Susan Bertram, Rose Kolmetz and Joan Rabenau, employees at the Museum of Modern Art, talk with Clare Spark from KPFK about their union, Professional and Administrative Staff Assocation of the Museum of Modern Art (PASTA-MoMA) in New York City. Produced for Pacifica Radio with the partial support of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Topics: Labor unions, Museums., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Josephine Hendin, teacher of American fiction at the New School for Social Research, interviews Lois Gould (1931-2002), the author of "Such good friends" and "Necessary objects." Program was produced by Mimi Anderson.
Topics: American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Women authors, Gould, Lois., Feminist...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Judy Sackoff speaks with Helen Rogan, author of "Mixed Company: Women in the Modern Army."
Topics: American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Rogan, Helen, Sex discrimination against...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Eloise Klein Healy reads from her newly published book of poetry "A Packet Beating Like A Heart." Healy, a Los Angeles-based poet, gives a moving, energetic reading which was recorded live at the Woman's Building in Los Angeles, December 1980. Poems read: Going away -- You won't love me and I learn death -- She was my friend, too -- It could have all happened and part of it did -- Dark -- A mile out of town -- Poem for my youth/poem for young women -- Edging -- Like a woman in a short...
Topics: Healy, Eloise Klein., Poetry, Modern., Women poets, American Women Making History and Culture:...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
One of a series of programs on the myths and realities of cancer hosted by Viv Sutherland. Guests are Dr. Philip Strax, director of the Guttman Breast Diagnostic Institute; Mary Overton, assistant executive director of Cancer Care; Richard Klarberg,director of the Public Health Center, the American Health Foundation; Pam Booth, co-director of Women's Health Forum; and Denise Dillon Fuge, member of the Committee on Women and Health, National Organization for Women, New York (NOW-NY). Note on...
Topics: Overton, Mary, Strax, Philip., Klarberg, Richard., Fuge, Denise., Booth, Pam., Cancer, Women --...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Marge Albert worked as an office worker for twenty-five years. After organizing her own office, she left her job to become a full time organizer for the Distributive Workers of America, helping office workers to organize unions in their own offices. She talks with Bonnie Bellow about her experiences organizing women workers and about the new upsurge in women's trade union activity.
Topics: American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Distributive Workers Union, Labor...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
One of a series of programs on the myths and realities of cancer hosted by Viv Sutherland. Guests are Dr. Philip Strax, director of the Guttman Breast Diagnostic Institute; Mary Overton, assistant executive director of Cancer Care; Richard Klarberg,director of the Public Health Center, the American Health Foundation; Pam Booth, co-director of Women's Health Forum; and Denise Dillon Fuge, member of the Committee on Women and Health, National Organization for Women, New York (NOW-NY). Note on...
Topics: Overton, Mary, Strax, Philip., Klarberg, Richard., Fuge, Denise., Booth, Pam., Cancer, Women --...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
An interview with Susan Brownmiller, who spent four years writing her book Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape. She felt her mission in the feminist movement, after hearing women speaking openly about their rapes, was to compile the history of rape in a sound and rational analysis. She feels "the threat of rape is a very real dynamic in the interaction between men and women, and had to be exposed for what it is." She describes tremendous anxiety she felt in writing the book, her...
Topics: Women authors -- Personal narratives., Rape., Brownmiller, Susan, American Women Making History and...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Cynthia Secor and Janet Cooper discuss the lesbian in literature at the 2nd Gay Academic Union Conference in New York City, 1974. Janet Cooper of the American Library Association (ALA)'s Task Force on Gay Liberation (TFGL) speaks on female crushes, friendships, and affections in children's literature prior to the 1920's. Author Cynthia Secor, PhD, Chairperson of the Modern Language Association (MLA)'s Commission on the Status of Women in the Profession, compares sensuous women the writings of...
