and 60s came from? Why wasn't tupperware a hit right off the bat? What did the kitchen of tomorrow look like in 1957? Where did all this free time in the kitchen come from? Tune in to find out. Feast Yr Ears is powered by Simplecast.

Women's Liberation

I just wanted to make a little note here for anyone listening about new ideas. We’re surrounded by them. We’re inundated with new Kickstarter projects and inventions. Shark Tank is one of the most popular TV shows because it’s full of new, clever inventions and ideas.    Some of you know that I shared a sermon this past week at our church that ruffled some feathers. Intentionally so. I was looking at how we interpret Scripture, and some of the more damaging ways to interpret it, and some of the more life-giving ways I’ve found to interpret it.    In it, the topics of slavery, animal sacrifice, women in leadership and homosexuality came up. All things in the Bible. All things that have verses that people can cite at a moments notice. But largely all things we’ve recognized to be artifacts of a day and age gone by.    No one is missing animal sacrifices, including the Jews. No one is missing slavery, except for maybe the former slave traders. No one wants to bar women from leadership in the church, except for perhaps the old guard… Men that are terrified of new ideas.    What happens when a new discovery takes place? What happens when all of a sudden, we learn something NEW about something we’ve always known. Young husbands think they’re God’s gift to their wife in bed… Only to slowly find out over the course of first few years of marriage that they have no idea what they’re doing, and none of that is pleasurable.   New information leads to new breakthrough. This is how it should be. We don’t let our close-mindedness keep us in the stone-age, of course.    We’ve learned new information about tiny, invisible bacteria living on our hands and potentially making us gravely ill… So we learn to wash our hands. It’s how humanity survives, thrives and evolves with the changing times. It’s a GOOD thing. I think it’s how God wired us.   So when new scholarship in the mid 1990s unveiled a look in the first century women and the lives they were living, it gave us new information with which to understand our Bibles. 1 Timothy clearly says the forbid women to speak in church, to cover their heads, to dress modestly, etc.    Timothy’s Church in Ephesus First century, around the year 60AD, in the mega-city of Ephesus.  Lots happening.  Timothy in Ephesus, Paul having to address false doctrines.  “Stay there in Ephesus to correct the false teachings.”  Largest city in Asia Minor, housed the temple of Diana (aka Artemis), goddess of fertility.   Bigger than a football field, gilded in silver and gold. Acts 19 talks about the people chanting, Great is Artemis of the Ephesians! Massive impact, this cult had on the city. It was a women-run temple--no men ran anything.     Artimis as origin of all lfe, paul says no adam first then eve And Eve was deceived, so she wasn't divine like the cult said   The women taught the religion of Diana, and had ritualistic prostitution.  The men could pay to have sex with these priestesses, and it was believed to increase a man's virility.   In this specific time and place, Ephesianwomen were associated with false teaching (the cult) and prostitution( the temple).  Women ruled, women did this.  But the women could fall into this b/c they were souneducated about the things of God.   So putting women into leadership of the church wouldn't just have beenunwise, it'd have been detrimental.        A.The Rise of the “New Roman Woman.” If you go way back in history, men controlled everything.   All the property, and even if they married a wealthy woman who brought lots of property into the marriage, all of thatpropertybecame the husband's.  If they got divorced, she left with nothing. Also, it was assumed that men might havea mistress or two on the side,but wives were expected to be faithful and chaste.  That was the assumption.  Up to this point, Ancient history was male dominated, and extremely patriarchal.   In the 1st C BC tho, due to increased wealth flowing into Rome and political instability resulting from civil wards, the social environment began changing and women from elite families gained political influence. Limiting laws on women were relaxed. Many wars separated women from their soldiering husbands, fathers, and sons. Result was a more public presence of women—esp. the wealthy, within the social and political arenas.  Poets Ovid, Catullus, Tibullus and the lawyer Cicero all describe this woman: wealth, clout, disregard for traditional social customs. The poets all praised extramarital affairs. The men sought adventure not on the battlefield or in the senate, but in a personal tryst with married women.    But In 44BC, the Roman senate changed the law.   They said a woman could keep her own property when she got married.   If she got divorced, she could take out what she brought in.   It created a Women's Liberation movement.  For the first time, women weren't dependent on their husbands.  Some of these wealthy women said they don't just want financial freedom, they wantall of the same freedoms.  So these wealthy women started takingyoung loverson the side.  And couples began encouraging each other in thisopen marriage, swinging, lifestyles.     Plutarch : “She must accept her husband’s extramarital sexual activities with good grace and not let such behaviors push her toward divorce." “The husband may enjoy sex with others (except married women), but should avoid provoking his wife to jealousy."   Also, women began to reject the role of Mother, and so you seethe rise of abortions for the new roman woman.   They'd dress extravagantly.  Gold in their hair, pearls, gowns covered with jewels.   You could tell what a woman's attitude was towards marriage and abortion, just by looking at what she wore.  In the 1st Century: you were what you wore.     Finally, these new roman women weren't just known for the immodesty and immorality, but also known for their brash outspokenness.  Roman Historians tell us that these women would challenge philosophers in the Symposia, and some of them would stand up and shout down philosophers, even rushing the stage and taking over.   Any time a new idea makes us angry, we need to seriously evaluate our hearts. Why would a new idea make you angry?    It could confuse you, sure. That’s fine.  It could intrigue you. Great.  It could draw you in to investigate further and research and learn more from more resources… Or, it could just make you angry and resentful.    I’ve found that the women that had questions following my sermon have come forward with genuine intrigue and honest searching, and we’ve had kind, fruitful, unifying conversations. The men were slightly different. Slightly more… angry.   If new ideas make you angry, it says far more about YOUR insecurities than it does about the new idea.    If someone knocked on my door today and proposed that Elyse and I join their open marriage and we start living in polamory, I would be seriously surprised, I would be confused, but I wouldn’t be angry. I would only be angry if my marriage was already on the rocks and I was insecure that Elyse might actually leave me…    If you study the great spiritual teachers, both contemporary and historical, you’ll find a common thread between them of openness, inclusivism, and deep consideration of other spiritual paths… They honor one another. They aren’t afraid of one another. They sit on stage with each other and have panel discussions about things that matter, inter-faith dialogue, things that further the human understand and collective consciousness… Not words of division or fear.    If you’re a person that finds yourself on the front edge of anything… You’ll have new ideas. You’ll perhaps be the tip of the spear or the first person to share these new ideas. Maybe pitching the idea to your board of directors, or your boss, or someone you respect… And they might respond in a way that hurts you.    You can bet that someone approached the CEO of Blockbuster 10 years ago to talk about streaming services, and maybe he responded with anger. “THAT’S NOT WHAT WE DO! WE’RE A VIDEO RENTAL STORE!”    Maybe true of Toys-R-Us, or Sears, or any other company that handled new information poorly.    I guess it’s worth noting that nothing I shared in that sermon was new. Not even close. Some of these ideas come straight from Desert Fathers and Mothers in the first centuries. And I guess I should also say that none of the response has hurt me, personally. I’m recognizing how stuck some people are, and how afraid they are that adjusting a single string in the tapestry will cause the whole thing to unravel… Which I just cannot agree to believe. This is way too big and beautiful to ever be unraveled by a few new (or not so new) ideas.    Be encouraged, be empowered, and let’s keep moving humanity in the right direction.    I love you, make it a good day. 

