Browse the American Women collection
| Title | Description | Keywords | Genre | PRA Archive # |
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| Five sisters : women against the Tsar / produced by Marcia Danab, Gail Pellett and Helene Schiff. |
Dramatic readings from the memoirs of five anti-Tsarist anarchist women from the populist revolutionary movement of 1870's and 1880's in TSarist Russia. Includes interviews with Barbara Engel and Clifford Rosenthal, translators and editors of the book "Five sisters: women against the Tsar" (Alfred A. Knopf, 1975). The "five sisters" are Vera Figner, Vera Zasulich, Olga Lyubatovich, Yelizaveta Kovalskaya, and Praskovya Ivanovskaya. The readers are Marianne Leone, Marcia Bloomberg, Dianne DeLorean, Dorothy Lancaster and Beth Friend. Special thanks to Beth Avrutin. Produced by Marcia Danab, Gail Pellett and Helene Schiff. Readers recorded by Adrienne Piscitello. Technical production by David Rapkin. |
Schiff, Helene., Engel, Barbara., Rosenthal, Clifford., Danab, Marcia Mint., Pellett, Gail., Women -- Soviet Union -- Political activity., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Women's history, American Women -- International women | BC3054 | |
| Interview with director John Badham / by Judith M. Kass |
Judith M. Kass interviews John Badham, director of Dracula and Saturday Night Fever. Badham discusses the popularity of vampire movies, the production of Dracula, and how his involvement with Saturday Night Fever came about. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Badham, John, 1939-, Film directors and producers. | American Women -- Film and television | IZ0423.05 | |
| East Germany and Europe / Helga Lohr-Bailey interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson |
Helga Lohr-Bailey, who lived for ten years in East Germany, tells Elsa Knight Thompson about life there and the complex network of relationships between the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) and the rest of Europe as well as the "Big Powers." RECORDED: 4 Feb. 1970. BROADCAST: KPFA, 6 April 1970. Originally broadcast on KPFA's open hour. |
Lohr Bailey, Helga, Germany, East -- Politics and government., World politics -- 1945-1989, KPFA open hour, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- International women | BB2385 | |
| Judith Vivell moderates panel with four women art critics. |
Judith Vivell moderates a panel of four women art critics including Ellen Lubell, contributing editor to Arts Magazine; Phyllis Derfner, advisory editor to Arts International, writer for Art in America, and teacher at William Patterson; Corrine Robins, writer for Art Spectrum, Arts Magazine, and the New york Book Review section; and April Kingsly, writer for Art in American, Arts Magazine, and teacher at the School of Visual Arts. The panel discusses museums, the Whitney Annual, galleries, and the question of the feminine aesthetic. Produced by Judith Vivelle, with engineering by Gary Sklar. |
Arts -- New York City., Women in art., Women artists, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Lubell, Ellen, Derfner, Phyllis, Robins, Corrine, Kingsly, April, Vivell, Judith. | American Women -- Art and artists | BC2307 | |
| Two stories from Little Disturbances of Man / written and read by Grace Paley. |
Author Grace Paley (1922-2007) reads two selections from her book "The Little Disturbances of Man: Stories of Men and Women at Love" (1959); 1. Good-bye and good luck (26 min.) 2. The Used boy raisers (29 min.). No intro nor production credits. |
Radio programs -- Fiction., Paley, Grace., Women authors, Jews -- Social life and customs., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Authors and journalists | BB3336 | |
| First Wednesday: November 4, 1981 |
First Wednesday, monthly wrap-up of news, views and interviews of interest to the gay male community, brought to you by the First Wednesday News Team of WBAI's Gay Men's Department. November 4, 1981 episode. Program contains a presentation by Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Rights (CLGR) spokesperson Betty Santoro (1938-2005) discussing plans for a second March on Washington for Gay and Lesbian Rights and information about the hearings for Intro 1017-the Gay Rights Bill. Contains a report on the All People's Conference held the week of October 16, 1981, and other events and news items that relate to the gay community. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Gays -- New York (N.Y.)., Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Rights, GAY RIGHTS, Gay rights. | American Women -- Lesbians | IZ1097 | |
| Focus on Women Composers Overview, May 8, 1976 (Episode 1) |
Presentation of women composers of all musical periods. Presented by Renee Roatcap, April McMahon, Elizabeth Pizer, Susan Sailow, and Fleur Helsingor. Contents: 1. continuity; 2. O Death, Rock Me Asleep, Anne Boleyn; 3. continuity; 4. Impromptu, Clara Wieck-Schumann; 5. continuity; 6. Quatuor, Germaine Tailleferre; 7. continuity; 8. Vieille Prière Bouddhique, Lili Boulanger; 9. continuity; 10. Hermit Thrush at Eve, Mrs. HHA Beach; 11. Fire-Flies, Mrs. HHA Beach; 12. continuity; 13. Space is a Diamond, Lucia Dlugoszewski; 14. continuity. Announcements of upcoming women composer presentations. All musical selections come from recordings. Engineer is Joan Medlin. |
Women composers., Women musicians., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Anne Boleyn, Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England, 1507-1536, Schumann, Clara, 1819-1896, Tailleferre, Germaine., Boulanger, Lili, 1893-1918, Beach, H. H. A., Mrs., 1867-1944, Dlugoszewski, Lucia, 1931-2000 | American Women -- Music and musicians | AZ1132.01 | |
| Dorothy Healey on Rosa Luxemburg |
Activist Dorothy Healey (1914-2006) offers an exploration of the revolutionary activities and philosophy of Rosa Luxemburg, the extraordinary German Jewish Communist leader. |
Communists -- Biography., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Healey, Dorothy, 1914-2006, Luxemburg, Rosa, 1871-1919 | American Women -- International women, American Women -- Politicians and politics | BC0872 | |
| Interview With Ruby Rohrlich-Leavitt, feminist anthropologist |
Interview with feminist anthropologist and Manhattan Community College Associate Professor, Ruby Rohrlich-Leavitt . She discusses her newly edited book, Women Cross Culturally: Change and Challenge, which is an anthology of papers written for the session on women's status and women's movements at the 9th International Anthropological Congress in Chicago, IL held in 1973. Dates of the recording are estimated to be the year the book was published (1976). |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Rohrlich, Ruby, Feminists, Anthropology., ANTHROPOLOGY, Feminist anthropology | American Women -- Anthropology and societal role, American Women -- International women | IZ0527 | |
| Rape: Susan Brownmiller, Diana Russell and Martha Shelley (Part 1 only) |
Susan Brownmiller, author of Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape, and Diana Russell, author of The Politics of Rape: The Victim's Perspective, are interviewed by Martha Shelley, member of the Feminist Press Collective, author of Crossing the DMV, and long-standing member of the Inez Garcia Defense Group. In this portion of the program, Brownmiller and Russell respond to Angela Davis' criticisms of their books on her KPFA radio program Angela Speaks! in a program discussing racism and the anti-rape movement, claiming that both women's books wittingly and unwittingly reproduce racist ideology. Janet Potter moderates. Likely broadcast circa June 1977. Archives does not have Part 2 of this program. Formerly cataloged as AZ1702A. Archives copy of this recording contains several drop-outs that negatively affect audio quality. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Brownmiller, Susan, Russell, Diana E. H., Shelley, Martha, Davis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne), 1944-, Rape. | American Women -- Violence against women | AZ1674.04 |