Burning of the Marriage Hat

"Women's Voices, Women's Lives" Interview

Interview with Susan Franzblau of "Women's Voices, Women's Lives" aired on NPR affiliate WFSS, 91.9 FM.

Hi. this is Susan Franzblau. Welcome to Women's Voices, Women's Lives. According to Margaret Benshoof-Holler, as a woman experienced at being unwed and pregnant, she thinks that there are better solutions for single welfare mothers than to strongly encourage them to get married as the current Bush administration recommends. Such a precedent, she feels, would set progress for women back 30 years or more like the time that she was growing up in Wyoming during the 1950s and 60s. Margaret Benshoof-Holler is both a journalist and a writer of fiction and poetry. She's lived and taught in a variety of places including Jakarta, Indonesia, Malmo, Sweden, and Madrid, Spain before moving to San Francisco. She now teaches at City College of San Francisco. Margaret's book is a fictionalized account of the conditions of women who gave up their children for adoption in the early and middle of the 20th century. And the book is entitled Burning of the Marriage Hat.

If you would like a tape or transcript of this interview, please e-mail media@burningofthemarriagehat.com. Thank you.

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