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Interview, done in Baku, Azerbaijan, on shore of Caspian Sea, September 1977, with two women: first the director of block-square Museum of Azerbaijani Literature and Arts, second a museum tour guide and director of a TV show on the arts. The former is the daughter of school teachers who were the first generation of educated people in this formerly 90% illiterate, Muslim, Turkic-speaking oil country of the Soviet Union. The second, although only 30, is the daughter of illiterate peasant parents. The museum director earns twice as much as her husband. The other woman earns much less than her husband, who is a solo singer, but will earn equally when she gets her Ph.D. Interview portion contains original Russian spoken at low volume on right channel, Mandel's English translation on left channel. The interview is about 27 minutes long, and during the rest of the program, Mandel answers phone calls from listeners. Produced by William Mandel, KPFA, first broadcast 12/8/77.

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.

Christians of the Way Research and Teaching Ministry, based in Rye, New York, discuss politics,sexuality, evolution and religion.

Production reel with general review of lesbian presses and titles of books by and about lesbians with a few selections read and commented upon. Segments: 1. A collection from Diana Press (Baltimore, MD) titled Women Remembered: A Collection of Biographies from the Furies, which includes a chapter on Queen Christina of Sweden; 2. New lesbian fiction from Daughters, Inc. a collective in Plainsfield, Vermont, featuring reviews of Elena Dykewomon (Nachman)'s Riverfinger Women and Nancy Lee Hall's A True Story of a Drunken Mother; 3. Older lesbian novels published by conventional presses: Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness, Isabel Miller (Alma Routsong)'s A Place for Us; 4. Reviews of Violette LeDuc's La Batarde and the Sense & Sensibility Collective's "Women and Literature: An Annotated Bibliography of Women Writers"; 5. Books published by The Women's Press Collective in Oakland, CA, with a reading from Zulema's Soy and a reading of Elsa Gidlow's love poems; 6. Non-fiction: Reviews of Lesbian/Woman by Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon, The SCUM Manifesto by Valerie Solanas. No intro or outro or identification of reviewers. Previously cataloged as AZ1147.