What does it take to prove rape?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about what happens to women when they report rape. According to the Department of Justice, 300,000 women are raped every year in the US, but less than one percent of rapes result in incarceration. So what does justice mean for rape survivors? Join us live at 10 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. How does the criminal system treat the accusers and the accused? It's your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Julie Baltzley, a case manager for San Francisco Women Against Rape

Julie Posadas-Guzman, an advocate with Bay Area Women Against Rape and President of JPG Consultants

Wendi Deetz, a teacher at Alive & Kicking Self Defense, a non-profit women's self-defense teaching cooperative based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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What's the problem with pink?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Peggy Orenstein, author of Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture. How is the image of the princess or ballerina bathed in pink related to girl power, feminism, and our culture's complicated relationship to girls and their sexuality? Join us live at 10 or send an email to feedback@yourcallradio.org. Has there been a resurgence of girlie-girl culture? And if you're you one of the parents who resists it, why? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guest:
Peggy Orenstein, author of Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture

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What is the women's movement today and how did we get here?

On the next Your Call, we begin a two-part special about the state of the women's movement, how we got here, and where we're going. What were the feminists of the 70s fighting for? What gains have women made? And what have they lost? How do you measure progress for women? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. We'll have an intergenerational conversation. What can the older generation of women's rights activists teach to the younger generation? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Loretta Ross, national coordinator of SisterSong

Norma Swenson, professor of women and health at the Harvard School of Public Health and co-author of Our Bodies, Ourselves

Mariam Saeed, student of political science at SF State University and intern with Your Call

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How has the birth control pill changed women's lives?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Elaine Tyler May, professor of American Studies at the University of Minnesota and author of America and the Pill: A History of Promise, Peril, and Liberation. Around 100 million women world-wide including 12 million women in the United States take a form of regular oral contraceptive. What should we be celebrating as the pill turns 50 this year? What are the Pill's downsides?

Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What effect has the pill had on your life? Do you think it has been good for society as a whole? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Elaine Tyler May, professor of American Studies at the University of Minnesota and author of America and the Pill: A History of Promise, Peril and Liberation

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Your Call 060309 How do we support access to abortion services?

What can be done to support access to abortion services? On the next Your Call we'll talk about guaranteeing the legacy of Dr. George Tiller, assassinated in his church for providing abortions to women who wanted them. Eight abortion providers have been killed in the last thirty years and 87 percent of U.S. counties have no abortion provider. What is it like to provide women with constitutionally protected health care? What help do providers need? Join us live at 11 am or send us an email feedback@yourcallradio.org. How can this tragedy be transformed into an opportunity to strengthen the pro-choice movement? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Gloria Feldt
Former national president and CEO of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America

Michelle Goldberg in New York
Author of The Means Of Reproduction: Sex, Power, And The Future Of The World

Jennifer Baumgardner in New York
Author of Abortion And Life

Merle Hoffman in New York
Director of CHOICES Women's Medical Center on Long Island

Megan J. Peterson in Boston
Deputy director of the National Network of Abortion Funds

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Your Call 041609 Who controls the means of reproduction?

Who controls the means of reproduction? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Michelle Goldberg, author of The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power and the Future of the World. Botched abortions kill 70,000 women every year worldwide. What's being done to protect them? You can join the conversation by email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. How is the religious right curtailing women's reproductive health around the world? And who's fighting that powerful force? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Michelle Goldberg, a journalist and the author of The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power, and the Future of the World

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Your Call 030909 How has U.S. foreign policy affected women in the Middle East?

How has U.S. foreign policy affected women in the Middle East and at home? On the next Your Call, we'll mark International Women's Day by speaking with women's rights activists about what changes they expect to see under Obama administration. In the run up to the invasion of Iraq, the Bush administration took to the airwaves promising it would "liberate women," but the realities tell a different story. You can join the conversation by emailing feedback@yourcallradio.org. What changes do you hope to see? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Cynthia Enloe is an internationally renowned scholar who helped to found feminist studies in International Relations. She is director of the Women's Studies Department at Clark University.

Zeina Zaatari is senior program officer for the Middle East and North Africa for the Global Fund for Women.

Yasmeen Hassan is a Pakistani lawyer and the deputy director of programs at Equality Now, an international women's rights organization based in New York.

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Your Call 040908 Women's Health

What is state of women's health today? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Judy Norsigian, executive director of Our Bodies Ourselves and co-author of Our Bodies, Ourselves. Women make up the largest segment of health workers, health consumers, and health decision-makers for their families and communities. So how have women's health care issues been transformed in the past four decades? How much attention is being paid to women's health issues today? And what should women do today to sustain good health for themselves and their communities? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:

Judy Norsigian, Executive Director, Our Bodies Ourselves and co-author of Our Bodies, Ourselves

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Your Call 040108 How did Barbara Seaman launch the women's health movement?

How did Barbara Seaman's groundbreaking work affect the women's health movement? On the next Your Call, we'll pay tribute to writer and health activist Barbara Seaman. Her 1969 book that warned against the dangers of the birth control pill is credited with launching the modern women's health movement. According to National Women's Health Network Executive Director Cynthia Pearson, "the kind of journalism that Barbara started doing back in the 1960s affected most of the women in this country." Barbara Seaman died of lung cancer earlier this month. She was 72. Who's continuing Seaman's work? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guests:
Barbara Brenner, Executive Director of Breast Cancer Research

Norma Swenson, one of the founders of Our Bodies Our Selves. She has been teaching women's health at the Harvard School of Public Health.

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Your Call Archive: Women's Health Pioneer Barbara Seaman

Tomorrow's show pays tribute to writer and health activist Barbara Seaman whose groundbreaking work launched the women's health movement. Listen to Rose Aguilar's interview of Seaman for Your Call on July 23, 2003.

Your Call 101607 What are the most effective ways to fight breast cancer?

What are the most effective ways to fight breast cancer? On the next Your Call, we’ll have a conversation about the second leading cause of cancer death among women. While U.S. cancer rates are down, this year, 180,000 women will still be diagnosed with breast cancer. New treatments get a lot of press, but what’s really working? Have there been any significant developments over the past decade? And are those pink ribbon campaigns making any difference? It’s Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.
 
Guests:
Barbara Brenner, executive director of Breast Cancer Action
Dr. Marion Kavanaugh-Lynch, director of California Breast Cancer Research Program.

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