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Description | Keywords | Genre | PRA Archive # | StoreItem |
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| Women in Grenada / produced by Sue Supriano and Roxanne Merryfield |
Women in Grenada describe their lives since the revolution in that country in 1979. In this program, we hear about the women's cooperatives, the National Women's Organization, education, health care, sexism, and the role of women in the country. Includes Michelle Gibbs, an American woman living and working in Grenada; Phyllis Coard, president, National Women's Organization; and many unidentified |
Grenada -- History -- 1979-, Women -- Grenada, Coard, Phyllis, National Women's Organization, Grenada, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- International women, American Women -- Feminism | AZ0622 | |
| Women in India / Laura Shapiro; interviewed by Viv Sutherland. |
Viv Sutherland interviews Laura Shapiro, feminist journalist, on the status of women in India. Recording BC2718 is a duplicate of this program. |
Shapiro, Laura., Women -- India, Feminism -- India, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- International women | BC2196.21 | |
| Women in India / Laura Shapiro; interviewed by Viv Sutherland. |
Viv Sutherland interviews Laura Shapiro, feminist journalist, on the status of women in India. Produced by Viv Sutherland. This program is a duplicate of BC2196.21. |
Shapiro, Laura., Sutherland, Viv., Women -- India -- Economic activity., India -- Social conditions., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- International women | BC2718 | |
| Women in Ireland / Jean Wertheimer ; hosted by Diane Feeley |
Class lecture on the status of women in Ireland, past and present, by Jean Wertheimer. Program hosted by Diane Feeley, National Organization for Women, New York (NOW-NY) coordinator of the Women in the Arts Committee. Produced by Viv Sutherland. |
Feeley, Diane, Women -- Ireland., Women in Ireland / Diane Feeley ; produced by Viv Sutherland., Gonne, Maud, 1866-1953, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- International women | BC2196.17 | |
| Women in Japan / Shirley Herman ; produced by Viv Sutherland. |
A discussion of the status of women in Japan with Shirley Herman, translator, who spent several years living there. No intro. Produced by Viv Sutherland. Taped at NOW-NY offices and produced with the cooperation of NOW-NY. This recording is only the first part of the presentation. Pacifica does not currently have Part B. |
Women -- Japan -- Social conditions., Herman, Shirley., Women -- Japan., National Organization for Women, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- International women | BC2196.07 | |
| Women in marriage / Dr. Elizabeth Howes |
Elizabeth Boyden Howes (1907-2002) was a Jungian psychotherapist and founder of the Guild for Psychological Studies in San Francisco. Howes had been in practice in the Bay Area since 1944 and co-editor of The Choice Is Always Ours (R. R. Smith, 1948), and co-edited And A Time To Die (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1961). In this program, Howes delivers the inaugural lecture in a series of discussions on marriage, on how to develop interpersonal relations in a marriage. Howes' lecture concentrates on independence, communication, and the different needs and tendencies of men and women in relation to each other. The other two talks in this unnamed series were Men In Marriage, delivered by Dr. Jean E. Neighbor, and Children In Marriage, delivered by Dr. Charles R. Graham. Recorded at the Mt. Diablo Unitarian Church, February 23, 1964. |
Marriage -- Social aspects., Domestic relations., Howes, Elizabeth Boyden, 1907-2002, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Psychology and psychotherapy, American Women -- Sex | BB0507 | |
| Women in media / Nicholas Johnson |
Federal Communications Commissioner Nicholas Johnson speaking before the American Women in Radio and Television about some of the things Washington and the networks would rather women did not know about. Sexist hiring practices and the negative image of women in mass media are discussed. After delivering his speech, Johnson answers questions from the audience. Also broadcast on KPFA 1970-06-26 and 1970-08-27. |
Johnson, Nicholas, 1934-, Mass media -- Social aspects., Mass media and minorities., Mass media and women, FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (7/96), American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Feminism, American Women -- Work and unions | BB3953 | |
| Women in Nazi Germany |
Carlos Hagen has dedicated this program to the subject of the concept and role of woman in Nazi Germany. Through a number of articles, statements, and musical and sound illustrations -- some of them very rare -- Carlos Hagen presents a fascinating picture of how woman and her role and duties were regarded in the Germany of the Third Reich. Possibly Spectrum #133. |
Hagen, Carlos., Nazism -- Germany., Women -- Germany -- Social conditions -- 20th century, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Men's commentary and experiences, American Women -- Women's history | BC0525.18 | |
| Women in politics : why not? / Shirley Chisholm. |
New York Congresswoman, feminist and Presidential candidate Shirley Chisholm (1924 - 2005) speaks on discontent among minorities, and notes that women are the key factor in the coalition of the powerless that must form to take power in the United States. This speech, titled "Women in Politics: Why Not?", was given on January 11, 1972 at Mills College in Oakland. Self-contained, no intro or outro. |
Elections -- United States -- 1972., Chisholm, Shirley, 1924-2005, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Women politicians | American Women -- Politicians and politics, American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination | BC0622 | |
| Women in pre-colonial Ashanti / Dr. Shirley Strickland |
In the summer of 1978, twelve women and men, scholars from all over the U.S., met in New York to participate in a seminar on cross-cultural studies of women in society. The seminar was led by Dr. Eleanor Leacock, professor of anthropology at the City University of New York, and sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities. This series of programs grew out of that seminar. This episode is "Women in Pre-colonial Ashanti," a talk by Dr. Shirley Strickland of Randolph Macon College in Virginia. Produced and hosted by Eileen Zalisk. |
Women, Ashanti, Menstruation (in religion, folklore, etc.)., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Ashanti (African people) | American Women -- International women | IZ1406 |