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| Title | Description | Keywords | Genre | PRA Archive # |
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| Violent use of female images in the media / Andrea Dworkin |
Women Against Violence in Pornography & Media (WAVPM), a feminist group formed in 1977, organized the Feminist Perspective on Pornography Conference in San Francisco in November 1978. At the conclusion of this conference, organizers and attendees staged the first Take Back The Night march, protesting rape and the violent use of female images in the media. Andrea Dworkin roused the audience in this pre-march rally in which she states "to be dissolved by any means necessary is the role of women in pornography." Needs intro. Fade out applause at end. This is a slightly edited version of the same speech by Dworkin featured on AZ1145. |
Dworkin, Andrea., Women Against Violence in Pornography & Media (U.S.), Pornography., Women in the press., Women in television., Press and propaganda., Women in mass media., Take back the night march, Pornography -- Analysis., Rape., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Violence against women, American Women -- Radical Feminism | KZ0890 | |
| Women in France |
Interview with French feminist Danielle Sabatier, member of the National Council of Working Women, discussing the state of the French movement after ten months of Socialist government. Interview by Kathy Ann Kersey. English translation of the interview is read by Barbara Day. |
Feminism -- France, Socialism -- France., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- International women | BC2196.22 | |
| May fare for fair May |
A collection of Baroque and Renaissance madrigals including Alfred Deller, and poetry of Sir Thomas Wyatt, John Suckling, Robert Herrick, Anonymous, Andrew Marvell, Blake, Yeats, etc. Read by Everett Frost, Mitchell Harding, Katherine Calkin, Faith Wilding, and David Cloud. The program begins with a festive celebration live outside the KPFK building for welcoming in May. Description in folio: "David (is very stubborn) Cloud and Everett (still tracking the Lost Angels) Frost are joined by Mitchell (Ch'ien-the creative) Harding and Kathy (from the Holly Wood) Calkin and a medley of Pacifica mischievers for a Mayday dalliance. A spring Renaissance of poetry and music of love and seduction. A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, invite your lover and picnic by your radio." Stereo. Note on box: This is the dirtiest program ever aired on a Pacifica Station and it does not need a sensitivity disclaimer. |
Poetry., Blake, William, 1757-1827., Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Poetry | BC0897 | |
| Barbara Loden : director / introduced by Albert Johnson. |
Barbara Loden (July 8, 1932 – September 5, 1980), writer, director and producer of the film "Wanda" (1970) discusses women in the film industry before a San Francisco Film Festival audience. Some of the questions asked by the audience are about Loden's filmmaking process, the film's political message, and why she chose to set the film in eastern Pennsylvania. |
Johnson, Albert., Women in the film industry., Film directors and producers., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Loden, Barbara | American Women -- Film and television | BC0169 | |
| Lesbian feminism / Charlotte Bunch ; interviewed by Ronald Gold (Episode 18) |
An interview with Charlotte Bunch, lesbian-feminist theorist, on what the insights of the feminist and gay movements can mean for the creation of a saner society. Hosted and produced by Ronald Gold. Program number 18 in a series of 18. |
Bunch, Charlotte, 1944-, Lesbians, Feminism, Lesbianism and feminism, Lesbianism -- Social aspects, GAYS AND LESBIANS, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Lesbians | IZ0016 | |
| Focus on Women Composers: Renaissance through late Baroque, June 5, 1976 (Episode 3) |
The first in a series of four episodes of "Focus on Women Composers" providing a historical survey of various musical periods and styles from the Renaissance to the present. This episode covers women composers from the Renaissance through the late Baroque (1500-1750). Contents: 1. Harpsichord concerto in G minor, Wilhelmine of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (faded down); 2. continuity; 3. selections from La liberazione di Ruggiero, Francesca Caccini; 4. continuity; 5. O Death Rock Me Asleep, Anne Boleyn; 6. continuity; 7. Harpischord Suite No. 2 in G, Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre; 8. continuity; 9. selection from Erwin and Elmire, Anna Amalia, Duchess of Saxe-Weimar; 10. continuity; 11. Harpsichord concerto in G minor, Wilhelmine of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth. Presented by April McMahon, Virginia Kosanovic, and Fleur Helsingor. Master by Joan Medlin. |
