Reading of Virginia Woolf's short story "Street Haunting: A London Adventure." Read by Vivian Schaeffer. No intro or outro. Tape ends "from all the treasures of the city, a lead pencil."
Topics: Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941., Radio programs -- Fiction., Literary readings (Radio programs),...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
The writer Audre Lorde (1934 - 1992) describes her experiences growing up as a Black lesbian in New York City in the 1950s, touching on subjects such as frequenting gay and lesbian bars in the Greenwich Village and communal-style living experiments. She reads excerpts from her book, Zami: A new spelling of my name: a biomythography (Persephone Press, 1982). Recorded at Hunter College in New York. Produced by Helene Rosenbluth.
Topics: Rosenbluth, Helene, African American women authors, Women, Black -- Personal narratives., Lesbians...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Part one is "Three Women" - a verse play for radio by Sylvia Plath (self contained). Judith Binder as the wife, Ann Bernstein as the secretary, and Rachelle Towers as the girl. Part 2 is some reflections on childbirth from the Judy Knupe, Alice Abarbanel and Stephanie Mines. This program was produced by the Unlearning to Not Speak Collective.
Topics: Radio plays., Plath, Sylvia, Three women : a verse play for radio / by Sylvia Plath., American...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
The fifth in a series of six episodes on important women in American history presented by historian Gerda Lerner. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, founders of the National Woman Suffrage Association. With this lecture, Lerner attempts to expose the suffragists as human beings rather than symbols, and to put into context the work that they did and the sacrifices they made for solving women's problems.
Topics: Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906, Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902, Suffrage --...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Dr. Nancy Rosser, a resident psychiatrist at the neuropsychiatric institute at University of California, Los Angeles, speaks of the psychological aspect of being female, intercourse, pregnancy, contraception, sexual orientation, menstruation, menopause and theories of sexuality. Bo Siewert, a representative of the Daughters of Bilitis, also speaks of the problems of discrimination and alienation for the female homosexual. The lecture was recorded April 1970. Announcer is Stephanie Powsner.
Topics: Rosser, Nancy, Women's movement -- United States., Lesbians -- Personal narratives, Gender,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
"Tell Me A Riddle" by Tillie Olsen (1912-2007) read by Virginia Maynard. Remastered by Hal 5/5/71.
Topics: Olsen, Tillie., Radio programs -- Fiction., Tell me a riddle / by Tillie Olsen, read by Virginia...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
"Lena: a sound portrait of a multifaceted lady." Lena Horne (b. June 30, 1917; d. May 9, 2010) is interviewed at San Francisco's Fairmont Hotel by KPFA's Gene De Alessi in conjunction with the release of her autobiography. She was the first black performer to be signed to a long-term contract by a major Hollywood studio, and went on to achieve international fame as a singer. In this recording she discusses her life and career, civil rights, Billie Holiday, Joe Lewis, Humphrey Bogart,...
Topics: Horne, Lena, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, African American Women, Women...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Judy Grahn on menstruation, mixed with music by Elisabeth Waldo. Writer Judy Grahn reads her article "From Sacred Blood to the Curse and Beyond" published in the anthology "," edited by Charlene Spretnak (Harper and Row, 1982). Produced by Karla Tonella. Needs intro. Contains sensitive language.
Topics: Grahn, Judy, 1940-, Menstruation (in religion, folklore, etc.)., American Women Making History and...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Dorothy Healey moderates a panel discussion on the current state of the Women's Liberation movement, Socialist Feminism, and Women's educational programming, among other topics, with Barbara Dudley with the Berkeley-Oakland Women's Union, Maria Ramos of the Socialist School of the New American Movement, Jan Breidenbach of the Los Angeles New American Movement, and Diane Horowitz of the Chicago Women's Liberation Union.
Topics: Healey, Dorothy, 1914-2006, Dudley, Barbara., Horowitz, Diane., Radio panel discussions, Women --...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Alice Toklas reading from The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein and The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook. From the folio "It isn't really an autobiography, of course, because it was written by Gertrude Stein, which is known as too many ironies in the fire. This selection is taken from the Verve record (MGV-15017), and was loaned to KPFA by Campus Records, Berkeley." Contents include: The Garden at Bilignin, Haschich Fudge, Before I came to Paris, AND On first meeting with...
Topics: Toklas, Alice B., Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946, Literature -- Women authors., Women authors, American...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Episode from August 20, 1982. Blanche Cook interviews poet, essayist and civil rights activist Audre Lorde (1934-1992). Lorde reads some selections from her new book Chosen Poems: Old and New (W.W. Norton, 1982).
