Monday's girls
A grandmother named Monday Moses in the island town of Ogoloma, Nigeria is responsible for taking the young girls of the village through the rites of passage from girlhood into womanhood so that they will be ready for ma..
Mothers of Bedford
Women are the fastest-growing U.S. prison population today. Eighty percent are mothers of school-age children. Jenifer McShane's absorbing documentary gives human dimensions to these rarely reported statistics, taking us..
Much ado about nothing
Claudio and Hero are engaged, but the jealous Don John tries to thwart the wedding by denouncing Hero as unchaste. Meanwhile, Beatrice and Benedick, who scorn each other, become betrothed as a result of the schemes of th..
Muhammad: The Voice of God
"There is among you the messenger of God, the future prophet whom the gospel has announced as the successor of Jesus." This program narrates the biography of Muhammad, a merchant from Mecca, reportedly called by Allah to..
Multiple Genders: Mind and Body in Conflict
Instinctively, we say there are two sexes. But does this always reflect reality? In this program, Dr. Stephen Whittle argues that it does not. Whittle further contends that society must recognize transsexuals, like himse..
New Economics 101: The True Wealth in the New Economy
Economist and bestselling author Juliet Schor lays out a positive vision for rethinking our relationship to consumer goods in this accessible and timely analysis of the devastating ecological, social, and personal costs ..
No Bone Unturned: Bioarchaeology and Forensic Anthropology
This ABC News program spotlights the work of Doug Owsley, curator at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History, who is a keen interpreter of the silent yet expressive language of bones. Owsley an..
Not Just a Game
We’ve been told again and again that sports and politics don’t mix, that games are just games and athletes should just "shut up and play." But according to Nation magazine sports editor Dave Zirin, this notion is ju..
Nushu: A Hidden Language of Women in China
In feudal China, women, usually with bound feet, were denied educational opportunities and condemned to social isolation. But in Jian-yong county in Hunan province, peasant women miraculously developed a separate written..
Obedience
Considered one of the most famous experimental studies in psychology of all time, Obedience focuses on the conflict between obedience to authority and personal conscience. Conceived in the wake of the World War II crimin..