Browse the American Women collection
| Title | Description | Keywords | Genre |
PRA Archive # |
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| Meg Christian performs at the 1981 West Coast Women's Music Festival |
Meg Christian performs at the 1981 West Coast Women's Music Festival just after the release of her album "Turning it over," on Olivia Records. Songs performed are Turning it over -- Train song(?) -- Restless -- There's a light -- You bet (co-written by Holly Near) -- Southern home -- Gym II -- I wish you well -- The road I took to you -- Sweet darlin' woman. With Diane Lindsay on guitar. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Christian, Meg, Lesbian musicians, Women's music festivals, Lindsay, Diane | American Women -- Music and musicians, American Women -- Lesbians | KZ4061 | Meg Christian performs at the Women's Music Festival (CD) |
| Carolyn Forché reads her poetry |
Poet Carolyn Forché reads her poetry live in front of an audience. Forché, who taught at San Diego State from 1975-78 and who has worked with Amnesty International and Catholic Archbishop Oscar Romero, relates stories of her experiences in Latin America and South America between poems. Poems read are San Onofre, The Island (for Claribel Alegria), The memory of Elena, The visitor, The colonel, and Return (for Josephine Crum). Rosenbluth's intro says this program also includes an interview with Forché, but interview is missing on this recording. Outro song by Holly Near, "El Salvador." Contains sensitive language. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Forché, Carolyn, El Salvador--Poetry., Rosenbluth, Helene, Latin America--Poetry. | American Women -- Poetry | KZ4036 | Carolyn Forche reads her poetry 1982 live (CD) |
| Lesbian nation / Jill Johnston |
KPFK's Barbara Cady and Los Angeles Free Press reporter Helen Koblin interview Jill Johnston, Village Voice columnist and author of Lesbian Nation. Johnston explains her views of lesbianism as the only true radical feminist position. She discusses the purported link between lesbianism and madness, her relationship with her children, and whether the lesbian feminist struggle is equivalent to the oppression of Third World peoples. Likely the same as BC1481. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Cady, Barbara., Johnston, Jill, Lesbian separatism | American Women -- Lesbians, American Women -- Authors and journalists | KZ3946 | Lesbian nation / Jill Johnston (CD) |
| 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) |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 |