Browse the American Women collection
| Title | Description | Keywords | Genre |
PRA Archive # |
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| I was first locked up at fourteen / produced by Frances Emley. |
A documentary on the physical and emotional reality of incarceration, profiling a young woman whose father had her locked up at the age of fourteen for "incorrigibility." The "incorrigibility" stemmed from her work with young Chicano migrant families, of which her father disapproved. Since his beatings couldn't set her straight, the state tried solitary confinement and Thorazine on and off for a period of four years. She describes how she finally submitted to the physical power of the institution guards and the dulling drugs which allowed her not to feel. Produced by the Women's Prison Collective. The program is dedicated to a California Death Row inmate who was first incarcerated at the age of eleven. |
Prisons., Juvenile corrections., Incorrigibles (Juvenile delinquency)., Women prisoners., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Violence against women | AZ0031 | I was first locked up at fourteen / produced by Frances Emley. (CD) |
| Test tube babies / produced by Laurie Garrett. |
Documentary on the moral, physical, and socio-political controversy surrounding artificial insemination and egg implantation, based on hearings conducted in San Francisco in November 1978 by Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) Secretary Joseph Califano. Heard on the program are Dr. Alan Enders from the University of California, Davis; Francis Filice, Professor Emeritus of Biology at University of San Francisco; Mary Ann Schwab, Legislative Information Chairman for the National Council of Catholic Women; and others. Produced, researched and engineered by Laurie Garrett at KPFA. Previously cataloged as AZ0643. |
Artificial insemination, Human., Fertilization in vitro, Human., Science -- Social aspects., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Health, American Women -- Science and scientists | AZ0027.14 | Test tube babies / produced by Laurie Garrett. |
| A condemnation of sociobiology / Dr. Seymour Washburn ; interviewed by Laurie Garrett. |
Dr. Seymour Washburn, professor of anthropology at University of California, Berkeley, attacks the field of sociobiology. Much of the speech focuses on a critique of E.O. Wilson of Harvard University, the chief proponent of the field of sociobiology, who wields evolutionary arguments to support the ascription of genetic bases to human behaviors. This approach has been criticized by many in the scientific community as racist, non-scientific, sexist and dangerous. Recorded at the American Association for the Advancement of Science Symposium in San Francisco in 1977. Produced by Laurie Garrett. Previously cataloged as AZ0116. |
Sociobiology, Garrett, Laurie, Wilson, Edward O., Washburn, Seymour, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, American Association for the Advancement of Science. | American Women -- Science and scientists, American Women -- Men's commentary and experiences | AZ0027.07 | A Condemnation of sociobiology / Dr. Seymour Washburn ; interviewed by Laurie Garrett. (CD) |
| Galapagos Islands discovered : evolution of the ocean floor / Dr. John Corliss ; interviewed by Laurie Garrett. |
Laurie Garrett interviews Dr. John Corliss of Oregon State University, Corvalis, co-head of the Galapagos Research Mission, about the recent discoveries off the Galapagos Islands. Corliss, plunging two miles to the sea floor, found enormous volcanic activity, high concentrations of radioactivity and rare elements, and strange new life forms. The new biology of the ocean alters some of the prevailing theories of evolution. Garrett and Corliss discuss evolution, the content of the earth's core, and the experience of diving two miles below sea level. Produced by Laurie Garrett, with technical assistance from Susan Ohori. Previously cataloged as AZ0066. |
Evolution of the ocean floor., Galapagos Islands., Corliss, John., Marine biology -- Galapagos Islands., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Science and scientists | AZ0027.06 | Galapagos Islands discovered : evolution of the ocean floor / Dr. John Corliss ; interviewed by Laurie Garrett. |
| A visit to the Stanford Primate Research Center / produced by Adi Gevins and Laurie Garrett |
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. |
Coe, Christopher L., Levine, Seymour, 1925-, Primates -- Behavior., Stanford Outdoor Primate Facility, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Science and scientists | AZ0027.05 | A visit to the Stanford Primate Research Center / produced by Adi Gevins and Laurie Garrett |
