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| Title | Description | Keywords | Genre | PRA Archive # |
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| Sexual freedom: the middle road / Lester Kirkendall |
Dr. Lester Kirkendall, Professor of Family Life at Oregon State University and author of "The Problems of Remaining a Virgin," gives a talk entitled "Sexual Freedom: The Middle Road" at the "The Pill and the Puritan Ethic" symposium held in San Francisco on February 12, 1967. His talk attacks both the Puritan right and the libertine left on the problem of sexual ethics. Includes a question and answer session after the lecture. This talk concludes the symposium. Episode 8 in a series of 8. Sponsoring the symposium were: the Faculty Program Center of San Francisco State College, the Presbyterian Medical Center, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists--California Section, and Planned Parenthood-World Population League of San Francisco. Originally broadcast on KQED-TV. |
Kirkendall, Lester Allen, 1903-, Sex customs -- Moral and religious aspects, Birth control -- Moral and religious aspects., The Pill and the Puritan Ethic, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Sex, American Women -- Reproductive rights | BB1283 | |
| The telephone voices / produced by Jim Higgins |
This program contains interviews with several Southwestern Bell directory assistance operators, expressing what types of calls they receive and relating experiences about their work. Also includes an interview with the woman whose voice is heard on all recorded messages. Produced by Jim Higgins for KPFT. Broadcast on KPFK, April 25, 1977; KPFA, September 29, 1977. |
Telephone operators -- Personal narratives., Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Work and unions | TZ0002 | |
| Tell us all about your friends : the grand jury system / interviewed by Bruce Soloway and Jackie Friedrich |
This program is examining the new use of the Grand Jury, as a problem in American criminal justice and Constitutional law. The guests have all had first hand experience with investigative grand juries during the past year. Jim Reif, a lawyer from the Center for Constitutional Rights in New York; Tom Davidson, who was indicted in the Harrisburg Kissinger kidnapping case; Sister Carol Vericker, a member of the Sisters of Charity of the St. Vincent De Paul in New York; Judy Gumbo of the Madam Inn Brigade and who has been subpoenaed in front of the Grand Jury in New York; and Leslie Bacon who testified before a Grand Jury in Seattle. The guests are interviewed by Bruce Soloway and Jackie Friedrich. This is an edited version (produced by Tiji) of the 96-minute program produced by Bruce Soloway at WBAI on October 18, 1971. See BC0364. |
Soloway, Bruce., Friedrich, Jackie., Judicial system -- United States., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Law | BC1927 | |
| The Velvet Sledgehammer: April 4, 1980- Eleanor Munro on women artists |
Today's program is an interview with art critic Eleanor Munro about her book "Originals: American Women Artists," hosted and produced by Ann Stubbs. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Women artists, Women artists -- History., Art criticism., Feminist art criticism, Munro, Eleanor C., Sex discrimination against women | American Women -- Art and artists | IZ1506 | |
| Abortion referral services and women's rights (Episode 3) |
This is the third in a series of discussions about abortion. Guests in this program are Arlene Carmen, Courage and Consultation Service on Abortion; Reverend Howard Moody of Judson Memorial Church and is a spokesmen for the Clergy Consultation Service on Abortion; Bill Baird, director of the Parents' Aid Society in Hempstead, Long Island. Second part of the program has an interview conducted by Jacqui Ceballos at the National Organization for Women national conference with Lana Clarke Phelan, Southern California representative for the Society for Humane Abortion. Lucinda Cisler and James Clapp of the Abortion Committee of New York NOW moderate. The series is produced by Kay Lindsey. BROADCAST: WBAI, 15 Jan. 1969 |
Abortion, Reproductive rights, Baird, Bill, 1932-, Carmen, Arlene, Moody, Howard., Phelan, Lana Clarke, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Reproductive rights | BB3770.03 | |
| Women in Grenada / produced by Sue Supriano and Roxanne Merryfield |
Women in Grenada describe their lives since the revolution in that country in 1979. In this program, we hear about the women's cooperatives, the National Women's Organization, education, health care, sexism, and the role of women in the country. Includes Michelle Gibbs, an American woman living and working in Grenada; Phyllis Coard, president, National Women's Organization; and many unidentified |