A detailed look at black, African-American, culture during the "Sixties". (1960-1969)   Overview   "The Sixties":  the counterculture and revolution in social norms about clothing, music, drugs, dress, sexuality, formalities, and schooling – or - irresponsible excess, flamboyance, and decay of social order.   Also labeled the Swinging Sixties because of the fall or relaxation of social taboos especially relating to racism and sexism that occurred during this time.   Also described as a classical Jungian nightmare cycle, where a rigid culture, unable to contain the demands for greater individual freedom, broke free of the social constraints of the previous age through extreme deviation from the norm.   The confrontation between the US and the Soviet Union dominated geopolitics during the '60s, with the struggle expanding into developing nations in Latin America, Africa, and Asia characterized by proxy wars, funding of insurgencies, and puppet governments.   In response to civil disobedience campaigns from groups like the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), U.S. President John F. Kennedy, pushed for social reforms. Kennedy's assassination in 1963 was a shock.   Liberal reforms were finally passed under Lyndon B. Johnson including civil rights for African Americans· and healthcare for the elderly and the poor. Despite his large-scale Great Society programs, Johnson was increasingly reviled. The heavy-handed American role in the Vietnam War outraged student protestors around the globe.   The assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., anti-Vietnam War movement, and the police response towards protesters of the 1968 Democratic National Convention, defined a politics of violence in the United States.   The 1960s were marked by several notable assassinations:   12 June 1963 – Medgar Evers, an NAACP field secretary. Assassinated by Byron de la Beckwith, a member of the Ku Klux Klan in Jackson, Mississippi.   22 November 1963 – John F. Kennedy, President of the United States. Assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald while riding in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas.   21 February 1965 – Malcolm X. Assassinated by members of the Nation of Islam in New York City. There is a dispute about which members killed Malcolm X.   4 April 1968 – Martin Luther King, Jr., civil rights leader. Assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis, Tennessee.   5 June 1968 – Robert F. Kennedy, United States Senator. Assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan in Los Angeles, after taking California in the presidential national primaries.   Social and political movements (counterculture)   Flower Power/Hippies In the second half of the decade, young people began to revolt against the conservative norms of the time. The youth involved in the popular social aspects of the movement became known as hippies. These groups created a movement toward liberation in society, including the sexual revolution, questioning authority and government, and demanding more freedoms and rights for women and minorities. The movement was also marked by the first widespread, socially accepted drug use (including LSD and marijuana) and psychedelic music.     Anti-war movement The war in Vietnam would eventually lead to a commitment of over half a million American troops, resulting in over 58,500 American deaths and producing a large-scale antiwar movement in the United States. Students became a powerful and disruptive force and university campuses sparked a national debate over the war. The antiwar movement was heavily influenced by the American Communist Party, but by the mid-1960s it outgrew this and became a broad-based mass movement centered in universities and churches: one kind of protest was called a "sit-in".   Civil rights movement Beginning in the mid-1950s and continuing into the late 1960s, African-Americans in the United States aimed at outlawing racial discrimination against black Americans and voting rights to them. The emergence of the Black Power movement, which lasted roughly from 1966 to 1975, enlarged the aims of the civil rights movement to include racial dignity, economic and political self-sufficiency, and anti-imperialism. The movement was characterized by major campaigns of civil resistance. Forms of protest and/or civil disobedience included boycotts such as the successful Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955–1956) in Alabama; "sit-ins" such as the influential Greensboro sit-ins (1960) in North Carolina; marches, such as the Selma to Montgomery marches (1965) in Alabama.; and a wide range of other nonviolent activities. Noted legislative achievements during this phase of the civil rights movement were passage of Civil Rights Act of 1964, that banned discrimination based on "race, color, religion, or national origin" in employment practices and public accommodations; the Voting Rights Act of 1965, that restored and protected voting rights; the Immigration and Nationality Services Act of 1965, that dramatically opened entry to the U.S. to immigrants other than traditional European groups; and the Fair Housing Act of 1968, that banned discrimination in the sale or rental of housing.   Hispanic and Chicano movement Another large ethnic minority group, the Mexican-Americans, are among other Hispanics in the U.S. who fought to end racial discrimination and socioeconomic disparity. In the 1960s and the following 1970s, Hispanic-American culture was on the rebound like ethnic music, foods, culture and identity both became popular and assimilated into the American mainstream. Spanish-language television networks, radio stations and newspapers increased in presence across the country.   Second-wave feminism A second wave of feminism in the United States and around the world gained momentum in the early 1960s. While the first wave of the early 20th century was centered on gaining suffrage and overturning de jure inequalities, the second wave was focused on changing cultural and social norms and de facto inequalities associated with women. At the time, a woman's place was generally seen as being in the home, and they were excluded from many jobs and professions. Feminists took to the streets, marching and protesting, writing books and debating to change social and political views that limited women. In 1963, with Betty Friedan's revolutionary book, The Feminine Mystique, the role of women in society, and in public and private life was questioned. By 1966, the movement was beginning to grow and power as women's group spread across the country and Friedan, along with other feminists, founded the National Organization for Women. In 1968, "Women's Liberation" became a household term.   Gay rights movement The United States, in the middle of a social revolution, led the world in LGBT rights in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Inspired by the civil-rights movement and the women's movement, early gay-rights pioneers had begun, by the 1960s, to build a movement. These groups were rather conservative in their practices, emphasizing that gay men and women are no different from those who are straight and deserve full equality. This philosophy would be dominant again after AIDS, but by the very end of the 1960s, the movement's goals would change and become more radical, demanding a right to be different, and encouraging gay pride.   Crime The 1960s was also associated with a large increase in crime and urban unrest of all types. Between 1960 and 1969 reported incidences of violent crime per 100,000 people in the United States nearly doubled and have yet to return to the levels of the early 1960s. Large riots broke out in many cities like Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York City, Newark, New Jersey, Oakland, California and Washington, D.C. By the end of the decade, politicians like George Wallace and Richard Nixon campaigned on restoring law and order to a nation troubled with the new unrest.   Economics The decade began with a recession and at that time unemployment was considered high at around 7%. John F. Kennedy promised to "get America moving again." To do this, he instituted a 7% tax credit for businesses that invest in new plants and equipment. By the end of the decade, median family income had risen from $8,540 in 1963 to $10,770 by 1969. Minimum wage was $1.30 per hour / ~$2,700 per year (~$18,700 in 2018)   Popular culture   The counterculture movement dominated the second half of the 1960s, its most famous moments being the Summer of Love in San Francisco in 1967, and the Woodstock Festival in upstate New York in 1969. Psychedelic drugs, especially LSD, were widely used medicinally, spiritually and recreationally throughout the late 1960s, and were popularized by Timothy Leary with his slogan "Turn on, tune in, drop out". Psychedelic influenced the music, artwork and films of the decade, and several prominent musicians died of drug overdoses. There was a growing interest in Eastern religions and philosophy, and many attempts were made to found communes, which varied from supporting free love to religious puritanism.   Music   British Invasion: The Beatles arrive at John F. Kennedy International Airport, 7 February 1964   "The 60's were a leap in human consciousness. Mahatma Gandhi, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Che Guevara, Mother Teresa, they led a revolution of conscience. The Beatles, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix created revolution and evolution themes. The music was like Dalí, with many colors and revolutionary ways. The youth of today must go there to find themselves." – Carlos Santana.     As the 1960s began, the major rock-and-roll stars of the '50s such as Chuck Berry and Little Richard had dropped off the charts and popular music in the US came to be dominated by Motown girl groups and novelty pop songs. Another important change in music during the early 1960s was the American folk music revival which introduced Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, The Kingston Trio, Harry Belafonte, Bob Dylan, Odetta, and many other Singer-songwriters to the public.   Girl groups and female singers, such as the Shirelles, Betty Everett, Little Eva, the Dixie Cups, the Ronettes, and the Supremes dominated the charts in the early 1960s. This style consisted typically of light pop themes about teenage romance, backed by vocal harmonies and a strong rhythm. Most girl groups were African-American, but white girl groups and singers, such as Lesley Gore, the Angels, and the Shangri-Las emerged by 1963.   Around the same time, record producer Phil Spector began producing girl groups and created a new kind of pop music production that came to be known as the Wall of Sound. This style emphasized higher budgets and more elaborate arrangements, and more melodramatic musical themes in place of a simple, light-hearted pop sound. Spector's innovations became integral to the growing sophistication of popular music from 1965 onward.   Also during the early '60s, the “car song” emerged as a rock subgenre and coupled with the surf rock subgenre. Such notable songs include "Little Deuce Coupe," "409," and "Shut Down," all by the Beach Boys; Jan and Dean's "Little Old Lady from Pasadena" and "Drag City," among many others.   While rock 'n' roll had 'disappeared' from the US charts in the early '60s, it never died out in Europe and Britain was a hotbed of rock-and-roll activity during this time. In late 1963, the Beatles embarked on their first US tour. A few months later, rock-and-roll founding father Chuck Berry emerged from a 2-1/2-year prison stint and resumed recording and touring. The stage was set for the spectacular revival of rock music.   In the UK, the Beatles played raucous rock 'n' roll – as well as doo wop, girl-group songs, show tunes. Beatlemania abruptly exploded after the group's appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1964.   As the counterculture movement developed, artists began making new kinds of music influenced by the use of psychedelic drugs. Guitarist Jimi Hendrix emerged onto the scene in 1967 with a radically new approach to electric guitar that replaced Chuck Berry, previously seen as the gold standard of rock guitar. Rock artists began to take on serious themes and social commentary/protest instead of simplistic pop themes.   A major development in popular music during the mid-1960s was the movement away from singles and towards albums.   