Topics: American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Lorde, Audre, African American women authors,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Speech by Bernice Johnson Reagon, given November 11, 1980 at Barnard College's Reid Lectureship Women's Issues Luncheon, titled "My Black Mothers and Sisters: On Beginning a Cultural Autobiography." Tape begins with Reagon singing a poem by June Jordan. She speaks of Black women's roles in her mother's generation, the courageous actions of Fannie Lou Townsend Hamer [1917-1977] to register to vote, the Civil Rights Movement, and the need to act in the 1980s. She is a founder of Sweet...
Topics: American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Reagon, Bernice Johnson, 1942-, African...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Author Pat Maginnis, joint author with Lana Clark Phelan of The Abortion Handbook (Contact Books, 1969), discusses her book with Elsa Knight Thompson. They discuss the declining practice of midwifery, the religious and political forces driving anti-abortion sentiment, and how to change public perception of the practice of abortion.
Topics: Maginnis, Patricia Therese, Women -- Legal status, laws, etc., Abortion, American Women Making...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Alice Childress reads from her novel "A Short Walk" (Coward, McCann and Geoghegan, 1979) and talks with Wesley Brown about the political and social climate for African-American writers and playwrights in the 1940s and 1950s. Produced by Wesley Brown. This is part 2 of 2, part 1 is missing.
Topics: Childress, Alice., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, African American women...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
This radio drama was written by Grace Cavalieri, directed by Dorothy Biondi [sp?], and consists of four characters: Doctor (Jeremy Gage); Nurse Jane (Ellen Mead); Nurse Brown (Kate van Burick); Allen (Cotter Smith). The story: a mad scientist has created the perfect machine. He hires a night watchman to stay with it until its heart stops. The nurse on duty and the watchman collaborate to save the world. This play is published (it won 2nd place in a national writing contest) and was performed...
Topics: American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Radio plays.
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
"Tell Me A Riddle" by Tillie Olsen (1912-2007) read by Virginia Maynard. Remastered by Hal 5/5/71.
Topics: Olsen, Tillie., Radio programs -- Fiction., Tell me a riddle / by Tillie Olsen, read by Virginia...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Author Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) talks with David Watmough, discussing her writings and opinions. Bowen was born in Dublin in 1899, and her first short stories were written when she was 20. Her publications include The Hotel (1927); Friends And Relations (1931); To The North (1932); The House In Paris (1935); The Heat Of The Day (1949); A World Of Love (1955).
Topics: Bowen, Elizabeth, 1899-1973, Women authors, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Nin reads from and discusses her book Fourth Diary. She also discusses her struggle to become an accepted author. 34 minutes in begins an interview by artist Judy Chicago. They discuss a disagreement they previously had about anger and women's liberation. Judy Chicago interview likely recorded in November 1971. Appears to be different from recording BC0453.04.1 reel is on 2 CDs A & B.
Topics: Nin, Anaïs, 1903-1977, Women authors -- Personal narratives., Evening with Anais Nin /...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Aircheck of a live performance of MacBird!, by playwright Barbara Garson (1941 - ), directed by KPFK' Phil Austin (1941 - ), which opened that month (January 1967?) at the Village Gate in New York City. MacBird! is a 1967 satire by Barbara Garson that superimposed the transferral of power following the Kennedy assassination onto the plot of Shakespeare's Macbeth (from Wikipedia). Actors include Ken Greenwald, Richard Paul, Philip Proctor, Carol Samuels, Dianne Turley[sp?]. Music by Leon Levitt,...
Topics: Garson, Barbara., Austin, Phil., Radio plays., American drama--Women authors, American Women Making...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Shere Hite participates with a panel of women on women's relationships to sex and work. Hite introduces herself as the author of "The Hite report," a study of 3,000 women and discusses the findings of her research on women and sex. Other women on her panel are: Kay Whitlock from N.O.W. the National Sexuality Task Force on Lesbianism and Sexuality; Mary Calderone, president of SIECUS, Sex Information and Education Council of the United States; Leah Schaefer, on the board of the Society...
Topics: Orgasm., Women -- Sexuality., Sex -- Research, Women authors, Hite, Shere, Whitlock, Kay,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
A tribute to the satirical singing and recording art of Madame Florence Foster Jenkins (1868 - 1944). Prepared and presented by Melvin Jahn. Included are rare recordings of her singing; an interview with her accompanist, Cosmé McMoon from an RCA record; and a review of her press. Her final words: "Some say I couldn't sing, but no one can say I didn't sing."
