Monday, May 6, 2018: Jenny Brown talks about Birth Strike

As people around the country prepare to celebrate Mother's Day, we contemplate the reality that U.S. women are having fewer children than ever before. What are the social conditions and personal decisions leading to this development, and how does it change our concepts of family and even of womanhood?

Next we speak with Jenny Brown, organizer with National Women's Liberation and author of Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight Over Women's Work. "By some measures our birth rate is the lowest it has ever been.  With little access to childcare, family leave, health care, and with insufficient male participation, U.S. women are conducting a spontaneous birth strike," says Jenny Brown on her Birth Strike Blog. The Birth Strike has four demands: national health care, universal childcare, paid parental leave and shorter working hours.

Click here to listen to the show. 59:50 min

Also on today's show:
Writers Grace Talusan and Nayomi Munaweera
Comics Diane Amos and Lisa Geduldig

Monday, April 2, 2018: Mothering Middle-Aged Daughters

This week on KPFA Women's Magazine, Sandy Butler, coauthor of IT NEVER ENDS: Mothering Middle-Aged Daughters, talks about the challenges for women in remaining close - but not too close - to their daughters as they age. Butler is the author of two previous books, Conspiracy of Silence: The Trauma of Incest; and the Lambda award-winning Cancer in Two Voices. IT NEVER ENDS was a collaboration with Nan Fink Gefen.



Click here to listen to entire show. 55:28 min



SAN FRANCISCO VILLAGE READING

San Francisco Village
3220 Fulton St
San Francisco
Sunday, April 8, 2018 
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm


Also on today's show:
Women Directors Struggle for Opportunity
Previewing SF International Film Festival