Iconic feminist Germaine Greer joins us with her re-imagined life of Shakespeare’s wife, Anne Hathaway.

Susie Orbach wrote “Fat Is a Feminist Issue.” We listen to what she’s saying now on bodies and beauty.

Ms. Clinton, Ms. Obama, Ms. Palin. They’ve riveted, and divided, the nation — and sparked fresh debates about gender and sexism. We’ll hear women’s views on the women of ‘08.

Susan Faludi was a Pulitzer prize-winning reporter who, in the 1990s, walked away from daily deadlines to become a big-time feminist interpreter of American life. She’s tough and she’s startling.
Now, Faludi is looking at post-9/11 America, and here’s what she sees: a frightened country that has retreated to a core national myth from the wells [...]

Novelist Doris Lessing waited a long time for her Nobel. At almost 88, there’s never been an older winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, announced yesterday in Stockholm.
But Doris Lessing has always been on her own path. As a girl in colonial Rhodesia who broke out of convent school and made herself a writer. [...]