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Description | Keywords | Genre | PRA Archive # | StoreItem |
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| Women dissidents and Ms. magazine / Tanya and William Mandel |
On Ms. magazine and womens' conditions in the Soviet Union. Mandel begins the program by introducing controversy over the book Women In Soviet Society by Professor Gail Lapidus of University of California Berkeley and the articles by dissenter women who had been expelled by the Soviet Union, which appeared in the November issue of Ms. magazine. Mandel invited his wife Tanya to join him on the show to give her comments on the book, the articles, and her own impressions of the status of women in the Soviet Union from her visits there. They discuss the two pieces of literature for about 24 minutes, then open the phone lines to take calls from their listeners. End is cut off. ,Program was originally cataloged with the title Women dissidents and Ms. magazine / Tammy Brantford interviewed by Peggy Stein and William Mandel. This particular audio recording, however, does not feature Tammy Brantford or Peggy Stein, so their names have been removed from the title and keywords. |
Ms. (Periodical), Women -- Soviet Union., Feminism, Radio call-in shows, Lapidus, Gail Warshofsky, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- International women, American Women -- Feminism | AZ0530 | Women dissidents and Ms. magazine / Tanya and William Mandel |
| Women composers: Janice Giteck and Gloria Coates |
Jeannie Pool interviews and plays music of Janice Giteck and Gloria Coates, two American women composers. "Portraits of women composers" was produced by Jeannie Pool for the Women's Department at WBAI. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Women composers., Giteck, Janice, 1946-, Coates, Gloria | American Women -- Music and musicians | IZ1411.02 | |
| Women composers: interviews with Ora Williams and Virginia Eskin |
This series is "Portraits of women composers," produced by Jeannie Pool for the Women's Department at WBAI. In this episode we will hear an interview and performance done at KPFK in Los Angeles with with musicologist Dr. Ora Williams, professor at Cal State Long Beach who has published American Black Women in the Arts and Social Sciences: A Bibliographic Survey (Scarecrow Press, 2nd ed. 1978). Later Jeannie Pool interviews concert pianist Virginia Eskin about composer Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (1867-1944). |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, African American women composers, Women composers., Williams, Ora, 1926-, Eskin, Virginia, Beach, H. H. A., Mrs., 1867-1944 | American Women -- Music and musicians | IZ1411.01 | |
| Women composers / Judy Sherman |
Women composers explore the question of why so many women composers have emerged of late, and talk about women composers from both historical and social points of view. The composers interviewed are Carla Bley, jazz composer; Lucia Dlugoszewski, classical composer; Vivian Fine, composition teacher at Bennington College; Laura Greenberg, classical composer; Pauline Oliveros, who talks by phone from the New Music Center at La Jolla, CA; and Ann Sternberg, pop composer. 21:35--their pieces of composition are played including: "Deep Down", "No Rest For Me" (Sternberg); "Density" (Dlugoszewski), "Sound Patterns" (Oliveros); "Duet for Harp Synthesizer" (Greenberg); "Peon" (Fine); "This Is Here" (from Bley's opera, "Escalator over the Hill). 65:00--comments continue. Produced by Judy Sherman. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Women composers., Women musicians. | American Women -- Music and musicians | IZ0766 | |
| Women as internationalists : sharing the future. |
A discussion of women as internationalists and the 1975 United Nations conference in Mexico City, part of a conference on Sharing the Future, held at the New School for Social Research and sponsored by the Human Relations Work Study Center. The panel questions whether the feminist movement is truly international and whether the U.N. conference reinforced or destroyed that notion, how to sustain international momentum, and whether American feminists can or should try to help women in the Third World. The panelists are Zohreh "Zuzu" Tabatabai from the Iranian Mission to the U.N.; Angela King, Social Affairs Officer of the International Women's Year secretariat; Betty Friedan, American feminist; and Betty Reardon, School Program Director at the Institute for World Order. The panel was chaired by Judy Lee Klemesrud, writer for the New York Times. The program was recorded by Bill O'Neil. |
Tabatabai, Zohreh, Friedan, Betty, King, Angela., International relations., Women -- Social conditions -- Congresses., Reardon, Betty, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, International Women's Year, 1975 | American Women -- International women | BC2802 | |
| Women as health consumers / Ellen Frankfort. (Episode 4) |
Ellen Frankfort (1937-1987) was a medical writer and the author of "Vaginal Politics". Here she discusses health consumerism and women. This lecture was given at WBAI on October 24, 1972. |
Consumer advocacy., Medical care -- Quality control., Frankfort, Ellen, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Health | BC0981.04 | |
| Women and the world in the 1980s: October 22, 1982-Author Elizabeth Wilson |
Episode from October 22, 1982. Blanche Wiesen Cook interviews Elizabeth Wilson, feminist theorist and lecturer on social policy in London and author of Women and the Welfare State (Tavistock, 1977) and Only Halfway to Paradise: Women in Postwar Britain, 1945-1968 (Tavistock, 1980) and Mirror Writing: An Autobiography (Virago Press, 1982). |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Wilson, Elizabeth, 1936-, Authors, English., Feminists -- Great Britain -- Personal narratives., Women -- Great Britain | American Women -- Authors and journalists, American Women -- International women | IZ1349.08 | |
| Women and the world in the 1980s: November 26, 1982 |
Blanche Wiesen Cook interviews Lucy Gilbert, psychotherapist in private practice specializing in work with women who have experienced violence in their lives and Paula Webster, co-director of the Institute for the Study of Sex in Society and History, about their book Bound by Love: The Sweet Trap of Daughterhood (Beacon Press, 1982). |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Girls, Domestic violence, Gender roles, Gilbert, Lucy, 1941-, Webster, Paula, 1943- | American Women -- Violence against women, American Women -- Parenting and children | IZ1349.10 | |
| Women and the world in the 1980s: November 20, 1982-Audre Lorde |
Blanche Wiesen Cook interviews poet, essayist and civil rights activist Audre Lorde (1934-1992) about her new book, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name - A Biomythography (Persephone, 1982), from which she reads excerpts. Lorde and Cook discuss various scenes in the book, including Lorde's relationship with her mother, her process of becoming a reader, writer and poet, and her experiences with racism as a child and as an adult. Contains listener phone calls. (This program is different from IZ1349.07) |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Lorde, Audre, African American women poets, African American women authors | American Women -- Authors and journalists, American Women -- Lesbians, American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination | IZ1349.09 | |
| Women and the world in the 1980s: March 26, 1982 |
Blanche Cook interviews Cathy Porter about her book "Alexandra Kollontai: a biography," about Kollontai (1872-1952), a female Russian Communist revolutionary who fought for workers and women's rights. Music ends abruptly at red leader. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Porter, Cathy, Kollontaĭ, A. (Aleksandra), 1872-1952, Women -- Soviet Union -- History., Women -- Soviet Union -- Political activity. | American Women -- Authors and journalists, American Women -- Autobiographies and Biographies | IZ1349.04 |