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Talks by Linda Gordon and Jean Tepperman. Gordon is an historian teaching at the University of Massachusettes and is writing a history of the birth control movement in the U.S. Tepperman is a high school teacher. Both were members of Bread and Roses, a Boston Women's group. They traveled to China in December, 1972. The talk covers marriage, divorce and the position of women in China since the Revolution up to and after the Cultural Revolution. They discuss the means by which women were organized and the pros and cons of an autonomous women's movement. Note on box: "A plain and simple but sophisticated program--it doesn't make China sound like Nirvana for women."

Debra Smith, Tousha Wiley, Dolores Scott and Johnny Morris from the Harriet Tubman Prison Movement discuss the situation of women in prison. The Harriet Tubman Prison Movement is a national movement of Blacks, Chicanos, Puerto Ricans, Asians and Native Americans who are mobilizing support on the outside to aid Blacks and all minority prisoners on the inside of America's jails and institutions. Program includes listener call-ins. Produced by Mary Bess. Bella Brown was unable to attend but invited the participants who are present.

The problems of "women in art" are discussed by a panel of women artists and critics. The program was recorded during a series of Art Forums at the Emanu-El Midtown Y in New York. Panelists include Lucy Lippard, art critic; Cindy Nemser, teacher, writer and curator; Ruth Vodicka, sculptor; Camille Billops, sculptor and ceramics teacher at CCNY; Ce Roser, painter; Amy Stromsten, photographer and sculptor; Therese Schwartz, painter and editor of the New York Element; and May Stevens, artist and teacher at School of Visual Art and Queens College. Produced by Bonnie Bellow.

Likely same series as BC0289.

Discussion of the presentation and exploitation of women by mass media advertising held at the Advertising Club of New York on Friday, December 15th, 1972. The subject of the panel is "Womanpower." The moderator is Joyce Snyder, former executive managing director of Art Directors Magazine and image coordinator for the NY chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW). The panelists are Jane Trahey, 1970's Advertising Woman of the Year; Anne Tolstoi Foster (Wallach), head of NOW's advertising volunteer group and senior vice president and creative director of Degarmo Advertising; and Patricia "Pat" Carbine, formerly executive editor of Look Magazine, editorial director of McCall's Magazine, and now editor-in-chief and publisher of Ms. magazine and editorial director of the Harvard Radcliffe Publishing Procedures course.