Gender Studies Free Audio & Video

This speech, recited before court in 1873 is one of the greatest statements ever made on behalf of women's suffrage.

The final segment of the Women Have Always Worked series begins with an examination of how the Cold War reinforced the ideals of the suburban, nuclear family and how these ideals impacted women's trajectory towards independence and equality.

In this lecture linguistics professor and bestselling author Deborah Tannen describes many of the basic differences between in communication between men and women.

Pace Law School hosts a debate on gay marriage with David Blankenhorn, author of The Future of Marriage, and Evan Wolfson, author of Why Marriage Matters: America, Equality, and Gay People's Right to Marry.

What if you went to a school where it was actually alright to be who you really are?

The goal of this course is to explore the psychology of gender through an understanding of biological and archetypal dimensions of Female/Male, Feminine/Masculine and contra-sexuality as a basis for gender differences, social behaviors, roles and public policies.

Literary icon Susan Sontag gives a lecture on pornography at 92nd Street Y on November 2, 1964. Titled "On Classical Pornography," Sontag discusses the differences between how elicit materials are perceived around the world at a time in America when pornography was referred to as "smut."

Sunitha Krishnan has dedicated her life to rescuing women and children from sex slavery, a multimilion-dollar global market.

Dr. Ruth Westheimer is an American sex therapist, media personality, and author. Best known as Dr. Ruth, the New York Times described her as a "Sorbonne-trained psychologist who became a kind of cultural icon in the 1980s."

Author and activist Isabel Allende discusses women, creativity, the definition of feminism -- and, of course, passion -- in this talk.