6. False Hope

Episode five of "The Point: Rebellion and Resistance in Boston Public Housing." In the turmoil of busing, Betty Ann Jones advocates armed defense while Betty Washington and Dorothy Haskins lead a wade-in to protest segregation. Support us on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/peopl ... Show More

Episode four of "The Point: Rebellion and Resistance in Boston Public Housing." Sisters Angie Irving and Linda Wade bring the Black Panthers to Columbia Point. Support us on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/peopleshistorypod 

Episode three of "The Point: Rebellion and Resistance in Boston Public Housing." Tenants take their growing dissatisfaction and aim it at their landlord, the Boston Housing Authority. Support us on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/peopleshistorypod 

When Simone de Beauvoir died in 1986, French TV news described her as a “symbol of women’s liberation,” but they couldn’t resist bracketing her name with that of Jean-Paul Sartre, her lifelong partner. Almost four decades later, Beauvoir’s reputation as a pioneering feminist thin ... Show More

Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) is one of the most remarkable books in the history of ideas. A classic of early feminism, it uses what’s wrong with the relationship between men and women to illustrate what’s gone wrong with politics. It’s a story ... Show More

Stéphane Bern raconte, à l'occasion de la journée internationales des droits des femmes, une des pionnières de la politique, une femme qui a changé la vie de beaucoup d’autres, une femme qui a changé le droit, et notamment celui de l’avortement, alors que l’IVG vient, près de 50 ... Show More

"I totally support the politics of coming out, but at the same time, I'm critical of the assumption that one's identity has to be the major driving force that determines one's politics."  For the final episode of our season, Angela Davis joins us to talk about how to keep pushing ... Show More

While the Suffragettes were fighting to win the vote, over in Germany, Rosa Luxemburg was focused on overthrowing the entire system. A committed Marxist revolutionary and a fervent advocate of internationalism, Luxemburg believed that true freedom lay beyond ‘bourgeois democracy’ ... Show More

In this episode we welcome Gabriel Rockhill to the podcast to discuss his latest piece “The Myth of 1968 Thought and the French Intelligentsia: Historical Commodity Fetishism and Ideological Rollback” which is out this month, in the June issue of Monthly Review. Gabriel Rockhill ... Show More

Simone de Beauvoir was a pioneer for the second-wave feminist movement and one of the most famous philosophers to have lived. Strikingly, Beauvoir did not label herself as a philosopher, since she never attempted to provide an original treatise which aimed to fully encapsulate th ... Show More

Aphra Behn was a true original. Not only was she the first woman to earn a living by writing, she was also a spy, a political propagandist and a revolutionary. Publicly she was all brash sexuality and outspoken politics, but what is known about the woman beneath? Professor Suzann ... Show More

Simone de Beauvoir was a pioneer for the second-wave feminist movement and one of the most famous philosophers to have lived. Strikingly, Beauvoir did not label herself as a philosopher, since she never attempted to provide an original treatise which aimed to fully encapsulate th ... Show More

Mary Harrington, author of Feminism Against Progress, joins us to discuss her journey to becoming a reactionary feminist, how embracing traditional feminine values in the face of unchecked "progress" is both liberating and essential for women, and how progressive feminism is a de ... Show More