Topics: Apuzzo, Virginia., Secor, Cynthia, Cooper, Janet., Gays in literature., Lesbian literature, JOYCE,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
The half-hour serial reading program "Continued tomorrow" featured "Other people's houses" by Lore Segal in December 1972 and January 1973. It was an autobiographical novel, written and read by Lore Segal, about her childhood in Hitler's Vienna, growing up in English foster homes, three years in the Dominican Republic, and her first years as a young woman in New York. The first installment was broadcast on December 14, 1972, and weekdays thereafter until it was complete....
Topics: Segal, Lore Groszmann, Autobiography--Women authors, United States -- History -- 1933-1945, Vienna...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
A discussion of women as internationalists and the 1975 United Nations conference in Mexico City, part of a conference on Sharing the Future, held at the New School for Social Research and sponsored by the Human Relations Work Study Center. The panel questions whether the feminist movement is truly international and whether the U.N. conference reinforced or destroyed that notion, how to sustain international momentum, and whether American feminists can or should try to help women in the Third...
Topics: Tabatabai, Zohreh, Friedan, Betty, King, Angela., International relations., Women -- Social...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Clare Loeb interviews Mary Holmes, art educator at University of California, Santa Cruz. The teacher discusses both the needs and objectives of art education. Holmes discusses her experiences as an artist growing up during the Depression, the hostility between between artists and art historians, her experiences with her students, what "success" means as an artist, artists as social critics, and the importance of a liberal arts education.
Topics: Spark, Clare., Art., Education -- Aims and objectives., Art--Study and teaching, American Women...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Made for Food Day 1975 (April 17), this documentary examines the thousands of additives in our food, and finds evidence that at least some are hazardous to our health. The program includes interviews with Dr. Jacqueline Verrett, biochemist and co-author of "Eating May Be Hazardous To Your Health"; Dr. William Lijinsky (1928-2004), scientist at Oakridge National Laboratories; Dr. Robert Angelotti from the Bureau of Foods; Anita Johnson, a lawyer representing the Public Citizen Health...
Topics: Verrett, Jacqueline, Lijinsky, W. (William), 1928-2004, Angelotti, Robert, Cancer -- Research.,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Biographical sketch with dramatization of the life and actions of the feminist abolitionist Lucretia Mott. Contains a dramatization of James and Lucretia Mott hiding from the anti-abolition mob that burned down Philadelphia Hall in 1838 and a dramatic reading of Wendell Phillips and William Lloyd Garrison's motions at the World Anti-Slavery Convention of 1840 in favor of women as delegates. This is the fourth episode of the 14-episode series produced and broadcast on KPFA by Virginia Maynard...
Topics: Feminism, Women's rights -- United States -- History, Abolitionists--United States--Biography.,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
A discuss of feminist liberation theology in Latin America by Mary E. Hunt at the Graduate Theological Union at UC Berkeley, date unknown but likely late 1981. Hunt, a lesbian feminist theologian, spent eighteen months working in Argentina. In this talk, Hunt explores what relevance feminism has to women in Latin America and how her feminism enters into her work with the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo. Hunt was the visiting Professor of Systematic Theology at ISEDET, the ecumenical Protestant...
Topics: American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Hunt, Mary E., 1951-, Feminism--Argentina.,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Theodora Kroeber (March 24, 1897 – July 4, 1979), author of the much-loved book Ishi in Two Worlds, talks with Eleanor Sully about her new book about her anthropologist husband, Alfred Kroeber: A Personal Configuation. Kroeber reads a section called "Religion" from the book, which was published by University of California Press, 1970.
Topics: Kroeber, Theodora, Anthropologists -- Biography., Women authors, Kroeber, A. L. (Alfred Louis),...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
On Ms. magazine and womens' conditions in the Soviet Union. Mandel begins the program by introducing controversy over the book Women In Soviet Society by Professor Gail Lapidus of University of California Berkeley and the articles by dissenter women who had been expelled by the Soviet Union, which appeared in the November issue of Ms. magazine. Mandel invited his wife Tanya to join him on the show to give her comments on the book, the articles, and her own impressions of the status of women in...