Blues also continued to develop strongly during the '60s, but after 1965, it increasingly shifted to the young white rock audience and away from its traditional black audience, which moved on to other styles such as soul and funk.   Jazz music during the first half of the '60s was largely a continuation of '50s styles, retaining its core audience of young, urban, college-educated whites. By 1967, the death of several important jazz figures such as John Coltrane and Nat King Cole precipitated a decline in the genre. The takeover of rock in the late '60s largely spelled the end of jazz as a mainstream form of music, after it had dominated much of the first half of the 20th century.   Significant events in music in the 1960s:   Sam Cooke was shot and killed at a motel in Los Angeles, California [11 December 1964] at age 33 under suspicious circumstances.   Motown Record Corporation was founded in 1960. Its first Top Ten hit was "Shop Around" by the Miracles in 1960. "Shop Around" peaked at number-two on the Billboard Hot 100 and was Motown's first million-selling record.   The Marvelettes scored Motown Record Corporation's first US No. 1 pop hit, "Please Mr. Postman" in 1961. Motown would score 110 Billboard Top-Ten hits during its run.   The Supremes scored twelve number-one hit singles between 1964 and 1969, beginning with "Where Did Our Love Go".   John Coltrane released A Love Supreme in late 1964, considered among the most acclaimed jazz albums of the era.   In 1966, The Supremes A' Go-Go was the first album by a female group to reach the top position of the Billboard magazine pop albums chart in the United States.   The Jimi Hendrix Experience released two successful albums during 1967, Are You Experienced and Axis: Bold as Love, that innovate both guitar, trio and recording techniques.   R & B legend Otis Redding has his first No. 1 hit with the legendary Sitting on the Dock of the Bay. He also played at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 just before he died in a plane crash.   The Bee Gees released their international debut album Bee Gees 1st in July 1967 which included the pop standard "To Love Somebody".   1968: after The Yardbirds fold, Led Zeppelin was formed by Jimmy Page and manager Peter Grant, with Robert Plant, John Bonham and John Paul Jones; and, released their debut album Led Zeppelin.   Big Brother and the Holding Company, with Janis Joplin as lead singer, became an overnight sensation after their performance at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 and released their second album Cheap Thrills in 1968.   Gram Parsons with The Byrds released the extremely influential LP Sweetheart of the Rodeo in late 1968, forming the basis for country rock.   The Jimi Hendrix Experience released the highly influential double LP Electric Ladyland in 1968 that furthered the guitar and studio innovations of his previous two albums.   Woodstock Festival, 1969   Sly & the Family Stone revolutionized black music with their massive 1968 hit single "Dance to the Music" and by 1969 became international sensations with the release of their hit record Stand!. The band cemented their position as a vital counterculture band when they performed at the Woodstock Festival.   Film Some of Hollywood's most notable blockbuster films of the 1960s include: 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Apartment, The Birds, I Am Curious (Yellow), Bonnie and Clyde, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Bullitt, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Carnival of Souls, Cleopatra, Cool , and Luke, The Dirty Dozen, Doctor Zhivago, Dr. Strangelove, Easy Rider, Exodus, Faces, Funny Girl, Goldfinger, The Graduate, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, , Head, How the West Was Won, The , Hustler, Ice Station Zebra, In the Heat of the Night, The Italian Job, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Jason and the Argonauts, Judgment at Nuremberg, The Jungle Book, Lawrence of Arabia, The Lion in Winter, The Longest Day, The Love Bug, A Man for All Seasons, The Manchurian Candidate, Mary Poppins, Medium Cool, Midnight Cowboy, My Fair Lady, Night of the Living Dead, The Pink Panther, The Odd Couple, Oliver!, One Hundred and One Dalmatians, One Million Years B.C., Planet of the Apes, Psycho, Romeo and Juliet, Rosemary's Baby, The Sound of Music, Spartacus, Swiss Family Robinson, To Kill a Mockingbird, Valley of the Dolls, West Side Story, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Wild Bunch.   Television   The most prominent American TV series of the 1960s include: The Ed Sullivan Show, Star Trek, Peyton Place, The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, The Andy Williams Show, The Dean Martin Show, The Wonderful World of Disney, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Beverly Hillbillies, Bonanza, Batman, McHale's Navy, Laugh-In, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Fugitive, The Tonight Show, Gunsmoke, The Andy Griffith Show, Gilligan's Island, Mission: Impossible, The Flintstones, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, Lassie, The Danny Thomas Show, The Lucy Show, My Three Sons, The Red Skelton Show, Bewitched and I Dream of Jeannie.   The Flintstones was a favored show, receiving 40 million views an episode with an average of 3 views a day.   Some programming such as The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour became controversial by challenging the foundations of America's corporate and governmental controls; making fun of world leaders, and questioning U.S. involvement in and escalation of the Vietnam War.   Fashion   Significant fashion trends of the 1960s include:     The Beatles exerted an enormous influence on young men's fashions and hairstyles in the 1960s which included most notably the mop-top haircut, the Beatle boots and the Nehru jacket.   The hippie movement late in the decade also had a strong influence on clothing styles, including bell-bottom jeans, tie-dye and batik fabrics, as well as paisley prints.   The bikini came into fashion in 1963 after being featured in the film Beach Party.   Mary Quant invented the miniskirt, which became one of the most popular fashion rages in the late 1960s among young women and teenage girls. Its popularity continued throughout the first half of the 1970s and then disappeared temporarily from mainstream fashion before making a comeback in the mid-1980s.   Men's mainstream hairstyles ranged from the pompadour, the crew cut, the flattop hairstyle, the tapered hairstyle, and short, parted hair in the early part of the decade, to longer parted hairstyles with sideburns towards the latter half of the decade.   Women's mainstream hairstyles ranged from beehive hairdos, the bird's nest hairstyle, and the chignon hairstyle in the early part of the decade, to very short styles popularized by Twiggy and Mia Farrow in Rosemary's Baby towards the latter half of the decade.   African-American hairstyles for men and women included the afro.       James Brown "Papa's Got A Brand New Bag" (1965) "I Got You (I Feel Good)" (1965) "Say It Loud--I'm Black and I'm Proud" (1968)     Ray Charles "Georgia On My Mind' (1960) "Hit the Road Jack" (1961) "I Can't Stop Loving You" (1962)     Marvin Gaye "Ain't That Peculiar?" (1965) "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" (1968) "Too Busy Thinking About My Baby" (1969)     The Temptations "My Girl" (1965) "Ain't Too to Beg" (1966) "I Can't Get Next to You" (1969)     Bobby "Blue" Bland "I Pity the Fool" (1961) "Turn On Your Lovelight" (1961) "Ain't Nothing You Can Do" (1964)     Aretha Franklin "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)" (1967) "Respect" (1967) "Chain of Fools" (1967-68)     The Supremes "Where Did Our Love Go?" (1964) "Stop! In the Name of Love" (1965) "Love Child" (1968)     Smokey Robinson & The Miracles "Shop Around" (1960-61) "You've Really Got a Hold On Me" (1962-63) "The Tracks of My Tears" (1965)     The Impressions "Gypsy Woman" (1961) "It's All Right" (1963) "People Get Ready" (1965)     Brook Benton "Kiddio" (1960) "Think Twice" (1961) "Hotel Happiness" (1962-63)     Jackie Wilson "Doggin' Around" (1960) "Baby Workout" (1963) "(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher" (1967)     Sam Cooke "Wonderful World" (1960) "Bring It On Home To Me" (1962) "A Change is Gonna Come" (1965)     Otis Redding "These Arms of Mine" (1963) "Try a Little Tenderness" (1966-67) "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" (1968)     Jerry Butler "He Will Break Your Heart" (1960) "Never Give You Up" (1968) "Only the Strong Survive" (1969)     Wilson Pickett "In the Midnight Hour" (1965) "Land of 1000 Dances" (1966) "Funky Broadway" (1967)     Stevie Wonder "Fingertips, Part 2" (1963) "Uptight (Everything's Alright)" (1965-66) "I Was Made to Love Her" (1967)     B.B. King "Beautician Blues" (1964) "Waiting on You" (1966) "Paying the Cost To Be the Boss" (1968)     Joe Tex "Hold What You've Got" (1964-65) "A Sweet Woman Like You" (1965-66) "Skinny Legs and All" (1967)     The Marvelettes "Please Mr. Postman" (1961) "Beechwood 4-5789" (1962) "Too Many Fish in the Sea" (1965)     Mary Wells "Bye Bye Baby" (1960-61) "The One Who Really Loves You" (1962) "My Guy" (1964)     The Four Tops "Baby, I Need Your Loving" (1964) "I Can't Help Myself (A/K/A Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)" (1965) "Reach Out, I'll Be There" (1966)     Martha & The Vandellas "Heat Wave" (1963) "Dancing in the Street" (1964) "Nowhere to Run" (1965)     Dionne Warwick "Don't Make Me Over" (1962-63) "Anyone Who Had a Heart" (1963-64) "Walk On By" (1964)     Solomon Burke "Just Out of Reach (Of My Two Open Arms)" (1961) "Everybody Needs Somebody To Love" (1964) "Got To Get You Off My Mind" (1965)     Etta James "At Last" (1960-61) "Tell Mama" (1967-68) "I'd Rather Go Blind" (1967-68)     The Shirelles "Will You Love Me Tomorrow? (1960-61) "Dedicated to the One I Love" (1961) "Baby It's You" (1961-62)     Chuck Jackson "I Don't Want to Cry" (1961) "Any Day Now (My Wild Beautiful Bird)" (1962) "Beg Me" (1964)     Gene Chandler "Duke of Earl" (1962) "Rainbow" (1963) "I Fooled You This Time" (1966)     The Drifters "This Magic Moment" (1960) "Save the Last Dance for Me" (1960) "Up on the Roof" (1962-63)     Jr. Walker & The All-Stars "Shotgun" (1965) "(I'm A) Road Runner" (1966) "Home Cookin'" (1968-69)     Gladys Knight & The Pips "Every Beat of My Heart" (1961) "I Heard it Through the Grapevine" (1967) "Friendship Train" (1969)     Carla Thomas "Gee Whiz (Look at His Eyes)" (1961) "B-A-B-Y" (1966) "Another Night Without My Man" (1966)     Chubby Checker "The Twist" (1960) "Pony Time" (1961) "Dancin' Party" (1962)     Sam & Dave "Hold On! I'm A Comin'" (1966) "When Something is Wrong With My Baby" (1967) "Soul Man" (1967)     Joe Simon "My Adorable One" (1964) "Nine Pound Steel" (1967) "The Chokin' Kind" (1969)     The Dells "There Is" (1967-68) "Stay in My Corner" (1968) "Oh, What a Night" (1969)     Little Milton "So Mean To Me" (1962) "We're Gonna Make It" (1965) "Grits Ain't Groceries" (1969)     Ben E. King "Spanish Harlem" (1960-61) "Stand By Me" (1961) "That's When it Hurts" (1964)     Betty Everett "You're No Good" (1963) "The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)" (1964) "There'll Come a Time" (1969)     Hank Ballard & The Midnighters "Let's Go, Let's Go, Let's Go" (1960) "Finger Poppin' Time" (1960) "Nothing But Good" (1961)     Major Lance "The Monkey Time" (1963) "Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um" (1964) "Investigate" (1966)     Booker T. & The MGs "Green Onions" (1962) "Hip-Hug-Her" (1967) "Time is Tight" (1969)     The Intruders "Together" (1967) "Cowboys to Girls" (1968) "(Love is Like a) Baseball Game" (1968)     Ike & Tina Turner "A Fool in Love" (1960) "Goodbye, So Long" (1965) "River Deep--Mountain High" (1966)     Johnnie Taylor "I Got to Love Somebody's Baby" (1966) "Who's Making Love" (1968) "I Could Never Be President" (1969)     The Orlons "The Wah Watusi" (1962) "Don't Hang Up" (1962) "South Street" (1963)     Barbara Lewis "Hello Stranger" (1963) "Baby, I'm Yours" (1965) "Make Me Your Baby" (1965)     Maxine Brown "All in My Mind" (1960-61) "Oh No, Not My Baby" (1964) "One in a Million" (1966)     Garnet Mimms & The Enchanters "Cry Baby" (1963) "Tell Me Baby" (1964) "I'll Take Good Care of You" (1966)     Ramsey Lewis "The In Crowd" (1965) "Hang On Sloopy" (1965) "Wade in the Water" (1966)  

