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Documentary about the future of housework, hosted by Celeste Wesson. Contains recordings from the conference "The Future of Housework: the role of the housewife and sharing arrangements for childcare," organized by the Women's Studies program at Sarah Lawrence College. Part 1 features three personal views on housework and childcare: 1. Roni Hagerty -- National Congress on Neighborhood Women, 2. Carolyn Reed -- Chairperson of Union of Household Technicians, 3. Alice Kessler Harris -- historian, Hofstra, D. 65 Labor College. Part 2, which the archives doesn't currently have in the collection, was a panel on Feminist Perspectives on Housework and Childcare: Historical, Theoretical, and Programmatic. Panelists are: 1. Gerda Lerner -- historian, Sarah Lawrence, 2. Joan Kelly-Gadol -- historian, City College, 3. Letty Cottin Pogrebin -- Ms. Magazine editor.

In this first program in the series "You must go home again: 1970," Marcia Tompkins introduces this new series, reads a bit of her recent writing, then plays the first program "Some voices of the town" from her 1965 "You must go home again" series That recording is followed with interviews with her family and community members she recorded during her 1969 and 1970 travels back to Tuscaloosa, Alabama. First broadcast on WBAI, November 9, 1970; broadcast on KPFA, January 7, 1971.

Charlotte Bunch speaks about the feminist movement and receives comments from reporters and audience, discussing personal experience and views. Bunch opens with a speech about being a feminist in an anti-feminist environment. Anecdotes about getting a job, feminist turmoil, looking back through one's past to gain perspective on current situations, relates feelings about the feminist movement, dating back to 1968. Recorded and broadcast circa 1978. Includes Q & A, during which Laura X of Woman's History Project speaks, too.

Poetry from Violence (edited version), a poetry reading in conjunction with the San Francisco Conference on Violence Against Women (to be held December 4 & 5, 1976). This reading was held at Glide Memorial Church, San Francisco, November 19, 1976. Contents: Intro by Ruth Hughes, who reads a poem; Kathy Barr: A Woman Is Sitting Next to Me Drowning, Suicide of Boss' Wife; Sandy Boucher: Particularly In the Case of Children; Rosalie Cassell: Hitchhiking Blues; Beverly Dahlen: For Darlene Tower, My Friend, Died of Suicide: July 17, 1972; Suky Durham: How They Endured, For Janice; Rosella Felsenfeld: Yankee PIG DOG Poem; Phoenix Spring Ensemble, intros to Celestial Dwellers, Fisherman's song; Carole Lamb: Sequel to The Butchers; Lynn Lonidier: The Woman Sex-Partner Enterprise Dream; Edith Loyd: Working Women Poems, Love Story; Dorinda Moreno: Dios era su esposo; Gail Newman: A little affection; Gyl Rosenblum, Forgetting; Barbara Starkey, Institution; Carol Seajay, Sister Killed, Sister Died, Suicide?; Ray Smith, Electric Shock Treatment, West London Hospital, 1971; Gail Todd, Vietnamese Orphans; Nellie Wong, "Is the act of murder..."; Contains sensitive language.