Topics: Ms. (Periodical), Women -- Soviet Union., Feminism, Radio call-in shows, Lapidus, Gail Warshofsky,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Feminist visual artist Judy Chicago, one of the founders of the Women's Building in Los Angeles and author of "Through the Flower" talks with Karla Tonella, KPFA, about her exhibit "The Dinner Party." In the making for five years, "The Dinner Party" is a major piece of sculpture that encompasses the history of western women from the beginning of time using traditional crafts and symbols as well as the new technology and feminist ideas. None of the controversy...
Topics: Chicago, Judy, 1939-, Women in art., Women artists, Feminism, Sculpture., Fiberwork., Chicago,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
"Got the Blues" is the story of rape, robbery and big big business. "Got the Blues" is also a story of love, artistic dedication, and spiritual strength above and beyond the call of duty. "Got the Blues" is a many-sided story told by the musicians that make the blues, the record companies that record the blues, the radio stations that do or don't play the blues, and the people who promote the blues...produced by Avotcja Jiltonilro y Fasanmi. This program was made...
Topics: Avotcja., Rhodes, Sonny., Burris, J.C., 1928-, Sharriff, Omar, 1938-2012, Williams, Mary Lou,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Collage of music and sound, prepared by the Women's Liberation Media Project, designed to present some news about, and viewpoints of, the women's liberation movement. The program was previously broadcast over KSAN-FM. Note: obscenity-contains one "shi%" which is marked on tape.
Topics: Women's liberation media project., Women's rights, Feminism, American Women Making History and...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Erica Jong reads her poems. Included are Mother, at 2:47 Paper Cuts, at 5:14 The Evidence, at 10:13 For Marriage, at 11:47 The Sendoff. Some of these poems were published in her book of poetry "Half-Lives" in June 1973. This recording may be from that time. Contains sensitive language.
Topics: American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Jong, Erica., Women poets
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Herbert Feinstein interviews Japanese film importer, producer and curator Kashiko Kawakita (1908-1993) in Venice, Italy during the time of the 1968 Venice Film Festival. Kawakita heads Towa Trading, which produces low-budget art films, and runs a number of art film houses in Japan as well. They discuss some of the Japanese films featured at the Festival that year, the legacy of Hiroshima, her son-in-law, Juzo Itami, who is an actor, and her businesses.
Topics: Feinstein, Herbert., Film industry -- Japan., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Reading of letters written by a woman homesteader, Elinore Pruitt Stewart (1876-1933) in Wyoming around 1910. Part 3 of 3. These three episodes of Stewart's letters were part of a continuing series on KPFA based on women’s diaries and letters. Part three: This portion begins in December 1913. Stewart describes Christmas with her neighbors; how they helped two Mormon women and their children who were all in need; and other adventures Stewart has with her friend and neighbor, Mrs....
Topics: Stewart, Elinore Pruitt, 1876-1933, Frontier and pioneer life -- Wyoming, Women's writings., Women...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Discussion of the parallel experiences of women who grew up in various ideologies. Guests are Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, who grew up a Jehovah's Witness; Brett Harvey Vuolo, a Catholic who spent a period of time in a convent; Vivian Gornik, who grew up in a leftist, progressive home; and Laura Scanlon, who grew up Italian Catholic in a small town. Moderator is Louise Bilotti, who grew up in a progressive, leftist household.
Topics: Women and religion., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
The perspective of five Chicanas in today's movement, featuring Adelaida Del Castillo, linguistics major at UCLA and associate editor of the first Chicana magazine, entitled Encuentro Femenil; Francisca Flores, director of the Chicana Service Action Center, which provides employment and job training; Alicia Escalante, founder of and consultant to the Chicana Welfare Rights Organization; Evelina Alarcon, first Chicana director of the Marxist organization El Instituto del Pueblo; and Maria...
