Finding Our Goddesses
History Patriarchy Religion Languages Mythology Archeology

Finding Our Goddesses

March 29, 2023

Every major religion in the world today features a male deity. Or as Miriam Robbins Dexter puts it: “Man was created in God's image and woman wasn't.”  How does it affect women of the world - that we have no major religious…

Hearts Raging
History Feminism Patriarchy Sexual Exploitation Indigenous Knowledge Poetry

Hearts Raging

Feb. 14, 2023

We are in our 6th millennia of patriarchy, and as this episode’s guest Susan Hawthorne puts it, “the publicity program for patriarchy has been going for some 5,000 years”. As a poet, author and founder of the feminist publis…

Orgasm At Any Cost
Gender Feminism Sex Transgender Movement Patriarchy Sexual Exploitation

Orgasm At Any Cost

Jan. 31, 2023

If we were to devise a mechanism by which male power writ large can reach the innermost center of female power - and maim or destroy it - it would look like the internet-fueled sexual exploitation industries that are now in …

The Girls Work
Gender Feminism Patriarchy Psychology Moral Development

The Girls Work

Jan. 17, 2023

What happens in the course of our childhood that shapes girls and boys so differently? Why do men and women end up with such vastly different psychologies and moralities? Those are questions Carol Gilligan has grappled with …

Shakespeare’s Murderers
Politics Male Violence Patriarchy Art

Shakespeare’s Murderers

Jan. 3, 2023

Centuries before psychoanalysis was born, William Shakespeare was analyzing the root causes of male violence and giving detailed, intimate, almost microscopic second-to-second descriptions of what goes on in the minds and he…