Browse the American Women collection
| Title | Description | Keywords | Genre |
PRA Archive # |
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| Majority report, November 1981: Farming women |
A report on women farmers in California. With the increase of mechanization and the decreasing availability of farmland and farming jobs, rural women have begun to find employment in nearby towns instead of on farms, but many women still tend the land and manage agricultural operations on small farms. Includes interviews with Jeannie Fletcher, a cotton and alfalfa farmer in the San Joaquin Valley; Annie Main, an organic farmer who lives and works in the Sacramento Valley; Carolyn Brown, a beekeeper who farms five acres of truck crops on land she leases with a partner; and Juanita Wood, sociologist at San Francisco State. Hosted by Kim Brown. |
Women in agriculture, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Farms, Small, San Joaquin Valley (Calif.), Sacramento Valley (Calif.), Wood, Juanita Ballew, 1938- | American Women -- Work and unions | AZ0642.02 | |
| Majority report, January 21, 1982 |
Sherry Krynski and Ginny Z. Berson host Majority Report for January 21, 1982. Segments: 1. News wrap-up -- 2. Berson talks with Chris Carroll, station manager of WRFG in Atlanta, Georgia, and chairman of the Women's Advisory Committee of the National Federation of Community Broadcasters (NFCB) about women in public broadcasting -- 3. Paci Hammond reports on The Berkeley Women's Center facing the possibility of closure if the Berkeley City Council fails to refund it; contains an interview with Cheryl Jones, one of the remaining staff members of the Women's Center -- 4. Interview with Maurine Beasley, co-editor of a book of Associated Press reporter Lorena Hickok's reports to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who says Hickok helped create Eleanor Roosevelt's role as First Lady -- 5. NPR's Connie Goldman interviews artist Alice Neel about her work with the Works Project Administration (WPA), on the occasion of a WPA artists' exhibition at the Hirschhorn Museum in Washington, D.C. -- 6. KPFA's Sue Supriano presents an interview with Birgitta Dahl, Social Democrat and member of the Swedish Parliament, conducted at the First International Conference in Solidarity with Grenada. The last segment, a special report by Janet Gelman about inmates at the California Institution of Women who are cut off from contact with their friends, visitors and children, is not included on PRA's copy of this recording. Executive producer Karla Tonella, with theme song by Laurie Spiegel. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Berson, Ginny Z., Krynski, Sherry, Neel, Alice, 1900-1984, Beasley, Maurine Hoffman, Hickok, Lorena A., Dahl, Birgitta, 1937-, Hammond, Paci, Supriano, Sue., Radio news programs | American Women -- Authors and journalists, American Women -- Art and artists, American Women -- Politicians and politics, American Women -- Radio | AZ0642.03 | |
| Majority report, February 18, 1982: Shirley Chisholm and Maya Angelou #1 |
Sherry Krynski and Ginny Z. Berson host Majority Report for February 18, 1982. Segments: 1. News wrap-up -- 2. A report by NPR's Jo Ann Allen on Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm (D-NY), who the week before had announced her retirement from politics, followed by an interview with Chisholm -- 3. The first part of a three-segment interview with Maya Angelou by NPR's Brenda Wilson, about her life and work -- 4. A brief tribute to opera singer Marian Anderson on the occasion of her 80th birthday, including Anderson performing the gospel song "Hold On" -- 5. Calendar of community events. A final segment, titled "On the Edge" about women over the age of forty, is introduced but not included on PRA's copy of this recording. Executive producer Karla Tonella, theme music by Laurie Spiegel. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Chisholm, Shirley, 1924-2005, Angelou, Maya, Anderson, Marian, 1897-1993, Tonella, Karla., Krynski, Sherry, Berson, Ginny Z., Radio news programs | American Women -- Politicians and politics, American Women -- Authors and journalists, American Women -- Music and musicians | AZ0642.04 | |
| Majority report, February 25, 1982 |
