Browse the American Women collection
| Title | Description | Keywords | Genre | PRA Archive # |
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| First Wednesday: November 4, 1981 |
First Wednesday, monthly wrap-up of news, views and interviews of interest to the gay male community, brought to you by the First Wednesday News Team of WBAI's Gay Men's Department. November 4, 1981 episode. Program contains a presentation by Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Rights (CLGR) spokesperson Betty Santoro (1938-2005) discussing plans for a second March on Washington for Gay and Lesbian Rights and information about the hearings for Intro 1017-the Gay Rights Bill. Contains a report on the All People's Conference held the week of October 16, 1981, and other events and news items that relate to the gay community. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Gays -- New York (N.Y.)., Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Rights, GAY RIGHTS, Gay rights. | American Women -- Lesbians | IZ1097 | |
| Focus on Women Composers Overview, May 8, 1976 (Episode 1) |
Presentation of women composers of all musical periods. Presented by Renee Roatcap, April McMahon, Elizabeth Pizer, Susan Sailow, and Fleur Helsingor. Contents: 1. continuity; 2. O Death, Rock Me Asleep, Anne Boleyn; 3. continuity; 4. Impromptu, Clara Wieck-Schumann; 5. continuity; 6. Quatuor, Germaine Tailleferre; 7. continuity; 8. Vieille Prière Bouddhique, Lili Boulanger; 9. continuity; 10. Hermit Thrush at Eve, Mrs. HHA Beach; 11. Fire-Flies, Mrs. HHA Beach; 12. continuity; 13. Space is a Diamond, Lucia Dlugoszewski; 14. continuity. Announcements of upcoming women composer presentations. All musical selections come from recordings. Engineer is Joan Medlin. |
Women composers., Women musicians., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Anne Boleyn, Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England, 1507-1536, Schumann, Clara, 1819-1896, Tailleferre, Germaine., Boulanger, Lili, 1893-1918, Beach, H. H. A., Mrs., 1867-1944, Dlugoszewski, Lucia, 1931-2000 | American Women -- Music and musicians | AZ1132.01 | |
| Dorothy Healey on Rosa Luxemburg |
Activist Dorothy Healey (1914-2006) offers an exploration of the revolutionary activities and philosophy of Rosa Luxemburg, the extraordinary German Jewish Communist leader. |
Communists -- Biography., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Healey, Dorothy, 1914-2006, Luxemburg, Rosa, 1871-1919 | American Women -- International women, American Women -- Politicians and politics | BC0872 | |
| Interview With Ruby Rohrlich-Leavitt, feminist anthropologist |
Interview with feminist anthropologist and Manhattan Community College Associate Professor, Ruby Rohrlich-Leavitt . She discusses her newly edited book, Women Cross Culturally: Change and Challenge, which is an anthology of papers written for the session on women's status and women's movements at the 9th International Anthropological Congress in Chicago, IL held in 1973. Dates of the recording are estimated to be the year the book was published (1976). |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Rohrlich, Ruby, Feminists, Anthropology., ANTHROPOLOGY, Feminist anthropology | American Women -- Anthropology and societal role, American Women -- International women | IZ0527 | |
| Rape: Susan Brownmiller, Diana Russell and Martha Shelley (Part 1 only) |
Susan Brownmiller, author of Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape, and Diana Russell, author of The Politics of Rape: The Victim's Perspective, are interviewed by Martha Shelley, member of the Feminist Press Collective, author of Crossing the DMV, and long-standing member of the Inez Garcia Defense Group. In this portion of the program, Brownmiller and Russell respond to Angela Davis' criticisms of their books on her KPFA radio program Angela Speaks! in a program discussing racism and the anti-rape movement, claiming that both women's books wittingly and unwittingly reproduce racist ideology. Janet Potter moderates. Likely broadcast circa June 1977. Archives does not have Part 2 of this program. Formerly cataloged as AZ1702A. Archives copy of this recording contains several drop-outs that negatively affect audio quality. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Brownmiller, Susan, Russell, Diana E. H., Shelley, Martha, Davis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne), 1944-, Rape. | American Women -- Violence against women | AZ1674.04 | |
| Women in Spain / Lourdes Benería and Barbara Probst Solomon ; interviewed by Viv Sutherland. |
Viv Sutherland interviews Barbara Probst Solomon, author of "Arriving where we started," a political memoir of growing up in Spain in the 1940's, and Lourdes Benería, an economist born and raised in Spain, about the history of women and the women's movement in Spain. Hosted by Viv Sutherland. |
Benería, Lourdes., Women -- Spain., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Solomon, Barbara Probst | American Women -- International women | BC2196.19 | |
| Poet May Swenson reads from her book To Mix With Time |
Poet May Swenson (1913-1989) reads selections from her forthcoming book of new and selected poems, To Mix with Time (Scribner, 1963). She is also the author of Another Animal (Scribner, 1964) and A Cage of Spines (Rinehart, 1958). |
Poetry., Swenson, May., Women poets, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Poetry | BB3657 | |
| FOIA - The Right To Know panel on the health of atomic vets |
A panel discussion on the right to know, with William Howard, past president of the National Council of Churches; Sandra Marlowe of the National Association of Atomic Veterans; and Maryann Napoli of the National Women's Health. Recorded at a conference sponsored by the Fund for Open Information and Responsibility on June 26, 1982. Recorded by Fisk. Needs outro. |
United States. Freedom of Information Act., VETERANS, Atomic bomb -- Testing., Women's health services, Napoli, Maryann, 1940-, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Health | IZ1366 | |
| Betty Pilkington interviews U.N. Ambassador Medhi Vakil about Iran |
U.N. Correspondent Betty Pilkington interviews United Nations Ambassador to Iran, Mehdi Vakil, on Iran's National Day, the birthday of the reigning Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, October 26, 1967. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Pilkington, Betty., IRAN, Iran -- Politics and government. | American Women -- Authors and journalists | IZ1386 | |
| Poetry occasional: two lady poets |
Poetry reading. Henrietta Weigel and Helene Mullins are two lady poets who share much in common. They are both New Yorkers currently living in the Village, both have written and published novels, and both have novels in progress at the time of this interview. In this program, both poets read from their own material, and discuss various inspirations, such as Henry Miller's watercolors and people from their lives. Hosted by Martin Last. |
Literary readings (Radio programs), Women poets, Mullins, Helene, 1899-1991, Weigel, Henrietta, 1906-1981, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Poetry | BB3895 |