Browse the American Women collection
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| Adrienne Rich reading her poetry at the Women's Experimental Theater |
Adrienne Rich (1929-2012) reads her poetry at Women's Experimental Theater in New York City. Sondra Segal comments on the Theater's play "The Daughter's Cycle" and the current theme, "Woman's Body and Other Natural Resources." Clare Coss introduces Rich. Rich reads from her current book of poetry, "A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far: Poems 1978-1981." Poems include: "What is possible?", "For Memory", "Grandmothers", "Killers of the Dream", "Turning the Wheel", "Hohokam", "Apparition", "Mary Jane Colter, 1904". Five seconds of white leader at around 00:42:20, followed by applause. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Rich, Adrienne, 1929-2012, Women poets, Segal, Sondra, Coss, Clare | American Women -- Poetry | IZ0885 | |
| Adrienne Rich reads from Susan Griffin's "Woman and Nature" |
Adrienne Rich (1928 - 2012), poet and author, reads excerpts from Susan Griffin's Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her (New York: Harper & Row, 1978), a book she introduces as being "essential reading." She reads first from the book's introduction, which speaks on the subject of challenging the prevailing androcentric world view. In the book, Griffin explains that the feminist revolution removes men from the center of all things, that is masculine values are dislodged. The feminist revolution of the 1970s is compared to the Copernican revolution of the 17th century. She then reads a selection of poems from the book. Venue and date of recording unknown. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Rich, Adrienne, 1929-2012, Griffin, Susan., Women authors | American Women -- Authors and journalists, American Women -- Poetry | IZ0355 | Adrienne Rich (CD) |
| Adrienne Rich, Audre Lorde, and Kate Millett |
Poetry readings by Adrienne Rich and Audre Lorde, recorded at St. Peter's Church in New York City, March 7, 1979, and a talk by Kate Millett recorded at Judson Memorial Church, May 4th, 1979. Poems read by Rich include: 2:21--"For Julian in Nebraska", 5:32--"The Image" (1976 trip to Crete), 13:20--"Spring 1979" (unfinished poem). Poems read by Lorde include 20:00--"Walking our Boundaries"; 22:00--"Scar"; 26:00--"Beat"; 30:00--"Litany for Survival no. 40". Kate Millett comments about her visit to Iran and the March 8 International Women's Day March protest against the Shah's corrupt government that she experienced. Reel 1 contains the entirety of Rich and Lorde's readings and the beginning of Millett's talk; Reel 2 contains the remainder of Millett's talk. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Rich, Adrienne, 1929-2012, Lorde, Audre, Millett, Kate., Women poets | American Women -- Activists, American Women -- Poetry | IZ0809 | |
| Adrienne Rich: an interview and reading / interview by Susan Howe (Part 2 only) |
Poet Adrienne Rich (1929 - 2012) is interviewed by Susan Howe and reads from her book of poetry, "Dream of a Common Language." The program was funded by a grant from National Endowment for the Arts. Produced by Susan Howe and recorded by Camilla Kirby. Archives only has part 2 of 2. Note: End credits and outro song muffled and difficult to hear. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Rich, Adrienne, 1929-2012, Howe, Susan., Women poets | American Women -- Poetry | IZ0788 | |
| After surgery (Episode 1 of 6) |
Documentary on New York City hospitals, evaluating the affiliation program between municipal and voluntary hospitals and abuses in the system. Episode 1: After surgery. This program focuses on the quality of medical care at New York hospitals, such as Jacobi, Coney Island, and Bellevue, where patients are often not the top priority. Voices heard in this program include health services administrator Bernard Bukoff; Dr. George Bayer, a member of the New York City board of hospitals; interns Mike Smith, Herb Schreier, Steve Sharfstein, and Ken Geiger; New York Senator Seymour Thaler; New York Times medical writer Martin Tolchin; Dr. Geri Morehead; Dr. Donald Dixon, the associate commissioner of health for the state of New York; hospitals commissioner Joseph Terenzio; Howard Brown, former health services administrator of New York City; nurse Irene Zimberg; Mrs. Olga Sherman, a hospital worker's organizer; Robb Burlage, head of the Health Advisory Council, a private research group; and WBAI volunteer Sue Wells. |
