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Description | Keywords | Genre | PRA Archive # | StoreItem |
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| Woman scientist interviewed by William Mandel |
This episode of Mandel's focus on the Soviet Union begins with a lengthier introduction than usual. He then plays the interview with Vera Osipovna, a 70-year-old female scientist from the Soviet Union, who discusses her life from the revolution to becoming the head of a large research institute. This interview was conducted by William Mandel at the offices of Radianska Zhinka, a woman's magazine in Kiev, Ukraine, in June 1979. This meeting was hosted by the editor of the magazine, whose interview can be heard in recording AZ0443. The editor also invited a female manager of a clothing factory, whom Mandel interviewed in recording AZ445. As in other interviews by Mandel, he plays the Russian in the right channel while he translates in the left channel. Mandel only plays a portion of the interview so that he can open up the phone lines and respond to calls from his listeners. |
Scientists -- Soviet Union., Women -- Soviet Union., Seniors -- Soviet Union., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Radio call-in shows | American Women -- International women, American Women -- Autobiographies and Biographies, American Women -- Science and scientists | AZ0462 | Woman scientist interviewed by William Mandel |
| Woman Poet anthology reading / produced by Alan Soldofsky (Part 1 only) |
Woman Poet West: the first part of a two-part program featuring excerpts of a reading done in honor of the publication of the Woman Poet anthology West Coast edition (Women-in-Literature, Incorporated, 1980). The reading was recorded in September 1980 at Cody's Books in Berkeley. The poets heard in the first part of the program are Elaine Dallman, editor of the Anthology, and a teacher at the University of Nevada at Reno; Kathleen Fraser, author of New Shoes (1978) and What I Want (1973), and professor at San Francisco State University; Sandra Gilbert, author of In The Fourth World (1979) and editor of two books of literary criticism Shakespeare's Sisters: Feminist Essays On Women Poets (1979) and The Madwoman In The Attic: A Study Of Women And The Literary Imagination In The Nineteenth Century (1979); and Susan Griffin, author of Like The Iris Of An Eye (1976), the play Voices (1975), and two books of prose, Woman In Nature (1978) and The Power of Consciousness (1979). From label: This program was previously cataloged as AZ0512 and AZ0512.02. |
Poetry, Modern -- 20th century., Women poets, Griffin, Susan., Gilbert, Sandra M., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Dallman, Elaine, 1935-2010, Fraser, Kathleen, 1935- | American Women -- Poetry | AZ0512.04 | |
| With these your eyes you shall recover : the Navajo blanket |
Curators Anthony Berlant and Mary Hunt Kahlenberg discuss their exhibition of Navajo blankets at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on July 14, 1972, which traveled extensively throughout the United States and Europe. They talk with Clare Spark about the technical and social relevance of Native textiles and raise important issues about utility, non-alienation and the artist in society. The conversation is interwoven with poems, chants, stories and excerpts from a recent article on strip mining in Black Mesa which underlines the decline of the blanket as a result of cultural and economic imperialism. Program includes readings from the following publications: the exhibit catalog entitled "The Navajo Blanket," to be published by LACMA and Praeger Press; "Navajo Wildlands: as long as the river shall run," a Sierra Club Ballantine book; "Masked gods: Navajo and Pueblo ceremonialism" by Frank Waters, published by Ballantine; the July/August edition of "Art in America," a special issue on the American Indian. Readings performed by Ruth Buell and Larry Moss. The program contains the following Navajo ceremonial chants: Song of the Yei Bi Chei (Yébîchai), Silversmith song, Spinning dance, Woman's song, Corn grinding songs, Chant of the enemy way, Squaw dance song, Peyote song, Circle dance songs, and Farewell love song. The Yei Bi Chei (Yébîchai) ceremony is performed to treat patients afflicted with eye trouble, ear trouble, or paralysis of some part of the body. This program was produced, written, and directed by Clare Spark Loeb for KPFK and Pacifica Radio. |
Indians of North America -- Art., Arts and society., Navajo Indians -- Art., Native Americans., Kahlenberg, Mary Hunt, Navajo Indians., Navajo blankets., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Art and artists, American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination | BC1000 | |
| With Margaret Mead in New Guinea / Lenora Foerstel interviewed by Larry Birns |
Interview with Lenora Foerstel, anthropologist, artist, mother of two, and professor at the Maryland Institute of Fine Art. They discuss the experiences that Foerstel and fellow anthropologist Theodore Schwartz had on Manus Island, while aiding Margaret Mead with a follow-up study in New Guinea. The first time Mead visited Manus Island and the Manus tribes, she wrote Growing Up In New Guinea (G. Routledge and Sons, Ltd. 1931). This was Mead's return to the island 25 years after her initial trip, to study any effect on the Manus and Usiai tribes after World War II, resulting in the book New Lives For Old (Morrow, 1956). Foerstel discusses the effect of Paliau Maloat on the two previously warring tribes and recounts her arrival on Manus Island, how their boat capsized, their rescue by the islanders, and the volcanic eruption that followed. This interview was conducted in 1964, and Foerstel went on to publish Confronting the Margaret Mead Legacy: Scholarship, Empire, and the South Pacific (Temple University Press, 1992), re-examining traditional Western anthropology of non-Western cultures. Interviewed by Larry Birns. RECORDED: WBAI, 8 Aug. 1964. BROADCAST: KPFA, 25 Sept. 1964. |
Manus Island (Papua New Guinea), Foerstel, Lenora, 1929-, Anthropologists., Manus (Papua New Guinean people), Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Maloat, Paliau | American Women -- Science and scientists | BB0693 | |
