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Women's Lib
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Item Title Women's Lib
Guest Middleweek, Helene
Guest Riddell, Peter
Guest Greer, Germaine (1939-)
Guest Evans, Roger
Host Buckley, William F., Jr. (1925-2008)
Date CreatedFebruary 27, 1973
Description

A few weeks earlier Mr. Buckley and Miss Greer had taken part in a formal debate

at Cambridge on the women's liberation movement. In this rematch, we start out at the level of movement politics ("So I have to do this mental juggling act of reconciling the professional women's association with the radical lesbians ..."), and go from there through the betrayal of the Russian Revolution "when Lenin decided to ridicule Aleksandra Kollontai and to absolutely outlaw the workers' opposition" (WFB: "Now, are we in 1919 in the women's liberation movement?"), to the generation gap created by the mobile nuclear family, to this imperishable exchange: GG: "Well, I mean somebody is exploiting the hell out of sex. I mean, everybody exploits what they have.... I might as well say that if you weren't such a good-looking fellow, you wouldn't be in the position that you're in today. You exploit it too. You may not do it consciously." WFB: "Well, now, wait a minute." GG (to the audience): "Don't you agree that he is a pretty man?" WFB: "Well, I... Let's accept that as a hypothesis." GG: "I think interpersonal subjectivity proves it to be true. Just as this studio is pale blue, you're a pretty man."

Language(s)
Country of Origin
Place RecordedLondon, England, United Kingdom
DimensionsDuration: 60 minutes
FormatText
Medium television programs
Aspect Ratio
4:3
Color
color
Soundtrack
sound
Hoover IDProgram S0087
Record Number80040.329
NotesVideo available through special order.
RightsCopyright held by Stanford University. This copy is provided for educational and research purposes only. No publication, further reproduction, or reuse of copies, beyond fair use, may be made without the express written permission of the Hoover Institution Library & Archives on behalf of Stanford University.

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