And i am a magazine writer so im always looking for my next meal. Whats the Next Magazine topic . And i thought, the hoxha children. He did have children, three of them, could make a good magazine piece. Then the next thought, i thought you could do a survey of such sons and daughters and make a book of it called children of monsters. And i filed the idea way off of the stove, not even on the back burner. But i acted on it years later. Brian hitler, mussolini, stalin, mao, kim, i could go on. Which one of these 20 that you profiled in here did you find was the family the most difficult with other human beings . Jay that is a close competition. The stalins had a lot of trouble. That should not surprise anyone. The mao children are a mess. Pol pot has a daughter that is welladjusted. He had her pretty late in life, he was about 60, 61 years old. She got married last year. Most are disastrous. There are not many happy stories, but there are some. Brian we got a lot of children and their d
Host jay, what were you doing in 2003 . Jay theres still host the book came out of the trip . Jay yes. Albania had suffered under a terrible dictatorship. Really one of the worst that man has ever known. The thing closest to it with the dictatorship of kim ilsung. Albania was like his personal dungeon. No one left the country or came into it. It was the perfect tyranny. I was being shown around the capitol. It occurred me to ask did hoja have children . What do you do . Did you stay in albania . Did you go out . What do you think . What do you like . Im a magazine writer. Im always looking for my next meal. Whats the Next Magazine topic . The hoja children. He did have children, three of them, could make a good magazine piece. Then the next thought, i thought you could do a survey of such sons and daughters and make a book of it called children of monsters. I filed the idea way off of the stove, not even on the back burner. I acted on it years later. Host hitler, muselinni stalin i cou
You doing in albania in 2002 . Jay well, i was in a state to our. After the collapse of communism in albania, when the country was in bad shape in and, i think, still is. Ryan children of monsters came out of that trip . Jay yes. Albania had suffered under a terrible dictatorship. Really one of the worst that man has ever known. The thing closest to it with the dictatorship of kim ilsung. Albania was like his personal dungeon. No one left the country or came into it. It was almost a perfect tierney. And so, i was being shown around the capital by a young man from the government to ministry. And it occurred to me to ask, did hoxha have children . What do you do . Do you stay in albania . Do you go out . What do you think . What do you write . What do you like . A magazine writer so im always looking for my next meal. Whats the Next Magazine topic . The hoxha children. He did have children, three of them, could make a good magazine piece. Then the next thought, i thought you could do a s
Chance to make that the center of your research, and we cover just about everything. Its just like any other class where you take exams and write papers. Host what do you do with a womens study major . The short answer is law school. Many of my best students gone on to be title ix lawyers. Many go abroad. They work with women Birth Control the issue of violence against women in regions ranging from Northern Africa to bosnia. Many students do development in term of nonprofit. They do programming for everything from planted parenthood to organizations that work with women and girls. I have a couple of students who have gone on to med school and do specialties in womens health. Quite a few have been nursing, and i have a lot of students who are also as athletes involved in furthering women sports. Some are trainers. I have one in the olympics right now. I have another student interning at the winter games who is hoping to do some reporting on the situation of homophobia in russia. Host ko
Wrong with looking at half the worlds history. And i have negotiated many of these things throughout my teaching career. The idea is that i wanted to talk back but in a cheerful way. A cheerful and playful way. And i wanted to be the smiling face of womens studies and womens history so that as a diplomat from academic feminism i am approachable and i love my students, but enough with being rude to the professor. People would come by and say that i love your class. You not at all this way. And so thank you for putting that out there. So this is my say that you are not root of the professor in the class will not hurt you, looking at womens history will only improve your life. And what is it like for those on the other side . Those of us that have to deal with a whole range of our work by people who are fearful. Host would teach . What you teach . Guest i teach at George Washington university in georgetown. Everything required for the minor and the mainer. Introductory and womens history.