Browse the American Women collection
| Title | Description | Keywords | Genre | PRA Archive # |
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| Conversation with Ella Leffland / interviewed by Eleanor Sully |
Eleanor Sully talks with Ella Leffland (born November 25, 1931), author of a recently published first novel, "Mrs. Munck." Woman author discusses her life and writing and reads the prologue to the book. Mrs. Munck (1970) was made into a film adapted, directed, and starring Diane Ladd in 1995. |
Leffland, Ella., Women authors, Feminism, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Authors and journalists, American Women -- Feminism | BB2877 | |
| The new male / Herb Goldberg interviewed by Barbara Cady. |
Barbara Cady interviews author Herb Goldberg on his book about male-female relations, "The new male: from self-destruction to self-care" (Morrow, 1979). He discusses how sexism affects men as well as women and how male-female relations are still wrapped up in outdated sexist notions - the "macho warrior" archetype for men, the "earth mother" for women. |
Goldberg, Herb, 1937-, Social psychology., Sexism, Women -- Psychology., Men -- Psychology., Interpersonal relations., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Men's commentary and experiences, American Women -- Psychology and psychotherapy | KZ0813 | |
| Women composers: interviews with Ora Williams and Virginia Eskin |
This series is "Portraits of women composers," produced by Jeannie Pool for the Women's Department at WBAI. In this episode we will hear an interview and performance done at KPFK in Los Angeles with with musicologist Dr. Ora Williams, professor at Cal State Long Beach who has published American Black Women in the Arts and Social Sciences: A Bibliographic Survey (Scarecrow Press, 2nd ed. 1978). Later Jeannie Pool interviews concert pianist Virginia Eskin about composer Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (1867-1944). |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, African American women composers, Women composers., Williams, Ora, 1926-, Eskin, Virginia, Beach, H. H. A., Mrs., 1867-1944 | American Women -- Music and musicians | IZ1411.01 | |
| Is it Marxist feminists or feminist Marxists? |
Linda Eldon, Sherry Weber, Ethel Herring, and Jackie Goldberg discuss the relationships between the feminist and Marxist movements. Recent publications such as "The Dialectic of Sex" and "The Fourth World Manifesto" are discussed. Produced and moderated by Clare Spark (nee Loeb). Contains sensitive material. |
Feminism, Marxism., Goldberg, Jackie., Eldon, Linda., Herring, Ethel, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Nicholsen, Shierry Weber | American Women -- Feminism, American Women -- Politicians and politics | BC0758 | |
| Author Fanny Howe reads from her novel Holy Smoke |
American poet, novelist and short story writer Fanny Howe (1940 - ) reads from her novel "Holy Smoke", just out from Fiction Collective. Produced by Susan Howe. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Howe, Fanny, Women poets, Women authors | American Women -- Authors and journalists | IZ1478 | |
| Ode To Gravity| The Music Of Germaine Tailleferre |
Ode To Gravity| The Music Of Germaine Tailleferre| Produced by KPFK and Amirkhanian| Recorded on December 29, 1973. - CONTENT: Charles Amirkhanian talks with one of the greatest women composers, Germaine Tailleferre at her home in Paris. Tailleferre was one of the members of the radical group of composers known as Les Six. Others in the group were Francis Poulenc, Arthur Honeger, Daruis Milhaud, Louis Durey and Georges Auric. Music in included within the program. Several selections of music by Tailleferre from her 1973 performance at the Holland Festival performance of her Concertino for Harp and Orchestra. - Broadcast on March 19, 1975. Note on box "RESTRICTIONS : NONE". |
Tailleferre, Germaine., Amirkhanian, Charles., Women composers., Groupe des six (Group of composers), American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Music and musicians | AZ1064 | |
| Five sisters : women against the Tsar / produced by Marcia Danab, Gail Pellett and Helene Schiff. |
Dramatic readings from the memoirs of five anti-Tsarist anarchist women from the populist revolutionary movement of 1870's and 1880's in TSarist Russia. Includes interviews with Barbara Engel and Clifford Rosenthal, translators and editors of the book "Five sisters: women against the Tsar" (Alfred A. Knopf, 1975). The "five sisters" are Vera Figner, Vera Zasulich, Olga Lyubatovich, Yelizaveta Kovalskaya, and Praskovya Ivanovskaya. The readers are Marianne Leone, Marcia Bloomberg, Dianne DeLorean, Dorothy Lancaster and Beth Friend. Special thanks to Beth Avrutin. Produced by Marcia Danab, Gail Pellett and Helene Schiff. Readers recorded by Adrienne Piscitello. Technical production by David Rapkin. |
Schiff, Helene., Engel, Barbara., Rosenthal, Clifford., Danab, Marcia Mint., Pellett, Gail., Women -- Soviet Union -- Political activity., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Women's history, American Women -- International women | BC3054 | |
| Women's occupational health: December 15, 1980 |
Another in a series of programs on women and occupational safety and health produced by Dr. Jeanne Stellman, executive director of the Women's Occupational Health Resource Center and Dr. Mary Sue Henifin, an associate of the Center. The topic of this program is the health of women office workers. Guests are Dr. Karen Nussbaum, former office worker and director of Working Women, the National Association of Office Workers; and Barbara Garson, author of MacBird and more recently All the Livelong Day: The Meaning and De-Meaning of Routine Work (Penguin Books, 1975). Also features a listener call-in portion. Produced by Eileen Zalisk. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Stellman, Jeanne Mager, 1947-, Henifin, Mary Sue, 1953-, Nussbaum, Karen, Garson, Barbara., Women workers., Office workers -- Health hazards., Occupational health and safety. | American Women -- Work and unions, American Women -- Health | IZ0449.12 | |
| An evening of music with Linda Tillery, June Millington, and Mary Watkins |
On August 9, 1981, musicians Linda Tillary (vocalist), June Millington of the rock band "Fanny" (guitarist and percussion), Mary Watkins (pianist), and some of their friends including Joy Julks (bassist), Arnold "Arnie" Baruch (tenor sax), Yolanda Nickell (alto sax), "Paul" (drums), Ray Obiedo (guitar) gave a great concert at the Great American Music Hall In San Francisco (Rock n'Roll Night). Note on box "This tape is the best of that concert." Not self-contained, but the musicians are given credit during the course of the performance. |
Tillery, Linda., Millington, June., Watkins, Mary, Women musicians., Evening with Linda Tillery, June Millington, and Mary Watkins.**An, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Music and musicians | AZ0614 | |
| Two stories from Little Disturbances of Man / written and read by Grace Paley. |
Author Grace Paley (1922-2007) reads two selections from her book "The Little Disturbances of Man: Stories of Men and Women at Love" (1959); 1. Good-bye and good luck (26 min.) 2. The Used boy raisers (29 min.). No intro nor production credits. |
Radio programs -- Fiction., Paley, Grace., Women authors, Jews -- Social life and customs., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Authors and journalists | BB3336 |