Browse the American Women collection
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Description | Keywords | Genre | PRA Archive # | StoreItem |
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| Women's News: September 11, 1975 |
Women's news and commentary for KPFA, September 11, 1975. Segments: 1. The radical feminist group Redstockings' charges that feminist activist Gloria Steinem was once involved with the CIA. Kathie Sarachild of Redstockings is interviewed about those charges and discusses Steinem's ascendancy to her platform and MS Magazine's ignoring of radical feminist causes and possible complicity with the CIA; 2. The FBI tracking the women's movement, with special focus on Jane Alpert, who cooperated with a grand jury investigation; Shoshona, aka Patricia Swinton, who was fingered by Alpert, discusses Alpert's politics; 3. Shoshona talks about Assata Shakur; 4. A report of the first National Conference of Socialist Feminists, held in Yellow Springs, Ohio in July 1975, whose goal was to define feminism in revolutionary terms; 5. A report on Wilma Schneider, first woman prison guard at San Quentin, who recently announced her retirement; 6. Reading of a passage from Jo Freeman's book The Women's Liberation Movement. Produced by the Women's News Collective of KPFA, including Susan Elisabeth, Peggy Hughes, Joan Medlin and Janet Potter. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Redstockings, Inc., Sarachild, Kathie, Steinem, Gloria | American Women -- Radical Feminism | AZ1689.01 | |
| Women's occupational health: August 10, 1981 |
Aircheck of Everywomanspace episode in a series on women's occupational safety and health, hosted by Dr. Jeanne Stellman, executive director of the Women's Occupational Health Resource Center at Columbia University, and Mary Sue Henifin, resource coordinator for the Center. Tonight's focus is on the hidden health hazards in the work that many women do, e.g. from photocopiers and mercury in wallpaper paste. Produced by Eileen Zalisk. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Stellman, Jeanne Mager, 1947-, Henifin, Mary Sue, 1953-, Women workers., Occupational health and safety. | American Women -- Work and unions, American Women -- Health | IZ0449.15 | |
| Women's occupational health: December 15, 1980 |
Another in a series of programs on women and occupational safety and health produced by Dr. Jeanne Stellman, executive director of the Women's Occupational Health Resource Center and Dr. Mary Sue Henifin, an associate of the Center. The topic of this program is the health of women office workers. Guests are Dr. Karen Nussbaum, former office worker and director of Working Women, the National Association of Office Workers; and Barbara Garson, author of MacBird and more recently All the Livelong Day: The Meaning and De-Meaning of Routine Work (Penguin Books, 1975). Also features a listener call-in portion. Produced by Eileen Zalisk. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Stellman, Jeanne Mager, 1947-, Henifin, Mary Sue, 1953-, Nussbaum, Karen, Garson, Barbara., Women workers., Office workers -- Health hazards., Occupational health and safety. | American Women -- Work and unions, American Women -- Health | IZ0449.12 | |
| Women's occupational health: November 10, 1980 |
The first in a series of programs on women's occupational safety and health with Dr. Jeanne Stellman and Mary Sue Henifin of the Women's Occupational Health Resource Center. Features listener call-ins. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Stellman, Jeanne Mager, 1947-, Henifin, Mary Sue, 1953-, Occupational health and safety -- Law and legislation., Occupational health and safety., Women workers. | American Women -- Work and unions, American Women -- Health | IZ0449.11 | |
| Women's occupational safety: February 9, 1981 |
Women's Occupational Health and Safety hour hosted by Dr. Jeanne Stellman and Mary Sue Henifin. In this episode, Mary Sue Henifin interviews co-host Dr. Jeanne Stellman, Associate Professor for Public Health at Columbia University and Executive Director of the Women's Occupational Health Resource Center and Dr. Steven Stellman, Assistant Vice President for Epidemiology at the American Cancer Society, about women's jobs and occupational cancer risk. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Occupational health and safety., Women workers., Cancer in women., Stellman, Jeanne Mager, 1947-, Cancer -- Environmental aspects. | American Women -- Work and unions, American Women -- Health | IZ0449.13 | |
