Gail Sheehy, New York Magazine writer, is interviewed by Danice Bordett about her life and career. She talks about New Journalism and about her Panthermania book about the Black Panthers. The interview took place May 20th, 1971 in the offices of New York Magazine. Previously cataloged as BC2860.
Topics: Sheehy, Gail., Journalism., Women in the press., American Women Making History and Culture:...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Angela Davis, recently released from prison, is interviewed by civil rights leader Rev. Ralph Abernathy regarding the May 20, 1972 "Rally Against Racism, War, Repression" in San Jose, CA. The two discuss the impact a consolidated effort by different activist groups (civil rights, anti-war, Chicano, and labor movement) could have on the oppressive regime in the United States and Vietnam. Broadcast on KPFA, Apr. 1972. This is Part one of the program. Part two is numbered BB5364.
Topics: Davis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne), 1944-, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Abernathy,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Evaluating the alternative to Dick and Jane-type Primers for Living in Amerika. Examined are recently published books for children that present a different view of the traditional roles that men, women and children play in society. We also explore how these new books are received by school boards, teachers, parents and of course, the children. Includes excerpts from interviews with Adah Maurer, Child Psychologist, Nancy Ward, Children's Librarian, and Jan Kuttner[sp?] and Becky Stickle[sp?] of...
Topics: Maurer, Adah, Sex role, Children's literature -- History and criticism., Sexism and children's...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
This is the third in a series of discussions about abortion. Guests in this program are Arlene Carmen, Courage and Consultation Service on Abortion; Reverend Howard Moody of Judson Memorial Church and is a spokesmen for the Clergy Consultation Service on Abortion; Bill Baird, director of the Parents' Aid Society in Hempstead, Long Island. Second part of the program has an interview conducted by Jacqui Ceballos at the National Organization for Women national conference with Lana Clarke Phelan,...
Topics: Abortion, Reproductive rights, Baird, Bill, 1932-, Carmen, Arlene, Moody, Howard., Phelan, Lana...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Excerpts from June 23, 1971 Congressional hearings on the subject of government operations. Former Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg is questioned by Ogden Reid, Representative from New York, and Pete McCloskey, Representative from California, about the extent of government operations around the world. Produced by Margot Adler.
Topics: Goldberg, Arthur J., Reid, Ogden., Government operations hearings / produced by Margot Adler.,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Mary Breasted, author of Oh! Sex Education! (New York: Praeger, 1970) and Village Voice reporter, discusses her book, her research on prisons, and women in the press.
Topics: Breasted, Mary., Sexual ethics, Education -- Aims and objectives., American Women Making History...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Elsa Knight Thompson (April 6, 1906 - February 12, 1983), broadcaster and former Public Affairs Director at KPFA accepts the KPFA Lewis Hill Award on April 17, 1982. According to the folio below, she was unable to attend the awards banquet, so she submitted this recorded acceptance speech.
Topics: Women journalists., Lewis Hill Award, Thompson, Elsa Knight, American Women Making History and...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
On her 90th birthday, a prosperous woman named Rose looks back and speaks of her life and family. This was one of two interviews presented together as the program "Two Lives." Produced by Barbara Londin.
Topics: Two Lives, Oral history., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
The second of two parts of BBC's Helen Boaden's report on the effects of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's policies on small businesses, both old and new. Features interviews with Brian Walden, director of the London Enterprise Agency at the London Chamber of Commerce; Simon Hoskins, brewery owner; the director of a small manufacturing firm, unnamed; Robin Murray, economist at Sussex University; and Charlie Rossi, councillor for the London Borough of Camden and rat-catcher. PRA does...
Topics: Boaden, Helen., Women politicians, Thatcher, Margaret., American Women Making History and Culture:...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Discussion of Chinese women's status historically and presently. This recording is Part 3 of a series of talks by Diane Feeley on Women in China, including BC2196.11. Taped on location at the National Organization for Women Center in New York. Produced in cooperation with NOW-NY.
Topics: Women -- China., Feeley, Diane, National Organization for Women, American Women Making History and...
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 1 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 one: Pruitt (June 3, 1876-October 8, 1933), a widow, relates her duties as house cleaner and laundress at a nurses' institution in Denver, her relationship and excursions with her two-year-old daughter Jerrine, her application as housekeeper to a...
Topics: Stewart, Elinore Pruitt, 1876-1933, Frontier and pioneer life -- Wyoming, Women pioneers, Women's...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Alex Comfort (1920 - 2000), British scientist, physician, and author of "The Joy of Sex" and "More Joy", discusses human sexuality with KPFK's Dick Huemer.
