And two of my last women’s history lectures for the year, taped and uploaded as always by Mon-Shane Chou:

June 1, on Second Wave feminism’s successes, “daring to disappoint”, and how opportunities turned into obligations

June 3, on men in the feminist movement (and a few autobiographical notes)

I just gave one lecture this week in women’s history, on abortion. The link to the audio file is here. I touched on Roe, Griswold, the right to privacy, the notion of quickening as the starting point for life, and the visit of Justice for All, the anti-abortion group, to our campus. Thanks to Mon-Shane Chou for recording and uploading the lecture.

Two more lectures from Mon-Shane Chou’s trusty tape-recorder are up online:

Tuesday’s on Betty Friedan, the Feminine Mystique, and mother-daughter relationships

Thursday’s on NOW, Second Wave Feminism, Comparable Worth, and Sexual Harassment

Mon-Shane has this past week’s two lectures up for download.

May 11: On women in World War Two, the baby boom, and men’s enthusiasm for marriage.

May 13: On Playboy, porn, everlasting novelty, and the flight from commitment

Tuesday’s lecture on contraception and the history of birth control is available for download here.

Yesterday’s lecture on liquid feminism and incremental sexuality is here.

I’ve been exhausted all week, and so neither reflects me at my best. Thanks as always are due to Mon-Shane Chou for faithfully recording and posting them.

Thanks to Mon-Shane Chou, three more lectures from my women’s history class are now available in audio files for download.

April 15: On the Love Hurts/Love Conquers All discourses (inspired by Lynn Phillipps)

April 27: A history of the fashion industry and the revolutionary sheath dress of Paul Poiret

April 29: Dieting, pleasure, and the moral language of food

Mon-Shane has two of my women’s history lectures up. The first riffs on Jessica Valenti’s Full Frontal Feminism and the myth of female frailty, the second deals with issues of race and politics. Download and distribute; they are in the public domain.

Mon-Shane has posted another lecture of mine, on feminism and utopian communities: Nashoba, the Shakers, and the Oneida Community. Free love, celibacy, male continence, and varying paths to equality…

Plan is to get these all on iTunes one of these days, or at least onto one site. But in this category, you can download others.

Yesterday’s History 25B lecture (on the Declaration of Sentiments, 1848, and the central importance of independence, self-respect, and self-confidence) is up here. Thanks as always to Mon-Shane Chou.