How to Free the 90s Bitch
Unladylike
Unladylike Media
4.8 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2019
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
The 1990s were supposed to be the "decade of women," but it became all about the bitches instead. Caroline and Cristen put on their velvet chokers for a feminist 90s-nostalgia trip with journalist Allison Yarrow, author of 90s Bitch: Media, Culture, and the Failed Promise of Gender Equality. Tune in to discover the bitchification backlash against the decade's leading unladies, like Monica Lewinsky, Lorena Bobbitt, and Hillary Clinton.
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| 0:35.2 | in the closet but I did find George Michael in there. My dad was the manager of the local football club |
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| 1:02.4 | I mean we saw Sally Ride go to space and we saw Geraldine Ferrara secure the vice presidential |
| 1:10.3 | nomination on a major political party ticket. Tony Morrison and Alice Walker won Pulitzer Prizes |
| 1:17.3 | for Women's Centered Fiction and it just felt like women were ascending. |
| 1:23.2 | Hey y'all and welcome to a lady like the show that finds out what happens when women break the rules. |
| 1:49.3 | I'm Caroline I'm Kristen and Caroline you and I have a lot in common with today's guest Alison |
| 1:55.7 | Yaro we all grew up in the south in the 90s with all of its girl power glitz and butterfly clips |
| 2:04.0 | but we were also kind of sheltered from feminism and that sense of rising gender equality with you |
| 2:09.9 | know like women go into space and making waves and politics arts culture yeah like I did not know |
| 2:16.8 | until talking to Alison that the 90s were supposed to be the so-called decade of women yeah I hadn't |
| 2:23.9 | really thought about it either but a few years ago when Alison started taking a closer look at |
| 2:29.0 | what was happening for women while we were girls what really went down during that decade of women |
| 2:34.7 | stunned her. I got really excited to say like oh look at all of these major news stories that were |
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