A detailed look at black, African-American, culture during the "Sixties". (1960-1969) (Bonus Artists: hidingtobefound & Luck Pacheco)   Overview   "The Sixties":  the counterculture and revolution in social norms about clothing, music, drugs, dress, sexuality, formalities, and schooling – or - irresponsible excess, flamboyance, and decay of social order.   Also labeled the Swinging Sixties because of the fall or relaxation of social taboos especially relating to racism and sexism that occurred during this time.   Also described as a classical Jungian nightmare cycle, where a rigid culture, unable to contain the demands for greater individual freedom, broke free of the social constraints of the previous age through extreme deviation from the norm.   The confrontation between the US and the Soviet Union dominated geopolitics during the '60s, with the struggle expanding into developing nations in Latin America, Africa, and Asia characterized by proxy wars, funding of insurgencies, and puppet governments.   In response to civil disobedience campaigns from groups like the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), U.S. President John F. Kennedy, pushed for social reforms. Kennedy's assassination in 1963 was a shock.   Liberal reforms were finally passed under Lyndon B. Johnson including civil rights for African Americans· and healthcare for the elderly and the poor. Despite his large-scale Great Society programs, Johnson was increasingly reviled. The heavy-handed American role in the Vietnam War outraged student protestors around the globe.   The assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., anti-Vietnam War movement, and the police response towards protesters of the 1968 Democratic National Convention, defined a politics of violence in the United States.   The 1960s were marked by several notable assassinations:   12 June 1963 – Medgar Evers, an NAACP field secretary. Assassinated by Byron de la Beckwith, a member of the Ku Klux Klan in Jackson, Mississippi.   22 November 1963 – John F. Kennedy, President of the United States. Assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald while riding in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas.   21 February 1965 – Malcolm X. Assassinated by members of the Nation of Islam in New York City. There is a dispute about which members killed Malcolm X.   4 April 1968 – Martin Luther King, Jr., civil rights leader. Assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis, Tennessee.   5 June 1968 – Robert F. Kennedy, United States Senator. Assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan in Los Angeles, after taking California in the presidential national primaries.   Social and political movements (counterculture)   Flower Power/Hippies In the second half of the decade, young people began to revolt against the conservative norms of the time. The youth involved in the popular social aspects of the movement became known as hippies. These groups created a movement toward liberation in society, including the sexual revolution, questioning authority and government, and demanding more freedoms and rights for women and minorities. The movement was also marked by the first widespread, socially accepted drug use (including LSD and marijuana) and psychedelic music.     Anti-war movement The war in Vietnam would eventually lead to a commitment of over half a million American troops, resulting in over 58,500 American deaths and producing a large-scale antiwar movement in the United States. Students became a powerful and disruptive force and university campuses sparked a national debate over the war. The antiwar movement was heavily influenced by the American Communist Party, but by the mid-1960s it outgrew this and became a broad-based mass movement centered in universities and churches: one kind of protest was called a "sit-in".   Civil rights movement Beginning in the mid-1950s and continuing into the late 1960s, African-Americans in the United States aimed at outlawing racial discrimination against black Americans and voting rights to them. The emergence of the Black Power movement, which lasted roughly from 1966 to 1975, enlarged the aims of the civil rights movement to include racial dignity, economic and political self-sufficiency, and anti-imperialism. The movement was characterized by major campaigns of civil resistance. Forms of protest and/or civil disobedience included boycotts such as the successful Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955–1956) in Alabama; "sit-ins" such as the influential Greensboro sit-ins (1960) in North Carolina; marches, such as the Selma to Montgomery marches (1965) in Alabama.; and a wide range of other nonviolent activities. Noted legislative achievements during this phase of the civil rights movement were passage of Civil Rights Act of 1964, that banned discrimination based on "race, color, religion, or national origin" in employment practices and public accommodations; the Voting Rights Act of 1965, that restored and protected voting rights; the Immigration and Nationality Services Act of 1965, that dramatically opened entry to the U.S. to immigrants other than traditional European groups; and the Fair Housing Act of 1968, that banned discrimination in the sale or rental of housing.   Hispanic and Chicano movement Another large ethnic minority group, the Mexican-Americans, are among other Hispanics in the U.S. who fought to end racial discrimination and socioeconomic disparity. In the 1960s and the following 1970s, Hispanic-American culture was on the rebound like ethnic music, foods, culture and identity both became popular and assimilated into the American mainstream. Spanish-language television networks, radio stations and newspapers increased in presence across the country.   Second-wave feminism A second wave of feminism in the United States and around the world gained momentum in the early 1960s. While the first wave of the early 20th century was centered on gaining suffrage and overturning de jure inequalities, the second wave was focused on changing cultural and social norms and de facto inequalities associated with women. At the time, a woman's place was generally seen as being in the home, and they were excluded from many jobs and professions. Feminists took to the streets, marching and protesting, writing books and debating to change social and political views that limited women. In 1963, with Betty Friedan's revolutionary book, The Feminine Mystique, the role of women in society, and in public and private life was questioned. By 1966, the movement was beginning to grow and power as women's group spread across the country and Friedan, along with other feminists, founded the National Organization for Women. In 1968, "Women's Liberation" became a household term.   Gay rights movement The United States, in the middle of a social revolution, led the world in LGBT rights in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Inspired by the civil-rights movement and the women's movement, early gay-rights pioneers had begun, by the 1960s, to build a movement. These groups were rather conservative in their practices, emphasizing that gay men and women are no different from those who are straight and deserve full equality. This philosophy would be dominant again after AIDS, but by the very end of the 1960s, the movement's goals would change and become more radical, demanding a right to be different, and encouraging gay pride.   Crime The 1960s was also associated with a large increase in crime and urban unrest of all types. Between 1960 and 1969 reported incidences of violent crime per 100,000 people in the United States nearly doubled and have yet to return to the levels of the early 1960s. Large riots broke out in many cities like Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York City, Newark, New Jersey, Oakland, California and Washington, D.C. By the end of the decade, politicians like George Wallace and Richard Nixon campaigned on restoring law and order to a nation troubled with the new unrest.   