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| Title | Description | Keywords | Genre | PRA Archive # |
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| Women unbound |
Helene Rosenbluth and Eloise Klein Healy visited the People's Republic of China in April 1982. This program is produced from interviews they did with women in Shanghai, Nanjing, Xi'an and Beijing (Peking) about the changing lives of women in modern China. The interviews are bilingual and translated through an interpreter. The first reel of this recording features an interview with one of the leaders of the Nanjing Municipal Women's Federation. The second reel of this recording features on-the-street interviews with a variety of Chinese women - including Pei-Chin Liu(sp?), the translator who accompanied Rosenbluth and Healy - about the status of women in China. Original music from the People's Republic of China. Produced by Helene Rosenbluth and Eloise Klein Healy. Originally aired as an episode of Feminist Magazine as part of programming in a day-long recognition of China's May 4th Movement. The program was later rebroadcast on May 14, 1984 as an episode of Poetic License. |
Healy, Eloise Klein., Rosenbluth, Helene, Women -- China., Bilingual materials -- English/Chinese., Nanjing Women's Federation, China--History--May Fourth movement, 1919, Poetic license, Feminist magazine, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- International women | KZ1249 | |
| Elinore Pruitt Stewart letters: letters from a woman homesteader (Part 2 of 3) / read by Luce Morgan |
Reading of letters written by a woman homesteader, Elinore Pruitt Stewart (1876-1933) in Wyoming around 1910. Part 2 of 3. These three episodes of Stewart's letters were part of a continuing series on KPFA based on women's diaries and letters. Part two: Stewart recounts her life on the ranches of her husband's and her own, the three children she bore to Clyde Stewart, camping trips in the mountains, and her stories of being a woman homesteading alone and succeeding.The materials used in this program came from "Letters of a woman homesteader" by Elinore Pruitt Stewart, published by the Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. The letters were read by Luce Morgan; produced and narrated by Brett Vuolo; the music was provided by Larry Packer; technical production by Peter Zanger. Previously cataloged as BC0721B. |
Frontier and pioneer life -- Wyoming, Women's writings., Women pioneers, Stewart, Elinore Pruitt, 1876-1933, Women, Wyoming, Feminism, Women's movement, Women's diaries and letters series (KPFA), American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Autobiographies and Biographies, American Women -- Women's history | BC0721.02 | |
| Covering the White House / moderated by Robert Kuttner. |
Ron Zeigler (Nixon's Press Sec'y), CBS Correspondent Dan Rather, Life Correspondent Hugh Sidey, United Press International Correspondent Helen Thomas, and Hearst correspondent John Wallach discuss the problems facing journalists covering the Nixon administration. Broadcast on KPFA 1971-11-30 and KPFK 1972-04-30. Note on box: "This program is in a series "From the Seat of Power," for New York Broadcast 11/26. It can also substitue for Washington Report. All correspondents except Zeigler dump on Nixon. If I do say so myself, my best program this near." (Bob Kuttner) |
Rather, Dan., Ziegler, Ron., Wallach, John., Thomas, Helen., Mass media -- Political aspects., Presidents -- United States., Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Authors and journalists, American Women -- Politicians and politics | BC0808 | |
| Phumzile Zulu interviewed by Laurie Garrett |
Laurie Garrett interviews Phumzile Zulu at the 11th Annual People's World Banquet at Goodman's, Jack London Hall in Oakland, California, November 15, 1980. Phumile Zulu is a 23 year old South African woman living in exile in Morogoro, Tanzania. She was part of the Soweto Movement and was a prominent student leader at Zulu University in South Africa. She was detained and tortured twice by the South African security forces. She is now in the U.S. seeking medical treatment for damage suffered in these long sessions of torture. Phumzile's name means "to serve the Zulu people." She now teaches at the Freedom School for Exiled South African Children in Tanzania. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, African National Congress., Garrett, Laurie, Anti-apartheid movement., Apartheid -- South Africa -- Personal narratives. | American Women -- Activists, American Women -- International women | AZ1680 | |
| A lesbian video collective. Delia Davis and Nancy Houngs interviewed by Ronald Gold (Episode 15) |