Topics: Huemer, Dick., Sex -- Research, Comfort, Alex, 1920-2000, American Women Making History and...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Poet, essayist, and novelist June Jordan is interviewed by author Deborah Morris. The two discuss Jordan's work and career. Produced by Sophie's Parlor Media Collective
Topics: Jordan, June, 1936-2002, Women poets, Authors, Black., African American women authors, African...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Members of the Pacific Asian American Women Writers West (PAAWW-W/CPOW) read their poetry: Momoko Iko, Sue Kunitomi Embrey, and Miya Iwataki; introductions by Joyce Nako. Produced by Helene Rosenbluth. Contains sensitive language. Broadcast on KPFK, 4 Mar. 1981. This is a truncated version of KZ0993.
Topics: Embrey, Sue Kunitomi., Iwataki, Miya, Iko, Momoko., Nako, Joyce., Asian Americans., Poetry,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
The International March and Rally for a Freeze and Reduction of Nuclear Arms and a Transfer of Funds from the Military to Human Needs. On June 12, 1982, the largest antinuclear demonstration was held in New York City's Central Park, while a simultaneous demonstration was held in San Francisco at its Civic Center. Over one million people attended the New York demonstration, making it the largest American political demonstration in history. Pacifica Radio presented nine hours of live satellite...
Topics: Leland, Mickey., Kaku, Michio., Springsteen, Bruce., Seeger, Pete, 1919-2014, Gregory, Dick.,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Reyna Cowan and Pam Scola host Majority Report, December 2, 1982. Segments: 1. News wrap-up -- 2. Marci Lockwood reports on the case of Tina Fishman, member of the Revolutionary Communist Party who lost custody of her daughter to her ex-husband for what she maintains are her political beliefs; features interviews with Fishman and Paul Wolf, her lawyer -- 3. Roxanne Merryfield interviews Gaynell Toler, president of Bay Area Women in Music. The final segment, a full report on the recent debate...
Topics: American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Cowan, Reyna., Scola, Pam., Lockwood, Marci,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Eileen Zalisk interviews Karen Cosden[sp?] about women and sex hormones. "Fighting the Crisis of Sex Hormones" will be the theme of an upcoming conference covering the drug DES (banned in 1973), which was prescribed to pregnant women to prevent complications during pregnancy but was shown to have numerous debilitating side effects, including cancer and birth defects, as well as other estrogen-based hormone drugs.
Topics: American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Birth control, Sex hormones,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
A speech by the environmental and Native American activist Winona LaDuke. LaDuke describes the difference between the 'natural order' and the 'synthetic order', speaks about desertification and water contamination, and exhorts the audience to respect the Earth. This is a presentation from the "On the Fate of the Earth" conference held October 19-21, 1982 at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine and Columbia University, New York City. On this weekend physicians, environmentalists,...
Topics: LaDuke, Winona., Environmentalists., Indians of North America -- Political activity., Appropriate...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
A reading of Lone Heart Mountain (Los Angeles, 1972), an autobiographical account by American artist Estelle Peck Ishigo (1899 - 1990) of her experience in the Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Wyoming during WWII. Read by Maureen McIlroy in three parts: reel one contains the chapters Prologue, Introduction, Uprooting, Departure, and Lone Heart Mountain; reel two contains the chapters Winter and Spring; reel three contains the last three chapters, Loyalty, American and Back to America.
Topics: McIlroy, Maureen., Short story., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Ishigo,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Frank Chin interviews Janice Mirikatani, the editor of Aion magazine, a journal of Asian-American writing; Joaquin Legaspi, a writer and activist who is on the faculty of the Asian Studies department at San Francisco State; and Momo Yashima, actor and member of the Brotherhood of Artists, a group of Asian-American artists who are protesting the casting of a Caucasian actor in a Japanese part in an upcoming SF production of the musical comedy Lovely Ladies and Kind Gentlemen. Mirikitani reads...
Topics: Mirikatani, Janice., Chin, Frank, 1940-, Legaspi, Joaquin., Asian Americans -- Social conditions.,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
This program consists of various reports on panels. Including a short interview by Bob Zalisk with Lewis M. Brascombe, Vice President and Chief Scientist of IBM. Other reports include: Lindsay Audin on energy, Eileen Zalisk on genetics, Nanette Rainone on human sexuality and Tina Blumenthal on urban architecture and model communities. Hosted by Paul McIsaac. Intro and closing song: The Incredible String Band - "Juggler's Song."
