WAMC: 51% Show # 994 (2008-07-31)

51 % The Women's Perspective

51% Show # 994

(2008-07-31)

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ALBANY, NY (WAMC) - BILLBOARD - Susan Barnett(:45) (Music Out)
Angelina Jolie admits she has been transformed by her passion for helping the children of the world. Before becoming a goodwill ambassador for the UN, she was best known for her tattoos and self-destructive habits. Princess Diana was transformed as well...her marriage to England's Prince of Wales pulled her out of the classroom and propelled her onto the world stage. Women often find themselves in an entirely new life, either through coincidence, chance or marriage. Sometimes they comfortably adapt...but sometimes they don't. In Japan, Masako Owada was expected to be that country's Lady Di...an intelligent, independent, modern woman who would redefine the role of women in the royal family. Instead, according to a book by Ben Hills, she's crumbling under the weight of hundreds of years of tradition. It's called Princess Masako, Prisoner of the Chrysanthemum Throne...and it was not well received by the government of Japan. I spoke with Keith Brown, an anthropologist, an expert on Japanese culture and former head of the Asian Studies Department at .the University of Pittsburgh....

8:00 Princess Masako - - Barnett

Princess Masako, Prisoner of the Chrysanthemum Throne, The Tragic True Story of Japan's Crown Princess, is published by Tarcher Penguin. It was not released in Japan. Dr. Keith Brown of the University of Pittsburgh is the subject of an upcoming documentary on his experiences in a Japanese village.
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SHOW BREAK - Coming up on 51%... another woman under the influence....this time, one who blossomed after she was given the room to grow..

If you missed part of our show, you can listen to 51% anytime. Just download our podcast at wamc.org or call 1-800-323-9262 to order a CD - you'll need to know the program number. This week's show is #994.
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My mother, like many women of her generation, adored Eleanor Roosevelt. Eleanor, a rather plain girl from a wealthy family, expected to stay in the background and raise a family as her ambitious husband, Franklin, pursued his political dreams. Instead, she became his legs, eyes and ears after polio confined him to a wheelchair. As the country slowly recovered from the Depression, Mrs. Roosevelt was everywhere...at a county fair, in a coal mine, visiting hospitals and schools. Not everyone thought it was her place to travel in the president's place. But he asked, and she did it. As part of Edward R. Murrow's classic radio series, This I Believe , Mrs. Roosevelt spoke from the heart. This is radio gold...and a rare insight into the mind of a woman who helped guide this country through one of its darkest hours.

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After FDR's death, Eleanor Roosevelt continued to work...with perhaps her greatest achievement being the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations ...a document ratified forty years ago this year.

NSF

Today as part of the National Science Foundations The Sounds of Progress project, producer Mary Darcy and narrator Kate Mulgrew profile Marie Lavoisier...the mother of modern chemistry. It wasn't the path she expected...but it was the one she traveled, and conquered.

2:00 NSF #18 Marie Lavoisier

If you'd like to find out more or hear more in this series, visit womeninscience.org.

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That's it for this edition of 51%
Thanks for listening. If you have any comments about today's program or ideas for future shows, please email me at sbarnett@wamc.org. For 51%, I'm Susan Barnett.

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