| Women's Pentagon Action Rally |
Banded reel of actuality from the Women's Pentagon Action on November 17, 1980, held in Washington, D.C, during which over two thousand women surrounded the Pentagon to protest the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the destruction of the Earth and the oppression of women. Begins with a reading of the Statement of Purpose for the Action (women against imperialist war powers - to stop the production of nuclear weapons), which was drafted by Grace Paley; 8:47--welcome remarks in Washington, DC by an unidentified woman; 9:56--actuality of music, chants at rally; 10:55--Bella Abzug statement to interviewer; 12:25--Eleanor Fowler from Bucks County, PA for WILPF comments; 13:41--Caroline Warren, Quaker and "born again pacifist" comments; 14:38--Nia (no last name given), activist in housing and community development, comments; 16:19--comments by Amy Swerdlow, Women Strike for Peace; 17:43--Developing countries representative (name not given on tape) comments. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Protests, demonstrations, vigils, etc. -- Washington, D. C., Abzug, Bella S., 1920-1998, Swerdlow, Amy | American Women -- Peace and Antinuclear activism | IZ0909 | |
| Women's poetry evening at WBAI's Studio C |
Reading of poetry by and about women, held in WBAI's Studio C--the first live women's poetry event at WBAI. Poets reading are: Daniela Gioseffi (b. 1941), Erica Jong (b. 1942), Audre Lorde (1934-1992), Jane Mayhall (1918-2009), and Robin Morgan (b. 1941). Music by: Roberta Cosi[sp?], Arlene Mendes[sp?], Beechee Forbes[sp?]. Produced by Mimi Anderson and Brett Vuolo. |
Women poets, Poetry -- Women authors., Gioseffi, Daniela., Jong, Erica., Lorde, Audre, Morgan, Robin, 1941-, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Mayhall, Jane | American Women -- Poetry | BC1223 | |
| Women's Poetry Reading to benefit Ikon Magazine |
The second half of the excerpted version of the benefit reading held for Ikon Magazine on October 16 1982 at New York University. The event was emceed by poet Patricia Spears Jones. Readers are Lois Elaine Griffith (one of the founding poets of the Nuryorican Poets Cafe), Hettie Jones (b. 1935, ex-wife of Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka), Irena Klelpfisz (b.1941), Audre Lorde (1934-1992), and Susan Sherman (founding editor of Ikon Magazine). |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Jones, Hettie, Griffith, Lois, Klepfisz, Irena, 1941-, Lorde, Audre, Sherman, Susan, 1939-, Women poets, Poetry -- Women authors., African American women poets | American Women -- Poetry, American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination | IZ0670.02 | |
| Women's sexual writing / produced by Jana Harris and Alan Soldofsky. |
Jana Harris discusses women's sexual writing with Carol Bergé, editor of Center Magazine and author of Acts of Love and Poems Made of Skin, and Lenore Kandel, poet, author of The Love Book and Word Alchemy. Topics covered are the differences between the erotic and the pornographic, how large and small presses deal with sensitive and sexual language, and how women's sexual writing is received by the general public. Bergé reads excerpts from Acts of Love and Kandel reads from The Love Book. Produced by Jana Harris and Alan Soldofsky and recorded by Jim Seemer. |
Women writers, Erotica., Harris, Jana, 1947-, Soldofsky, Alan., Kandel, Lenore, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Bergé, Carol, 1928-2006 | American Women -- Sex, American Women -- Authors and journalists | AZ0512.01 | |
| Women, culture, and society / Diane Feeley. |
An historical examination of the development of women's societal role traced by Diane Feeley, Coordinator of Women in the Arts Committee of National Organization for Women (NOW), New York. Feeley gives examples of past societies in which women were more productive and played a far more active role than our own. She sees the view of women as being "valueless" as having emerged within the last 150 years, and encourages women to utilize resources to regain their equal social status. |
Women -- History., Social role., National Organization for Women, Feeley, Diane, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Women's history, American Women -- Anthropology and societal role | BC2196.05 |