Economics The decade began with a recession and at that time unemployment was considered high at around 7%. John F. Kennedy promised to "get America moving again." To do this, he instituted a 7% tax credit for businesses that invest in new plants and equipment. By the end of the decade, median family income had risen from $8,540 in 1963 to $10,770 by 1969. Minimum wage was $1.30 per hour / ~$2,700 per year (~$18,700 in 2018)   Popular culture   The counterculture movement dominated the second half of the 1960s, its most famous moments being the Summer of Love in San Francisco in 1967, and the Woodstock Festival in upstate New York in 1969. Psychedelic drugs, especially LSD, were widely used medicinally, spiritually and recreationally throughout the late 1960s, and were popularized by Timothy Leary with his slogan "Turn on, tune in, drop out". Psychedelic influenced the music, artwork and films of the decade, and several prominent musicians died of drug overdoses. There was a growing interest in Eastern religions and philosophy, and many attempts were made to found communes, which varied from supporting free love to religious puritanism.   Music   British Invasion: The Beatles arrive at John F. Kennedy International Airport, 7 February 1964   "The 60's were a leap in human consciousness. Mahatma Gandhi, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Che Guevara, Mother Teresa, they led a revolution of conscience. The Beatles, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix created revolution and evolution themes. The music was like Dalí, with many colors and revolutionary ways. The youth of today must go there to find themselves." – Carlos Santana.     As the 1960s began, the major rock-and-roll stars of the '50s such as Chuck Berry and Little Richard had dropped off the charts and popular music in the US came to be dominated by Motown girl groups and novelty pop songs. Another important change in music during the early 1960s was the American folk music revival which introduced Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, The Kingston Trio, Harry Belafonte, Bob Dylan, Odetta, and many other Singer-songwriters to the public.   Girl groups and female singers, such as the Shirelles, Betty Everett, Little Eva, the Dixie Cups, the Ronettes, and the Supremes dominated the charts in the early 1960s. This style consisted typically of light pop themes about teenage romance, backed by vocal harmonies and a strong rhythm. Most girl groups were African-American, but white girl groups and singers, such as Lesley Gore, the Angels, and the Shangri-Las emerged by 1963.   Around the same time, record producer Phil Spector began producing girl groups and created a new kind of pop music production that came to be known as the Wall of Sound. This style emphasized higher budgets and more elaborate arrangements, and more melodramatic musical themes in place of a simple, light-hearted pop sound. Spector's innovations became integral to the growing sophistication of popular music from 1965 onward.   Also during the early '60s, the “car song” emerged as a rock subgenre and coupled with the surf rock subgenre. Such notable songs include "Little Deuce Coupe," "409," and "Shut Down," all by the Beach Boys; Jan and Dean's "Little Old Lady from Pasadena" and "Drag City," among many others.   While rock 'n' roll had 'disappeared' from the US charts in the early '60s, it never died out in Europe and Britain was a hotbed of rock-and-roll activity during this time. In late 1963, the Beatles embarked on their first US tour. A few months later, rock-and-roll founding father Chuck Berry emerged from a 2-1/2-year prison stint and resumed recording and touring. The stage was set for the spectacular revival of rock music.   In the UK, the Beatles played raucous rock 'n' roll – as well as doo wop, girl-group songs, show tunes. Beatlemania abruptly exploded after the group's appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1964.   As the counterculture movement developed, artists began making new kinds of music influenced by the use of psychedelic drugs. Guitarist Jimi Hendrix emerged onto the scene in 1967 with a radically new approach to electric guitar that replaced Chuck Berry, previously seen as the gold standard of rock guitar. Rock artists began to take on serious themes and social commentary/protest instead of simplistic pop themes.   A major development in popular music during the mid-1960s was the movement away from singles and towards albums.   Blues also continued to develop strongly during the '60s, but after 1965, it increasingly shifted to the young white rock audience and away from its traditional black audience, which moved on to other styles such as soul and funk.   Jazz music during the first half of the '60s was largely a continuation of '50s styles, retaining its core audience of young, urban, college-educated whites. By 1967, the death of several important jazz figures such as John Coltrane and Nat King Cole precipitated a decline in the genre. The takeover of rock in the late '60s largely spelled the end of jazz as a mainstream form of music, after it had dominated much of the first half of the 20th century.   Significant events in music in the 1960s:   Sam Cooke was shot and killed at a motel in Los Angeles, California [11 December 1964] at age 33 under suspicious circumstances.   Motown Record Corporation was founded in 1960. Its first Top Ten hit was "Shop Around" by the Miracles in 1960. "Shop Around" peaked at number-two on the Billboard Hot 100 and was Motown's first million-selling record.   The Marvelettes scored Motown Record Corporation's first US No. 1 pop hit, "Please Mr. Postman" in 1961. Motown would score 110 Billboard Top-Ten hits during its run.   The Supremes scored twelve number-one hit singles between 1964 and 1969, beginning with "Where Did Our Love Go".   John Coltrane released A Love Supreme in late 1964, considered among the most acclaimed jazz albums of the era.   In 1966, The Supremes A' Go-Go was the first album by a female group to reach the top position of the Billboard magazine pop albums chart in the United States.   The Jimi Hendrix Experience released two successful albums during 1967, Are You Experienced and Axis: Bold as Love, that innovate both guitar, trio and recording techniques.   R & B legend Otis Redding has his first No. 1 hit with the legendary Sitting on the Dock of the Bay. He also played at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 just before he died in a plane crash.   The Bee Gees released their international debut album Bee Gees 1st in July 1967 which included the pop standard "To Love Somebody".   1968: after The Yardbirds fold, Led Zeppelin was formed by Jimmy Page and manager Peter Grant, with Robert Plant, John Bonham and John Paul Jones; and, released their debut album Led Zeppelin.   Big Brother and the Holding Company, with Janis Joplin as lead singer, became an overnight sensation after their performance at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 and released their second album Cheap Thrills in 1968.   Gram Parsons with The Byrds released the extremely influential LP Sweetheart of the Rodeo in late 1968, forming the basis for country rock.   The Jimi Hendrix Experience released the highly influential double LP Electric Ladyland in 1968 that furthered the guitar and studio innovations of his previous two albums.   Woodstock Festival, 1969   Sly & the Family Stone revolutionized black music with their massive 1968 hit single "Dance to the Music" and by 1969 became international sensations with the release of their hit record Stand!. The band cemented their position as a vital counterculture band when they performed at the Woodstock Festival.   Film Some of Hollywood's most notable blockbuster films of the 1960s include: 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Apartment, The Birds, I Am Curious (Yellow), Bonnie and Clyde, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Bullitt, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Carnival of Souls, Cleopatra, Cool , and Luke, The Dirty Dozen, Doctor Zhivago, Dr. Strangelove, Easy Rider, Exodus, Faces, Funny Girl, Goldfinger, The Graduate, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, , Head, How the West Was Won, The , Hustler, Ice Station Zebra, In the Heat of the Night, The Italian Job, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Jason and the Argonauts, Judgment at Nuremberg, The Jungle Book, Lawrence of Arabia, The Lion in Winter, The Longest Day, The Love Bug, A Man for All Seasons, The Manchurian Candidate, Mary Poppins, Medium Cool, Midnight Cowboy, My Fair Lady, Night of the Living Dead, The Pink Panther, The Odd Couple, Oliver!, One Hundred and One Dalmatians, One Million Years B.C., Planet of the Apes, Psycho, Romeo and Juliet, Rosemary's Baby, The Sound of Music, Spartacus, Swiss Family Robinson, To Kill a Mockingbird, Valley of the Dolls, West Side Story, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Wild Bunch.   