Browse the American Women collection
| Title | Description | Keywords | Genre | PRA Archive # |
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| Reading and interview with novelist and artist Ursule Molinaro |
Ursule Molinaro (1916 - 2000), Paris-born social-satirist, novelist, playwright, and artist reads "Eating Melons in Marseille," from her new collection of short stories "Night School For Saints." Later she is interviewed by host Tom Vitale. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Ursule Molinaro., Women authors, Authors, French., Women artists | American Women -- Authors and journalists | IZ1468 | |
| Shakespeare's sister / Fran Teague |
Talk about the discrimination and limited roles of women during the Renaissance. Fran Teague examines the role of women in the Renaissance -- not the Lucrezia Borgias or Isabella d'Estes, but the women who never made it into the history books. The program starts with a hypothetical biography of William Shakespeare's hypothetical sister Judith, who had many of her brother's gifts, but none of his opportunities. Included in the tape are three Spanish songs from the Renaissance: one a wooing song, one a wedding song, and a song from a wife to her husband who has gone off to the wars. Completely self-contained. Does not need intro or outro. This tape announces itself. |
Women -- History., SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM, 1564-1616., Women and literature--England--History--16th century, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Women's history | BB4147 | |
| Life is motion / Jane Brown interviewed by Betty Roszak |
An interview with Jane Brown, dancer, choreographer, and teacher, conducted by Betty Roszak. Miss Brown talks about her recently published manual, The Evolution of Erect Human Motion, and its relationship to daily living as well as dance. |
Human mechanics, Dancing -- Social aspects., Brown, Jane, d. 2006, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Art and artists, American Women -- Authors and journalists | BB2820 | |
| Blanche Cooke on Crystal Eastman |
Blanche Cooke talks about the life and work of Crystal Eastman (1881-1928), a radical, feminist, and socialist, and an attorney who graduated from the NYU law school in 1907. She was the first women New York State commissioner advocating for workers compensation, and she founded the Women's International Peace Movement, now called the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. Program produced by Donna Allegra with technical assistance by Adrienne Gantt. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Eastman, Crystal, 1881-1928, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Occupational health and safety., Workers' compensation | American Women -- Activists, American Women -- Work and unions | IZ0449.03 | |
| The ooze on the Atlantic / produced by Margot Adler. |
A look at offshore oil exploration on the Atlantic coast: what the oil companies are planning and how environmentalists are trying to stop them. Program includes comments from Tom Macres, Executive Director of the Committee on Resource Management; Albert Jensen, director of the Division of Marine and Coastal Resources, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation; L.P. Haxby, Shell Oil Company and also chairman of an Oil Spills Commission of the American Petroleum Institute; Hallman Kalman[sp?], Department of Interior, Public Relations; Angelo Roncallo, Nassau County Comptroller; Norman Lent, Congressman, Rockville Center; Michael Nadel, executive director of the Wilderness Society; Barry Weisberg of the Bay Area Institute; Dr. Ian Marceau, Director, Environmental Protection for the Town of Huntington; and Carl Grossman, investigative reporter for the Long Island Press. The comments were recorded in separate locations over a period of two months. This program was produced by Margot Adler, technical production by David Rapkin. |
Oil industry and trade -- United States., Oil industry and trade., OIL & GAS, OIL SPILLS, Water -- Pollution., Offshore oil well drilling, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Environmentalism | BC0532 | |
| Four people of the town (Part 3 of 4) |
