Thirteen half-hour programs illustrating with dramatization the changing status of women in America from colonial times to the present day, plus a one-hour panel discussion on modern-day problems.An online collection of early educational public radio content from the National Association of Educational Broadcasters (NAEB).
https://www.unlockingtheairwaves.org/programs/american-woman-in-fact-and-fiction/
Gesamtlänge aller Episoden:
Lucretia Mott
Because she is a woman, the Quaker anti-suffragist is refused a seat as delegate to the World's Anti-Slavery Convention in London, 1840.
Liberty, equality, fraternity
Woman in the Revolutionary War period; The Case of Polly Baker by Benjamin Franklin; the letters of Abigail Adams; Alcuin, by Charles Brockden Brown.
The suffrage victory
The last campaigns for women's suffrage; scenes from Sinclair Lewis' Anne Vickers.
Whistlin' girls
Lucy Stone goes to college; the Bloomer Girl appears on the American scene; Susan B. Anthony speaks.
Roundtable, part two
Conclusion to one-hour panel discussion. See previous entry for list of participants. Also participating in this portion of the discussion are psychiatrist Anna Maenchen and series writer Virginia Maynard.
A woman speaks
Anne Hutchinson, great Puritan advocate of freedom of speech and religion, is banished for acting upon her beliefs.
A question of justice
The search for motive in a murder case reveals subtle aspects of men's behavior toward women, and women's reaction.
The yellow wallpaper
An overprotected woman retreats into insanity: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's harrowing tale.
The womanly woman
The new American girl appears in literature: dramatization from William Dean Howells' Lady of the Aroostook.