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Title | Description | Keywords | Genre | PRA Archive # | StoreItem |
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Lesbian sisters: August 6, 1974 |
This episode of the series Lesbian sisters includes 1.--Conversation between women artists: writer Alice Bloch, painter Joy Franklin, filmmaker Jan Oxenberg, poet [L.J.]? Tessier, weaver and sculptor Jackie Weller. 2.--Evan Paxton reads a short story. Features songs by Judy Collins, Cris Williamson, Meg Christian and Laura Nyro. Produced by Evan Paxton. Women artists segment engineered by Margot McFedries, remainder of program engineered by Wendy Sisson. |
Oxenberg, Jan, Women artists, Lesbians -- Personal narratives, Lesbians -- Songs and music, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Tessier, Linda J. (Linda Jo), Lesbian artists | American Women -- Lesbians, American Women -- Art and artists | BC2380 | |
Street haunting: a London adventure by Virginia Woolf; read by Vivian Schaeffer |
Reading of Virginia Woolf's short story "Street Haunting: A London Adventure." Read by Vivian Schaeffer. No intro or outro. Tape ends "from all the treasures of the city, a lead pencil." |
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941., Radio programs -- Fiction., Literary readings (Radio programs), American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Authors and journalists | BB0996 | |
Research with the poor (Episode 3 of 6) |
Documentary on New York City hospitals, evaluating the affiliation program between municipal and voluntary hospitals and abuses in the system. Episode 3: Research with the poor. About performing dangerous research in hospitals on poor people without family. Voices heard on this program include New York state Senator Seymour Thaler; New York Times health reporter Martin Tolchin; intern Mike Smith; medical auditor Dr. Jerry Morehead; Dr. Donald Dixon, associate commissioner of the New York state health department; Dr. Bernard Bukoff, health services administrator; state investigation commissioner Myles Lane; Jack Haldeman, head of the Health and Hospital Planning Council; Dr. George Bayer, a member of the New York City board of hospitals; former health services administrator Dr. Howard Brown; and others. |
Health facilities -- New York (City)., Hospitals -- New York (State) -- New York, Medical care -- Economic aspects., Medicine -- Research -- Economic aspects, Voluntary hospitals, Brown, Howard, 1924-1975, Haldeman, Jack C., 1912-1985, Lane, Myles J., 1903-1987, Morehead, Mildred, 1919-2006, Tolchin, Martin, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Health | BB3817.03 | |
Profiles of the vanishing father / Michael Lerner (Episode 6 of 15) |
Part 6 of KPFA's presentation of the University of California's Medical Center Conference "The Challenge to Women: the Biological Avalanche" held in San Francisco this year. This is Part 4 of "The Enduring and Ephemeral in Women's Life." In this recording, Max Lerner, Ph.D.(1902-1992), Max Richter Professor of American Civilization, College of Arts and Sciences, Brandeis University (Waltham, MA) presents "Profiles of the Vanishing Father" on the changing role of men in the household. Lerner says at the beginning that he has layrngitis, and his vocal quality diminishes as his talk progresses. Notes on label: "History: about father/son relation - at core of society; about family - and different family structures. Will become a new leisure society with automation. Father to come back into the family."