Women composers., Women musicians., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Wilhelmine, Margravine, consort of Friedrich, Margrave of Bayreuth, 1709-1758, Anne Boleyn, Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England, 1507-1536, Caccini, Francesca, 1587-approximately 1640, Jacquet de La Guerre, Elisabeth-Claude, 1665-1729, Anna Amalia, Duchess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, 1739-1807 | American Women -- Music and musicians, American Women -- Women's history | AZ1132.03 | |
| Women in media / Nicholas Johnson |
Federal Communications Commissioner Nicholas Johnson speaking before the American Women in Radio and Television about some of the things Washington and the networks would rather women did not know about. Sexist hiring practices and the negative image of women in mass media are discussed. After delivering his speech, Johnson answers questions from the audience. Also broadcast on KPFA 1970-06-26 and 1970-08-27. |
Johnson, Nicholas, 1934-, Mass media -- Social aspects., Mass media and minorities., Mass media and women, FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (7/96), American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Feminism, American Women -- Work and unions | BB3953 | |
| Is population control genocide? |
A panel discussion held at the Environmental Teach-in on the University of California campus in Berkeley. Panelists are Dr. Sidney Liebes, a research physicist in the genetics department of Stanford University Medical Center and director of Planned Parenthood in San Mateo; Dr. Ron Hoy, neurophysiologist and post-doctoral fellow in the U.C. Berkeley Department of Zoology; Carl Mack, Jr., assistant coordinator of the Afro-American Studies Program at U.C. Berkeley and graduate student in sociology; Stephanie Mills, graduate of Mills College, associate with Planned Parenthood, editor of Earth Times, and member of Zero Population Growth (ZPG); and moderated by Dr. William Lidicker of the U.C. Department of Zoology. The panel discusses the moral implications of overpopulation and methods of birth control. The event was sponsored by the Environmental Teach-In Committee of ZPG. Recorded April 1970 in the Zellerbach Auditorium at U.C. Berkeley. |
Hoy, Ronald R., Lidicker, William Zander, 1932-, Liebes, Sidney, Mack, Carl, Jr., Mills, Stephanie., Birth control -- Moral and religious aspects., Overpopulation., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Genocide | American Women -- Reproductive rights, American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination | BB2507 | |
| What's happening to the family? |
WHAT'S HAPPENING TO THE FAMILY : Produced by WBAI and Dave Metzger. Recorded on January 30 1978. CONTENT: Dave Metzger hosts Rosalind P. Petchesky (b. 1942), a Women's Studies and Political Science professor at Ramapo College, Ellen Ross, a professor of European History and Women's Studies at Ramapo College, and Ruth Meyerowitz, a professor of Women's Studies and Labor History at the University at Hartford, Connecticut as they discuss the current attitudes about the family, particularly as women return to the workforce. Broadcast on January 30, 1978 and August 23, 1978[?]. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Family -- Public opinion., Family -- Social aspects., Sexuality, Women -- Employment., Petchesky, Rosalind P., Ross, Ellen, Meyerowitz, Ruth | American Women -- Marriage and divorce, American Women -- Work and unions, American Women -- Parenting and children | IZ0536 | |
| The Velvet Sledgehammer: July 2, 1980: WREE Seminar on Racism |
Production reel for the July 2, 1980 episode of the Velvet Sledgehammer. Contains excerpts from the Women for Racial and Economic Equality (WREE) Seminar on Racism- a conference on racial discrimination (1980). First speaker (unnamed) introduces the seminar. Second speaker (unnamed). The second speaker (unnamed, possibly South African), asking for world to enforce U.N. mandate against Apartheid. The third speaker (unnamed) talks about the link between sexism and racism, and the need to commit to eradicating both. Goal of "decade of women" is to end these and militarism and other negative forces. The fourth speaker (unnamed) talks about exploring the effects of racism on minority and white women's employment. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, RACISM, Racism -- Economic aspects., Women for Racial and Economic Equality (Organization), Sex discrimination against women, Race discrimination -- Economic aspects. | American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination, American Women -- Work and unions | IZ1510 |