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Broadcast last night at Open Source.

The problem that has no name has a thousand new definitions since Betty coined the phrase forty years ago.

Tonight we’re thinking about 40 years of feminism, and the unfinished business still at hand. We’d like to try to name and parse through the major issues and struggles around women’s rights and gender equity. What is the fight now? And how are you fighting it?

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SpookWhen he returned home that evening on foot, after buying Millington and the CID team a quick round in the pub, the black cat, Dizzy, was waiting for him, as usual, atop the length of wall. Automatically, Resnick reached out a hand to stroke the animal’s glossy fur, but Dizzy turned away from his touch and, tail raised, presented Resnick with a fine view of his backside as he ran along the wall and then sprang down toward the door, anxious to be fed. A neat encapsulation, Resnick thought, of man’s relationship with cats.

— from John Harvy, Easy Meat (Henry Holt and Company, 1996)

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