Feminism

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4.6 • 978 Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 1999

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most important events of the 20th century - the rise of Feminism and the subsequent empowerment of women. What have been the most important and lasting changes for women in the last 100 years and what is there still left to achieve? Are the biological differences between men and women insuperable? Is the feminist movement therefore set on a course it is inevitably bound to lose? Is the ideology of feminism in other words, working against our natural inclinations?If a man were to say “men are by nature more competitive, ambitious, status-conscious, dedicated, single-minded and persevering than women” then you could be forgiven for calling him anti-diluvian, blinkered and worse. But this is the express view of Dr Helena Cronin from the London School of Economics - a philosopher who has concentrated on Darwinian theory which she claims has never seriously been applied to humans. Joining her is Dr Germaine Greer whose book The Female Eunuch is credited with changing the lives of a generation of women. With Dr Helena Cronin, Co-director of the Centre for the Philosophy of the Natural and Social Sciences, London School of Economics; Dr Germaine Greer, Professor of English and Comparative Studies, Warwick University.

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0:45.6	Hello today I'm joined by the academic and feminist writer germann grier and the Darwinian philosopher
0:50.9	Helena Cronin to discuss the rise of feminism and the subsequent
0:54.7	empowerment of women in the 20th century.
0:57.6	Are the biological differences between men and women insuperable?
1:01.0	Is the feminist movement therefore set under course it's inevitably bound to lose.
1:05.2	Dr. Helena Cronin is co-director of the Center for the Philosophy of the Natural and Social Sciences
1:10.0	at the London School of Economics.
1:11.8	She is a philosopher who's concentrated on Darwinian
1:14.2	theory. Her books include The Ant and the Peacock, Altorism and Sexual Selection from
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