| With child / Phyllis Chesler interviewed by Anita Frankel |
Phyllis Chesler, feminist and author of "Woman and madness," "Women, money, and power," and "About men," speaks with Anita Frankel of KPFK about her new book "With child: a diary of motherhood" (Crowell, 1979), a record of pregnancy and childbirth which is as much about the birth of a mother as it is about the birth of a child. The narrative includes all the problems and the poetry of an active, professional woman experiencing childbearing -- the aloneness, the joy, the relationship with her husband who promises to "mother" the child equally, the problems of childcare, and more. |
Chesler, Phyllis, Childbirth in literature., Mothers., Women authors, Parenthood., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Parenting and children | KZ0770 | |
| Witches hex / produced by Karla Tonella |
A sound portrait, including in-studio interviews with Z. Budapest regarding the history and meaning of hexing in the United States, and actualities from the hexing ritual. Over thirty witches gathered on Mount Tamalpais to perform a ritual hexing on the man who murdered several people in this recreation area. The ritual was led by Z Budapest, founder of the Susan B. Anthony Coven #1, who also explains the rationale behind the hex in a narrative woven into the sounds of the event. Includes discussion of whether or not to create this program, mention of Karla Tonella and KPFA, and whether or not media will help or hurt them. Budapest quotes Florynce "Flo" Kennedy's comments on documenting revolutionary acts, and discusses the importance of woman-centric religion, such as Wicca, and rituals, such as Thesmophoria, to feminists. End credits, "This program was produced and engineered by Karla Tonella, with a little help from her friends, Ellen O'Leary, Avalanche, and The Goddess." |
Budapest, Zsuzsanna Emese, 1940-, Occult sciences., Witchcraft., Tamalpais, Mount (Calif.), Thesmophoria, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- New age/Wicca, American Women -- Violence against women, American Women -- Feminism | AZ0603 | |
| Witchcraft through the ages / Dr. Wayland Hand interviewed by Colin Edwards |
Brief history of European and American Christian-based folklore of witchcraft and magic use throughout the world. This is not an actual history of Wicca or pagan religions. Dr. Wayland Hand, Professor of German and Folklore at UCLA, is interviewed by Colin Edwards. Hand discusses the perception of theologians of who witches are, how they become witches, and what they do to people. Hand explains the popular assumption that reclusive, unattractive, physically handicapped, or women with any kind of idiosyncrasies are witches. Also discussed are the devil, vampires, werewolves, and the need for fantasy and scapegoats in society. In the conclusion of their discussion, they note that all of the notions they have discussed are from non-witches. Produced by Colin D. Edwards. Rebroadcast many times, including: KPFA, 11 Aug. 1971. Restricted distribution rights. |
Hand, Wayland D. (Wayland Debs), 1907-1986, Superstition, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Witchcraft -- Folklore, Superstition -- Religious aspects | American Women -- New age/Wicca | BB0267 | |
| Wild Women: poetry for the Joan Little case |
Poetry reading: "Wild Women, Joan Little case". Notes: All women's audience, no intros, 1976. First reader unannounced, Alison Colbert? She reads two poems "Miss Rosy" by Lucille Clifton, and her own poem "How are the girls doing?" from her book of poetry "Let the Circle Be Unbroken." Second reader unannounced, Joan Gibbs? She reads three poems, first about a "bag lady" she met on the street, second a poem "To the True Witches Among Us," third called "Sunday Thoughts." Next is a break (a slideshow). Third speaker is Florynce Kennedy. She speaks of how she and Emily Goodman have filed an amicus brief to the Governor of New York asking that Joan Little not be extradited to North Carolina, and they speak of the current state of her case. Even though Little been acquitted of murder, she is still being held as a political prisoner in New York. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Little, Joan, Gibbs, Joan., Kennedy, Florynce, 1916-2000, Political prisoners -- United States., Women poets | American Women -- Violence against women, American Women -- Poetry | IZ1376 | |
| Wild women don't get the blues (Part 2 only) |
Aircheck of program produced by Donna Allegra of music by Black women, acapella, jazz, blues, and funk. This is Part Two and contains songs by Abby Lincoln, Sweet Honey in the Rock's "Joan Little", Labelle, Linda Tillery, and the Pointer Sisters, and a live performance by Linda C. Powell with accompaniment by Eileen Kane. Part One which is NOT in the archives contained Gwen Avery, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Nina Simone, and Robert Flack. Produced by Donna Allegra, Abby Gosling, and Carolyn Johnson. Last five minutes of tape contains WBAI announcements. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Jazz music., Black women -- Songs and music., African American women jazz singers, African American women musicians | American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination, American Women -- Music and musicians | IZ1399 | |
| Wife swapping / Albert Ellis (Episode 3 of 4) |
Albert Ellis gives a lecture at Le Metro Cafe on 2nd Avenue in the Lower East Side, NY on January 19, 1965, sponsored by The League for Sexual Freedom. Dr. Ellis outlines a number of different forms of "civilized adultery" or the trading sexual partners. There is a Q&A at the end. First broadcast on WBAI February 16, 1965. Note on label: FCC inquiry 8300 dated May 28, 1965 included this tape "your comments are requested in view of the fact that adultery is a crime in New York and California; (See American Broadcasting Co., Inc. et al v. United States et al, 110F Supp. 374, 354, affirmed 347 U.S., 284, reciting the license's obligation to "be law-abiding." Reply: "Pacifica holds the view that the program does not advocate violation of the law." |
Sexual ethics, Marriage., Ellis, Albert, 1913-, Sex and marriage, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Sex | BC0312.03 |