Browse the American Women collection
| Title | Description | Keywords | Genre | PRA Archive # |
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| Eating may be hazardous to your health / produced by Jerry Ruskin, Nina Mende and Paul McIsaac. (Episode 10 of 11) |
Made for Food Day 1975 (April 17), this documentary examines the thousands of additives in our food, and finds evidence that at least some are hazardous to our health. The program includes interviews with Dr. Jacqueline Verrett, biochemist and co-author of "Eating May Be Hazardous To Your Health"; Dr. William Lijinsky (1928-2004), scientist at Oakridge National Laboratories; Dr. Robert Angelotti from the Bureau of Foods; Anita Johnson, a lawyer representing the Public Citizen Health Research Group; Gilbert S. Goldhammer, consultant to the committee overseeing the activities of the FDA; Dr. Michael Jacobson, co-director of the Center for Science and the Public Interest; Jim Turner and Ruth Desmond. The program takes a close look at the FDA and USDA as well as various consumer groups. Produced by Jerry Ruskin, Nina Mende and Paul McIsaac. Technical production by David Rapkin. |
Verrett, Jacqueline, Lijinsky, W. (William), 1928-2004, Angelotti, Robert, Cancer -- Research., Food industry and trade -- United States., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Health | BC2249.10 | |
| Women's News: September 11, 1975 |
Women's news and commentary for KPFA, September 11, 1975. Segments: 1. The radical feminist group Redstockings' charges that feminist activist Gloria Steinem was once involved with the CIA. Kathie Sarachild of Redstockings is interviewed about those charges and discusses Steinem's ascendancy to her platform and MS Magazine's ignoring of radical feminist causes and possible complicity with the CIA; 2. The FBI tracking the women's movement, with special focus on Jane Alpert, who cooperated with a grand jury investigation; Shoshona, aka Patricia Swinton, who was fingered by Alpert, discusses Alpert's politics; 3. Shoshona talks about Assata Shakur; 4. A report of the first National Conference of Socialist Feminists, held in Yellow Springs, Ohio in July 1975, whose goal was to define feminism in revolutionary terms; 5. A report on Wilma Schneider, first woman prison guard at San Quentin, who recently announced her retirement; 6. Reading of a passage from Jo Freeman's book The Women's Liberation Movement. Produced by the Women's News Collective of KPFA, including Susan Elisabeth, Peggy Hughes, Joan Medlin and Janet Potter. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Redstockings, Inc., Sarachild, Kathie, Steinem, Gloria | American Women -- Radical Feminism | AZ1689.01 | |
| Women in the arts I (Episode 1 of 5) |
Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro, architects of a feminist art program at the California Institute of the Arts, discuss current feminist activities in Los Angeles. Chicago and Schapiro talk about touring women artists' studios in San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego and describe the general situation of women artists in the contemporary landscape, and the difficulties they face compared to male artists. |
Wilding, Faith., Chicago, Judy, 1939-, Art, American -- California -- Los Angeles -- 20th century, Women in the arts., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Art and artists, American Women -- Feminism | BC0453.01 | |
| Readings on national liberation / translated and read by William Mandel |
Readings on national liberation / translated and read by William Mandel. Soviet news stories on world events. Phone-ins. pt.1. story on the escape of Assata Shakur, a Black woman poet, from a U.S. prison. -- pt.2. stories about Iranian embassy takeover. -- pt.3. phone-ins. |
Women, Black., Journalism -- Soviet Union., Press and politics., Prisoners -- United States., Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981., Shakur, Assata., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Radio call-in shows | American Women -- Activists, American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination | AZ0649 | |
| Mary Jane Menuez reads her poetry |
Poet Mary Jane Menuez reads selections from her work. Menuez was born in Chicago. She began writing poetry as a student of Ellen Bryant Voigt at Goddard College. Her poetry has appeared in such places as Orion's Dolphin, Countermeasures, Xanadu, and the Grolier Press Annual Anthology of Children's Poetry. She has taught poetry workshops at Suffolk Community College on Long Island, and, under the sponsorship of the Poetry Therapy Association, run a poetry therapy program for over a year at a veteran's hospital. This program was produced by Paul Oppenheimer for the Drama and Literature Department of WBAI New York. |
Poetry -- Women authors., Mary Jane Menuez., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Poetry | BC2995 | |
| Amalia Fleming (Lady Fleming) on the Greek junta / introduced by John Brademas. |
Amalia Fleming (Lady Fleming) speaks on the situation in Greece under the General's right wing junta--a speech given before the Women's National Democratic Club in Washington, D.C. Lady Fleming was exiled from Greece and stripped of her Greek citizenship due to her political activities against the junta, and is the author of "A piece of truth," a personal account of her imprisonment. She is introduced by Congressman John Brademas (D-IN). |
Fleming, Amalia, Lady, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Political prisoners -- Greece., Greece--History--Coup d'état, 1967 (April 21), Brademas, John, 1927-, Women's National Democratic Club (U.S.) | American Women -- International women, American Women -- Politicians and politics | BC1327 | |
| Samille Gooden interviewed by Angela Davis |
Angela Davis speaks with Samille Gooden, president of local 1695 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), on Black women in the labor movement. |
Gooden, Samille., Davis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne), 1944-, Labor unions -- Minority membership., Minority women -- United States., Women, Black., Women labor unionists., African Americans, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination, American Women -- Work and unions | AZ0147 | |
| Interview with Gerda Lerner on her book A Death of One's Own |
Tricia Del Longo interviews Dr. Gerda Lerner (1920 - 2013), an historian and pioneer in the field of women's history. She recently published the book "A Death of One's Own," about her experiences with death, particularly that of her husband Carl Lerner. She discusses the right to die, the institutional neglect of the dying, her life, and her honest feelings during her husband's death. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Lerner, Gerda, 1920-2013, DEATH, Historians., Death in literature, Death in literature., Death -- Psychological aspects., Women's history | American Women -- Authors and journalists, American Women -- Health | IZ1495 | |
| A Folk special : Jean Ritchie / interviewed by Lynn Schoenfeld. |
Folk singer Jean Ritchie (1922 - ) talks about her contributions as both singer and historian of Appalachian folk music. She discusses the impact of strip mining in her native Kentucky and demonstrates some of the techniques of "mountain singing." The program includes both live and recorded performances. The interview was recorded in February 1978, prior to the settlement of the Bituminous Coal Strike. Produced by Lynn Schoenfeld, edited for broadcast by Edward Haber. |
Ritchie, Jean., Music -- United States., Folk music, American., Women musicians., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Music and musicians | IZ0123 | |
| Waitresses on strike |
Judy Sackoff interviews Sophia Guthertz and Patty Gulino, two waitresses from Al Buon Gusto Restaurant in Manhattan who have been on strike since April 2, 1981. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Women workers., Strikes -- New York City., Restaurants -- Employees, Labor unions -- New York (City). | American Women -- Work and unions | IZ1383.03 |