Television   The most prominent American TV series of the 1960s include: The Ed Sullivan Show, Star Trek, Peyton Place, The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, The Andy Williams Show, The Dean Martin Show, The Wonderful World of Disney, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Beverly Hillbillies, Bonanza, Batman, McHale's Navy, Laugh-In, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Fugitive, The Tonight Show, Gunsmoke, The Andy Griffith Show, Gilligan's Island, Mission: Impossible, The Flintstones, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, Lassie, The Danny Thomas Show, The Lucy Show, My Three Sons, The Red Skelton Show, Bewitched and I Dream of Jeannie.   The Flintstones was a favored show, receiving 40 million views an episode with an average of 3 views a day.   Some programming such as The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour became controversial by challenging the foundations of America's corporate and governmental controls; making fun of world leaders, and questioning U.S. involvement in and escalation of the Vietnam War.   Fashion   Significant fashion trends of the 1960s include:     The Beatles exerted an enormous influence on young men's fashions and hairstyles in the 1960s which included most notably the mop-top haircut, the Beatle boots and the Nehru jacket.   The hippie movement late in the decade also had a strong influence on clothing styles, including bell-bottom jeans, tie-dye and batik fabrics, as well as paisley prints.   The bikini came into fashion in 1963 after being featured in the film Beach Party.   Mary Quant invented the miniskirt, which became one of the most popular fashion rages in the late 1960s among young women and teenage girls. Its popularity continued throughout the first half of the 1970s and then disappeared temporarily from mainstream fashion before making a comeback in the mid-1980s.   Men's mainstream hairstyles ranged from the pompadour, the crew cut, the flattop hairstyle, the tapered hairstyle, and short, parted hair in the early part of the decade, to longer parted hairstyles with sideburns towards the latter half of the decade.   Women's mainstream hairstyles ranged from beehive hairdos, the bird's nest hairstyle, and the chignon hairstyle in the early part of the decade, to very short styles popularized by Twiggy and Mia Farrow in Rosemary's Baby towards the latter half of the decade.   African-American hairstyles for men and women included the afro.       James Brown "Papa's Got A Brand New Bag" (1965) "I Got You (I Feel Good)" (1965) "Say It Loud--I'm Black and I'm Proud" (1968)     Ray Charles "Georgia On My Mind' (1960) "Hit the Road Jack" (1961) "I Can't Stop Loving You" (1962)     Marvin Gaye "Ain't That Peculiar?" (1965) "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" (1968) "Too Busy Thinking About My Baby" (1969)     The Temptations "My Girl" (1965) "Ain't Too to Beg" (1966) "I Can't Get Next to You" (1969)     Bobby "Blue" Bland "I Pity the Fool" (1961) "Turn On Your Lovelight" (1961) "Ain't Nothing You Can Do" (1964)     Aretha Franklin "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)" (1967) "Respect" (1967) "Chain of Fools" (1967-68)     The Supremes "Where Did Our Love Go?" (1964) "Stop! In the Name of Love" (1965) "Love Child" (1968)     Smokey Robinson & The Miracles "Shop Around" (1960-61) "You've Really Got a Hold On Me" (1962-63) "The Tracks of My Tears" (1965)     The Impressions "Gypsy Woman" (1961) "It's All Right" (1963) "People Get Ready" (1965)     Brook Benton "Kiddio" (1960) "Think Twice" (1961) "Hotel Happiness" (1962-63)     Jackie Wilson "Doggin' Around" (1960) "Baby Workout" (1963) "(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher" (1967)     Sam Cooke "Wonderful World" (1960) "Bring It On Home To Me" (1962) "A Change is Gonna Come" (1965)     Otis Redding "These Arms of Mine" (1963) "Try a Little Tenderness" (1966-67) "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" (1968)     Jerry Butler "He Will Break Your Heart" (1960) "Never Give You Up" (1968) "Only the Strong Survive" (1969)     Wilson Pickett "In the Midnight Hour" (1965) "Land of 1000 Dances" (1966) "Funky Broadway" (1967)     Stevie Wonder "Fingertips, Part 2" (1963) "Uptight (Everything's Alright)" (1965-66) "I Was Made to Love Her" (1967)     B.B. King "Beautician Blues" (1964) "Waiting on You" (1966) "Paying the Cost To Be the Boss" (1968)     Joe Tex "Hold What You've Got" (1964-65) "A Sweet Woman Like You" (1965-66) "Skinny Legs and All" (1967)     The Marvelettes "Please Mr. Postman" (1961) "Beechwood 4-5789" (1962) "Too Many Fish in the Sea" (1965)     Mary Wells "Bye Bye Baby" (1960-61) "The One Who Really Loves You" (1962) "My Guy" (1964)     The Four Tops "Baby, I Need Your Loving" (1964) "I Can't Help Myself (A/K/A Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)" (1965) "Reach Out, I'll Be There" (1966)     Martha & The Vandellas "Heat Wave" (1963) "Dancing in the Street" (1964) "Nowhere to Run" (1965)     Dionne Warwick "Don't Make Me Over" (1962-63) "Anyone Who Had a Heart" (1963-64) "Walk On By" (1964)     Solomon Burke "Just Out of Reach (Of My Two Open Arms)" (1961) "Everybody Needs Somebody To Love" (1964) "Got To Get You Off My Mind" (1965)     Etta James "At Last" (1960-61) "Tell Mama" (1967-68) "I'd Rather Go Blind" (1967-68)     The Shirelles "Will You Love Me Tomorrow? (1960-61) "Dedicated to the One I Love" (1961) "Baby It's You" (1961-62)     Chuck Jackson "I Don't Want to Cry" (1961) "Any Day Now (My Wild Beautiful Bird)" (1962) "Beg Me" (1964)     Gene Chandler "Duke of Earl" (1962) "Rainbow" (1963) "I Fooled You This Time" (1966)     The Drifters "This Magic Moment" (1960) "Save the Last Dance for Me" (1960) "Up on the Roof" (1962-63)     Jr. Walker & The All-Stars "Shotgun" (1965) "(I'm A) Road Runner" (1966) "Home Cookin'" (1968-69)     Gladys Knight & The Pips "Every Beat of My Heart" (1961) "I Heard it Through the Grapevine" (1967) "Friendship Train" (1969)     Carla Thomas "Gee Whiz (Look at His Eyes)" (1961) "B-A-B-Y" (1966) "Another Night Without My Man" (1966)     Chubby Checker "The Twist" (1960) "Pony Time" (1961) "Dancin' Party" (1962)     Sam & Dave "Hold On! I'm A Comin'" (1966) "When Something is Wrong With My Baby" (1967) "Soul Man" (1967)     Joe Simon "My Adorable One" (1964) "Nine Pound Steel" (1967) "The Chokin' Kind" (1969)     The Dells "There Is" (1967-68) "Stay in My Corner" (1968) "Oh, What a Night" (1969)     Little Milton "So Mean To Me" (1962) "We're Gonna Make It" (1965) "Grits Ain't Groceries" (1969)     Ben E. King "Spanish Harlem" (1960-61) "Stand By Me" (1961) "That's When it Hurts" (1964)     Betty Everett "You're No Good" (1963) "The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)" (1964) "There'll Come a Time" (1969)     Hank Ballard & The Midnighters "Let's Go, Let's Go, Let's Go" (1960) "Finger Poppin' Time" (1960) "Nothing But Good" (1961)     Major Lance "The Monkey Time" (1963) "Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um" (1964) "Investigate" (1966)     Booker T. & The MGs "Green Onions" (1962) "Hip-Hug-Her" (1967) "Time is Tight" (1969)     The Intruders "Together" (1967) "Cowboys to Girls" (1968) "(Love is Like a) Baseball Game" (1968)     Ike & Tina Turner "A Fool in Love" (1960) "Goodbye, So Long" (1965) "River Deep--Mountain High" (1966)     Johnnie Taylor "I Got to Love Somebody's Baby" (1966) "Who's Making Love" (1968) "I Could Never Be President" (1969)     The Orlons "The Wah Watusi" (1962) "Don't Hang Up" (1962) "South Street" (1963)     Barbara Lewis "Hello Stranger" (1963) "Baby, I'm Yours" (1965) "Make Me Your Baby" (1965)     Maxine Brown "All in My Mind" (1960-61) "Oh No, Not My Baby" (1964) "One in a Million" (1966)     Garnet Mimms & The Enchanters "Cry Baby" (1963) "Tell Me Baby" (1964) "I'll Take Good Care of You" (1966)     Ramsey Lewis "The In Crowd" (1965) "Hang On Sloopy" (1965) "Wade in the Water" (1966)  

