Browse the American Women collection
| Title | Description | Keywords | Genre |
PRA Archive # |
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| Nuclear madness / Dr. Helen Caldicott |
Dr. Helen Caldicott was a former Australian pediatrician, anti-nuclear activist, author, and president of Physicians for Social Responsibility. In this recording, Caldicott speaks to State officials following the Convention of Physicians for Social Responsibility, held in Sacramento, the week of November 16, 1980. In her talk, Caldicott describes a reactor meltdown, radiation sickness, plutonium, the effects of nuclear war and bombs, and the long-term health effects of nuclear exposure. Recorded via satellite. Produced by KPFK. |
Antinuclear movement, Women -- Political activity., Radiation -- Physiological effect., Nuclear warfare -- Forecasts., Caldicott, Helen, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Science and scientists, American Women -- Peace and Antinuclear activism | KZ0992 | |
| Friends of Leslie |
Sue Talbot, Jerry Gumbleton, and the Reverend Dwight Blackstock, three members of Friends for Leslie, talk with KPFK-FM's Catherine Stifter. The group has been fighting for the prison release of Leslie Van Houten, who was convicted for the Manson Family murders of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca. They discuss the California parole system, the influence of the media on public perceptions, and their campaign for public support for Van Houten. Talbot reads an excerpt from Van Houten's recent parole hearing. |
Parole -- California., Women prisoners -- California., Prisons -- California., Crime and criminals -- California., Stifter, Catherine., Van Houten, Leslie, 1949-., Manson, Charles, 1934-., California Audiovisual Preservation Project, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Activists | KZ0984 | Friends of Leslie |
| On a clear day in L.A. / Denise Levertov interviewed by Anita Frankel |
Denise Levertov reads her poetry and talks with Anita Frankel about her politics and her life, and how the two work together. There is a lot of discussion about the 1960s and describing intense moments in the antinuclear movement in places like Seabrook and Washington, D.C. No intro or outro. Among the poems read are For the blind, Talk in the dark, Psalm: people power at the die-in, In silence, Olga poems pt. v, and The split mind. |
Levertov, Denise, 1923-1997, Antinuclear movement, Political poetry., Women poets, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Poetry | KZ0977 | |
| Design process Olivetti, 1908-1978 / Nathan Shapira ; interviewed by Clare Spark. |
UCLA professor discusses industrial design, the role of the user in design, corporate patronage, the role of women in the Olivetti corporation, and the Olivetti exhibition which he prepared at UCLA. Also a discussion of the new satellite technology for public radio. |
Shapira, Nathan H., Spark, Clare., Women workers., Industrial design -- Italy., Exhibitions., Industry -- Social aspects., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Art and artists | KZ0929 | |
| Behind the Carter draft / Barbara Gedanke |
This is a recording of veterans' rights attorney Barbara Gedanke attacking Carter's proposed draft at an ACLU meeting in April 1980. Her speech covers the phony issue of drafting women, need for a manpower pool in U.S. policy, Vietnam, horrors of Agent Orange (Paraquat) on our troops, the significant difference between the 1980s and the 1960s, the proposed draft's relationship to racism and joblessness, and how the draft will work. There is some background noise and the speech needs an intro and an outro. Produced by Sylvia Jones and Roy Tuckman. April 1980, KPFK. |
Gedanke, Barbara., Tuckman, Roy., Agent Orange., Employment (Economic theory)., Vietnam War, 1961-1975, Racism -- United States., Draft., Women and the draft., Women soldiers -- United States., Herbicides -- War use., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Politicians and politics, American Women -- Law | KZ0904 | |
| Violent use of female images in the media / Andrea Dworkin |
Women Against Violence in Pornography & Media (WAVPM), a feminist group formed in 1977, organized the Feminist Perspective on Pornography Conference in San Francisco in November 1978. At the conclusion of this conference, organizers and attendees staged the first Take Back The Night march, protesting rape and the violent use of female images in the media. Andrea Dworkin roused the audience in this pre-march rally in which she states "to be dissolved by any means necessary is the role of women in pornography." Needs intro. Fade out applause at end. This is a slightly edited version of the same speech by Dworkin featured on AZ1145. |
Dworkin, Andrea., Women Against Violence in Pornography & Media (U.S.), Pornography., Women in the press., Women in television., Press and propaganda., Women in mass media., Take back the night march, Pornography -- Analysis., Rape., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Violence against women, American Women -- Radical Feminism | KZ0890 | |
| Alix Dobkin live! / interviewed by Helene Rosenbluth |
Alix Dobkin--Live! Or, who is the Avon lady? Alix Dobkin, singer and songwriter, talks about her music, her politics, her separatist philosophy, lesbianism, her European tour, and antisemitism in Europe. The interview is mixed with excerpts from her March 21, 1980 concert at Fritchman Auditorium in Los Angeles. Produced by Helene Rosenbluth, KPFK. |
Lesbians, Women musicians., Dobkin, Alix., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Lesbians, American Women -- Music and musicians | KZ0889 | |
| Strange paradise / Cris Williamson interviewed by Helene Rosenbluth |
Musician Cris Williamson talks with Helene Rosenbluth about her spiritual self, her role as a superstar of the women's community, her old albums, her new work, and her future vision. This is an in-depth interview that is mixed with music from three of her albums: Changer and the changed; Live dream; and Stranger in paradise. All distributed by Olivia Records. Produced by Helene Rosenbluth. |
Williamson, Cris., Women musicians., Women's movement, Olivia Records, Inc., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Lesbians, American Women -- Music and musicians | KZ0888 | |
| Across the seas: lesbianism in Australia and Japan |
Helene Rosenbluth talks with two women, Amanda and Jane, from Melbourne, Australia about the conditions for lesbians in their country: access to employment, the social and political life of lesbians vis-a-vis gay men in Australia, and the history of anti-gay laws in the country. Part two of this recording contains a discussion with women in Japan about what it's like to be a lesbian there. The Japanese women interviewed are not identified. Recorded in 1976 when Holly Near, Amy Horowitz, and Sally Savitz went to an anti-nuke conference in Japan. Technical quality for this second half-hour of the program is poor but audible. Recorded in Japan on interior mike of low-quality cassette recorder. Leslie Lee and Catherine Stifter provided additional production work. |
Lesbians -- Australia -- Social conditions, Across the seas : lesbianism in Australia and Japan / interviews by Helene Rosenbluth., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- International women, American Women -- Lesbians | KZ0887 | |
| Classism and relationships among women / Jane Wagner and Josy Catoggio |
Jane Wagner and Josy Catoggio give previews of their upcoming talks at the 4th Annual Women and Alternative Lifestyles Conference, sponsored by the Sexuality and Lesbianism Task Force of LA-NOW. which was held June 9-10, 1979 at the University of Southern California. Wagner's talk is titled "Lovers: Do We Choose or Are We Driven or Is It Luck?", and she discusses how the answer to the question is "all three" - she then elaborates on the roles that personal responsibility and luck both play in relationships. Catoggio's workshop, titled "Understanding Classism in Relationships Between Women," addresses how to understand one's class position and how middle- and upper-class women need to listen to working-class women's experiences. Music by Meg Christian, Alive. Cut for rebroadcast. |
Wagner, Jane., Catoggio, Josy., Women -- Social conditions., Lesbian couples, Social classes -- United States., Interpersonal relations., Christian, Meg, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Feminism | KZ0886 |