{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Being Controversial with Betty Nixon","description":"Betty Nixon started her work career as a high school teacher in Anniston, Ala. and eventually became a Metro Councilwoman and two-time mayoral candidate in Nashville\/Davidson County; Videos during the time of her campaign: http:\/\/youtu.be\/aFzqJG7sU6c, http:\/\/youtu.be\/Egn2zgckYLU, http:\/\/youtu.be\/ZojONV4X7dw.  She was Deputy press secretary to Tenn. Gov. Ray Blanton; Managed a few campaigns: including the state campaign for Mondale\/Ferraro presidential campaign, state campaign manager for U.S. Sen. Jim Sasser for his successful 1988 re-election campaign and served as as a professional staff member of the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Relations.  She chaired the board for the Metro Election Commission.  She worked at Vanderbilt University as the Assistant Vice Chancellor for Community, Neighborhood and Government Relations. Betty also attends West End UMC and was willing to host my Modern Day Flapper release and 30th birthday party \u2013 all my friends were inspired by her!   \u00b7 She is the fourth generation to be college educated (and for someone born in the late 1930s that is incredible to me)! \u00b7 She went to college to find a husband and had to figure out something else\u2026 how much of my non-traditional script is because life didn\u2019t work out like I thought it would? \u00b7  Mary Catherine Bateson author of Composing a Life. \u00b7  Is the idea of balance a privilege afforded to me because of women like Betty? \u00b7  Betty\u2019s daughter Mignon Nixon teaches at The Courtauld Institute of Art in London, UK.  She studies sexuality and aggression in art since 1945, focusing in particular on questions of feminism and gender politics. She is the author of Fantastic Reality: Louise Bourgeois and a Story of Modern Art (MIT Press\/October Books, 2005) and the editor of the Eva Hesse October File (MIT Press\/October Files, 2002). She is a co-editor of October magazine (New York). \u00b7 She explains the privilege to be involved at the tipping point of feminism and civil rights in 1960s. \u00b7 Rural Women experience power \u2013 The 50s model verses pre-50s model \u00b7 Powerhouse meeting for the 1984 election talking about Geraldine Ferraro, the first woman to run for vice president on a major party ticket.    o Betty Friedan \u2013 women\u2019s rights activist and author of Feminine Mystique (1963):    o Carol Bellamy    o Eleanor Smeal, President of the Feminist Majority and the Feminist Majority Foundation.    o Mary Landrieu -- United States Senator from the State of Louisiana    o Sharon Percy Rockefeller \u2013 wife of West Virginia Senator John Davison "Jay" Rockefeller IV. \u00b7  Amendment One in Tennessee \u00b7  Hume Fogg in Nashville:   My school was Rochelle School of the Arts in Lakeland, FL \u00b7  We need to learn to live out diversity in our lives! \u00b7  A discussion of fear and scarcity: economic disparity in the US.  Video I referenced: http:\/\/youtu.be\/QPKKQnijnsM \u00b7  Gloria Steinem \u2013 a leader of the women\u2019s movement in the 1960s and 70s \u00b7   Bella Abzug -- New Yorker, feminist, antiwar activist, politician and lawyer: ","author_name":"Modern Day Flappers","author_url":"http:\/\/www.moderndayflappers.com","html":"