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| Title | Description | Keywords | Genre | PRA Archive # |
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| Sinful Eve / produced by Virginia Maynard and Charles Levy (Episode 1 of 14) |
This episode is on the long-standing view of woman's responsibility for man's sins. Contains a dramatization of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter." Part one of the 14-part series produced and broadcast on KPFA by Virginia Maynard and Charles Levy from 1958 to 1959. The series was written and directed by Virginia Maynard and produced by Maynard and Chuck Levy, narrated by Levy, and engineered by David Talcott. It was funded in part by the Educational Television and Radio Center in Ann Arbor and distributed nationally by the National Association of Educational Broadcasters. |
Feminism, Women's rights -- United States -- History, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Feminism, American Women -- Women's history | BB0130.01 | Sinful Eve / produced by Virginia Maynard and Charles Levy (Episode 1 of 14) (CD) |
| Judy Grahn and Grace Paley at the Women's Building |
Poet and activist Judy Grahn and author Grace Paley speak at the Benefit for War Resisters League at the Women's Building in San Francisco. The recording opens with the band Swing Shift performing the song "My girl." Grahn's reading here is the unedited version of the reading heard in AZ0456. Paley's reading here is identical to the one heard in AZ0457A. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Grahn, Judy, 1940-, Paley, Grace., War Resisters League, San Francisco Women's Building | American Women -- Poetry, American Women -- Peace and Antinuclear activism | AZ1341 | Judy Grahn & Grace Paley (CD) |
| Dr. Helen Caldicott briefs San Francisco health officials on nuclear dangers. |
Dr. Helen Caldicott, founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility, briefs San Francisco health officials on the medical effects of nuclear war. She discusses the psychological effects of the arms race on Europeans based on her recent visits there and about the ramifications of a hypothetical nuclear attack on San Francisco. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Caldicott, Helen, Physicians for Social Responsibility. | American Women -- Peace and Antinuclear activism | AZ1269 | Dr. Helen Caldicott briefs San Francisco Health officials on Nuclear dangers. (CD) |
| Life in the female job ghetto : service and office work / produced by Peggy Irene Bray, Maggie Geddes, and Karla Tonella. |
A documentary that takes a look at women's place in the paid labor force. Features audio of members of Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees and Bartenders International Union Local 2, protesting the mental and physical brutality of their work in San Francisco, July 1980, as well as interviews with San Francisco hotel maids describing their strenuous work conditions. Issues of racism and sexism in labor unions are also discussed. Also examines women office workers who criticize their workplace as a female job ghetto. Featured in the program are Joyce Maupin, Union Women's Alliance to Gain Equality (Union WAGE); Rita Boyle, Women Organized for Employment (WOE); Margaret Butz and Agnes Ramirez, Coalition for Labor Union Women (CLUW); Mary Ann Massenburg, former office worker and clerical organizer for District 65 of the United Auto Workers (UAW). Produced by Peggy Irene Bray, Maggie Geddes, and Karla Tonella. |
Women Organized for Employment, Tonella, Karla., Boyle, Rita, Bray, Peggy., Maupin, Joyce., Massenburg, Mary Ann., Geddes, Maggie., Office workers -- Personal narratives., Sex discrimination in employment, Women -- Employment -- Social conditions., Servants -- Personal narratives., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Work and unions, American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination | AZ0808 | Life in the female job ghetto : service and office work / produced by Peggy Irene Bray, Maggie Geddes, and Karla Tonella. (CD) |
| Lesbian purges in the military / produced by Karla Tonella |
Panel with four women who were in the military from 1946 until 1980 including Judy Grahn, author of "The Common Woman Poems"; Pat Bond from the film "Word is Out"; Sharon Isabel, author of "Yesterday's Lessons"; Debra DeBont of the Women Veterans Information Network; and moderated by Sabrina Sojourner. Topics include inspiration to join the military, how lesbianism is approached by the services, racism and class-ism in the military, the straight/lesbian split, the poverty draft, the women from the Norton Sound. Contains some comments from listeners. One word of sensitive language. Produced by Karla Tonella. |
Gay military personnel, Lesbians -- United States, Lesbians, Grahn, Judy, 1940-, Bond, Pat, DeBont, Debra, Isabel, Sharon, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Women and the military | American Women -- Lesbians, American Women -- Feminism | AZ0499 | Lesbian Purges in the Military / produced by Karla Tonella. (CD) |