Topics: Audin, Lindsay., Brascombe, Lewis M., Blumenthal, Tina., Rainone, Nanette., Science and the...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Actuality from a march to support ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) and celebrating the 57th anniversary of women's suffrage. The march was held August 27, 1977 in Central Park, New York City. This recording includes speeches by Betty Friedan, Goldie Chu of Asian American Women's Caucus, Ruth Gilbert of the United Methodist Women, activist Willie Mae Reid, lesbian activist Virginia "Ginny" Apuzzo, and candidate for Mayor, Bella Abzug. Recording also contains comments...
Topics: American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Friedan, Betty, Equal Rights Amendment...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Blanche Cook interviews Marilyn Young, professor of history at New York University and co-author of Transforming Russia and China: Revolutionary Struggle in the 20th Century (Oxford University Press, 1980), about women in China.
Topics: American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Young, Marilyn Blatt, Women -- China.
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Harold Rosenberg's essay "Pop Culture: Kitsch Criticism" read by Clare Loeb and "Kitsch" by Gilbert Highet read by Ruth Buell. The first reel features Loeb's reading of Rosenberg; the second reel features Buell's reading of Highet. Produced by Clare Loeb and Ruth Buell.
Topics: Highet, Gilbert, 1906-1978, Rosenberg, Harold, 1906-1978, Art criticism., Popular culture -- United...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Marie Ponsot (1923 - ) interviews Marilyn Hacker (1942 - ), who reads poems from her new book, Taking Notice (Alfred A. Knopf, 1980). Program supported in part through a Creative Arts Public Service grant given to Marilyn Hacker by the New York State Council on the Arts. Produced by Wesley Brown and Marie Ponsot. Engineered by Sharon Matlin.
Topics: American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Hacker, Marilyn, 1942-, Women poets, Poetry...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Bonnie Bellow talks with Naomi Sharron of the Israeli women's group Women for a New Society (Nashim l'ma'an chevrah m'khudeshet, whose acronym, NILAK-HEM, means "We will fight") during her visit to Israel in October 1973. They talk about the specific problems confronting Israeli women and about the feelings of Israeli women about the Arab-Israeli War. This is the same program as BC1651, but this recording has poorer sound quality.
Topics: Women's movement -- Israel., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
In this program of poetry, discussion and music dedicated to Angela Davis, two young Black women, Jeanette Henderson, wife and mother, and Linda Taylor, student, read the works of Black women poets Sojourner Truth, Jeanette MacDonald, Gwendolyn Brooks, Charlene Grant and Brown poet, Inglacia Delagente. Black liberation and its relationship to white women's liberation, and the Black family are discussed. The music is by Billie Holliday and Roberta Flack. Dupulicate of recording BB5133.
Topics: Black women -- Social conditions., Henderson, Jeanette., Poets, Black., Women's movement, Blacks --...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Feminist Gloria Steinem speaks about the institutional changes that the women's movement had just begun, the organized opposition to what changes are made and proposed, the four stages of a women's life, "male-junkies," the naming of our children, the politics of work, cross-cultural differences and similarities, and other topics in this wide-ranging speech. Delivered at Pierce College in Los Angeles in spring 1981. Not self-contained. Approved for broadcast by Helene Rosenbluth.
Topics: Women -- Psychology., Women's movement, Feminism, Women -- Social conditions., Steinem, Gloria,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Activist artists Leon Golub (1922-2004) and Nancy Spero (1926-2009) discuss how their political attitudes are embodied in their imagery, particularly themes of violence, dismemberment and detachment. Interviewed by Clare Spark. Contains sensitive language.
Topics: Golub, Leon., Spreo, Nancy., Politics in art., Art -- Political aspects., American Women Making...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Charles Amirkhanian interviews timpanist Elayne Jones. She discusses her career, the problems of Blacks in American symphonies, and the influence of Black African music on Western European music. Includes excerpts of performances (Elayne Jones plays timpani on all of these selections). Tchaikovsky "1812 Overture"- Morton Gould, RCA Symphony Orch. Douglas Moore "Ballad of Baby Doe" (Overture and beginning of Act I) - Beverly Sills, Soprano. Reinhold Gliere "Red Poppy...
Topics: Jones, Elayne, Timpanists, Women musicians., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Harriet Tubman was born into slavery and escaped to the North. Not satisfied with her own liberty, she risked her own life and freedom by returning to the South nineteen times to lead over three hundred men, women, and children to liberty by means of the underground railway. This program tells about her life and fight to help slaves escape north. Produced by Darcell King.
Topics: Women, Black -- United States., Slavery, Underground railroad., Tubman, Harriet, 1820?-1913,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Anthropologist Margaret Mead (December 16, 1901 – November 15, 1978) analyzes America's values and norms governing marriage. Mead first discusses marriage customs in New Guinea, where she has performed extensive anthropological research. She then talks about the role of the family in America after WWII, and examines the evolution of courtship patterns, religious affiliations and social organization pertaining to American marriages throughout history. Recorded at Stanford University by KZSU,...