Topics: Castillo, Adeleida del., Soto, Ana., Chicanos -- Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Social conditions.,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
These twelve reels are live raw recordings taken at the West Coast Women's festival in 1980, held in Yosemite CA September 26-28th, 1980. The festival was produced by Robin Tyler and co-produced by Torie Osborn, and two to three thousand women attended. These recordings were a joint project of Pacfica radio stations KPFA and KPFK. This concert was recorded by Linda Mack with Susan Kerniss and Susan Elizabeth. An edited version of the festival can be found here: KZ1038 Part A begins with a...
Topics: West coast women's music festival / produced by Linda Mack., Casselberry and Dupree, Ishatova,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Two programs that focus on American attitudes towards the Vietnam War, based on Gloria Emerson's book "Winners and losers: battles, retreats, gains, losses, and ruins from a long war" (Random House, 1976). Emerson first visited Vietnam in 1956 and returned as a NY Times correspondent in 1970, later resigning from the Times and joining the antiwar movement. Part 1 features an interview of Emerson by Lynn Samuels wherein she talks about her experiences in Vietnam and her aims in writing...
Topics: Emerson, Gloria., Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Public opinion., Women authors, Snepp, Frank., American...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Claire Clouzot talks with Lynn Carlin, the female lead of John Cassavettes film "Faces" at the San Francisco Film Festival, October 1968. She talks about Faces being her first film role, about the roles she's been offered since, and "Faces"'status as an American independent film. The recording cuts off abruptly.
Topics: Carlin, Lynn., Cassavetes, John, 1929-, Film reviews., Actresses -- Personal narratives., American...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
This is the fourth lecture in a series of seven given by Dr. Al Ross at UCLA. There is a battle between a man's commitment to his work and to his lover. Unfortunately, most men have no conflict - the work comes first. The corporations feed on the capacity for a male to be dehumanized: American men sell their souls for $1 more. The only resolution is getting into your own process. Produced by Roy E. Tuckman. Outro states that tapes can be obtained from UCLA Extension. Contains sensitive...
Topics: Men -- Psychology., Family -- United States., Work -- Psychological aspects., Psychology., Men at...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
These twelve reels are live raw recordings taken at the West Coast Women's festival in 1980, held in Yosemite CA September 26-28th, 1980. The festival was produced by Robin Tyler and co-produced by Torie Osborn, and two to three thousand women attended. These recordings were a joint project of Pacfica radio stations KPFA and KPFK. This concert was recorded by Linda Mack with Susan Kerniss and Susan Elizabeth. An edited version of the festival can be found here: KZ1038 Part A begins with a...
Topics: West coast women's music festival / produced by Linda Mack., Casselberry and Dupree, Ishatova,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Sally Gearhart reads from her book "The wanderground: stories of the hill women" (Boston: Persephone Press, 1978), a feminist fantasy fiction account of a separate woman's culture wherein the women have highly developed psychic powers, have children parthenogenetically, and live in harmony with all the rest of the Earth, except the men who control the cities. Part A features the chapters "Openings" and a portion of "The remember rooms." Part B continues the chapter...
Topics: Tonella, Karla., Feminist literature., Radio programs -- Fiction., Women authors, Gearhart, Sally...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Sally Gearhart reads from her book "The wanderground: stories of the hill women" (Boston: Persephone Press, 1978), a feminist fantasy fiction account of a separate woman's culture wherein the women have highly developed psychic powers, have children parthenogenetically, and live in harmony with all the rest of the Earth, except the men who control the cities. Part A features the chapters "Openings" and a portion of "The remember rooms." Part B continues the chapter...
Topics: Tonella, Karla., Feminist literature., Radio programs -- Fiction., Women authors, Gearhart, Sally...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Helga Lohr-Bailey, who lived for ten years in East Germany, tells Elsa Knight Thompson about life there and the complex network of relationships between the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) and the rest of Europe as well as the "Big Powers." RECORDED: 4 Feb. 1970. BROADCAST: KPFA, 6 April 1970. Originally broadcast on KPFA's open hour.
