International Women’s day was borne out of a global effort to improve the lives of women, particularly working women. As we celebrate the 98th anniversary of International Women’s Day, what are the goals of women’s liberation today?
Linda-Martin Alcoff Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College and the author of Visible Identities: Race, Gender, and the Self, Staceyann Chin author of the forthcoming memoir The Other Side of Paradise, and Jennifer Baumgardner a writer for Ms. Magazine and the author of Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism and the Future discuss challenges confronting women today.
Then, an interview with Charlotte Bunch, Executive Director of the Center for Women’s Global Leadership at Rutgers University. We also take a look at Tami Gold’s work in progress, Catch The Joy As She Flies, a documentary film about Bunch's work and activism in Africa. A commentary from JLove Calderon. Finally, we speak to Ann Wright in Gaza on the humanitarian crisis there, Israel’s elections, and Middle East diplomacy under Obama.
Thanks to Tami Gold for video in tonight’s show.
Is there such a thing that the way a woman’s dress could be considered as a object, now that Michelle Obama shows off her arms, how about her legs in a mini skirt, wouldn’t a feminist say that that’s just fine, then how about a bikini? There seems to be a reason why males wear suits, to be professional, it’s to focus on their rhetoric and content, not on flamboyance. Then the bashing on the family unit, that fathers are not necessary, was appalling. But the freedom to have a reproductive organs are so great right, just send sperm? (This was a quote from the show) Then on the economic issue, last time I checked the heath care industry pays very well, from women doctors, health care practitioners, etc. Just a bit misleading on that point. Though the glee on male incomes dropping seems to ignore that family incomes, particularly medium incomes have dropped over the last several decades that often times support a family. And why is there a euphemism about a woman doing what they want with their own bodies, is there any concern for the baby in this perspective, as if adoption is not an option. Finally, you speak with no limit to the power that woman should attain, i.e. to be commander in chief, yet why is it that there is such a disproportionate skew that men have given their lives for the country in wars such as the Iraq war or do you feel that soldiers would have no qualms with this, as they had no problems electing Obama who also has no military history, the double-standard for the presidency.
By link2zelda on March 11th, 2009 at 2:05 am