Julia Randall and Ginny Z. Berson host Majority Report, February 25, 1982. 1. News wrap-up -- 2. A look at the civic and political life of Black women in Victorian America, the period known as the "Gay Nineties", a short condensation of a longer Women's Magazine program, "19th Century Black Club Women," that aired the following Saturday, February 27, 1982 (produced by Karla Tonella, with Barbara Christian, head of Afro-American Studies at UC Berkeley) -- 3. The last of a three-part interview with poet, activist and singer Maya Angelou by NPR's Brenda Wilson, about her book The Heart of a Woman -- 4. A report by Sheila Bowman on why the medical profession is still pushing for women to bottle-feed instead of breast-feed their babies, featuring an interview with Lois Salisbury, a lawyer from Public Advocates in San Francisco. The final segment, on women in rugby, is introduced but not included on PRA's copy of the recording. Executive producer Karla Tonella, theme music by Laurie Spiegel. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Randall, Julia., Berson, Ginny Z., Angelou, Maya, Tonella, Karla., Bowman, Sheila, Christian, Barbara, 1943-2000, Salisbury, Lois | American Women -- Authors and journalists, American Women -- Women's history | AZ0642.05 | |
| Majority report, May 6, 1982: Judy Chicago, San Francisco Women's Building, Merle Woo |
Julia Randall and Ginny Z. Berson host Majority Report, May 6, 1982. Segments: 1. News wrap-up -- 2. Artist Judy Chicago talks about The Birth Project, her follow-up to The Dinner Party, with KPFA's Toni Gray; also includes interviews with some of the participants in the project -- 3. A celebration of the third anniversary of San Francisco Women's Building, reported by Julia Randall; includes interviews with building co-founders Tracy Gary, Marya Grambs, and Carmen Vázquez -- 4. Merle Woo, lecturer in the Asian-American Studies Department at UC Berkeley and socialist-feminist lesbian, talks with KPFA's Marci Lockwood about her battle to stay on UC Berkeley's teaching staff because of her political organizing. The last segment, entitled "Somos Chicanas" about Chicana women in the United States, is introduced but is not included on PRA's copy of this recording. This recording contains only reports and is without music cues. Executive producer Karla Tonella. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Chicago, Judy, 1939-, Woo, Merle., San Francisco Women's Building, Randall, Julia., Berson, Ginny Z., Gray, Toni., Gary, Tracy, 1951-, Grambs, Marya, Vazquez, Carmen., Tonella, Karla., Lockwood, Marci | American Women -- Education, American Women -- Art and artists, American Women -- Feminism | AZ0642.06 | |
| Majority report, May 13, 1982: Hansberry, Mother's Day March, Studio W |
Julia Randall and Ginny Z. Berson host Majority Report, May 13, 1982. Segments: 1. News wrap-up -- 2. A birthday tribute to playwright Lorraine Hansberry produced by Ginny Z. Berson; includes audio from a performance of her play "A Raisin in the Sun" and an excerpt from a TV interview with Hansberry by Mike Wallace -- 3. A report on Studio W, a new women's gallery of film and art in the Bay Area, by KPFA's Marci Lockwood; features an interview with the gallery's founders, Holly Comstock and Sharon Medairy -- 4. Paci Hammond and Adrienne Price report on the Children's Walk for Disarmament in San Francisco, sponsored by the Mother's Day Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and the Bay Area chapter of the Women's Party for Survival, and on the women who physically blocked the Livermore Labs. The final segment, about the life and works of Gertrude Stein, is introduced but not included on PRA's copy of the program. Executive producer Karla Tonella, theme music by Laurie Spiegel. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Hansberry, Lorraine, 1930-1965., Randall, Julia., Berson, Ginny Z., Lockwood, Marci, Hammond, Paci, Price, Adrienne, Tonella, Karla., Comstock, Holly, Medairy, Sharon, Radio news programs | American Women -- Theater, American Women -- Art and artists, American Women -- Peace and Antinuclear activism | AZ0642.07 | |
| Majority report, June 3, 1982: NOW, Jewish Feminist Conference, Vida Gallery, survivors of Hiroshima |
Ginny Z. Berson and Marci Lockwood host Majority Report, June 3, 1982. Segments: 1. News wrap-up -- 2. Ginny Foat, president of the National Organization for Women (NOW)-California, discusses last-minute strategies to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment with Ginny Z. Berson -- 3. A report by Marci Lockwood on the Jewish Feminist Conference held in San Francisco from May 29-31, 1982 -- 4. A review of "For the Love of Women," a new exhibit at Vida Gallery in the San Francisco Women's Building, by Corless Smith; features an interview with Wendy Cadden, Vida Gallery member -- 5. Jean Quan interviews Steven Okazaki, co-director of Survivors, a documentary on Japanese survivors of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. The final segment, the third part of the series "By a Woman Writ" focusing on Cuban playwright María Irene Fornés, is introduced but not included on PRA's copy of this recording. Engineered by Sandy Thompson and Paci Hammond, with Maggie Donahue as board operator. Theme music by Laurie Spiegel. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Berson, Ginny Z., Lockwood, Marci, Foat, Ginny, Hammond, Paci, Smith, Corless., Okazaki, Steven, Thompson, Sandy, Donahue, Maggie, Radio news programs | American Women -- Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), American Women -- Art and artists, American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination | AZ0642.08 | |
