Women on the Verge: Susan Faludi & Molly Ivins in Conversation on Stage
- Tape begins.
- Doug Foster, editor of Mother Jones begins introduction.
- Tremendous hunger for ideas about change.
- Molly Ivins & Susan Faludi begin.
- Molly questions Susan Faludi about being attacked by Georgette Mossbacher.
- Molly asks about Faludi's book.
- "Unhappy Bachelor"- SF
- Susan Faludi and her theories and book based on an article.
- Susan Faludi's mother's reaction.
- Molly Ivins being photographed outside Texas State Capitol with a sword.
- Molly forms a plot "jokingly."
- Susan Faludi's mom was a frustrated journalist.
- The "Feminine Mystique" era.
- Molly asks about criticism of Faludi's book "Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women."
- Anna Quindlen
- Book waw more a discussion of external pressures on women.
- A sea change for women. Women take themselves seriously now.
- Susan Faludi has a twin?
- Difference between flirting and sexual harassment
- Always asked the same three questions.
- Molly Ivins stumped about first question she was asked on book tour.
- Faludi makes a joke about her book's title.
- Susan Faludi begin her questions.
- Molly talked about her father with Terry Gross.
- Her politics may have started with race.
- Blames it on her mother who tried to teach her manners.
- The rationality of children.
- Cannot say "thank you" to the maid.
- Grown ups were telling lies about race.
- Molly on the East Texas Civil Rights Movement: "Nobody important ever came."
- Also Molly on the East Texas Civil Rights Movement: "It was always hot and we were always scared."
- Southern womanhood and being bigger than average.
- Ma Ferguson- Governor of Texas
- Kilgore Rangerettes
- Texas women desperate to become cheerleaders.
- Molly Ivins, 3rd Runner up for "Miss Onion" one year.
- Alt press doesn't pay well.
- Tape cuts out.