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Feminist Files

 Leigh Fondakowski, Frequency Machine

Activist Pauli Murray said that all you needed to start a revolution is a typewriter… And a lot of guts.

This is the story of how Title IX came to pass and how the women behind the scenes in Washington, D.C. created the academic sex revolution. The nerdy revolutionaries: Bunny Sandler, Patsy T. Mink, Edith Green, and Pauli Murray, among others—women who left behind clues about their lives, not just what they achieved, but how they did it, and who they were, little pieces that we pick up and find along the way.

The Feminist Files is a series that digs down into the nitty-gritty of change and mobilization: how it actually happened, how women organized and how the opposition organized against them. The blood, sweat, and tears of that movement. The revolution which led in 1972 to the passage of Title IX: 37 words that changed the world.

Host Leigh Fondakowski and an all-star cast led by Jodie Foster and Samira Wiley, dig deep into the archives to uncover and reveal the secret origin of Title IX.

Society & Culture Documentary Politics History
Update frequency
every 7 days
Average duration
32 minutes
Episodes
12
Years Active
2022
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EP 10: The Finale: Bring it On

EP 10: The Finale: Bring it On

As we come full circle, Bunny’s unique form of activism takes flight, while Rora makes a connection that changes her life forever.
00:44:13  |   Wed 31 Aug 2022
EP 9: A Mystery Solved

EP 9: A Mystery Solved

As Pauli Murray breaks new ground yet again, they reflect on the slow work of change, and how many “lost causes” can, by taking the long view, eventually be won.
00:34:33  |   Wed 24 Aug 2022
EP 8: Patsy and Wendy: Think Mink

EP 8: Patsy and Wendy: Think Mink

As Patsy Takemoto Mink - the first woman of color in Congress - leads the charge to defend Title IX, she’s forced to choose between the survival of the bill… and of her own daughter.
00:43:16  |   Wed 17 Aug 2022
EP 7: The Ordeal of 1973

EP 7: The Ordeal of 1973

Why did Pauli Murray leave the movement and their tenure track position at Brandeis after fighting hard to reach the pinnacle of their profession?
00:37:45  |   Wed 10 Aug 2022
A Pause Between Acts

A Pause Between Acts

And now, a pause between the acts...
00:08:26  |   Wed 27 Jul 2022
EP 6: Under the Radar

EP 6: Under the Radar

Leigh returns to the Schlesinger Library and discovers letters chronicling the growing friendship between Bunny Sandler and Pauli Murray - all against the backdrop of the stealth campaign for what wo…
00:43:53  |   Wed 20 Jul 2022
EP 5: Pauli, Roy & Tim, and The Mysterious Tape Recording That Shouldn’t Exist

EP 5: Pauli, Roy & Tim, and The Mysterious Tape Recording That Shouldn’t Exist

There were no official audio or video recordings of the Edith Green hearings on sex discrimination... or were there?
00:29:40  |   Wed 13 Jul 2022
EP 4: On the Record

EP 4: On the Record

As the hearings continue, Edith Green dives into territory beyond education and leading to tense testimony about a loaded question - which is worse: sexism or racism in America?
00:34:19  |   Wed 06 Jul 2022
EP 3: Bunny Goes to Washington

EP 3: Bunny Goes to Washington

Representative Edith Green of Oregon, wants to hold hearings about sex discrimination, but she doesn’t think she has the evidence she needs to do anything about it – until she meets Bunny Sandler.
00:33:54  |   Wed 29 Jun 2022
EP 2: You Come On Too Strong... For a Woman

EP 2: You Come On Too Strong... For a Woman

Bunny Sandler (Jodie Foster) discovers the footnote that will become the legal basis for Title IX - and uses it to start taking on the most powerful universities in the nation.
00:37:55  |   Wed 22 Jun 2022
EP 1: Great Aunt Bunny

EP 1: Great Aunt Bunny

What happens when nobody is left who remembers a story? We bridge the generational gap to resurrect a lost part of the history of Title IX.
00:33:21  |   Wed 15 Jun 2022
Introducing Feminist Files - Starring Jodie Foster

Introducing Feminist Files - Starring Jodie Foster

Host Leigh Fondakowski and an all-star cast led by Jodie Foster and Samira Wiley, dig deep into the archives to uncover and reveal the secret origin of Title IX.
00:03:51  |   Thu 02 Jun 2022
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