| Take back the night / reported by Adi Gevins. |
Report by Adi Gevins of KPFA of the first Take Back the Night march in San Francisco on November 4, 1978. Three thousand women marched along Broadway as part of the Women Against Violence in Pornography and the Media conference. Features interviews with people on the street, as well as excerpts of speeches by artist Suzanne Lacy, who organized a performance for the march; writer and activist Andrea Dworkin; and Holly Near performing her song, Fight back. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Women Against Violence in Pornography & Media (U.S.), Take Back the Night (Organization), Gevins, Adi, Lacy, Suzanne, Dworkin, Andrea. | American Women -- Violence against women | AZ0392 | Take back the night / reported by Adi Gevins. (CD) |
| Asian American women vs. the women's movement |
Panel discussion between Asian-American women on how racism, ageism, and classism have corrupted the women's movement. The panelists are Rina Hirai, former member of NOW's National Task Force on Women in Poverty; Siew-Hwa Beh, co-founder of the periodical Women & Film; Chris Kobayashi and Giselle Dohan (the latter two unidentified in the program). Produced by Patti Yano for International Women's Day of 1979. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Women's rights -- United States -- History -- 20th century, Asian American women, International Women's Day | American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination, American Women -- Feminism | AZ0297 | Asian American women vs. the women's movement / produced by Patti Yano for International Women's Day of 1979. (CD) |
| Wanderground : stories of the hill women / Sally Gearhart ; produced by Karla Tonella. |
Sally Gearhart reads from her book "The wanderground: stories of the hill women" (Boston: Persephone Press, 1978), a feminist fantasy fiction account of a separate woman's culture wherein the women have highly developed psychic powers, have children parthenogenetically, and live in harmony with all the rest of the Earth, except the men who control the cities. Part A features the chapters "Openings" and a portion of "The remember rooms." Part B continues the chapter called "The remember rooms." Part C contains a reading of the chapters "Krueva and the pony" and "Ijeme's story." |
Tonella, Karla., Feminist literature., Radio programs -- Fiction., Women authors, Gearhart, Sally Miller, 1931-, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Authors and journalists, American Women -- Lesbians | AZ0292 | Wanderground : stories of the hill women / Sally Gearhart ; produced by Karla Tonella. (CD) |
| It only hurts when you laugh / Robin Tyler; produced by Sophie's Parlor Media Collective. |
Feminist comedian Robin Tyler discusses her comedy, including her work as one-half of the comedy duo Harrison & Tyler (with Patty Harrison). She talks about her success as a feminist entertainer, how she creates comedy material, and talks about some of her favorite comics. Includes cuts from Harrison & Tyler's live comedy album Wonder Women (1973). Produced by Moira Rankin for Sophie's Inc. |
Women entertainers., Feminism, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Tyler, Robin., Women comedians | American Women -- Comedians, American Women -- Lesbians, American Women -- Feminism | WZ0119 | It only hurts when you laugh / Robin Tyler; produced by Sophie's Parlor Media Collective. (CD) |
| Among all this, you stand like a fine brownstone : Gwendolyn Brooks / produced by Taliba Holliday. |
Poet Gwendolyn Brooks (1917 - 2000), the first Black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1950, speaks with WPFW's Kathy Anderson and Angelo Gregory on location at Washington, D.C.'s Black Repertory Theatre, where a play based on her work entitled "Among All This, You Stand Like a Fine Brownstone" was being staged. Also includes an interview with Brooks by Grace Cavalieri conducted at WPFW, with Mike Hodge of the Black Repertory Theatre and Noble Lee Lester, who recites a soliloquy from the production. Brooks reads some of her poetry and comments on seeing her work dramatized, on being categorized as a "Black woman poet", and on the potentially creative uses of anger and hatred. Produced by Taliba Holliday, with associate producers Angelo Anthony and Grace Cavalieri. |
Women poets, Cavalieri, Grace, Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Anderson, Kathy, Gregory, Angelo, Lester, Noble Lee, African American women poets, D.C. Black Repertory Company | American Women -- Poetry, American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination, American Women -- Theater | WZ0014 | You stand like a fine brownstone : Gwendolyn Brooks / produced by Ialita Holliday. (CD) |