Hot type / by Marjorie Lipsyte interviewed by Phyllis Kriegel

Program Title:
Hot type / by Marjorie Lipsyte interviewed by Phyllis Kriegel
PRA Archive #: 
IZ0607
Description: 

"Hot Type" is a novel about a woman working on a newspaper in the 1960's, struggling to get ahead but finding it very difficult. Includes discussion of early women in newspaper 1930's, movement in 1940's (because of war) women found jobs, but then pushed back in the 1950's. By the 1960's there were less women in the newspapers than in the 1930's. Author Marjorie Lipsyte was herself a reporter and describes the sexism in the business. This book is in part an autobiography. First instruction to women is to learn how to type.

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Date Recorded on: 
ca. March 25, 1982
Date Broadcast on: 
WBAI, March 25, 1982
Item duration: 
00:26:00
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Role: 
Interviewer
Distributor: 
Los Angeles : Pacifica Radio Archives, 1982
Rights Summary: 
RESTRICTED. Permissions, licensing requests, Curriculum Initiative, Campus Campaign and all other inquiries should be directed to: Mark Torres, Archives Director, 800-735-0230, Mark@PacificaRadioArchives.org
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This recording has been digitally preserved as part of Pacifica's American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 grant preservation project, and is available for research and reference . Please contact the archives via telephone: 818-506-1077 or email:  americanwomen at pacificaradioarchives dot org for information on how to obtain a copy of this program. Thank you.



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