Topics: American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Jenkins, Florence Foster, 1868-1944, McMoon,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Gloria Steinem, feminist and co-founder of Ms. Magazine, speaks about deep-seeded sexism and racism in America at the College of Marin on January 17, 1973. She instructs the audience on the importance of organizing, discusses the origins of political subjugation of women, and encourages women to overcome differences to work together against ruling-class divisions. Recorded by Katy Butler and produced by Laurie Simms.
Topics: Racism -- United States., Sexism -- United States, American Women Making History and Culture:...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Carlos Hagen has dedicated this program to the subject of the concept and role of woman in Nazi Germany. Through a number of articles, statements, and musical and sound illustrations -- some of them very rare -- Carlos Hagen presents a fascinating picture of how woman and her role and duties were regarded in the Germany of the Third Reich. Possibly Spectrum #133.
Topics: Hagen, Carlos., Nazism -- Germany., Women -- Germany -- Social conditions -- 20th century, American...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Bernadette Devlin (b. 1947), a leader of the Catholic Civil Rights movement in the late 1960s, gives a speech about the recent history of Northern Ireland since its creation in the 1920's. She also gives a history of religious conflict and the women's peace movement in Northern Ireland. Introduced by Mark Weiss.
Topics: Religion and politics., Peace movement., Women revolutionaries., Speech on Northern Ireland / by...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Dolores Huerta, Vice President of the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee discusses the Delano grape strike, racial discrimination, and farm work with WBAI's Maria Huffman. She describes the exploitative conditions of California farm workers, the lack of recourse available to non-unionized underpaid agricultural laborers, and how the UFW was able to secure union contracts with local grape farms and vineyards.
Topics: Huffman, Maria., Labor leaders., Strikes -- Delano (Calif.)., American Women Making History and...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Richard Lamparski interviews burlesque dancer and actress Sally Rand (1904 - 1979). Rand, nicknamed "Her Sexcellency," was most famous for her ostrich feather fan dance, which was credited with making the 1933 Chicago World's fair a financial success in the midst of the Great Depression. She talks about her days as a silent screen actress, circus performer and nightclub headliner.
Topics: American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Rand, Sally, 1904-1979, Lamparski, Richard.,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
This program from the "Negro Writer's Vision of America" conference held April 23-25, 1965 at New York's New School is a discussion of the Negro woman in America and in American literature. Participants are poet Sarah Wright, playwright Alice Childress, singer and actress Abbey Lincoln, novelist Paule Marshall and poet Sterling A. Brown. This is the second episode of a twelve-part series of recordings from the Negro Writer's Vision of America Conference; the remaining episodes are not...
Topics: African Americans--Civil rights--History, African American women authors, African American women in...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Discussion of society, incest, and institutionalized marriage outside the family with Anthropology Professor Mariam Slater of Queens College.
Topics: Incest., Slater, Mariam, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Gloria Steinem and Margaret Sloan-Hunter, in a joint appearance at the Brooklyn Montessori School on May 15, 1973, address themselves to the relationship between sexism and racism. They discuss the white male-dominated media's representation of the women's liberation movement and black women's position in feminist activism. They are introduced by State Senator Carol Bellamy. Technical notes: There is a noise that occurs throughout Margaret Sloan-Hunter's speech.
Topics: Steinem, Gloria, Women's rights, Racism -- United States., Sloan-Hunter, Margaret, 1947-, American...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
A program produced from a public speak-out on abortion and sterilization abuse which was held September 10, 1977 at Washington Irving High School in New York City, sponsored by the Coalition for Abortion Rights and Against Sterilization Abuse. The speak-out includes political, legal, medical and personal testimony from a variety of speakers. The speakers on this program include journalist Ellen Willis; Rhonda Copeland, attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights; Gilda Abramowitz,...
Topics: American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Lamb, Myrna, Willis, Ellen, Sterilization...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Kathleen Cleaver, Communications Secretary of the Black Panther Party, State Assembly candidate on the Peace & Freedom Party platform and wife of Black Panther Party Minister of Information Eldridge Cleaver, discusses Black activism and her husband's activities and persecution with host Julius Lester. Cleaver talks about the origins of the Black Panther Party and describes it as the culmination of a series of movements and organizations in the black community. She also talks about their...