Topics: Marriage customs and rites, American., Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978, American Women Making History and...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Women's News on KPFA with Helen Mickiewicz and Julia Randall, July 14, 1980. Contents: 1. News items concerning the GOP dropping the Equal Rights Amendment from its platform: includes actuality of NOW members protesting at the Republican Campaign Headquarters in San Francisco, reported by Trey Aarons [sp?]; 2. News items concerning the Hyde Amendment: includes interviews with ACLU lawyer Margaret Crosby; Valerie Edwards, abortion counselor for the Buena Vista Women's Health Center; Pat Cody...
Topics: American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Radio news programs
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Elsa Knight Thompson talks with Shari Whitehead of the International Liberation School and Dr. Richard Fine, co-chairman of the San Francisco Medical Committee for Human Rights, about a recent trip to northern New Mexico, their investigations into the appalling medical situation there, and the plans to correct it. Originally aired during KPFA's open hour.
Topics: Fine, Richard N., Whitehead, Shari, Thompson, Elsa Knight, Health facilities -- New Mexico.,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Prof. Herbert Feinstein talks with Lotte Eisner (1896-1983), curator of the Cinematheque of Paris, about the arts, methods and politics of collecting and preserving film classics at the Cinematheque, whose state subsidy was recently abolished by Andre Malraux. Eisner was restored to her job after a public scandal raised by filmmakers Jean Renoir, Francois Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol and others.
Topics: Eisner, Lotte., Feinstein, Herbert., Film industry -- France., Film criticism., Film historians,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Four peninsula children--Kathy Fitzgerald, Susan Whitaker, Fred Barnhart, and Robert Rogers--talk with Elsa Knight Thompson about civil defense drills. They discuss the "duck and cover" instructions they are given at drills at schools, where they get their information regarding atomic bombs, and their thoughts and feelings on radiation, war, and death.
Topics: Rogers, Robert., Barnhart, Fred., Whitaker, Susan., Children, Atomic bomb -- Safety measures,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Cheriel Jensen, an architect and member of the California Committee to Legalize Abortion speaks on "Abortion: denial of our rights" at a teach-in on the oppression of women at San Francisco State College on December 10, 1969. Jensen speaks on how sex discrimination affects both men and women, how sex discrimination affects children and their attitudes, and how a lack of safe abortions and safe contraception leaves men in complete control of a woman's fate. Jensen also speaks on the...
Topics: Jensen, Cheriel, Women -- Social conditions., Sex discrimination against women, Marriage --...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
On the battle for women's suffrage. Contains readings of excerpts from Sinclair Lewis' Anne Vickers (1932) and a contemporary account of the Night of Terror, November 14, 1917, in which a group of suffragists, including Alice Paul, were brutalized by guards in front of the Occaquan Workhouse in Washington, D.C. This is the thirteenth episode of the fourteenth-episode series produced and broadcast on KPFA by Virginia Maynard and Charles Levy from 1958 to 1959. The series was written and directed...
Topics: Feminism, Women's rights -- United States -- History, Women -- Suffrage -- United States., American...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Examination of marriage and marriage values. Includes statements by a sociologist, a divorce lawyer, a sex counselor and some people involved in open marriages. Produced by Joan Lecky with technical production by Stan Johnston. Contains sensitive language.
Topics: Marriage -- United States., Sex customs, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Three women from the Radical Psychiatry Center in Berkeley, Savannah Gravich, Hogie Wyckoff, and Anita Friedman, discuss what radical psychiatry is and how women in particular deal with their their oppression in problem-solving groups. They also talk about the radical psychiatry "community" and what it has to offer to people in political movements. The interviewer is Anita Frankel. Program contains the songs "Humpty Dumpty," "Closer to the Ground," and...
Topics: Psychology, Applied., Psychiatry., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
This is a recording of a poetry reading of Holly Prado's writing workshop, recorded at the Los Angeles Woman's Building. The readers are Sharon Immergluck, Sue Taylor, Cindy Bellinger, Judith Gold, Vicki Bregger[sp?], Judy Brown, Joanna Prudell[sp?], Susan Bechaud, and Syl Booth. Produced by Susan Bechaud.
Topics: Prado, Holly., Poetry -- Women authors., Woman's Building (Los Angeles, Calif.), American Women...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Discussion of the life and conditions in women's correctional facilities, through the reading of letters, interviews and poetry by women in prison. The letters offer a glimpse of the brutality women face in prison, and also how jails reinforce the racism and sexism found in larger society. The correspondence was authored by Jane Kennedy, who was a member of the Beaver 55 who protested against Dow Chemical; Lee Weinberg, one of the Tucson Five (four of whom were women), jailed for contempt for...
