Hansen, Lois.

  • A lady doesn’t take karate / moderated by Lois Hansen.

    Eight Bay Area feminists talk about learning karate, both in traditional schools and in the newer, women-only self-defense classes, the physical and mental challenges of karate, the need to defend themselves and their changing images of themselves. The women come from a range of backgrounds (some of them are young, some older, some gay, others…

  • Me Jane, you Tarzan / Elaine Morgan ; interviewed by Lois Hansen and Julia Curtis.

    If you ask any school kid what prehistoric society was like, you’re sure to hear about cave men, cudgels and pulling women around by the hair. Until recently, neither children nor archeologists had attributed much importance to the role of cave women, not to mention that of she-apes, in determining the direction of pre-historic human…

  • Rae Lake Costos on the androgynous soul / interviewed by Lois Hansen.

    Rae Lake Costos, known as the “Bard at Large” on Pacifica’s Houston station KPFT, visited Berkeley in June during an extended trip around the West. In this trip, Ms. Costos has been visiting centers of mystical humanist thought in order to enhance her understanding of the status of cosmic thinking in this country about the…