Health facilities -- New York (City)., Hospitals -- New York (State) -- New York, Voluntary hospitals, Brown, Howard, 1924-1975, Burlage, Robb, 1937-, Morehead, Mildred, 1919-2006, Sharfstein, Steven S. (Steven Samuel), 1942-, Tolchin, Martin, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Health | BB3817.01 | |
| After the news : work / Selma James ; interviewed by Nanette Rainone. |
Selma James, proponent of the idea of "Wages for Housework", is interviewed by WBAI's Nanette Rainone. James discusses the American vs. the European reception to the idea of wages for housework, the performance of prescribed sex roles and the reproduction of the labor force, and how to move from the unwaged work of housewives to the refusal of work altogether. |
James, Selma., Home economics., Women -- Employment -- United States., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Radical Feminism, American Women -- Work and unions | BC2072 | After the news : work / Selma James ; interviewed by Nanette Rainone. (CD) |
| Against our will / Susan Brownmiller. |
A talk by Susan Brownmiller, journalist and author of "Against Our Will," on the historical and political implications of rape. Rape is sanctioned by foundations of modern law, and has been a feature of warfare from ancient times through Vietnam, and Brownmiller argues that rape is not an aberration, but a logical outcome of attitudes toward women that are thousands of years old and deeply rooted in our culture. What must be done, she says, is to rid our culture of the "male ideology of rape" that fuels the rapist's mentality. Brownmiller takes questions from the audience after her talk. Produced by Pacifica affiliate station, WFCR, Amherst, Mass. Recorded April 26th, 1976 at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. |
Rape., Women -- Crimes against., Brownmiller, Susan, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Violence against women | BC2947 | |
| Alberta Hunter: a very special woman (Part 3 only) |
Live performance by blues singer Alberta Hunter (1895 - 1984) recorded at The Cookery in NYC on October 26, 1977. Program is on three reels; reels 1 and 2 are not currently held by PRA. Reel 3 features Hunter performing "By and By," "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out," "My Castle's Rockin'," and "Handy Man." Also includes an interview with Alberta Hunter and friend Chris Albertson. Engineered by David Marx. Produced by Natasha Friar and Ralph Friar. This program was formerly cataloged as AZ1321. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Hunter, Alberta, Women blues musicians | American Women -- Music and musicians | IZ1524 | Alberta Hunter: a very special woman (CD) |
| Alice Childress interview and reading (Part 2 only) |
Alice Childress reads from her novel "A Short Walk" (Coward, McCann and Geoghegan, 1979) and talks with Wesley Brown about the political and social climate for African-American writers and playwrights in the 1940s and 1950s. Produced by Wesley Brown. This is part 2 of 2, part 1 is missing. |
Childress, Alice., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, African American women authors | American Women -- Authors and journalists | IZ1513 | |
| Alice Walker : the color purple / produced by Laurie Udesky and Corless Smith. |
This program contains an interview, a speech, and readings from Alice Walker's book, "The Color Purple." In the interview, Walker talks about God, faith, lesbians, publishers and writing as healing. Walker also talks about writing in dialect. The readings are intermixed with music. Walker's talks were recorded at Old Wives' Tales in San Francisco and at Walker's home in San Francisco in July, 1982. Produced by Laurie Udesky and Corless Smith. The sound quality varies in this program because of the several sources. |
Smith, Corless., Walker, Alice, 1944-, Women authors, Literature., African Americans, Women, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Authors and journalists, American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination | AZ0676 | Alice Walker : the color purple / produced by Laurie Udeskey and Corless Smith. (CD) |