Delia Davis and Nancy Houngs, members of Lesbians Organized for Video Experience (LOVE), discuss how their work serves as a record of the lesbian community's history, and how it has affected their own loves and attitudes. Host and producer is Ronald Gold. |
Davis, Delia., Houngs, Nancy., Women artists, Gay organizations, centers, etc., Lesbians -- New York, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Lesbians Organized for Video Experience | American Women -- Lesbians, American Women -- Art and artists | IZ0013 | |
| The Velvet Sledgehammer: May 9, 1979 |
This program contains a review of Alive!, a women's jazz group from Berkeley, and a review of Edwina Tyler's "A Piece of the World" dance and percussion performance. Merlin Stone presents a piece of Goddess lore (cut off). Community announcements. Fatima Kahlil from Turkey speaks about the veil of women in Iran, and finally author Kate Millet (b. 1941) speaks on the struggle of women in Iran, recorded at the Judson Memorial Church last week (May 1979). |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Alive! (Musical group), Millett, Kate., Tyler, Edwina Lee, Women -- Iran -- Social conditions. | American Women -- International women, American Women -- Dance, American Women -- Music and musicians | IZ1073 | |
| Women in politics : why not? / Shirley Chisholm. |
New York Congresswoman, feminist and Presidential candidate Shirley Chisholm (1924 - 2005) speaks on discontent among minorities, and notes that women are the key factor in the coalition of the powerless that must form to take power in the United States. This speech, titled "Women in Politics: Why Not?", was given on January 11, 1972 at Mills College in Oakland. Self-contained, no intro or outro. |
Elections -- United States -- 1972., Chisholm, Shirley, 1924-2005, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Women politicians | American Women -- Politicians and politics, American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination | BC0622 | |
| Lynn Carlin interviewed by Claire Clouzot |
Claire Clouzot talks with Lynn Carlin, the female lead of John Cassavettes film "Faces" at the San Francisco Film Festival, October 1968. She talks about Faces being her first film role, about the roles she's been offered since, and "Faces"'status as an American independent film. The recording cuts off abruptly. |
Carlin, Lynn., Cassavetes, John, 1929-, Film reviews., Actresses -- Personal narratives., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Film and television | BB5188 | |
| Majority report, November 4, 1982: Davis women fight back, Z Budapest play, Abortion rights and elections. |
Marci Lockwood and Peggy Bray host Majority Report, November 4, 1982. Segments: 1. News wrap-up -- 2. Karen Sundheim speaks with Joanne Ball and Ann Marie Wagstaff from Davis Women Fight Back on the disruption of the recent Take Back the Night event at UC Davis by fraternities, with a comment by Intra-Fraternity Council President Tom Bonfiglio -- 3. Jean Robertson reviews Z. Budapest's new theater piece, The Rise of the Fates, which roasts the patriarchy and celebrates women's spirituality; features interviews with Budapest and some of the actors in the production -- 4. Marci Lockwood interviews Nancy Cassidy of the California Abortion Rights Action League about the newly-elected California state legislature. The final segment, an analysis of the impact of the 1982 federal elections on women, is introduced but not included in PRA's copy of this program. Sandy Thompson and Ginny Z. Berson are engineers, news segments co-written by Corless Smith. Theme music by Laurie Spiegel. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Lockwood, Marci, Bray, Peggy., Budapest, Zsuzsanna Emese, 1940-, Sundheim, Karen., Robertson, Jean., Thompson, Sandy, Berson, Ginny Z., Smith, Corless., Radio news programs | American Women -- Politicians and politics, American Women -- Violence against women, American Women -- Theater, American Women -- Reproductive rights | AZ0642.09 | |
| Theo Wilson ; interviewed by Danice Bordett. (Episode 6 of 6) |
Journalist Theo Wilson (1917 - 1997) of the New York Daily News is interviewed by Danice Bordett. She discusses her career and women in the press in general. At the time of the interview she had been covering the Manson trial in Los Angeles. Previously cataloged as BC2851. |
Bordett, Danice., Journalists -- United States., Women of the press / Theo Wilson ; interviewed by Danice Bordett., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Wilson, Theo | American Women -- Authors and journalists | BC0209.06 |