Browse the American Women collection
| Title | Description | Keywords | Genre | PRA Archive # |
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| Burn out! / produced by Helene Rosenbluth and Catherine Stifter |
Investigation of the burnout syndrome caused by overwork, over-involvement, and over-participation. Much of the discussion in this program focuses on burnout as it affects women, minorities and those involved in activist struggles. Participants include Dr. Beverly Potter, author of "Beating job burnout"; Judith Meyer, professor at Pacific Oaks College who facilitates workshops on burnout; Pamela Gruber, Pacific Oaks College; Dr. Steve Tarzinski, member of the New American Movement who conducts workshops on burnout for Left and activist communities; Dr. Arlene Raven, feminist art historian and co-founder of the Los Angeles Woman's Building; Charlotte Bunch, feminist theoretician; and numerous other participants. Produced by Helene Rosenbluth and Catherine Stifter. |
Rosenbluth, Helene, Burnout syndrome., Job Satisfaction., Stress., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Health, American Women -- Work and unions | KZ1035 | |
| Interview with actress and drama teacher Uta Hagen |
Interview with actress and teacher, Uta Hagen. Uta Hagen created the role of Martha in Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf," the role of Georgie in Odets' "The Country Girl," and her "Uta's Ten Minute Chocolate Mousse." This extraordinary actress, teacher, cook, gardener, lover of life and nature talks about acting, cooking, teaching, her concerns about the theater and tells some hilarious tales from her life. In this series "The Passionate Theatre," host Marjorie DeFazio talks with actors, directors, and writer in search of the passionate theatre. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Hagen, Uta, 1919-2004, Theater -- United States., Actresses -- Philosophy. | American Women -- Theater | IZ1173 | |
| Betty Pilkington interviews U.N. Ambassador Medhi Vakil about Iran |
U.N. Correspondent Betty Pilkington interviews United Nations Ambassador to Iran, Mehdi Vakil, on Iran's National Day, the birthday of the reigning Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, October 26, 1967. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Pilkington, Betty., IRAN, Iran -- Politics and government. | American Women -- Authors and journalists | IZ1386 | |
| Composer Marta Ptaszyńska (Episode 39) |
A program focusing on the work of Polish-born contemporary composer and percussionist Marta Ptaszyńska, who teaches musical composition at UC Berkeley. Produced and presented by Virginia Kosanovic. Self-contained. [This reel is an aircheck that lacks the outro]. Contents: Intro; followed by an interview with Ptaszyńska conducted at her home; then three of Marta Ptaszynska's compositions: Improvisation for Orchestra (1968 premier performance); Siderals for percussion ensemble; and Madrigals for wind quartet, string quartet, trumpet and trombone. Engineered by Susan Kernes. Portions of this program were broadcast in a "Focus on Women Composers" program that aired in March 1977. |
Women composers., Women musicians., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Ptaszyńska, Marta | American Women -- Music and musicians | AZ1132.39 | |
| Ann Lauterbach / produced by Susan Howe. |
Poet Ann Lauterbach reads her work. Ann Lauterbach's work has appeared in numerous magazines, among them The Little Magazine, The Poetry Review, ZZZ, The Partisan Review, Heresies, and Roof 2. Her books of poems include Vertical Horizontal, Book One, and her most recent manuscript, Chalk. Lauterbach reads are The relinquished, Words to assuage, The day after, Gramercy Park evening, and others. Produced by Susan Howe, with technical direction by Dave Marx at WBAI in NYC. Funded by a grant from the National Endowment of the Arts. |
Howe, Susan., Lauterbach, Ann, 1942-, Poetry, Modern., Women poets, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Poetry | IZ0087 | |
| Changing lifestyles in America today / Margaret Mead |
Margaret Mead's speech before the City Commission on Human Rights hearings on the Status of American Women in Contemporary Society. Recorded on September 22, 1970. She opens by stating the question that has been posed to her to answer: to review briefly the way in which the position of women today is related to their position in the past. Mead asserts in her speech that she does not agree with the notion that men oppress women, that society is organized to benefit men rather than women. She remarks on the fact that this is the first time in history it has not been to the population's benefit to have large population growth. Produced by KPFA. Recorded on September 22, 1970. |
Social change., Women -- Social conditions., Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978, Reproductive rights, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Reproductive rights | BB4314 | |
| Celebration: Harvey Swados |
This is an interview with Bette Swados and Robin Swados, widow and son of the author Harvey Swados (1920-1972). Includes readings from his novel "Celebration," which was published shortly after his death. Interviewer is Risha Meledandri. Includes a reading of "Celebration". Produced by Tom Perotti with technical production by Richard Harris. |
Swados, Harvey, Authors., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Relatives of notable men | IZ1391 | |
| Dorothy Stickney / interviewed by Bruce Kenyon. |
Dorothy Stickney (1896 – 1998), the original Vinnie in "Life with Father" and "Life with Mother", discusses her long career in theater which began with "Front Page" and ended with "Pippin." Program opens with Stickney reading. Host is Bruce Kenyon. |
Kenyon, Bruce., Theater -- New York (State) -- New York, Actresses -- Correspondence, reminiscences, etc., Stickney, Dorothy, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Theater | BC2354 | |
| The sour apple tree : June Wayne. |
June Wayne (1918-2011), artist, educator and co-founder of the Tamarind Lithography Workshop, reads a paper she read recently entitled "The Male Artist: a stereotypical female," and later is interviewed by host Clare Spark (Loeb). Spark also announces a series of lectures at UCLA Extension she is coordinating called "The Arts and Social Change," which started April 3, 1973. |
Sour apple tree : June Wayne.**The, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Wayne, June, 1918-2011, Spark, Clare. | American Women -- Art and artists | BC1338 | |
| Jean Garrigue reads at the Poetry Center |
Poet Jean Garrigue (1912 - 1972), author of five volumes of poetry, including the recently published "Country without maps," reads from her work in a program recorded at the Poetry Center of the YM-YWHA in January 1965. Garrigue reads For the circuit of the Orpheum and the Isis, For the beauty of the Beau Monde(?), How do my caged birds, Her spring song, French country circus, Upon the intimation of love's mortality, A note to La Fontaine, On the legends of a famous dancer, and Cortege for Colette. Garrigue is introduced by John Hall Wheelock. |
Garrigue, Jean, 1912-1972., Poetry., Women poets, Poetry reading, Poetry Center of the 92nd Street YM-YWHA (New York, N.Y.), American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Wheelock, John Hall, 1886-1978 | American Women -- Poetry | BB3804.11 |