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GRITtv: Nawal El Saadawi: What is Democracy?
"We live in one world, not three. I'm very much against that we have three worlds. We have one world dominated by the same system," says Nawal El Saadawi, the pioneering Egyptian feminist thinker. In part two of her conversation with Laura, Dr. Saadawi elaborates on what real democracy would look like, in Egypt and around the world, on the connections between capitalism, patriarchy, and religious fundamentalism--and not just Islamic religious fundamentalism. Distributed by Tubemogul.
Email this pageGRITtv: REFRAKA: Giving Haitian Women A Voice
REFRAKA, a Creole acronym for Women's Community Radio Network, was founded in Haiti in 2001 as a way to make women's voices heard around the country. On January 12, it took on a new meaning as, like many other organizations in Haiti, it suffered from the earthquake. Nevertheless, REFRAKA has continued to not only restructure Haiti's patriarchal society, but now integrates rural women's opinions on this historical tragedy as well as the reconstruction process into the media.
GRITtv: Kathryn Joyce: The Quiverfull Movement
We may be living in what Kathryn Joyce calls a "pop cultural moment of preoccupation with large families." We have the Duggars, a family of 18 children who quote Psalm 127:3 on their website, "Children are a heritage of the Lord…," and the Gosselins of John and Kate Plus Eight, who seem to be just about everywhere right now. You can bet that there are probably plans for new shows and new series. But what about the ideology, philosophy, and teachings that shape the lives of families like the Duggars? It has received far less attention. After Nadya Suleman gave birth to octuplets Joyce, writing in RH Reality Check had this to say about the obsession with Suleman’s experience: "In terms of reproductive matters of national concern, one woman's idiosyncratic and likely tragic choices seem to pale beside a movement that insists on similarly large and labor-intensive broods of children for women and raises daughters to see this as the only blueprint for their lives. It says something about where we are as a country that the former isolated case attracts more concern than the existence of the latter as a growing movement." Joyce, the author of Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement, discusses the men and women behind the movement, its ideological foundations, and its cultural and political significance. She has written for Slate’s Double X, The Nation Magazine, Salon, Mother Jones and numerous other publications. You can see more of her work at Kathrynjoyce.com.