This is the third of four programs produced by Marcia Tompkins in a series called "You must go home again: 1970," about her hometown of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The series is a sequel to her 1965 series of the same title. This program presents a sort of "voice portrait" of four people who are active and influential in Tuscaloosa -- who will doubtlessly affect what is happening and will happen there. First broadcast on WBAI, November 23, 1970; KPFA, January 21, 1971. She notes that the volume levels fluctuate greatly in the recording. |
Tompkins, Marcia., City and town life -- Alabama., Tuscaloosa (Ala.), Racism -- Alabama., Women journalists., Be it ever so humble / produced by Elizabeth Marcia Tompkins., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination | BC2793.03 | |
| Rochelle Owens reads her poetry |
Poet Rochelle Owens reads selections of her work. Owens is the award-winning author of many controversial and innovative plays. They have been produced throughout the world and presented at festivals in Edinburgh, Berlin, Paris and Rome. In addition to writing for the theater, she has published five books of poetry, two collections of plays and has given many readings across the country. Her books are: Salt and Core (Black Sparrow Press), I Am the Babe of Joseph Stalin's Daughter (Kulchur Press), Poems from Joe's Garage (Burning Deck Press), The Joe Eighty-Two Creation Poems (Black Sparrow) and The Karl Marx Play and Others (Dutton). The New York Strategy recently performed "She." This program was produced by Susan Howe for WBAI-New York. |
Poetry -- Women authors., Owens, Rochelle, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Poetry | BC3002 | |
| Disarmament now! / Linus Pauling and Henry Way Kendall (Episode 1 of 4) |
Disarmament Now! Episode 1 of 4. Linus Pauling (February 28, 1901 – August 19, 1994) and Professor Henry Way Kendall (December 9, 1926 – February 15, 1999). Professor Kendall, MIT, describes the results of nuclear warfare, how the USSR is vulnerable to nuclear attack, how it would affect the ozone shield and therefore us. His opinion: nuclear warfare would be a genetic and ecological disaster, like the Black Death in the 13th Century. Also heard on this recording is Bernard Feld (December 21, 1919 - February 24, 1993), editor of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Portions of this recording were taped during a special session on disarmament at the annual meeting of the American Association for Advancement of Science, which occurred in San Francisco in January 1980. Note on label: Starts low -- it's supposed to so don't freak out. Ends without credits and long music bit. |
Pauling, Linus, 1901-1994, Feld, Bernard Taub, 1919-, Kendall, Henry W. (Henry Way), 1926-1999, Peace., World politics -- 1975-1985., Radiation -- Physiological effect., Nuclear disarmament., Antinuclear movement, Nuclear warfare., Disarmament now? / produced by Laurie Garrett., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Antinuclear movement -- United States, KPFA Stop The War Teach-In | American Women -- Peace and Antinuclear activism | AZ0417.01 | |
| International League of Women Composers: String quartets (Episode 2 of 2) |
First of two episodes of a series called "Expressions", produced by the International League of Women Composers, highlighting string quartets (and one quintet) by living American women composers. Track list: 1. Intro; 2. Ruth Schontal, String Quartet in 13 movements; 2. Continuity; 3. Marga Richter, String Quartet No. 2; 4. Continuity; 5. Joyce Orenstein - Quintet for Strings; 6. Continuity; 7. Tui St. George Tucker - String Quartet. 8. Concluding commentary. Compiled by Doris Hays, with commentary by Joelle Wallach Crane. Produced for KPFA's Women's Department. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Women composers., Women musicians., String quartets, Schonthal, Ruth, Richter, Marga, Orenstein, Joyce Ellin, Tucker, Tui St. George, 1924-2004 | American Women -- Music and musicians | AZ1666.02 | |
| Training the woman to know her place / Sandra Bem and Darryl Bem. |
Doctors Sandra and Darryl Bem, husband and wife and professors of psychology at Standford University, speaking at Stanford Alumni Weekend in May of 1971. The lecture deals with the pervasive effect of sex role conditioning which is primarily responsible for the fact that so few women emerge from childhood with the motivation to pursue careers other than the ones that are considered appropriate for women. Also broadcast on KPFT 2-8-1972. |
Bem, Darryl., Sex role, Women -- Psychology., Bem, Sandra L., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Psychology and psychotherapy, American Women -- Work and unions | BC0426 |