Topics: Brown, Candy., Solomon, Ronnie., Prisons -- Social conditions., American Women Making History and...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Albert Ellis gives a lecture at Le Metro Cafe on 2nd Avenue in the Lower East Side, NY on January 19, 1965, sponsored by The League for Sexual Freedom. Dr. Ellis outlines a number of different forms of "civilized adultery" or the trading sexual partners. There is a Q&A at the end. First broadcast on WBAI February 16, 1965. Note on label: FCC inquiry 8300 dated May 28, 1965 included this tape "your comments are requested in view of the fact that adultery is a crime in New York...
Topics: Sexual ethics, Marriage., Ellis, Albert, 1913-, Sex and marriage, American Women Making History and...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Highlights from the First National Conference on Feminist Perspectives on Pornography, convened by Women Against Violence and Pornography in the Media, held in San Francisco in November 1978. The first part of this program features excerpts from panels What Is Pornography?, Porn and the Law, Effects of Pornography, and Pornography and the First Amendment. The second part of the program, broadcast a week later, features panels on Child Pornography (Florence Hush), Pornography and racism (Tracy...
Topics: Brownmiller, Susan, Stevens, Tracy., Rosenbluth, Helene, Pornography -- Analysis., Pornography --...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
An informal discussion by three Black women from the New York Black Feminist Counseling Collective, sponsored by the WBAI Women's Radio Workshop, concerning what the group calls the extinction of Black women. The discussion centers on attacks on Black women, impediments to survival, and expanding Black women's political consciousness. The three women are Lavidia Penson[sp?], Donna Allegra Simms and Yvonne Flowers.
Topics: WBAI Women's Department, African American Women, American Women Making History and Culture:...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Feminist comedian Robin Tyler discusses her comedy, including her work as one-half of the comedy duo Harrison & Tyler (with Patty Harrison). She talks about her success as a feminist entertainer, how she creates comedy material, and talks about some of her favorite comics. Includes cuts from Harrison & Tyler's live comedy album Wonder Women (1973). Produced by Moira Rankin for Sophie's Inc.
Topics: Women entertainers., Feminism, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Tyler, Robin.,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Women classical musicians performing music by women composers. Recorded at the Bing Theater, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Feb. 21, 1977. Part one composers and pieces are the following: Sonata in A minor for piano / Marianne Martinez. Nocturne in B-flat for piano / Maria Szymanowska. Three etudes for piano / Maria Szymanowska. String quartet, 1931 / Ruth Crawford. Part two composers and pieces are the following: Let us walk in the white snow / Mary Howe. Two Poems by Garcia Lorca / Maria...
Topics: Martinez, Marianne, 1744-1812, Szymanowska, Maria Agata Wołowska, 1789-1831, Seeger, Ruth...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Helene Rosenbluth talks with two women, Amanda and Jane, from Melbourne, Australia about the conditions for lesbians in their country: access to employment, the social and political life of lesbians vis-a-vis gay men in Australia, and the history of anti-gay laws in the country. Part two of this recording contains a discussion with women in Japan about what it's like to be a lesbian there. The Japanese women interviewed are not identified. Recorded in 1976 when Holly Near, Amy Horowitz, and...
Topics: Lesbians -- Australia -- Social conditions, Across the seas : lesbianism in Australia and Japan /...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
This episode is on the long-standing view of woman's responsibility for man's sins. Contains a dramatization of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter." Part one of the 14-part series produced and broadcast on KPFA by Virginia Maynard and Charles Levy from 1958 to 1959. The series was written and directed by Virginia Maynard and produced by Maynard and Chuck Levy, narrated by Levy, and engineered by David Talcott. It was funded in part by the Educational Television and Radio Center...
Topics: Feminism, Women's rights -- United States -- History, American Women Making History and Culture:...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Interview done in U.S.S.R. in September 1977, with Maria Vasilievna Marievich, a female anthropologist of a Turkic-speaking tribal minority the Gagauz, living in Soviet republic, Moldavia, bordering Romania. She is the assistant head of the anthropology sector of the Academy of Sciences of Moldavia, which at the time, was in the Republic of the Soviet Union just east of Romania. First we discuss the changes in the life of her minority, as experienced by her personally, in Soviet times. She is...
Topics: Women -- Soviet Union., Minorities -- Soviet Union., Moldavia, Gagauz (Turkic people), Chișinău...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
