Browse the American Women collection
| Title | Description | Keywords | Genre | PRA Archive # |
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| Sharing feminism: empowerment or imperialism? / Mary E. Hunt |
A discuss of feminist liberation theology in Latin America by Mary E. Hunt at the Graduate Theological Union at UC Berkeley, date unknown but likely late 1981. Hunt, a lesbian feminist theologian, spent eighteen months working in Argentina. In this talk, Hunt explores what relevance feminism has to women in Latin America and how her feminism enters into her work with the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo. Hunt was the visiting Professor of Systematic Theology at ISEDET, the ecumenical Protestant seminary in Buenos Aires and also collaborates with the staff of Servicio Paz y Justicia, a center for nonviolent social change in Buenos Aires. Produced by Karla Tonella. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Hunt, Mary E., 1951-, Feminism--Argentina., Liberation theology--Latin America., Women theologians | American Women -- Activists, American Women -- Feminism | AZ1662 | |
| The Pillow book / by Sei Shonagan ; read by Karen Lindsey |
In this 5 part program, Karen Lindsey reads Professor Ivan Morris' translation of "The Pillow Book," (1967) a book of observations and musings recorded by Sei Shōnagon during her time as court lady to Empress Consort Teishi (定子) during the 990s and early 11th century in Heian Japan. In Part 1, Ms. Linsey interviews Professor Donald Keene, the leading expert on and translator of Japanese literature in America. They discuss how at this period of time, women created many of the most important intellectual works of the time. In Parts 2-5, Ms. Lindsey reads the book in four parts. |
Sei Shonagan, ca. 967., Radio programs -- Fiction., Pillow book / by Sei Shonagan ; read by Karen Lindsey.**The, Women -- Japan -- Social conditions., Japanese literature -- History and criticism., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- International women | BB3491 | |
| Art now and ecology / moderated by Clare Spark. |
Panel discussion on art and ecology, and the question of what role art can play in the cultural transformations necessary to survive in the world. Panelists are Frank Tysen, teacher at University of Southern California at the Air Pollution Control Institute and the program in Urban and Regional Planning; Lee Chesney, Associate Dean of Fine Arts at USC, artist, painter and printmaker; Craig Hodgetts, Associate Dean of Design at California Institute of the Arts; Claire Falkenstein, sculptor and painter; Elaine Amsterdam Farley, painter, lecturer and director of Pepperdine College's Malibu Art Center; and Judy Ouyang, art columnist for the Santa Monica Evening Outlook and organizer of the panel. discuss art and ecology. Moderated by Clare (Loeb) Spark. |
Ecology, Ecology in art, Tysen, Frank, Hodgetts, Craig, Falkenstein, Claire, 1908-1997 | American Women -- Art and artists, American Women -- Environmentalism | BB5217 | |
| Street haunting: a London adventure by Virginia Woolf; read by Vivian Schaeffer |
Reading of Virginia Woolf's short story "Street Haunting: A London Adventure." Read by Vivian Schaeffer. No intro or outro. Tape ends "from all the treasures of the city, a lead pencil." |
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941., Radio programs -- Fiction., Literary readings (Radio programs), American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Authors and journalists | BB0996 | |
| Dying to be heard: the work of Ann Sexton |
Dying to be heard: the work of Ann Sexton read by Karen Ludwig. Opens with a reading of the New York Times obituary for Jo Roman, an artist who chose voluntary suicide. This program is listed in the WBAI August 1979 Folio under the title "To die in order to be heard: women whose works are heard posthumously." Produced for WBAI by Linda Perry. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Sexton, Anne, 1928-1974, Women poets, Suicide., Women authors | American Women -- Psychology and psychotherapy, American Women -- Authors and journalists | IZ1412 | |
| Older women / produced by Viv Sutherland. |
A collection of tapes from the National Organization of Women-New York City (NY-NOW) conference entitled "The Real World of the Older Woman -- How Old Am I?", which took place June 7-8, 1975. Speakers heard on the first reel of this program include Helen Kirschner[sp?], coordinator of the Older Women's Committee of NY-NOW; Charlotte Susskind, president of Queens-NOW; three members of NOW: Ruth Krasnoff, Pat Green and Gwen Davis; and Phyllis Chesler, feminist and author of Women and Madness. The second part of the program includes the conclusion of Chesler's speech; Paul Austin, co-author and director of the play "I Am a Woman" with Viveca Lindfors; and Florynce "Flo" Kennedy, lawyer and feminist activist. |
Austin, Paul., Chesler, Phyllis, Aging -- Psychological aspects., Senior women., Kennedy, Florynce, 1916-2000, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Aging | BC2631 | |
| Government surveillance and the control of women: Berkshire Conference on the History of Women |
This recording contains of excerpts (not complete) of the panel "Government Surveillance and the Control of Women" at the Fifth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women. The conference was held ca. June 16-18, 1981 at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY. Speakers and talks were the following: Blanche Wiesen Cook of John Jay College on "The Repression and Resistance of Women in America--From the FBI to the Moral Majority", Amy Swerdlow of Sarah Lawrence College on "Women Strike for Peace Confronts HUAC: Ladies' Day at the Capitol" (only 2 minutes of her speech), and Bettina Aptheker of U.C. Santa Cruz on "The Surveillance and Imprisonment of Women Activists in the Sixties" (only 5 minutes of her speech). After Aptheker excerpt is an excerpt from Q&A, then a return to Aptheker's speech (2 minutes). Tape two contains more of Swerdlow's speech. The panel was chaired by Sandi Cooper, president of the conference. These tapes are likely the outtakes from a complete program that is not in Pacifica's collection. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Cook, Blanche Wiesen., Swerdlow, Amy, Aptheker, Bettina, Women's organizations., Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Political surveillance., SURVEILLANCE OF CITIZENS BY GOVERNMENT, Sex discrimination against women, Cooper, Sandi E. | American Women -- Politicians and politics, American Women -- Women's history | IZ1480 | |
| Art and mythology of India |
Clare Spark talks with Dr. Pratapaditya Pal, the curator for Islamic and Indian art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The role of mythology in Indian tradition, especially as regards the Heeramaneck collection. Pal starts with talking about the Standing Ganesha sculpture in LACMA's collection that dates from around the 16th-17th century A.D, and also discusses the Avatars of Vishnu. He discusses the altar at his mother's (and most orthodox women's homes) in India, and how she worships -- that it is the same thing priests do at temples. Pal says that the problem of making the study of art so intellectual is that we lose the closeness with the object and the significance of the creation. Contains background music for ambient effect. |
Spark, Clare., Mythology, Indian., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Indian art, Pal, Pratapaditya, Los Angeles County Museum of Art | American Women -- Art and artists | BB5173 | |
| Fat is a feminist issue / Carol Munter and Susie Orbach ; interviewed by Ann Snitow. |
WBAI's Ann Snitow discusses body image, overweight and feminist issues with Carol Munter and Susie Orbach, two women who run groups for women with weight problems. |
Orbach, Susie, 1946-, Munter, Carol., Feminism, Overeating., Body image., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Beauty and body image | BC1586 | |
| Trying to survive: prostitution and women's work |
The third in a series of three documentaries about prostitution and women's work (The Archives has only this part). This episode deals with the legal status of prostitution. Program produced by Adina Back, Phaye Poliakoff, Barbara Solow, and Marianne Connolly. Introduced by Eileen Zalisk. Program was financially assisted by the National Endowment of the Humanities through the Committee for the Humanities in Georgia. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Prostitution., Women workers. | American Women -- Sex, American Women -- Work and unions | IZ0449.16 |