Browse the American Women collection
| Title | Description | Keywords | Genre |
PRA Archive # |
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| Elsa Knight Thompson accepting the Lewis Hill award |
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. |
Women journalists., Lewis Hill Award, Thompson, Elsa Knight, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Authors and journalists | AZ0689 | |
| Where I've been: writings by Valerie Miner and Sandy Boucher / produced by Julia Randall |
Feminist authors Valerie Miner and Sandy Boucher read from their works on treks through time and cross-country. Valerie Miner's "Movement" (Crossing Press, New York) follows one woman (ad)venturing through the 1970's -- a story told by many characters, from many walks of life. Sandy Boucher's "Heartwomen: an Urban Feminist's Odyssey Home" (Harper and Row) chronicles her own journey back to the Midwest, where she grew up, the lives of women she found there, and coming home to them and to herself. The program also includes the authors making comments about their writing and the individual readings. Produced by Julia Randall at KPFA. Music by Margie Adam. |
Boucher, Sandy., Miner, Valerie, Women authors, Radio programs -- Fiction., Feminist literature., Women's writings., Miner, Valerie, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Authors and journalists, American Women -- Autobiographies and Biographies | AZ0702 | |
| Sandy Silver speaks out against the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant |
A member of Mothers for Peace, the organization which brought a lawsuit against the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, delivers an unsolicited address from the floor of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Licensing Board hearing in San Luis Obispo in Summer 1981. Contains sensitive language. Tape label: "According to Mothers for Peace, the legal intervenors in the Diablo Canyon case, local opposition to the plant has sky-rocketed over the last 2 months, as the licensing date drew near and as the people of San Luis began to realize that Federal authorities were not going to keep the plant from opening. For many San Luis residents, that realization came during the most recent set of license hearings held in their town." |
Silver, Sandy., Nuclear power plants., Antinuclear movement, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Diablo Canyon Nuclear Powerplant (Calif.) | American Women -- Peace and Antinuclear activism | AZ0706 | |
| Interview with Judy Mowatt / produced by Sue Supriano. |
In Jamaica 1982, Sue Supriano interviewed Judy Mowatt, singer who was one of the "I-Threes," Bob Marley's back-up singers (along with Rita Marley and Marcia Griffiths). Mowatt talks about her music and her struggles as a Black woman. Three of her songs (pre-recorded) are featured in the recording: Black woman, My my people, and Think. |
Supriano, Sue., Women singers -- Personal narratives., Black singers -- Personal narratives., Marley, Bob, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- International women, American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination, American Women -- Music and musicians | AZ0780 | Interview with Judy Mowatt / produced by Sue Supriano. (CD) |
| A Feminist critique of anti-feminism / produced by Peggy Irene Bray and Julia Randall. |
Debate between feminist and anti-feminists. Anti-feminists see feminists challenging woman's natural role, while feminists see anti-feminists as a right-wing backlash that tries to organize women to support the party of war. The right-wing "pro-family agenda" is dedicated to fighting the Equal Rights Amendment and enforcing rigid sexual ethics. Voices heard in the recording, which come from a variety of sources, are historian and author Barbara Ehrenreich, Mother Jones editor and feminist activist Deirdre English, feminist activist Catherine MacKinnon, author and feminist activist Lee Novick, feminist activist Charlotte Bunch, satirical performance art troupe Ladies Against Women, anti-feminist activist Phyllis Schlafly, anti-abortion activist Nellie Gray, U.S. Senator Richard Schweiker (R-PA), U.S. Senator Jesse Helms (R-NC), and Evangelical theologian Francis Schaffer. Produced by Peggy Irene Bray and Julia Randall of the KPFA Women's Department with engineering assistance by Susan Elizabeth. |
Gray, Nellie., Bray, Peggy Irene., Helms, Jessie., MacKinnon, Catherine, English, Deirdre, Schaffer, Francis., Novik, Lee., Schweiker, Richard., Bunch, Charlotte, 1944-, Schlafly, Phyllis, Randall, Julia., Ehrenreich, Barbara, Women's movement -- Philosophy., Feminism -- Philosophy., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Feminism | AZ0806 | A Feminist critique of anti-feminism / produced by Peggy Irene Bray and Julia Randall. (CD) |
| Toward a worldwide women's movement / produced by Peggy Irene Bray, Bonnie MacGregor, and Mara Keller. |
A documentary from a conference of African, Asian, Latin American, Soviet, and American women who discuss the similarities of their social positions: Native American woman's decline following Euramerican contact, the low status of women in the U.S. and USSR, the mass women's movement in India, and the crucial role of women in the South African and Latin American guerrilla wars. The participants are Tatyana Mamonova, feminist activist from the Soviet Union; Charlotte Bunch and Robin Morgan feminist activists from the United States; Madhu Kishwar, Manushi Women's Collective, India; Viola Ziyambe, Pan-Africanist Conference of Azania (South Africa); Maritza, a guerrilla fighter from El Salvador, and women of the Lakota Sioux nation. Produced by Peggy Irene Bray, Bonnie MacGregor, and Mara Keller, with production assistance by Paula Dart, Max Dashu, Hannah Wilson, Pam Hoelscher, and Gunvor Anderson-Johnson[sp?]. Music consultants: Kori Kody and Max Dashu. Engineered by Kathy Jacob, Marci Lockwood and Peggy Bray. |
