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Producer: Elanor McInerney
Broadcast: Friday 5 February 2010
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Nina Power is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Roehampton University, and writes the blog Infinite ThØught. She discusses her new book, One-Dimensional Woman ( Zero Books), a critique of the kind of contemporary feminism that poses women as thriving in consumer capitalism.
Where have all the interesting women gone? If the contemporary portrayal of womankind were to be believed, contemporary female achievement would culminate in the ownership of expensive handbags, a vibrator, a job, a flat and a man. How has it come to this? That the height of supposed female emancipation coincides so perfectly with consumerism is a miserable index of a politically desolate time. Much contemporary feminism, particularly in its American formulation, doesn't seem too concerned about this coincidence.
This short book is partly an attack on the apparent abdication of any systematic political thought on the part of today's positive, up-beat feminists. It suggests alternative ways of thinking about transformations in work, sexuality and culture that, while seemingly far-fetched in the current ideological climate, may provide more serious material for future feminism.
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20TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL
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On
the Record: 20 Years of Women's Radio
A special radio series funded by the Victorian
Women's Trust, featuring archive audio from 20 years of Women
On The Line.
Read more about On The Record at projects, or listen below:
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#1. Feminists Making Waves ♫
#2. Violence & The Law ♫
#3. Survival ♫
#4. Dismantling the Glass Ceiling ♫
#5. Affirmative Politics ♫
#6. Not The Same ♫
#7. A Question Of Choice ♫
#8. Advertising Bodies ♫
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CBAA Highly Commended for Best
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RECENT PAST PROGRAMS |
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SUMMER PROGRAMMING
Highlights from 2009
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After The Apology Friday 29 January 2010
Art and Politics: Iran & Israel Friday 22 January 2010
The Women of Balibo Friday 15 January 2010
Malalai Joya Friday 8 January 2010
Family Law Review Friday 1 January 2010 |
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Braille & Community Development
Producer: Rachel O’Connell
Broadcast: Friday 25 December
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International Day for Persons with a Disability was marked on 3 December, We hear some personal stories by and about women with a disability. Melbourne writer Rebecca Maxwell tells the history of Braille, and Patricia Woodcroft-Lee talks about her aid work in East Timor.
Rebecca Maxwell is the author of Blind and Busy: Life stories of people who use Braille. She spoke to 3CR's Helen Gwilliam about Louis Braille and about the barriers between society and the visually impaired. Patricia Woodcroft-Lee works for Vision Australia, and has been volunteering in East Timor since it won independence in 1999. She has low vision and has worked to support people in East Timor who are affected by vision impairments.
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Will The White Paper Get Us Home?
Producer: Maja Graham
Broadcast: Friday 18 December 2009
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After decades of political neglect the Rudd Government has initiated a dialogue on homelessness. This time last year the government released their Homelessness White Paper - The Road Home, outlining their strategy for halving homelessness by 2020. What do people working in the homelessness sector think?
Julie Oberin (Homelessness Australia and WESNET) discusses the current governmental approach. Michelle Falzon & Monica Fuller talk about StreetSmart Australia’s current ‘Dine Out to Help Out’ campaign. Natalie Susman from The Big Issue shares with us the details of a new program to be launched next year which solely focuses on women and a new role they can play at The Big Issue.
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Irene Khan & Kate Gilmore: Amnesty’s Decade of Female Leadership
Producer: Elanor McInerney
Broadcast: Friday 11 December 2009
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For the first decade of this century, the world’s largest human rights organisation, Amnesty International, has been led by women. In 2001, Irene Khan became Amnesty’s first female Secretary General. In that same year her deputy, Kate Gilmore, joined Amnesty’s International Secretariat after heading the organisation in Australia.
So what difference has a decade of female leadership at Amnesty International made to the gender blindness in human rights? Two examples stand out. In 2004 Amnesty launched a global campaign to stop violence against women, and in 2007 called for the decriminalisation of abortion worldwide. Irene Khan and Kate Gilmore recently visited Australia, and today we’ll hear them discussing these decisions, and the importance of having women’s rights at the centre of human rights advocacy.
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16 Days Of Activism
Producer: Jaye Hardy
Broadcast: Friday 4 December 2009
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This week the program falls within the 16 Days of Activism to End Violence Against Women, encompassing four significant dates: the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, World AIDS Day, the anniversary of the 1991 Montreal massacre where 14 women engineering students were gunned down for being feminists (which caused Canadian men to start a campaign to urge men to speak out against violence against women, symbolised by the White Ribbon), culminating on World Human Rights Day to highlight the connection between women, violence and human rights.
We’ll hear from Donna Carson, a survivor of domestic violence and outspoken advocate for victim rights and women who have experienced domestic violence. She spoke at one of the many White Ribbon breakfasts held around the country on 25 November. And author and feminist Emily Maguire discusses the collision of lived experiences with the myth of a post-feminist world.
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