| Fraud in the sciences / produced by Adi Gevins and Laurie Garrett (Episode 4) |
An examination of fraud, fudging, and stretching the truth in the sciences. Includes interviews with Dr. Leon Kamin of Princeton University, who exposed the fraud of Dr. Cyril Burt (father of the genetic theory of intelligence), physicist Norman Milleron, anthropologist Dr. Laura Nader, and Dr. DeWitt Stetton of the National Institute of Health. Also contains a brief comedic sketch. Produced by Laurie Garrett and Adi Gevins, with engineering assistance from Scott McAllister and theatrical assistance from Randy Thom and Bill Sokol. Previously cataloged as AZ0036. |
Nader, Laura., Milleron, Norman., Kamin, Leon J., Research ethics., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Health, American Women -- Science and scientists | AZ0027.04 | Fraud in the sciences / produced by Adi Gevins and Laurie Garrett (Episode 4) |
| Recombinant DNA : genetic engineering in the corporate world / produced by Adi Gevins and Laurie Garrett (Episode 3) |
In this program on DNA, the thin line between research and corporate profit, public benefits and public menace is debated in interviews with industrial, academic, and government biogeneticists. Includes interviews with Dr. Sidney Udenfriend of Hoffmann-La Roche Pharmaceutical Corporation, Jeremy Rifkin and Dan Smith of the People's Business Commission, and Dr. Steven Beckenford of UC Berkeley, and others. Produced by Laurie Garrett and Adi Gevins, with engineering assistance from Philip Maldari. Previously cataloged as AZ0029. |
Gevins, Adi., Peabody awards, Corporate profits., Recombinant DNA., Genetic engineering., Garrett, Laurie, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Health, American Women -- Science and scientists | AZ0027.03 | Recombinant DNA : genetic engineering in the corporate world / produced by Adi Gevins and Laurie Garrett (Episode 3) (nid:1250) |
| The Opening of the flu season : a look at the preparations and repercussions of the swine flu vaccination program / produced by Adi Gevins and Laurie Garrett. (Episode 2) |
Examination of the preparations and repercussions of the Swine Flu vaccination program. Contains a comedy sketch about the opening of the flu season, as well as interviews with researchers active in the Swine Flu controversy, such as Dr. James Chin of the California Health Department and Dr. Anthony Morris, formerly of the Bureau of Biologics of the National Institute of Health. Written and produced by Laurie Garrett and Adi Gevins with engineering assistance from Scott McAllister and Randy Thom. Actors in the comedy sketch are Kris Welch, Alan Snitow, Randy Thom and Brent Stuart. Previously cataloged as AZ0026. |
Gevins, Adi., Peabody awards, Influenza vaccines., Swine influenza., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Health, American Women -- Science and scientists | AZ0027.02 | The Opening of the flu season : a look at the preparations and repercussions of the swine flu vaccination program / produced by Adi Gevins and Laurie Garrett. (Episode 2) |
| Environmental carcinogens / produced by Adi Gevins and Laurie Garrett (Episode 1) |
Montage on the environmental origins of cancer, occupational health hazards, and the reluctance of industries to provide adequate safeguards against these hazards. Over 20 scientists were interviewed at a meeting of the American Cancer Society for this program, including Berkeley biochemistry professor Dr. Bruce Ames and immunologist Dr. Joel Schwartz. Written and produced by Laurie Garrett and Adi Gevins. |
Ames, Bruce N., Gevins, Adi., Occupational health and safety., Peabody awards, Industrial toxicology., Carcinogens., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Science and scientists, American Women -- Health | AZ0027.01 | Environmental carcinogens / produced by Adi Gevins and Laurie Garrett (Episode 1) |
| Timpanist Elayne Jones / produced by Charles Amirkhanian. |
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). (From Folio) Elayne Jones is one of the most prominent percussionists in the United States orchestral music scene. She was chosen personally by Leopold Stokowski to work with his American Symphony Orchestra upon its founding. Jones is also one of the few Black orgestral musicians holding a first-chair position, and when recently she was fired by the San Francisco Symphony, allegedly for musical reasons, the Bay Area community (including many musicians and critics) were convinced that racism was at the base of the action. |
Jones, Elayne, Timpanists, Women musicians., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, African American women musicians | American Women -- Music and musicians | AZ0022 | Timpanist Elayne Jones / produced by Charles Amirkhanian. |