Topics: Lester, Julius., Blacks -- Political activity., Cleaver, Eldridge, 1935-1998, Cleaver, Kathleen,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
The Stanford Primate Research Center houses primates in a natural-like habitat and provides research in primate development and behavior, significantly female dominated social groups, in squirrel monkeys, rhesus monkeys, and chimpanzees. This is a documentary on the Center and includes interviews with director Dr. Seymour Levine and Dr. Christopher Coe. Produced by Laurie Garrett and Adi Gevins. Technical assistance by Scott McAllister. Previously cataloged as AZ0043.
Topics: Coe, Christopher L., Levine, Seymour, 1925-, Primates -- Behavior., Stanford Outdoor Primate...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Artist and musician Yoko Ono discusses the evolution of her art during the 1960s with Liza Cowan and Jan Albert at the St. Regis Hotel in New York City on September 11, 1971. Includes discussion of conceptual art, her film "Lighting Piece", acting out madness in order to not go mad, her time as a building superintendent, her early loft concerts, the pea throwing ritual, and discrimination against women artists. John Lennon makes a brief appearance about halfway through the interview.
Topics: Ono, Yōko, 1943-, Albert, Jan., Women artists, Art., American Women Making History and Culture:...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Richard Lamparski interviews Arlene DeMarco (1933-2013), a member of the singing group, the DeMarco Sisters. From the folio: "When the DeMarco Sisters were singing during the 1940's and 50's, she was the one in the center. Now she's the one who is far out. Heavy dishing here as Richard Lamparski mulls through the dirt contained in Arlene's new book 'Triangle'. Grandma Lamparski will wash out Richard's mouth with soap if she hears this one." Her new book is a fiction about a woman who...
Topics: DeMarco Sisters, Entertainers -- Personal narratives., American Women Making History and Culture:...
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
Artist and feminist educator Miriam Schapiro (1923 - ) reconstructs her development as a painter, linking the changes in her imagery to her psychological history and involvement in the women's movement. Schapiro's memoir reveals how the introduction of feminism expanded, rather than restricted, the possibilities of growth and experience in her life and art. Produced by Clare Spark. Partially supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Topics: Schapiro, Miriam, 1923-, Art and society., Women artists, American Women Making History and...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Patricia Schroeder (July 30, 1940- ) was a Denver, Colorado lawyer who ran an unconventional campaign for Congress and won. In a talk given in Aspen, Colorado in June 1973, she discusses the manners, customs, and pecking order of the "ego center of America," as a woman in the House Armed Services Committee; how the budget is passed, love of technology, and "expertise." Schroeder also describes her campaign, how the public viewed her husband, reactions of her cohort on her...
Topics: UNITED STATES. CONGRESS -- ANECDOTES, FACETIAE, SATIRE, ETC., Rosenfeld, Tim., Military...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Colin Edwards interviews Miss Leila Khaled, a young Palestinian woman who has become a heroine to the whole Arab world through leading a two-man team in taking over a TWA airliner between Rome and Athens and ordering it to proceed first to Lydda, to circle over her homeland to challenge the Israelis, and then to Damascus where she blew up the entire front end. A member of the Marxist-Leninist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, she describes the origins of that movement, its...
Topics: Khaled, Leila, 1944-, Palestine -- Politics and government., Arab woman, guerilla leader / Leila...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Colin Edwards interviews Miss Leila Khaled, a young Palestinian woman who has become a heroine to the whole Arab world through leading a two-man team in taking over a TWA airliner between Rome and Athens and ordering it to proceed first to Lydda, to circle over her homeland to challenge the Israelis, and then to Damascus where she blew up the entire front end. A member of the Marxist-Leninist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, she describes the origins of that movement, its...
Topics: Khaled, Leila, 1944-, Palestine -- Politics and government., Arab woman, guerilla leader / Leila...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
A celebration of the 10th annual Lesbian Pride Week, featuring poets & artists who will be appearing during this year's events. Alix Dobkin's song "Women Loving" opens the program. Jewelle Gomez reads her poem "Flamingos and Bears". Eleanor Cooper of Lesbian Feminist Liberation talks about Lesbian Pride Week through the years and about the importance of lesbian pride. Ellen Marie Bissert reads her poem "Ode to My True Nature". Karen Brown, writer and director...
Topics: American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Lesbian poets, Lesbian authors
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Production reel containing exerpts for the September 20, 1978 episode of The Velvet Sledgehammer, produced by Eileen Zalisk and Rose Jordan. Segments are: 1. Animal studies show cancer risk of Estrogens - produced by Eileen Zalisk; 2. Women in Cuba; 3. Rose Jordan reports on the Foundation for Matriachy's "Forum for the Future." Contains clips from speakers at the forum including founder Barbara Love, activists Robin Morgan, Gloria Steinem, Wilmette Brown of Black Women for Wages for...
