Browse the American Women collection
| Title | Description | Keywords | Genre | PRA Archive # |
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| Author Fanny Howe reads from her novel Holy Smoke |
American poet, novelist and short story writer Fanny Howe (1940 - ) reads from her novel "Holy Smoke", just out from Fiction Collective. Produced by Susan Howe. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Howe, Fanny, Women poets, Women authors | American Women -- Authors and journalists | IZ1478 | |
| Ode To Gravity| The Music Of Germaine Tailleferre |
Ode To Gravity| The Music Of Germaine Tailleferre| Produced by KPFK and Amirkhanian| Recorded on December 29, 1973. - CONTENT: Charles Amirkhanian talks with one of the greatest women composers, Germaine Tailleferre at her home in Paris. Tailleferre was one of the members of the radical group of composers known as Les Six. Others in the group were Francis Poulenc, Arthur Honeger, Daruis Milhaud, Louis Durey and Georges Auric. Music in included within the program. Several selections of music by Tailleferre from her 1973 performance at the Holland Festival performance of her Concertino for Harp and Orchestra. - Broadcast on March 19, 1975. Note on box "RESTRICTIONS : NONE". |
Tailleferre, Germaine., Amirkhanian, Charles., Women composers., Groupe des six (Group of composers), American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Music and musicians | AZ1064 | |
| Children of Vietnam / Madeline Duckles interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson |
Madeline Duckles, Chairman of the San Francisco branch of the Committee of Responsibility, talks with Elsa Knight Thompson about the work of the committee in bringing war-injured children to the United States for treatment. |
Duckles, Madeline, 1915-2013, Vietnam War, 1961-1975, Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Children, Committee of Responsibility to Save War-Burned and War-Injured Vietnamese Children (U.S.), American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Vietnam conflict, American Women -- Health, American Women -- Parenting and children | BB1501 | |
| Women's occupational health: December 15, 1980 |
Another in a series of programs on women and occupational safety and health produced by Dr. Jeanne Stellman, executive director of the Women's Occupational Health Resource Center and Dr. Mary Sue Henifin, an associate of the Center. The topic of this program is the health of women office workers. Guests are Dr. Karen Nussbaum, former office worker and director of Working Women, the National Association of Office Workers; and Barbara Garson, author of MacBird and more recently All the Livelong Day: The Meaning and De-Meaning of Routine Work (Penguin Books, 1975). Also features a listener call-in portion. Produced by Eileen Zalisk. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Stellman, Jeanne Mager, 1947-, Henifin, Mary Sue, 1953-, Nussbaum, Karen, Garson, Barbara., Women workers., Office workers -- Health hazards., Occupational health and safety. | American Women -- Work and unions, American Women -- Health | IZ0449.12 | |
| The dilemmas of sex education : an introduction / Willard Fleming. (Episode 1 of 12) |
Willard C. Fleming, Vice Chancellor of the University of California Medical Center, San Francisco and Dean of the School of Dentistry, opens the symposium "The Uncertain Quest - The Dilemmas of Sex Education" produced by and held at the University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco. He gives logistics about the forthcoming series and briefly introduces the speakers. He mentions that it is a symposium of 20 faculty members, only five of which have a doctor of medicine degree, since this problem is generally considered to sociological. |
Sex instruction, Sex, Youth, Teenagers -- Sexuality., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Sex | BB0722.01 | |
| Current themes in women's writing : masturbation / produced by Irene Schram, Ellen Turner, Dorothy Engleman and Linda Cohen. |
