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Description | Keywords | Genre | PRA Archive # | StoreItem |
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| Assault on abortion rights. |
Pro-abortion panelists discuss plans to fight the campaign against abortion rights, provide background information for the current legal battle for the right to an abortion, and what each of their organizations is doing to contribute to this fight. Gloria Allred, attorney and coordinator for Los Angeles chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW); Mary Clarke, Vice President West of the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL); Jill Jakes, staff attorney for ACLU-Southern California; and Lennie Wildflower, public health educator for Planned Parenthood. The panel was moderated by Iris Mann. |
Clarke, Mary., Mann, Iris., Wildflower, Lennie., Jakes, Jill., Civil rights., Birth control, Pregnancy, Unwanted., Right-to-life movement., Abortion, Women's rights, Assault on abortion rights., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Reproductive rights | KZ0335 | Assault on abortion rights. (CD) |
| Atlanta mothers / Venus Taylor and Willie Mae Mathis |
Venus Taylor and Willie Mae Mathis, both mothers of children murdered in Atlanta (Angel Lenair and Jeffrey Mathis, respectively), address an audience in Los Angeles. They stress that Blacks get together, watch out for one another, and love each other. Produced by Sly Rivers, KPFK, 1981. |
Taylor, Venus., Mathis, Willie Mae., Children, Black -- Atlanta (Ga.)., Mothers., Murder -- Atlanta (Ga.)., Youth -- Crimes against., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination, American Women -- Parenting and children | KZ1018 | |
| Audre Lorde (Episode 4 of 4) |
Poet Audre Lorde reads selections of her own works. After introducing herself, Lorde reads the following poems: Teacher, (untitled), Change of season, The women of Dan dance with swords in their hands to mark the time when they were warriors, I ride with the sun, To my daughter the junkie on a train, Love poem, and Prologue. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Lorde, Audre, African American women poets, Lesbians -- Poetry, Anderson, Mimi Weisbord. | American Women -- Poetry | BC0949.04 | Audre Lorde (CD) |
| Audre Lorde interviewed by Judy Simmons |
This is a recording of Judy Simmons interviewing Audre Lorde during a late-night show on WBAI in New York. In this recording, Lorde reads selections out of her book The Black Unicorn, and the two women converse with listeners who call in to discuss poetry, differences between men and women, being African-American, and other topics. Possibly an episode of Simmons's program "On the real side," which aired on WBAI between 1979 and 1981. The end of the recording is cut off. |
Lorde, Audre, Simmons, Judy Dothard, The black unicorn, Poems, African-American Women, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Poetry, American Women -- Lesbians, American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination | IZ1339 | Audre Lorde interviewed by Judy Simmons |
| Author Alesia Kunz speaks at Womanbooks |
Novelist Alesia Kunz reads from her new book "Shangrila & Linda" and other works in progress at Womanbooks in New York City. She also talks to the audience about publishing one's own work. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Women authors, Literature, Experimental., Kunz, Alesia, 1944-, Lesbian literature | American Women -- Authors and journalists, American Women -- Lesbians | IZ1063 | |
| Author Alice Walker reads the short story, Roselily |
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker (1944 - ) reads her short story "Roselily" (written ca. 1967). Walker then talks with KPFA's Ginny Z. Berson about the story, how she wrote it about her first marriage to a civil rights attorney and how it questions the dominance of Christianity over all religions in the US. The story was dropped from a 10th grade English test by California state educators based on complaints from Christian conservatives in early 1994. The Traditional Values Coalition applied pressure based on what they read as "anti-religious" elements in the story. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Walker, Alice, 1944-, African American women authors, Censorship -- United States., Short stories. | American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination, American Women -- Authors and journalists | AZ1010 | Author Alice Walker, Reads The Short Story, Roselilly (CD) |
| Author Fanny Howe reads from her novel Holy Smoke |
American poet, novelist and short story writer Fanny Howe (1940 - ) reads from her novel "Holy Smoke", just out from Fiction Collective. Produced by Susan Howe. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Howe, Fanny, Women poets, Women authors | American Women -- Authors and journalists | IZ1478 | |
| Author Lois Gould interviewed by Josephine Hendin |
Josephine Hendin, teacher of American fiction at the New School for Social Research, interviews Lois Gould (1931-2002), the author of "Such good friends" and "Necessary objects." Program was produced by Mimi Anderson. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Women authors, Gould, Lois., Feminist literature., Women in literature. | American Women -- Authors and journalists | IZ1363 | |
| Autobiography of Mountain Wolf Woman. |
Readings from the autobiography of Mountain Wolf Woman, a Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) woman who tells her life story. Provides an authentic and detailed account of the life and attitudes of a woodland Native American woman in the late 19th century until her death in 1960. Includes what it is like to grow up; relationship with the Federal government; puberty rites; arranged marriage; and her eventual conversion to peyotism. Read by Trudie Lamb, herself an Algonquin (Schaghticoke) Native American woman. Produced by Brett Harvey Vuolo and Trudie Lamb. |
Indians of North America -- Personal narratives., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Mountain Wolf Woman, 1884-1960, Lamb, Trudie Ray | American Women -- Autobiographies and Biographies | BC0911 | Autobiography of Mountain Wolf Woman. (CD) |
| 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 |