Browse the American Women collection
| Title | Description | Keywords | Genre | PRA Archive # | StoreItem |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hedy West / produced by Joan Medlin. |
Hedy West presents songs by and about women, beginning with two of her own, and including many traditional pieces, which are played by West on banjo. Songs featured in the program include When I die; There's anger in the land; Poor miner's farewell; Babies in the mill; A single life; Single girl; The whore's lament; Let them wear their watches fine; Cotton mill girls; Frankie Silvers; Johnny Sands; The cruel mother; Rosanna; On the rim of the world; Die gräben (The trenches); The factory girl's come-all-ye; Factory girl; The maid on the shore. The tape was recorded by the Women's Recording Group at KPFA in January 1977. This program was produced by Joan Medlin, with the assistance of Fran Tornabene and Martha Oelman. |
Medlin, Joan., Women composers., Women musicians., Folk music., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Music and musicians | AZ0109 | Hedy West / produced by Joan Medlin. (CD) |
| Helen Hooke's Band plays live on Mother's Day |
Helen Hooke's Band plays live on Mother's Day, year and venue unknown. You Dream My Dream and Magic are among the songs performed. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Hooke, Helen, Scalfi, Sindy, Women musicians. | American Women -- Music and musicians | AZ1658 | |
| Herbert Marcuse and Angela Davis at Berkeley |
Excerpt from a rally at University of California Berkeley featuring speeches by philosopher and political theorist Herbert Marcuse (1898 - 1979) and political activist and scholar Angela Davis (1944 - ). The rally was in support of Davis whose appointment to the faculty of U.C. Berkeley was challenged by the University of California Board of Regents because of her affiliation with the Communist Party. Dr. Marcuse was a Marxist philosopher and professor from University of California San Diego, and was one of Davis' mentors. |
Marcuse, Herbert, 1898-1979, University of California, Berkeley, African Americans--Civil rights--History, Communism, Davis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne), 1944-, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Activists, American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination | AZ1025 | Herbert Marcuse And Angela Davis At Berkeley (CD) |
| Hermione Gingold at the Geary Theater / interviewed by Herbert Feinstein. |
British actor Hermione Gingold (1897 - 1987) chats with Herbert Feinstein in her dressing room at the Geary Theater in San Francisco about her career in the theater. Topics range from her current role as Madame Rosepettle in Arthur Kopit's "Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad" to her admiration of Charlie Chaplin. |
Gingold, Hermione., Actresses -- Autobiography., Feinstein, Herbert., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Theater | BC1106 | Hermione Gingold at the Geary Theater / interviewed by Herbert Feinstein. (CD) |
| Hindu dancing / Ishvani Hamilton ; interviewed by Colin Edwards and Bari Rolfe |
Ishvani Hamilton discusses of the role of dance in Hinduism. She is interviewed by Colin Edwards of KPFA and dancer Bari Rolfe. |
Hamilton, Ishvani., Dancing (in religion, folk-lore, etc.)., Hindu dancing / Ishvani ; interviewed by Colin Edwards and Rolfe Bari., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Dance, American Women -- Religion, American Women -- International women | BB1054 | |
| History of the women's suffrage movement : racism and middle class bias against women / Pam Allen. |
Pam Allen focuses on racism and the middle class bias in this talk which, was the first of two presentations on the Suffrage Movement she made for the Bay Area School last January. It was recorded in an extremely crowded classroom, so there are a lot of clunks and bangs which we hope won't bother you. Ms. Allen is, among other things, author of a widely published article entitled Free Space: Women's Consciousness-Raising in Small Groups. |
Allen, Pam., History of the women's suffrage movement : racism and middle class bias against women / Pam Allen., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Women -- Suffrage -- United States. | American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination, American Women -- Feminism | BC1159 | |
| How terribly strange to be seventy / produced by Jan Legnitto. |
Old people in our society are treated like members of an alien race rather than as fellow human beings who have simply lived longer than the rest of us. This program explores how some of them feel about the youth culture, women's liberation, the generation gap, politics, medicare, sex, and death. Produced by Jan Legnitto with technical production by Bob Bergstresser. |
Aging, Seniors -- United States -- Social conditions., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Aging | BC0867 | |
| How to do your own divorce / Charles E. Sherman ; interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson. |
Attorney Charles E. Sherman, better known as Ed Sherman, author of the book "How to do your own divorce in California" (Occidental, CA: Nolo Press, 1972), talks to Elsa Knight Thompson. Sherman advises not representing yourself in a divorce case, and discusses legal fees, divorce rates, and religious versus legal interpretations of divorce law. Also broadcast on WBAI on 7/28/71. |
Thompson, Elsa Knight, Sherman, Charles Edward, 1938-, Divorce -- United States., Law -- Examinations, questions, etc., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Men's commentary and experiences | BB5504 | |
| How Virginia Bought it in California: by Nancy Stockwell |
Nancy Stockwell (1940 - 1999), Bay Area lesbian-feminist author, reads from her semi-autobiographical work How Virginia Bought It in California (unpublished). Contains sensitive language. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Lesbian authors, Unlearning to Not Speak collective., Stockwell, Nancy | American Women -- Authors and journalists, American Women -- Lesbians | AZ1134 | |
| I know it's your day off, dear, but / produced by Marsha Bartlett. |
Examination of domestic workers who manage the homes and children of other people. Intro: How does it feel to manage, maintain and otherwise be responsible for the homes and children of other people? A look at domestic workers through their own eyes and the eyes of those who place them in jobs, and of those who are helping them to organize. Produced by Marsha Bartlett. |
Working classes -- United States., Household employees, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Work and unions | BC0874 |