This program explores the evolution of women's consciousness through poetry, prose, fiction, and non-fiction. The theme of this tape is masturbation. Produced by Irene Schram, Ellen Turner, Dorothy Engleman, and Linda Cohen of WBAI Women's Radio Workshop. Contains conversations, interviews, readings, and songs. Songs include "Conjugations of gravity" by Alex Dobkin; "Big orgasm" by Women Like Me; "The clitoris song" by Dorothy Engleman; and "Masturbation rock" by Six Women Together. Poetry by Civ Wyderberg, Ellen Turner, Anne Sexton, Alta, Marilyn Hadfield, Palomina, and Jane Cornbluth. Excerpts from novels by Margarita Caripanu, translated by N. C. Germanicus; Marilyn Coffey; Erica Jong; Susan Yankowitz; and Irene Schram. Women speaking on their experiences were Margot Adler, Dell Williams, Irene Schram, Marge Helenscheild, Julie Dobkin, Sherry Thaler, and Ellen Turner. Sensitive material. |
Cohen, Linda., Engleman, Dorothy., Turner, Ellen., Schram, Irene., Women -- Sexuality., Women writers, Women authors, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Authors and journalists, American Women -- Sex | BC1716 | |
| Interview with Jean Stein, author of Edie: An American biography |
David Rothenberg talks to Jean Stein (b. 1934), author of "Edie: An American Biography" about the life of actress/socialite Edie Sedgwick, and Stein's daughter Wendy vanden Heuvel. |
Sedgwick, Edie, Stein, Jean, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Authors and journalists, American Women -- Autobiographies and Biographies | IZ1139.01 | |
| Writer's talk / Mary Oppen, Rachel Blau Duplessis, Anita Barrows, Frances Jaffer ; produced by Norma Smith. |
A conversation with four women authors, Mary Oppen, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Anita Barrows, and Frances Jaffer, ranging from 34 to 72 years old in age. The women discuss their work, feminism, and long associations with one another. Produced (and hosted?) by Norma Smith. Program also contains readings of some of the authors' works. Outro is Sweet Honey and the Rock singing Bernice Reagon's "Every Woman". |
Oppen, Mary, 1908-1990, DuPlessis, Rachel Blau, Barrows, Anita., Jaffer, Frances., Women authors, Writer's talk / Mary Oppen, Rachel Blau Duplessis, Anita Barrows, Frances Jaffer ; produced by Norma Smith., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Authors and journalists, American Women -- Poetry | AZ0498 | |
| Lesbian sisters / Deborah Posey and Rita Mae Brown interviewed by Helene Rosenbluth |
This episode of "Lesbian Sisters" features an interview with Deborah Posey, a Black lesbian mother from Detroit and member of the Revolutionary Socialist League, who talks about the gay movement in Detroit, her family's recent harassment and forcible eviction by a homophobic landlord, and how gay liberation can only truly be achieved in a socialist society. The second half features an interview with writer Rita Mae Brown regarding the newly released edition of her book "Rubyfruit jungle," the ascendancy of the conservative right, and how people shouldn't constantly seek approval and validation from others. Ends with a calendar of local events. Music by Mary Watkins (Hiding place), and Joan Armatrading (People). Produced by Helene Rosenbluth. Program is self contained. Contains sensitive language. Outdated calendar at end. |
Brown, Rita Mae., Posey, Deborah, Lesbian mothers, Socialism, Feminists, Lesbian sisters / Deborah Posey and Rita Mae Brown ; interviewed by Helene Rosenbluth., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Work and unions, American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination | KZ1215 | |
| Socialization: the pink blanket routine (Episode 1 of 7) |
Brenda Brush, a member of the National Organization of Women and of Women's Liberation, speaks on "Socialization: the pink blanket routine" at a teach-in on the oppressions of women at San Francisco State College on December 10, 1969. Brush opens by exposing the brainwashing both women and men go through, from the moment of birth, and goes on to describe how it affects our attitudes, values, and aspirations, and how women in our society are made to apologize for the social roles they have been forced into. This is the first in a series of seven talks taken from the teach-in. |
Brush, Brenda, Sex discrimination against women, Feminism, Women -- Social conditions., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Oppression of Women teach-in, San Francisco, 1969 | American Women -- Feminism | BB2366.01 |