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Voices In The Family February 20112/7/11 
In 1963, women and men read a book that transformed their lives. Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique told women it was not their fault they felt trapped and restlessly unhappy as stay at home housewives and mothers. On the next Voices in the Family producer Jennifer Lynn fills in for Dan Gottlieb to talk with author and historian Stephanie Coontz about the build up to The Feminine Mystique and how both genders have been affected over this last half century. In her new book, A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s, Coontz draws on extensive research and interviews to examine women's changing status. She also sheds light on new mystiques women and men face today. Coontz is the Director of Research and Public Education at the Council on Contemporary Families. She teaches history and family studies at The Evergreen State College in Washington. We'll also hear from Marissa Golden, associate professor of political science at Bryn Mawr College, where she teaches a course called "Women, Work, and Family." ONLINE POLL: What do you say to a woman who feels she has never experienced discrimination for being female? Have you experienced it, in the distant or recent past? What was it like? Is there anything that you must do or cannot do because you are female? View responses » 2/14/11 
On this Valentine's Day, sweethearts will focus on passion but what about compassion. True love that endures requires an unconditional love - a love without reason. Such an expression of acceptance is also helpful when we create caring relationships that last a lifetime with our children, our communties - and ourselves. On the next Voices in the Family, guest host Maiken Scott explores all manner of love with Stephen Post, Ph.D. and Renay Bradley, Ph.D. Post directs the Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics in the Department of Preventive Medicine at Stony Brook University Medical Center. His new book is called The Hidden Gifts of Helping. Bradley is the Research Director for the Relationship Research Institute and has worked extensively with the Executive Director, John Gottman, developing and implementing programs and analyzing data from studies exploring parenting, marriage, and family relationships. 2/28/11 
The Big C is a new comedy-drama on Showtime that uses the story of a woman's battle with cancer to point out that in the face of death, we may find a greater appreciation of life, enjoying it to its fullest. Certainly, there's no time like the present when diagnosed with a terminal illness. And sorting out life with a limited future has its challenges. But isn't that the reality for all of us? Perhaps our values come into clear focus when our lives become more fragile. Join Dan Gottlieb on the next Voices in the Family for a discussion about living life in the face of death, with Jenny Bicks, Dr. Irv Yalom, and Dr. Mark Cato. Bicks is the executive producer of The Big C whose own experience with breast cancer has helped inform her work. Yalom is a psychiatrist and professor at Stanford University who wrote about coping with death anxiety in Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death, and Cato blogs about his life with Lou Gehrig's Disease. The blog is called Dying to Live. |
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