Topics: Lohr Bailey, Helga, Germany, East -- Politics and government., World politics -- 1945-1989, KPFA...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
A conversation with four women authors, Mary Oppen, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Anita Barrows, and Frances Jaffer, ranging from 34 to 72 years old in age. The women discuss their work, feminism, and long associations with one another. Produced (and hosted?) by Norma Smith. Program also contains readings of some of the authors' works. Outro is Sweet Honey and the Rock singing Bernice Reagon's "Every Woman".
Topics: Oppen, Mary, 1908-1990, DuPlessis, Rachel Blau, Barrows, Anita., Jaffer, Frances., Women authors,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
A discussion with Margaret (Meg) Crahan, historian; Mary Lou Suhor, co-coordinator of the Cuba Resource Center; and Margarita (Samad?) Matias, anthropologist and professor of Carribbean studies at CUNY, about women's roles and the women's movement in Cuba. Hosted by Viv Sutherland.
Topics: Samad-Matias, Margarita., Cuba -- Social conditions., Women -- Cuba -- Social conditions., Crahan,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Eleanor McKinney, editor of "The exacting ear: the story of listener-sponsored radio, and an anthology of programs from KPFA, KPFK and WBAI" (Pantheon Books, 1966), discusses her book with Byron Bryant of KPFA. McKinney, who was the first program director of KPFA, discusses how the idea for the book came about, the difficulty of finding tapes in the archives to transcribe for the book, and discusses some of the programs mentioned in the book.
Topics: Bryant, Byron., McKinney, Eleanor R., 1918-, Books -- Reviews., American Women Making History and...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Alice Walker (1944 - ) is primarily known as a novelist and short story writer, and is a major figure in both Black American and Feminist literature. In the first part of this program Walker reads a story from her new book "You Can't Keep A Good Woman Down" at the Woman's Building in San Francisco -- "Fame," a humorous story about a cantakerous older Black woman writer who is about to receive her 111th major award. Karla Tonella, who conducted the interview with Walker woven...
Topics: Walker, Alice, 1944-, African American women authors, Women authors, You can't keep a good woman...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
An event featuring David Harris speaking about his pending conviction for draft resistance. Joan Baez Harris, Jeffrey Shurtleff and "Fondle"[unclear], referring to themselves as the Struggle Mountain Resistance Band, perform songs together before and after David Harris' speech. Loren Basham of The Resistance moderates. Event recorded at the Glide Memorial Church in San Francisco on Independence Day, July 4, 1969. Note for intro: David Harris is scheduled to have a warrant issued for...
Topics: Harris, David., Baez, Joan, Draft resistance., Protests, demonstrations, vigils, etc. -- San...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Documentary on New York City hospitals, evaluating the affiliation program between municipal and voluntary hospitals and abuses in the system. Episode 3: Research with the poor. About performing dangerous research in hospitals on poor people without family. Voices heard on this program include New York state Senator Seymour Thaler; New York Times health reporter Martin Tolchin; intern Mike Smith; medical auditor Dr. Jerry Morehead; Dr. Donald Dixon, associate commissioner of the New York state...
Topics: Health facilities -- New York (City)., Hospitals -- New York (State) -- New York, Medical care --...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Dr. Pauline Bart, feminist sociologist at Abraham Lincoln School of Medicine in Chicago, is interviewed by Paula Darte about her NIH-funded research on rape in November 1978. In her research, Bart interviewed 94 women who had either been raped or had avoided being raped to determine the best combination of variables that would lead to rape avoidance. She discusses how the findings of her study have largely contradicted the advice given by Frederic Storaska in his book "How to Say No to a...
Topics: American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Bart, Pauline, Rape., Storaska, Frederic,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Gail Pellett and Paul Gorman interview singer-songwriter Holly Near and Jeff Langley, her piano player. Topics discussed include Near's music career, the Indo-China Peace Campaign, and support for Tom Hayden in his campaign for California Senator. Includes performance of live music.
Topics: American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Near, Holly., Langley, Jeff, Lesbian...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Angela Davis interviews Mrs. Elizabeth Chavis and Dr. Helen Othow, the mother and sister of the Reverend Ben Chavis, about Ben and the Wilmington 10. First broadcast on 11/28/77, 5:00 p.m. Produced by KPFA.