Feminist writer and academic Germaine Greer talks to Krishnan Guru-Murthy about why she is against gender equality, for women's liberation and uninterested in the trans community. She also talks in-depth for the first time about her own experience of rape.    Please rate, review and subscribe to the Ways to Change the World podcast for more in-depth interviews every week. You can also watch the podcast episodes on our YouTube channel. Producer: Sarah Gough. Production support: Martin Collett. Artwork: Daire Collins.

Truth Be Told tackles the subject of what is the Feminist Revolution and how has it impacted society and what is the next step for the revolution as told by Professor Bonnie J. Morris, Author of The Feminist Revolution: The Struggle for Women's Liberation . Please check out her website at www.bonniejmorris.com Please Share the Interview and Subscribe to our Channel. Visit www.TruthBeToldWebTv.com @onairwithtony

This week on TL4T, we're digging into Marxist Feminism! What it is, what it isn't, and how we get free! This first ep in a 2-part series is covers past feminist movements. Next week, we'll dive into how women's oppression is useful to the capitalist bastards. She's Beautiful When She's Angry: http://www.shesbeautifulwhenshesangry.com/ Teen Vogue: Erica Garner Deserved Better — All Black Women Do https://www.teenvogue.com/story/erica-garners-death-sheds-light-on-treatment-of-black-women-across-america Sharon Smith Article - https://isreview.org/issue/93/womens-liberation-marxist-tradition Sharon Smith Book - https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/423-women-and-socialism-revised-and-updated-edition Audre Lorde - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/audre-lorde As always, find us on Twitter @TooFuckingLong Also follow Kristen and Erica @ars_machina and @pocketfights Music by @FalsePriest and Tracy Chapman