Maritza., Bunch, Charlotte, 1944-, Morgan, Robin, 1941-, Mamonova, Tatyana, 1943-, Kishwar, Madhu., Ziyambe, Viola., Women -- Africa -- History., Women -- Soviet Union -- History., Women -- United States -- History., Women -- History., Women -- Latin America -- History., Women -- Asia -- History., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Teton Indians | American Women -- Feminism, American Women -- International women | AZ0807 | Toward a worldwide women's movement / produced by Peggy Irene Bray, Bonnie MacGregor, and Mara Keller. (CD) |
| Life in the female job ghetto : service and office work / produced by Peggy Irene Bray, Maggie Geddes, and Karla Tonella. |
A documentary that takes a look at women's place in the paid labor force. Features audio of members of Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees and Bartenders International Union Local 2, protesting the mental and physical brutality of their work in San Francisco, July 1980, as well as interviews with San Francisco hotel maids describing their strenuous work conditions. Issues of racism and sexism in labor unions are also discussed. Also examines women office workers who criticize their workplace as a female job ghetto. Featured in the program are Joyce Maupin, Union Women's Alliance to Gain Equality (Union WAGE); Rita Boyle, Women Organized for Employment (WOE); Margaret Butz and Agnes Ramirez, Coalition for Labor Union Women (CLUW); Mary Ann Massenburg, former office worker and clerical organizer for District 65 of the United Auto Workers (UAW). Produced by Peggy Irene Bray, Maggie Geddes, and Karla Tonella. |
Women Organized for Employment, Tonella, Karla., Boyle, Rita, Bray, Peggy., Maupin, Joyce., Massenburg, Mary Ann., Geddes, Maggie., Office workers -- Personal narratives., Sex discrimination in employment, Women -- Employment -- Social conditions., Servants -- Personal narratives., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Work and unions, American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination | AZ0808 | Life in the female job ghetto : service and office work / produced by Peggy Irene Bray, Maggie Geddes, and Karla Tonella. (CD) |
| From the cancer journals / Audre Lorde. |
Live readings by poet, activist and essayist Audre Lorde (1934 - 1992) from her non-fiction work, The Cancer Journals (Aunt Lute Books, 1980). She starts with personal readings in which she shares her experiences with breast cancer. She warns of the dangers of silence and denial, and how to take action by becoming visible to one another about the issue. She goes on to discuss how the established cancer industry is motivated by profit, and that prevention and alternative therapies are not considered within this environment. She concludes with a reading of her poem, "Need," which is dedicated to Black women who were murdered. |
Women authors -- Personal narratives., Lorde, Audre, Breast -- Cancer -- Patients -- Biography., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Autobiographies and Biographies, American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination, American Women -- Authors and journalists, American Women -- Health | AZ0974 | The Cancer Journals of Audre Lorde (CD) |
| Malvina Reynolds: I'd rather say it myself singing / narrated by Nancy Schimmel; produced by Susan Kernes |
A tribute to singer-songwriter Malvina Reynolds (1900-1978). The program is comprised of a running narration by Reynolds' daughter, Nancy Schimmel, pieces of interviews with Ms. Reynolds, and reminiscences by Pete Seeger. Explores how she wrote songs, her struggle to get her material distributed, a discussion of her politics, what it is like to grow up a Socialist, beliefs about life after death, and hopes for social change. Narrated by Nancy Schimmel; written and produced by Susan Kernes; engineered by James Bennett. RECORDED: KPFA, 1982. For an edited version, see AZ0979. |
Reynolds, Malvina., Schimmel, Nancy., Seeger, Pete, 1919-2014, Experimental music., Socialism and youth -- Personal narratives., Women musicians -- Personal narratives., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Music and musicians, American Women -- Autobiographies and Biographies | AZ0978 | |
| Laurie Anderson on her music / interviewed by Charles Amirkhanian |
Noted experimental musician Laurie Anderson discusses her music, the development of ideas, and the use of odd and modified instruments. Anderson also discusses the influence on her by Vito Acconci and William Burroughs. Includes performances of Anderson's "New York Social Life," "Language of the Future," and "Time to Go." Recorded in her New York studio on March 11, 1979. Restricted distribution rights. Contains performance of copyrighted music. RECORDED: KPFA, 11 Mar. 1979. |
Anderson, Laurie, 1947-, Musicians -- Personal narratives., Experimental music., Amirkhanian, Charles., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Music and musicians, American Women -- Poetry | AZ1008 | Laurie Anderson on her music / interviewed by Charles Amirkhanian |