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| Title | Description | Keywords | Genre | PRA Archive # |
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| Interview with cellist Eva Heinitz / by Will Ogdon |
Cellist Eva Heinitz (1907-2000) is interviewed by Will Ogdon of KPFA about playing the cello and the viola da gamba. Previously cataloged as IZ1497. Date unknown. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Women musicians., Heinitz, Eva, CLASSICAL MUSIC, MUSIC MUSIC, CLASSICAL, Cellists | American Women -- Music and musicians | AZ1762 | |
| Football wives |
Pam Josephson, Diane Youngblood and Clarice Alexander, all wives of professional football players, reveal how much they relate to other women, to themselves, and to their husbands' world of institutionalized violence. Also discussed are their attitudes toward being in the public eye, the sexual peccadilloes of professional athletes, and football as mass media escape. The interviewer is John Brower. |
Sports -- Psychological aspects., Women -- Attitudes., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Marriage and divorce, American Women -- Relatives of notable men | BC2093 | |
| Malvina Reynolds: I'd rather say it myself singing / narrated by Nancy Schimmel; produced by Susan Kernes |
A tribute to singer-songwriter Malvina Reynolds (1900-1978). The program is comprised of a running narration by Reynolds' daughter, Nancy Schimmel, pieces of interviews with Ms. Reynolds, and reminiscences by Pete Seeger. Explores how she wrote songs, her struggle to get her material distributed, a discussion of her politics, what it is like to grow up a Socialist, beliefs about life after death, and hopes for social change. Narrated by Nancy Schimmel; written and produced by Susan Kernes; engineered by James Bennett. RECORDED: KPFA, 1982. For an edited version, see AZ0979. |
Reynolds, Malvina., Schimmel, Nancy., Seeger, Pete, 1919-2014, Experimental music., Socialism and youth -- Personal narratives., Women musicians -- Personal narratives., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Music and musicians, American Women -- Autobiographies and Biographies | AZ0978 | |
| Women and the world in the 1980s: Barbara Smith and Michele Cliff (ca. 1984) |
Interview with Barbara Smith, writer, co-founder of Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press and editor of Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology (Kitchen Table, 1983) and Michelle Cliff, author of the novel Abeng (1984). Cliff and Smith read from their respective publications. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, African American women authors, Cliff, Michelle, Smith, Barbara, 1946-, Blacks -- Personal narratives. | American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination, American Women -- Authors and journalists | IZ1349.13 | |
| Hot flashes: women's news from Majority Report: January 17, 1978 |
Women's news and current events from Majority Report for January 17, 1978. Produced by Nancy Boreman for WBAI's Women's Department. Topics include ERA ratification in Virginia and other unratified states, New York City funding for abortion, women apple pickers in New York State, arguments against the Hyde Amendment, women's rights in Texas, Canadian gay rights, protest against the travel ban against Iranian former prisoner Gholam-Hossein Sa'edi, jobs in Pennsylvania in energy conservation, and a new women's center in Albany, NY. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Women -- Social conditions., Women -- Economic conditions., Equal Rights Amendment (Proposed)., Women's rights, Feminism, Reproductive rights | American Women -- Feminism | IZ1458.04 | |
| She also ran / produced by Jan Legnitto, Ruth Rosen and Isabel Welsh. |
In 1872, Victoria C. Woodhull (1838-1927) became the first woman to run for President of the United States. On this Election Day, exactly 100 years later, Jan Legnitto, Ruth Rosen and Isabel Welsh explore the personality of the most notorious woman of the late 1800s, with excerpts from Woodhuff's writings on feminism, free love and birth control. Portions of this program were excerpted from an article by Miriam Schneier entitled "The woman who ran for president in 1872" which appeared in Ms. Magazine in September 1972. |
Legnitto, Jan., Welsh, Isabel., Women -- History., Feminists, Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Women's history, American Women -- Politicians and politics | BC0991 | |
| Lois Ann Thomas / produced by Joan Medlin (Episode 20) |
Feminist folksinger and composer Lois Ann Thomas has long been performing her music for the women's community in the San Francisco Bay Area. Two of her performances were recorded live with a grant from the California Arts Council; the first set was recorded at The Bacchanal, a woman's bar in Albany, California in February 1977; the second set, beginning with Woman at the Bottom was recorded at Bishop's Coffee House in Oakland. This program was produced by Joan Medlin. Previously cataloged as AZ0108. |
Thomas, Lois Ann., Folk music., Women composers., Women musicians., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Music and musicians | AZ1132.20 | |
| Karen Swenson reads her poetry. |
Poet Karen Swenson reads selections from her own work. This recording is Part 1 of a two part reading. Pacifica does not currently have Part 2. This program was produced by Paul Oppenheimer for the Drama and Literature Department of WBAI |
Poetry -- Women authors., Karen Swenson., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Poetry | BC2286 | |
| Organization, control, and planning for medical services (Episode 6 of 6) |
Documentary on New York City hospitals, evaluating the affiliation program between municipal and voluntary hospitals and abuses in the system. Episode 6: Organization, control, and planning for medical services. In this sixth and last of the medical series, the future of New York's hospital system is explored: how it will be organized, who will run it, who will plan for it, and whether there will be any community control. Voices heard in this program include Dr. Martin Cherkasky, administrator of Montefiore Hospital; Gerard Piel of Scientific American and who created the Piel Report on New York healthcare system by request of Mayor Lindsay; Robb Burlage, director of the Health Policy Advisory Center; New York state senator Seymour Thaler; former health services administrator Dr. Howard Brown; Dr. Philip Hennig, director of ambulatory care at Metropolitan Hospital; Dr. Donald Dixon, associate commissioner of the New York state health department; Dr. George Bayer, member of the New York City board of hospitals; health services administrator Dr. Bernard Bukoff; Harry Becker, a professor of community health at the Einstein College of Medicine; hospital commissioner Joseph Terenzio; Dr. Jack Haldeman of the Health and Hospital Planning Council; Ramon Velez, director of the Hunts Point Multi-service Center; Columbia economist Robin Elliott; and unidentified interns and medical students. |
Hospitals -- New York (State) -- New York, Health facilities -- New York (City)., Medical care -- Economic aspects., Voluntary hospitals, Burlage, Robb, 1937-, Brown, Howard, 1924-1975, Haldeman, Jack C., 1912-1985, Piel, Gerard, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Health | BB3817.06 | |
| Autonomy in lesbian relationships |
Excerpts from a workshop from the Lavender Visions Conference held in the Spring of 1981 in Old Westbury, NY about autonomy in lesbian relationships. Includes a presentation by an unknown speaker and Q&A. Opening song by Lynne Messinger, "Possessiveness." Closing song by Betsy Rose and Cathy Winter, "Love Will Have to Do." Produced by Viv Sutherland. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Lesbians, Lesbian couples, Lesbians -- Psychology | American Women -- Lesbians, American Women -- Marriage and divorce | IZ1096 |