Mary volunteers Ted to speak at Phyllis's women's club, only to have him melt down when asked about Women's Liberation. Meanwhile, Ariel and Silvia discuss our continuing issues with Phyllis, the fragility of the male ego, artistic intent, the privilege of perspective, and the age old question: could men drink coffee before there were women to make it for them?  You can find us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, and be sure to rate, review, and subscribe to the show on iTunes. Logo design by Julia Monson. A Modern Superior Podcast

This week, I call on music that invokes Spirit in me, and hopefully in you. For me, there can be no Revolution without some ground in one's soul or connection to a notion of Mystery/Spirit/Divinity. That looks different, of course, to all of us, but for the purposes of THIS fight for Women's Liberation, that Mystery, that Divine, that Spirit is Female. SheWho, as Judy Grahn named. Hope you enjoy my selections! Please let me know of songs that inspire Spirit in you; I'm always collecting new music to share: Feministwomyn11@gmail.com. I also welcome your suggestions, feedback and general encouragement to keep my own fires burning. Blessed be! Phoenixx Play list: Spiritsong(background to intro) Shawna Carol She Who Judy Grahn Wash Your Spirit Clean Walela Earth Prayer Alice Gomez The Divine Mothers: Auset&Yemaya Ancestral Rhythms The Ancient Ones Kelliana Ancient Mother Keruna Spirits Barrel House Mamas The Road I took to You Meg Christian My, my Ferron Light of my Light Ferron Song of the Soul Cris Williamson and women of Olivia Hold it up Linda Tui Tillery, Jeanette Lazam, Barbara B.G. Glass, Pat Parker, Anita Taylor and female inmates of San Bruno Women's Jail, 1975, Any Woman's Blues She Whose Head is on Fire Judy Grahn Oh My Spirit Nalini Sweet Wonder Carolyn Hillyer

1 Corinthians 11:3 [3]But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.Willie Lynch Food Stamps, Womens Liberation

Listener volunteer, Phoenixx, created this hour-long music show to contribute to what WLRN does in the femisphere! Take a listen and write to us at wlrnewscontact@gmail.com with any requests for future shows.

For 50 years, the National Organization for Women (NOW) has been championed feminist initiatives and gender equalizing political policy. But much of its early developments and intersectionality have been oversimplified by the media and overshadowed by Betty Friedan's controversial legacy. Cristen and Caroline talk to NOW president Terry O'Neill about past pitfalls and immediate progress that got the organization and Women's Liberation marching toward the glass ceiling. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

Institute of Historical Research Paris-Sorbonne University Men, women's liberation and guilt c. 1970-1990: thoughts on the history of emotions Lucy Delap (Cambridge) Feminism posed powerful political and emotional challenges to progressive m...

Kirsty Young's castaway is the writer, feminist & activist, Gloria Steinem. At the forefront of the second wave of feminism, she came to prominence after publishing an article entitled "After Black Power, Women's Liberation" in 1969. Two years later she co-founded the feminist magazine Ms. As an activist, she has spent much of her life travelling, giving talks and lecturing. Born in 1934 in Ohio, her father was a businessman who ran a lake-side resort in the summer and packed up his family at the first sign of frost to travel cross-country in a caravan selling antiques. Her mother had been a newspaper journalist and later suffered a nervous breakdown before Gloria was born. She became her mother's sole carer aged eleven when her parents divorced. It was only following their separation, having settled down in a house in Toledo, that she spent her first full year at school. After high school, she read politics and government and then traveled around India for two years on a fellowship. On her return, she established herself as a writer in 1960s New York and co-founded Ms. magazine in 1971. Since then, her writing has appeared in innumerable magazines, newspapers, anthologies, television commentaries, political campaigns, and film documentaries in America and internationally. In 2013 she was awarded a Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States' highest honour, by Barack Obama. Producer: Cathy Drysdale.

Dream big, support the dreamers, run with the doers, thank the women that have moved us forward. Songs Inside, ep 10 features an excerpt from brainpicking.org about Jane Goodall and introduces Jennifer Hall Lee, author of American Dreamers and filmaker of Feminist: Stories from Women's Liberation. Songs Inside has links to both visit here Songs Inside American Dreamers -  American Dreamers is for those who believe in brighter futures. Gathering the optimists, mavericks, and mad inventors who believe we can create a better world, American Dreamers is a guidebook for optimism and an art book for inspiration. Featuring dreams from: Arianna Huffington, Stan Lee, Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage, John Hockenberry, Kurt Andersen, Yul Kwon, Cindy Gallop, Aaron Koblin, Chris Anderson, and more.

With Mark Lawson, For the first time, three Vermeer paintings of female musicians are on show together at the National Gallery, London. They form the centrepiece of a new exhibition examining music as a motif in Dutch painting of the 17th Century. Composer Michael Berkeley considers the various roles played by musical instruments in the art of that period. For many writers working in TV drama, the trickiest things they have to deal with are the notes from the producers. At their worst, such notes can confuse and undermine a writer's vision. At their best, they can help a writer to see a better way of telling the story. Peter Bowker, writer of Blackpool, Desperate Romantics and Monroe, and Patrick Spence, the executive producer on Murphy's Law, Lilies, and Hancock and Joan, reflect on the best and the worst notes writers receive. As Wimbledon gets under way, Ed Smith reviews two tennis documentary films. Venus and Serena shows the lives of the champion sisters as children, in their shared home and battling illness in 2011. The Battle of the Sexes, which takes its title from the famous 1973 match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs, explores the relationship between women's professional tennis and the Women's Liberation movement. For Cultural Exchange, the pianist Mitsuko Uchida selects Piero della Francesca's Resurrection. She explains how she was inspired by Piero della Francesca's fresco and why great art, whether music or painting, does not have to be technically perfect. Producer Claire Bartleet.

Institute of Historical Research Socialist Women and Women's Liberation 1968-1982: An Oral History Approach Sue Bruley (Portsmouth) Socialist History seminar series

Speech by Ellie Harrison at Glasgow Women's Library to launch the National Museum of Roller Derby project, with a special appearance by Mistress Malicious from Glasgow Roller Derby

Talk by Ellie Harrison given in full Roller Derby attire as an introduction to her thinking during her residency at Glasgow Women's Library

Are mothers spoiling their male children? Are males being robbed of their masculinity? Has womens liberation had the wrong impact. Let's discuss these and other issues on Worth More Than Rubies.