Grenada -- History -- 1979-, Women -- Grenada, Coard, Phyllis, National Women's Organization, Grenada, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- International women, American Women -- Feminism | AZ0622 | |
| Women's News: October 13, 1980 |
Women's News for KPFA, October 13, 1980. The anchors are Julia Randall and Helen Mickiewicz. Segments: 1. Abortion fund limits: State control of Medicaid; 2. Sterilization laws in California, mandatory consent; 3. San Francisco Women's Building struck by pipe bomb - features interviews with Women's Building staff members; 4. Resignation of Mary Cunningham as Senior Vice President of the Bendix Corporation, known as "The Bendix Blunder"; 5. Oakland Police Department recruit files sexual harassment lawsuit; 6. Mandate for women Boston city employees to dress only in skirts; 7. Take Back the Night march in San Francisco - report by Pamela Hoelscher; 8. Older Women Job Discrimination conference; 9. Tampon toxic shock syndrome - report by Maureen Hogan (introduced but missing from reel); 10. Conservatism-Right to Life group rallies at UC Berkeley - report by Mary Sinclair; 11. Anti-woman laws in Contra Costa County; 12. Catholic Synod-annulments, birth control, etc.; 13. Mormon women criticizing Church hierarchy for their opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment; 14. Surgical fertilization allowing infertile women to conceive; 15. Panel of obstetricians developing alternatives to Caesarean sections; 16. Bridget Rose "Red Rosie" Dugdale, Irish heiress turned revolutionary, released from jail on parole; 17. Dessie Woods, convicted of shooting a white man who attempted to rape her and sentenced to 22 years in prison, up for parole hearing. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Radio news programs | American Women -- Feminism, American Women -- Reproductive rights, American Women -- Violence against women, American Women -- Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) | AZ1689.04 | |
| Women's Antinuclear Rally (incomplete) |
Recording of speeches from an anti-nuclear rally. No date or location is given but it may be Mother's Day, 1979? in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY (Medgar Evers College is mentioned). First speaker on this is named Susan (last name not given), and she speaks about being a mother with the risk of nuclear pollution. Second speaker is Betsy Taylor, the director of the Nuclear Information and Resource Service. Third speaker is Barbara Ehrenreich, editor of Seven Days magazine, lecturer and author. This is incomplete coverage of the rally. Produced by Eileen Zalisk. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Ehrenreich, Barbara, Antinuclear movement -- Speeches, addresses, etc., Antinuclear movement, Protests, demonstrations, vigils, etc. | American Women -- Peace and Antinuclear activism | IZ1384 | |
| The Velvet Sledgehammer - November 25, 1981: Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on abortion law (Part 1 only) |
Production reel for the November 25, 1981 episode of The Velvet Sledgehammer. Producer Eileen Zalisk introduces the program, a continuation of the Women's Department's presentation of tapes edited and selected from the hearings of the Senate Judiciary Committee on the Constitution, the hearings on the topic of abortion. Begins with hearings from October 19, 1981, Chair Senator Orrin Hatch. He introduces Dr. Richard T. Schmidt, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Cincinnati Medical School, Dr. George M. Ryan, Jr., dept of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Tennessee, Dr. Jasper F. Williams, Jr. Chairman of the Dept. of Obstetrics and Gynecology at St. Bernard Hospital in Chicago, Dr. Haig Kazazian, Professor of Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University, and Ms. Terry Barris Ford of Planned Parenthood, Maryland. Part 1 only. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Abortion -- Law and legislation., Planned Parenthood Federation of America | American Women -- Reproductive rights | IZ1080 | |
| Rise gonna rise : a portrait of Southern textile workers / Mimi Conway interviewed by Dorothy Healey |
Mimi Conway describes the present status of the unionization of textile workers in the South. She discusses how she became involved in the textile industry, why it is difficult to organize today, J. P. Stevens, what we can do to help, and how she came to write "Rise gonna rise: a portrait of Southern textile workers" (New York: Anchor Press, 1979). Interviewed by Dorothy Healey, KPFK. Contains sensitive language. |
Healey, Dorothy, 1914-2006, Conway, Mimi., Women authors, Textile industry -- Southern states., Labor unions -- Textile workers -- Southern states., Rise gonna rise : a portrait of Southern textile workers / by Mimi Conway ; interviewed by Dorothy Healey., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Authors and journalists, American Women -- Work and unions | KZ0734 |