Lysistrata. Female power & democracy

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This PBS documentary about ancient archetypes reveals much about the forces that hold women back and which undermined Hillary Clinton's campaigns. Themed around Aristophanes' timeless comic masterpiece about a sex strike and a power grab, the program reveals much about the ancient forces still impacting current political thought. Interviews include Jane Fonda, Katrina vanden Heuvel, Carol Jenkins, Senator Liz Krueger, Katha Pollitt, Norma Kamali, the Dean of Hofstra Drama James Kalb, Yale Greek drama scholar Victor Bers, Elizabeth Scharffenberger from Columbia, Mary English from Montclair State (on the role of women), and Jeffrey Hurwit. Jane Fonda - actress, writer and antiwar activist. She rose to fame in the 1960s with films such as Barbarella and won Academy Awards for Klute and Coming Home, the story of a Vietnam War veteran. Recent work includes Monster in Law (2005) and Georgia Rule (2007). Fonda has served as a forceful opponent of the Vietnam War and more recently to the Iraq War.