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Lynn Freed – Reflections on a Life

The Mirror The personal journal is often not meant for the eyes of anyone but the writer. When a stranger’s journal is read, the reader often becomes a voyeur to the innermost secrets of another. And whether it is a true journal or one of fiction, who cares? Often, it remains a good story. Lynn […]

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enDecember 12, 1997

Joan Jacobs Brumberg – An Intimate History of American Girls

The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls Advertising has had a major effect on how we view our bodies and on our individual self-image. The history of how this advertising has come to affect American girls as they pass through menarche and adolescence is presented in a book called “The Body Project: An […]

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enOctober 21, 1997

Blanche Boyd – Self-Styled Outlaw Lesbians

Terminal Velocity The concept of memoir versus fiction leads many authors to transform their personal experiences and life to fiction. Blanche Boyd is a native of South Carolina and a Professor of Literature at Connecticut College. She is also the author of the book entitled, “Terminal Velocity.” This is a book about a group of […]

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enAugust 19, 1997

Bettina Aptheker – The Personal is the Political

Tapestries of Life: Women’s Work, Women’s Consciousness, and the Meaning of Daily Experience Political intimacy is closely related to personal intimacy, just as social change is related to personal change. In 1997 Bettina Aptheker, the author of Tapestries of Life: Women’s Work, Women’s Consciousness, and the Meaning of Daily Experience, was a professor of women’s […]

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enFebruary 19, 1997

Amy Bloom – Love as Creator

Love Invents Us Amy Bloom is a Connecticut-based author and psychotherapist and the author of a novel entitled “Love Invents Us.” This book, the enactment of psychological theory about human behavior, also traces the intimate details in the life of Elizabeth Howe from her childhood to middle age. I spoke with Amy Bloom by phone […]

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enFebruary 12, 1997

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Episodes (65)

Lynn Freed – Reflections on a Life

Joan Jacobs Brumberg – An Intimate History of American Girls

Blanche Boyd – Self-Styled Outlaw Lesbians

Bettina Aptheker – The Personal is the Political

Amy Bloom – Love as Creator