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| Title | Description | Keywords | Genre |
PRA Archive # |
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| Maryknoll Sisters on Leon, Nicaragua, 1981 |
Talk by Maryknoll Sisters recorded during a June 1981 visit to Nicaragua by a study group of KPFK listeners. Two sisters, Julie Miller and Pat Murphy, talk about their work in Leon, Nicaragua. Background to the Maryknoll Sisters order (Catholic) is given and how they became involved in the Nicaraguan revolution, and how siding with the poor marginalized them. Music and narration. Produced by Molly Bosted. |
León (Nicaragua), Maryknoll Sisters, NICARAGUA, Revolution -- Nicaragua., MISSIONARIES, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- International women | KZ2569 | |
| Documentary on the Lowell Mill Girls and early textile mill workers |
Documentary on women labor reform pioneers in the United States with a focus on the Lowell Mills Girls who struggled for better working conditions, wages, hours in Lowell, Massachusetts in the 1800s. Documentary includes music, readings, and narration. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Women workers., Women textile workers, Women labor unionists., Labor unions -- Textile workers. | American Women -- Work and unions | KZ2598 | |
| Domestic violence and the homeless women: Carol Mackay and Mollie Lowery |
Two speeches at a Domestic Violence Services Conference: Carol Mackay's talk on "rural women and their special needs" focuses on planning to end domestic violence against women in Wyoming (20 min.). Mollie Lowery, organizer of Los Angeles shelters for the homeless, entitles her talk "On a list of 100 concerns, where do you think earthquake safety rates with homeless women?" Lowery describes types of homeless women, why they are homeless, and what some of them are doing about it. Lowery is currently with Los Angeles Men's Place (L.A.M.P.) and also speaks of another project called Jill's Place (domestic violence shelters or safe zones). This tape is undated, but L.A.M.P. was established in 1985, so this recording is likely from the late 1980s. |
Family violence, Homeless women, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Violence against women | KZ2639 | |
| Rona Fields interviewed by Clare Spark about the psychology of Northern Ireland |
Clare Spark interviews Dr. Rona M. Fields, author of "Society under siege, a psychology of Northern Ireland." Fields is a clinical psychologist who studies terrorism and resistance among oppressed social groups. She visited KPFK while visiting Los Angeles for the meetings of the American Psychological Association. She talks about her research and writing about the psychology of Northern Ireland. Book published in 1977, so the date of this program may be inaccurate. Produced by Clare Spark. |
Fields, Rona M., Minorities Psychology, Northern Ireland -- Social conditions., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Psychology and psychotherapy, American Women -- International women | KZ2652 | |
| International Woman's Day Coalition of Labor Union Women |
The International Women's Day program for 1981 features four members of the Coalition of Labor Union Women: Ruth Miller, President of the Los Angeles Chapter; Linda Paquette, editor of Chapter Newsletter, CLUW; Rose Unger, California Federation of Teachers union member; and Cheryl Parisi, American Federation of State-County Municipal Employees. Miller discusses the mission and programs of CLUW followed by a discussion of current issues such as equal pay initiatives in San Jose, California and elsewhere. Produced by Clare Spark. |
Coalition of Labor Union Women (U.S.), International Women's Day, Women labor unionists., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Work and unions | KZ2719 | |
| Kate Millett goes on all day about Simone de Beauvoir |
Kate Millett speaks about Simone de Beauvoir as a biographer (38 min.). After some blank spots in the recording, there is a question and answer session to 62 minutes. Ambient noise follows, rest of tape is blank. Likely recorded at a colloquium on Simone De Beauvoir held at The French House at Columbia University April 4-6, 1985. |
Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908-1986, Millett, Kate., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Authors and journalists | KZ2743 | |
| Edith Piaf : a tribute / produced and narrated by Ruth Hirschman |
Ruth Hirschman produced and narrated this biography of French singer Edith Piaf (1915 - 1963). The documentary moves from her difficult childhood in a working-class neighborhood in Paris, her rise to fame and stardom, her relationship with the boxer Marcel Cerdan, her struggle with drug addiction, and her early death at the age of 47 from liver cancer. Features clips of many of her songs. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Piaf, Edith, 1915-1963, Hirschman, Ruth., Women singers--France--Biography. | American Women -- Music and musicians, American Women -- Autobiographies and Biographies, American Women -- International women | KZ2779 | |
| Space and social change: Dolores Hayden interviewed by Sheila de Bretteville and Clare Spark Loeb |
Dolores Hayden, architect and founder of Women in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Planning (WALAP) and author of "Space and social change," a study of six communitarian experiments in the 19th century, is interviewed by Sheila De Bretteville of the Women's Design Program at Cal Arts and Clare Spark Loeb, host of the "Sour apple tree" series. Topic question is "How does physical form embody social values and affect political processes?" Hayden also gives background on the WALAP organization and its effects. Self-contained. Produced by Clare Spark Loeb. |
Hayden, Dolores, Design -- Social aspects., Design -- Political aspects, Architecture, Modern -- Social aspects., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Art and artists | KZ2783 | |
| Charlotte Bunch and panel Q&A at the Gay Academic Union conference (1979) |
This recording contains a speech given by Charlotte Bunch from the Gay Academic Union conference, November 1979. Bunch talks about the past decade and the Gay Movement and what is in store for the future. Produced by Helene Rosenbluth. |
Bunch, Charlotte, 1944-, Gay Academic Union, GAY RIGHTS, Gay rights., GAYS AND LESBIANS, Lesbianism, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Lesbians | KZ2784 | |
| Governor Reagan's Ladies Day address to the Commonwealth Club |
Governor Ronald Reagan's Ladies' Day address to the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco, delivered on June 13th, 1969. Gov. Reagan addresses the events that transpired on "Bloody Thursday" in People's Park in Berkeley and the resulting unrest on the UC Berkeley campus, and takes questions from the press. The person who introduces him is not identified. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Reagan, Ronald, Commonwealth Club of California, Politicians -- California., Politicians -- Addresses, essays, lectures. | American Women -- Men's commentary and experiences, American Women -- Politicians and politics | KZ3772 | Governor Reagan's Ladies Day Address 6-13-1969 <br /><br /> (CD) |