| Majority report, November 4, 1982: Davis women fight back, Z Budapest play, Abortion rights and elections. |
Marci Lockwood and Peggy Bray host Majority Report, November 4, 1982. Segments: 1. News wrap-up -- 2. Karen Sundheim speaks with Joanne Ball and Ann Marie Wagstaff from Davis Women Fight Back on the disruption of the recent Take Back the Night event at UC Davis by fraternities, with a comment by Intra-Fraternity Council President Tom Bonfiglio -- 3. Jean Robertson reviews Z. Budapest's new theater piece, The Rise of the Fates, which roasts the patriarchy and celebrates women's spirituality; features interviews with Budapest and some of the actors in the production -- 4. Marci Lockwood interviews Nancy Cassidy of the California Abortion Rights Action League about the newly-elected California state legislature. The final segment, an analysis of the impact of the 1982 federal elections on women, is introduced but not included in PRA's copy of this program. Sandy Thompson and Ginny Z. Berson are engineers, news segments co-written by Corless Smith. Theme music by Laurie Spiegel. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Lockwood, Marci, Bray, Peggy., Budapest, Zsuzsanna Emese, 1940-, Sundheim, Karen., Robertson, Jean., Thompson, Sandy, Berson, Ginny Z., Smith, Corless., Radio news programs | American Women -- Politicians and politics, American Women -- Violence against women, American Women -- Theater, American Women -- Reproductive rights | AZ0642.09 | |
| Majority report, November 18, 1982: Schlafly v. English, Olivia's 10th Birthday, Update on Silkwood, Planetary conjunction |
Marci Lockwood and Ginny Z. Berson host Majority Report, November 18, 1982. Segments: 1. News wrap-up -- 2. Highlights from anti-ERA activist Phyllis Schlafly and Mother Jones editor Deirdre English's debate on the role of women in San Francisco on November 17, 1982 -- 3. Julia Randall reports on the preparations for Olivia Records' 10th anniversary concert at Carnegie Hall, featuring Cris Williamson and Meg Christian; features interview with Betty Rowland, producer of the concert, and Ginny Z. Berson and Judy Dlugacz, co-founders of Olivia Records -- 4. Kitty Tucker, one of the attorneys in the case brought by Karen Silkwood's family against Kerr-McGee Corporation, speaks with Karen Sundheim about the legal issues and the status of Silkwood's case -- 5. Jean Robertson speaks with astrologer Judith Hill and psychic Tosha Silver on the significance of the alignment of the Sun, the Moon, Jupiter, Venus and Mercury under the sign of Scorpio. A final segment, on women firefighters in San Francisco, is introduced but not included on PRA's copy of this recording. Theme music by Laurie Spiegel. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Lockwood, Marci, Berson, Ginny Z., Schlafly, Phyllis, English, Deirdre, Randall, Julia., Rowland, Betty, Dlugacz, Judy, Olivia Records, Inc., Sundheim, Karen., Tucker, Kitty, Silkwood, Karen, 1946-1974., Robertson, Jean., Hill, Judith, Silver, Tosha, Radio news programs | American Women -- Feminism, American Women -- Music and musicians, American Women -- Work and unions, American Women -- New age/Wicca | AZ0642.10 | |
| Majority report, December 2, 1982: Tina Fishman, Bay Area women in music |
Reyna Cowan and Pam Scola host Majority Report, December 2, 1982. Segments: 1. News wrap-up -- 2. Marci Lockwood reports on the case of Tina Fishman, member of the Revolutionary Communist Party who lost custody of her daughter to her ex-husband for what she maintains are her political beliefs; features interviews with Fishman and Paul Wolf, her lawyer -- 3. Roxanne Merryfield interviews Gaynell Toler, president of Bay Area Women in Music. The final segment, a full report on the recent debate which took place in San Francisco between Mother Jones editor Deirdre English and Eagle Forum's Phyllis Schlafly, is introduced but not included on PRA's copy of this program. Engineers are Sandy Thompson and Ginny Z. Berson, with Marci Lockwood as board operator. Theme music by Laurie Spiegel. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Cowan, Reyna., Scola, Pam., Lockwood, Marci, Merryfield, Roxanne., Rogers, Gaynell Toler, Radio news programs | American Women -- Radical Feminism, American Women -- Music and musicians, American Women -- Law | AZ0642.11 |