Man-woman relationships
Film Critic John Powers
Film critic John Powers reviews All the Real Girls.
When Ex-Lovers Become Just Friends
A story for Valentine's Day from WBEZ's This American Life. Host Ira Glass talks about the drama of trying to be "just friends" with an ex-girlfriend.
Tensions Between Genders in the Black Community.
Mike Tyson returns to the ring Saturday night after a four year absence. Three of those years were spent in jail on a rape conviction. .Tyson continues to deny the charge. Commentator Gerald Early says that Tyson's release from prison sparked new questions about an old debate in the black community: tensions between the genders. Gerald Early teaches English at Washington University where he directs the program on African and Afro-American studies. He's the author of The Culture of Bruising: Essays on Prize fighting, Literature and Modern American Culture.
David Cale Performs "Deep in a Dream of You."
Performance artist David Cale. He'll do a reading from his show, now in San Francisco, "Deep in a Dream of You." (rebroadcast of 9/27/1990)
A Chicana Spin on the Carmen Trope
Mexican-American writer Sandra Cisnero is credited as the first Chicana author to publish a book about Chicana women. She joins Fresh Air to read from a new story, called "La Fabulosa."
What "Dear Abby" Tells Us About American Marriage
Journalist Charles Hardy and University of Georgia historian Deborah Herman both reflect on the history and impact of advice columns on the lives of bourgeois American women. Herman looks at six months' worth of Dear Abby columns in the 1950s to determine the state of and attitudes toward marriage during that decade.