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![Interview with Sandy Nicholas](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 3/1/1997Call Number: SS 011AFormat: Cass AProducers: Sue SuprianoCollection: Sue Supriano Interviews and Programs
Sandy Nicholas on mass media's body construction.
![Discussion among black women about white liberals, radicalism and solidarity.](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Black Women discussing many issues that face them including white liberals and fear, and the media and its outlets.
![Ending men’s violence - pathways to a gender-just world -- “a feminist future for men”](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Call Number: JG/ 067Format: CassetteProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
bell hooks speaks at a conference on masculinity and feminism from 1990, where she references her fourth book, Yearning, as well as different depictions of masculinity in popular culture, especially television and film. Specific topics hooks addresses are that all women and men long to be loved and long to be free, socialization of black males versus white males, and how the media and popular culture perpetuates gender stereotypes. bell hooks concludes by saying the feminist transformation can heal men by deflecting focus on power and moving the focus to pain. Following her lecture are quick speeches and by Patricia Merchant, an Episcopal priest, John McDonald, founder of a Canadian AIDS support group, and Claude Franklin, a professor of sociology at Ohio State.
![Gender Issues in Russia, 1992](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Call Number: JG/ 085BFormat: Cass BProducers: Judy GerberProgram: A Defiant HeartCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Interview with Gene Peters, lesbian & gay activist who traveled to Russia in 1992 with Friendship Force to examine women's issues after the dissolution of the USSR. Peters talked extensively with female Russian professors and officials. She describes how many women were forced out of the workforce with the fall of communism, particularly in high status jobs. 70% of the Russian unemployed are women and fewer women have been elected to office since the fall of USSR. Peters describes the work of the Russian Federation of Women, a Soviet women's organization. She notes a lack of adequate medical supplies and dearth of contraceptives in Russia that renders an average of 8 abortions per woman. She describes the AIDS epidemic in the former USSR and current Russian AIDS campaigns. She also describes political reform initiatives for gay men & women who were brutally repressed under the Soviet regime, as well as the development of open gay life. She concludes with a general warning against Western media coverage of Russia, noting remarkable social retrogression and stratification in the wake of the fall of the USSR.
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