Topics: Chavis, Elizabeth., Othow, Helen Chavis, 1932-, Davis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne), 1944-, Trials...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Members of Women's Liberation, determined to impress the University of California, Berkeley officials of their seriousness, staged a demonstration at Harmon Gymnasium, the school's men's gym, demanding to be allowed to enter the class in Karate. The protestors were met by the police who refused to allow them into the room where the course was being taught. They later talked to the officials in the administration building, Vice Chancellors R.L. Johnson and John Henry Raleigh. Denny Smithson of...
Topics: Karate, Martial arts, U.C. Berkeley, Women athletes, Women's rights, University of California,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
A memorial program to the late poet and playwright Violet Ranney "V.R." "Bunny" Lang (1924-1956). WBAI's Charles Ruas and Susan Howe present reminiscences and interviews with novelist Alison Lurie, poets John Ashbery and Robert Merrill, novelist Dee Wells, and Irish writer and critic Mary Manning, plus a performance of Lang's last play in verse, "I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia," by Marian Seldes, Earle Hyman, Ruth Ford and Charles Ruas (duplicate recording of play:...
Topics: Lang, V. R., 1924-1956, Ashbery, John., MERRILL, ROBERT., Wells, Dee., Manning, Mary., Seldes,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
A tribute to the life and work of the poet Anne Sexton (1928 - 1974). Ruth Hirschman reads poet Denise Levertov's tribute to Sexton, "Light Up the Cave," written shortly after Sexton's death by suicide. Also features a recording of Anne Sexton reading her poems at the YMHA in New York City. The recording of Sexton reading at the YMHA is identical to BB3804.01.
Topics: Biography, Poetry -- Women authors., Anne Sexton / produced by Ruth Hirschman., Sexton, Anne,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
The half-hour serial reading program "Continued tomorrow" featured "Other people's houses" by Lore Segal in December 1972 and January 1973. It was an autobiographical novel, written and read by Lore Segal, about her childhood in Hitler's Vienna, growing up in English foster homes, three years in the Dominican Republic, and her first years as a young woman in New York. The first installment was broadcast on December 14, 1972, and weekdays thereafter until it was complete....
Topics: Segal, Lore Groszmann, Autobiography--Women authors, United States -- History -- 1933-1945, Vienna...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Women's news and current events from the Majority Report for September 7, 1977. Hosted and produced by Viv Sutherland for WBAI's Women's Department.Topics include: Steven Goldberg, benefits of contraceptive gels, new information from the census report, abortion rights in Connecticut, New York for Employment Action Council upcoming rally for jobs, pesticides causing infertility in men, Bella Abzug calls for funds for shelter for women, Marian Sawyer and women's names used for identifying...
Topics: American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Women -- Economic conditions., Women --...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Marianne Moore (1887 - 1972) reads her own works at the University of Texas, Austin in collaboration with the Ruth Stephan Poetry Center at the University of Arizona. She is introduced by David Gilbert, director of the University of Texas Press. Recorded by KUT-FM, Austin, TX.
Topics: Marianne Moore : reading at the University of Texas., Poetry., Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972, Women...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Barbara Garson discusses her controversial play, MacBird, with Jack Weinberg. The conversation was recorded at KPFA during Mrs. Garson's recent return to Berkeley for the opening of her play at the New Committee in San Francisco on April 4, 1967. An episode of Where It's At, March 22, 1967. Previously cataloged as BB2111.
Topics: Garson, Barbara., Dramatic criticism., Women dramatists., Playwriting., American Women Making...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Ida Honorof interviews Dr. Paul Marx, Professor of Sociology at St. John's University and author of "The Death Peddlers: War on the Unborn" and Mary Petrinovich of the National Organization of Women (NOW) and the Women's Clinic in Los Angeles, about the controversy surrounding the legalization of abortion.
Topics: Abortion, Abortion -- Law and legislation., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