Topics: American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Estrogen -- Health and hygiene., Matriarchy...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
This is the story of South African Black women under apartheid, portrayed through women's poetry, writing and music. Includes descriptions of the Sharpville Massacre and the Soweto Uprising, poetry by Susan Anderson and Zindzi Mandela, daughter of the banished Nomzamo Winnie Mandela and Nelson Mandela, ANC leader serving life prison sentence on Robben Island; excerpts from Joyce Sikakane's The Window on Soweto, and the music of Miriam Makeba, Letta Mbulu, and African people singing "Nkosi...
Topics: Mandela, Zindzi, 1960-, Makeba, Miriam., Women -- South Africa., Apartheid., Blacks -- South...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
The Los Angeles chapter of the Committee on Abortion Rights and Sterilization Abuse (CARASA) presents a teach-in on reproductive rights in response to the growing conservative backlash against the achievements of the women's movement, especially initiatives like the anti-abortion Hyde Amendment. Topics covered in the teach-in include the history of reproductive rights, the legal questions involved, the anti-abortion movement, sterilization abuse and population control, gay and lesbian rights,...
Topics: Spark, Clare., Gluck, Sherna., Brooks, Betty., Cornell, Drucilla., Freeman, Debbie., Rodriguez,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Lesbian Express presents a program on lesbian mothers. Issues concerning child-rearing, child custody cases involving ex-husbands, and the lack of support for mothers in the lesbian community are explored. This is part 2, part 1 is missing. Contains sensitive language.
Topics: American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Lesbian mothers, Motherhood
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Sheila Smith, a volunteer worker at a short-lived free abortion clinic in Los Angeles, talks with KPFA Public Affairs director Don Porsche. Dr. John Gwynne opened the Community Service Center and Women's Abortion Clinic, an abortion clinic in Los Angeles, on March 16, 1970 in defiance of the abortion laws, and in hopes of testing the law's constitutionality. The clinic operated for five days, after which Gwynne, psychologist Harvey Karman, and other clinic employees were arrested.
Topics: Smith, Sheila, Abortion, Health facilities -- Los Angeles (Calif.)., Reproductive rights, Abortion...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker (1944 - ) reads her short story "Roselily" (written ca. 1967). Walker then talks with KPFA's Ginny Z. Berson about the story, how she wrote it about her first marriage to a civil rights attorney and how it questions the dominance of Christianity over all religions in the US. The story was dropped from a 10th grade English test by California state educators based on complaints from Christian conservatives in early 1994. The Traditional Values...
Topics: American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Walker, Alice, 1944-, African American women...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Andy interviews Rebecca and Carlos, who have just returned from Cuba where they worked with Cubans and other North Americans with the Venceremos Brigade, about their experiences in Cuba's three larges cities, the oppression of gays in Cuba, and on the changing roles of men and women in Cuba. This is part one of the subseries Cuba And Gays In Cuba, 1976. Both guests identify as gay and discuss how they felt discriminated against within the Venceremos Brigade. Part two was produced in July 1977....
Topics: CUBA, Gay liberation movement., Venceremos Brigade, GAYS AND LESBIANS, Fruit Punch Collective.,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Three readings of the diary of Alice James, the invalid sister of author Henry James and psychologist William James. She kept her journals from the year 1889 until a few days before her death in 1892. The journals tell the story of a woman struggling against life during the Victorian Era, and the experience of being diagnosed with "hysteria". The diaries were not published until 1934, long after her death, because of the many members of society she told stories about and mentioned by...
Topics: James, Alice., Authors -- Correspondence, reminiscences, etc., Diary of Alice James / read by...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Carol Burris, National Organization for Women (NOW) and a coordinator of the Equal Rights Amendment, talks about the proposed Amendment. Burris discusses the fact that the 5th and 14th Amendments have not prevented discrimination against women in the areas of divorce, alimony and child support laws, labor laws, and military service regulations. She traces the evolution of the legal status of women which dates from English Common Law: women as property, the "hidden woman," both...
Topics: Women -- Political activity., Equal Rights Amendment (Proposed)., American Women Making History and...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Production reel for a program hosted by Eileen Zalisk commemorating the 8th anniversary of the passing of Roe v. Wade. Zalisk interviews an unnamed guest on the history and laws surrounding abortion rights.
Topics: American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Abortion -- Law and legislation., Abortion --...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
