Playlist Women's History Month
Women's History Month
Meet 20 of Chicago's Influential Women in Culture
Daniel HautzingerThe renowned Chicago-based artist Kerry James Marshall is painting a mural on the side of the Chicago Cultural Center that will honor twenty women "who've worked to shape the cultural landscape of the city, past and present."Who are they?
International Women's Day
Daniel HautzingerRevisit exceptional women from Nora Ephron to Oprah, Christie Hefner to Maya Angelou, and all three Brontë sisters, with archival interviews, a countrified trivia quiz, explorations of historical figures, and more.
The Brontë Family and the Actors Who Portray Them
Daniel HautzingerTo Walk Invisible: The Brontë Sisters, which aired Sunday, explores the lives of the authors of Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, and Agnes Grey. Do the actors in the film look like the people that they play?
From the Archive: 'New Yorker' Film Critic Pauline Kael
Daniel HautzingerHear the influential critic speak about writing a review and the animosity towards a woman writing criticism in this interview with WTTW's John Callaway in 1980.
From the Archive: 'Playboy' Executive Christie Hefner
Daniel HautzingerLast month, Playboy brought back nude pictorials after a year without them. Hear part of the debate over the magazine's portrayal of women as it stood back in 1978, in an archival interview with Christie Hefner, then the VP of the company.
The Groundbreaking Women of Hull House
Daniel HautzingerCelebrate the pioneering achievements, landmark reforms, and impressive careers of some of the women who resided at Jane Addams' social-minded Hull House in the early twentieth century.
"Her Life is History": The Universality of Maya Angelou
Daniel HautzingerMaya Angelou was beyond prolific, and her life touched on many of the most significant people and events of the twentieth century. The creators of a film about the great woman discuss the difficulty of capturing her multi-faceted life on film, why they admire her, and what she was like.