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Lerner, Max, 1902-1992, The challenge to women : the biological avalanche, Father of a family, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Father and child | American Women -- Parenting and children, American Women -- Reproductive rights | BB0521.06 | |
Nawal El Saadawi, Egyptian feminist |
An interview with Egyptian feminist Dr. Nawal El Saadawi, conducted by Ines Rieder at the United Nations Conference on Women, held in Copenhagen in July of 1980. Dr. Saadawi discusses the woman's body under colonialism and patriarchy and about women in the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). Dr. Saadawi is well known in the Middle East as one of the few Arab women who, for the last twenty years, has written extensively about the problems of Arab women. She has written more than 20 books, some of them selling millions of copies. Her latest book, "The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World," was published in London by CEO Press and is available in the U.S. through the Monthly Review Press. Portions of this interview were published in the October issue of Newsfront International. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, El Saadawi, Nawal., Rieder, Ines., Feminism--Egypt., Women--Egypt--Social conditions. | American Women -- International women, American Women -- Feminism | AZ0631.05 | |
Fat is a feminist issue / Carol Munter and Susie Orbach ; interviewed by Ann Snitow. |
WBAI's Ann Snitow discusses body image, overweight and feminist issues with Carol Munter and Susie Orbach, two women who run groups for women with weight problems. |
Orbach, Susie, 1946-, Munter, Carol., Feminism, Overeating., Body image., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Beauty and body image | BC1586 | |
The Velvet Sledgehammer: October 12, 1983 |
Production reel from the October 12, 1983 episode of The Velvet Sledgehammer, hosted and produced by Eileen Zalisk. The first segment is "Computers and office work," tapes edited and selected from the 10th annual The Scholar and the Feminist Conference held Saturday, April 3rd, 1983 at Barnard College, and focusing on the question of technology. Speakers include Mary Murphy, Marcia Love, and Judy Gregory. The second and final segment is Judy Pasternak's review of Rita Mae Brown's newest book "Sudden Death." |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Office workers -- Personal narratives., Women's studies, Women workers., Computers -- Technological innovations., Technology -- Social aspects., Brown, Rita Mae., Technology and women. | American Women -- Work and unions, American Women -- Authors and journalists | IZ1090 | |
Gertrude Stein: a feminist look at the woman and the author / produced by Linda Schiffman |
A historical and critical documentary about writer Gertrude Stein (1874-1946). Different voices are used to recreate people in Stein's life, as well as Stein herself (played by Eleanor Sully, former head of Drama and Literature Department at KPFA). Others at KPFA in the cast include: Ellen Dubrowin (subscription registrar); Kathy McAnally (Public Affairs Dept.); Warren Van Orden (Business Manager); Alan Snitow (News Director); Charles Amirkhanian (Music Director). Criticism of Stein is based on her traditional relationship with Alice B. Toklas and her middle-class mores. Also included in the program is the real Gertrude Stein reading her own word poems (including "If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso," "An Early Portrait of Henri Matisse", "A Valentine to Sherwood Anderson") and the real Alice B. Toklas reading her recipe for hashish brownies, as well as a little history. Produced by Linda Schiffman. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946, Toklas, Alice B., Literature, Experimental., Authors -- Biography. | American Women -- Autobiographies and Biographies, American Women -- Authors and journalists | AZ1109 | |
Six experiences of unwanted pregnancy |
This program was originally produced in October 1971 for "Unlearning to not speak" by Lois Hansen of the KPFA Women. It begins with a short play by Myrna Lamb, "What have you done for me lately?" about a man's pregnancy, induced by a female doctor who had been forced to bear that man's child 19 years earlier because she couldn't get an abortion. The program continues with Hansen moderating a panel discussion with three Bay Area women, "Shirley," "Sheila" and "Judy," telling of their experiences of unwanted pregnancy. The play, which can be heard in its entirety in BC0442, is not featured on this recording. This recording begins with a short description of the play followed by the roundtable discussion. |
Lamb, Myrna, Pregnancy, Unwanted., Women -- Personal narratives., Radio plays., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Unlearning to Not Speak collective. | American Women -- Reproductive rights, American Women -- Theater | BC0588 | |
Viviane with the pixie face |
Story told by WBAI mail programer (who is not identified by name) about growing up in a Jewish neighborhood in Queens. He describes the response of the Jewish community to the Jewish girls who would date African American men. Viviane with the pixie face and sweet sad smile was his favorite. He believed Viviane was rebelling against her parents. He met her again later in life and learned she had become a lesbian. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Interracial dating | American Women -- Men's commentary and experiences | IZ0457 |