Browse the American Women collection
| Title | Description | Keywords | Genre | PRA Archive # |
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| Interview with attorney Susan McGreivy on the Norton Sound lesbian purges from the Navy |
Susan McGreivy, attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union, discusses the present state of the Norton Sound 8 case, where eight women were purged from the United States Navy for homosexuality. McGreivy talks about the evidence being presented against the women in the case as insubstantial and the result of jealousy, as well as the vagueness of attempting to "prove" homosexuality. Interviewer is Lucia Chappelle of KPFK. This recording was formerly cataloged as AZ1690. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Discrimination in the military, Chappelle, Lucia., McGreivy, Susan | American Women -- Lesbians, American Women -- Law | KZ4547 | |
| Population control as the new fascism : Germaine Greer at UCLA. |
Germaine Greer (1939 - ), Australian theorist, feminist and academic, speaks at UCLA, November, 1974. From the box label: The new fear in the world now is overpopulation, and some say that to overcome it, we must limit people's choices: i.e. compulsory birth control. But what we must do, she argues, is not submit to control, because that control is fascism. Greer criticizes Paul Ehrlich and his family planning program in India; gives a history of the birth rate in England in the early 19th century, discusses contraception, analyzes what is behind Italy's stable birth rate; and concludes that birth control propaganda is very hollow because it "blackmails" people into sterilization programs. Greer argues that we must maintain control of our bodies and expose those who cannot differentiate between the terms "population" and "people." Contains sensitive language. |
Greer, Germaine, 1939-, Ehrlich, Paul R., Women's movement, Contraception., Overpopulation -- Analysis., Sterilization (Birth control)., Birth control -- Social aspects., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Reproductive rights | BC2088 | |
| The Right to Life movement and reproductive rights / Louise Sherley and Katherine McMahon interviewed by Dorothy Healey |
Dorothy Healey talks with Louise Sherley and Katherine McMahon, members of the New American Movement's Socialist Feminist Reproductive Rights Task Force about the Family Protection Act, the Human Life Amendment, the goals and targets of the New Right, and abortion vs. sterilization funding. Healey begins the program by pleading with her audience to express solidarity with the people of El Salvador. |
McMahon, Katherine, Sherley, Louise., Right-to-life movement., New Right., Sterilization (Birth control)., Abortion, Reproductive rights, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | KZ1153 | ||
| Carol Doda interviewed by Herbert Feinstein |
Herbert Feinstein talks with Carol Doda, former topless queen of North Beach, who is starring as Miss Sadie Thompson in a play based on W. Somerset Maugham's short story "Rain." Doda discusses her past (including silicone injections) and her future plans for non-topless nightclub work. |
Feinstein, Herbert., Dancers., Stripteasers, Actresses., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Sex, American Women -- Theater | BB2012.32 | |
| The Velvet Sledgehammer: December 23, 1981 |
Aircheck of The Velvet Sledgehammer from December 23, 1981. Hosted and produced by Judy Pasternak. Today's episode about women and work. The first segment is Mirror Image "reflections of working women past, present and future" by BJ Kling about Artemisia, the 4th-century Persian admiral, and her 20th century counterpart Roxanna Schuchman, first woman member of the Los Angeles Harbor Patrol; Judy Pasternak interviews two working musicians, bandleaders Jean Feinberg and Ellen Seeling of Deuce (with some tracks of their music played throughout); Women's Community Bulletin Board by Jane E. Pipik; a selection from a reading by Adrienne Rich recorded at Gay Women's Alternative in fall 1981. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Deuce (Musical group), Women musicians., Women workers., Rich, Adrienne, 1929-2012 | American Women -- Music and musicians, American Women -- Work and unions, American Women -- Poetry | IZ1081 | |
| Majority report, (November 1984?): Women's movement reactions to Reagan election |
Majority report, 1984. Clips of various members of the women's movement responding to President Reagan's re-election (none identified). Likely a production reel, not a complete episode of Majority Report. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Radio news programs | American Women -- Politicians and politics | AZ0642.15 | |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science / Chauncey Starr and other panel reports: hosted by Paul McIsaac. |
Paul McIsaac hosts the third in a series of programs called "Science and the quality of life," which is the theme chosen for this year's Association for the Advancement of Science conference. In this program, WBAI's Bonnie Bellow reports on the occupational health status of women, a panel which was held today at the Americana Hotel; Sam Julty, WBAI car person, talks about the panel he attended on the future of the car; Carol Lopate, an anthropologist who writes on housework and women, talks about the panel she sat in on, made up primarily of people who translate through the media, what's happening in the world of science for laypeople. Then Bob and Eileen Zalisk will join the panel with Chauncey Starr, head of Utilities Research Institute, who delivered today's public lecture called "Energy and societal development." |
Julty, Sam., Bellow, Bonnie., Lopate, Carol., Rosen, David., Starr, Chauncey., Occupational health and safety., Science -- Social aspects., Energy resources -- United States., American Association for the Advancement of Science., Women in science, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Science and scientists, American Women -- Health | BC2243.04 | |
| Fiddle music / Marie Rhines ; interviewed by Edward Haber. |
Marie Rhines is a fiddler of Scottish, Irish, and American music. In this interview with Edward Haber, she talks about her music and plays examples of her fiddling style from records. Rhines talks about her interest in American Appalachian fiddle music, her particular interpretations of different styles of folk music, and the difficulties of notation and improvisation. Produced by Edward Haber. |
Rhines, Marie., Folk music., Women musicians., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Music and musicians | IZ0152 | |
| Her Raven Tresses |
Examination of the symbolism, mystique, sensuality, myth, and metaphor of hair in our society. Written, produced and directed by Deena Metzger. Deena Metzger talks with Dr. Barbara Meyerhoff, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Southern California. Program also includes passages by the following: Richard Brautigan, Tertullian, Frances Trollope, Marguerite Young, Deena Metzger, Marguerite Duras, Kenneth Patchen, Diane Wakoski, Yeats, and Diane di Prima. The voices reading these works are: Michael Lissel[sp?] and Rita Williams. |
Popular culture., Hair., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Beauty and body image | BC0660 | |
| A Mingled Yarn : chronicle of a troubled family / Dr. Beulah Parker ; interviewed by Betty Roszak. |
Betty Roszak interviews Dr. Beulah Parker, psychiatrist and author of A Mingled Yarn: Chronicle of a Troubled Family (Yale University Press, 1972). The book presents a case study of the environmental and interpersonal factors that lead to the development of schizophrenia in a well-to-do American family. |
Parker, Beulah., Family -- United States., Women authors, Mingled Yarn : chronicle of a troubled family / Dr. Beulah Parker ; interviewed by Betty Roszak.**A, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Schizophrenics -- Family relationships., Mental illness--United States | American Women -- Health, American Women -- Psychology and psychotherapy | BC1191 |