Patriarchy and misogyny fuel global conflicts that further increase the oppression of women and girls. But the resistance of women and girls remains steadfast. Sally Armstrong, award-winning war correspondent, author, and human rights activist, joins us to share their stories. Highlights include: 

• How Sally broke the story about mass rape in the Balkan War in the 1990s that was ignored by male-dominated mainstream media;
• How patriarchy became established and why women’s role in human history has been unrecorded and ignored; 
• Why cultural relativism can be an enemy of greater justice for girls and women;
• How misinterpretations of religious doctrine are used as justification for continued oppression of girls and women;
• How women and girls from Bosnia to Kenya to Afghanistan to Senegal continue to resist the injustice of patriarchy and misogyny in their daily lives.

See episode website for show notes, links, and transcript: 

https://www.populationbalance.org/podcast/sally-armstrong

 

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OVERSHOOT tackles today’s interlocked social and ecological crises driven by humanity’s excessive population and consumption. The podcast explores needed narrative, behavioral, and system shifts for recreating human life in balance with all life on Earth. With expert guests from wide-ranging disciplines, we examine the forces underlying overshoot: from patriarchal pronatalism that is fueling overpopulation, to growth-biased economic systems that lead to consumerism and social injustice, to the dominant worldview of human supremacy that subjugates animals and nature. Our vision of shrinking toward abundance inspires us to seek pathways of transformation that go beyond technological fixes toward a new humanity that honors our interconnectedness with all beings. 

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