Browse the American Women collection
| Title | Description | Keywords | Genre | PRA Archive # |
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| Mary Breasted / interviewed by Danice Bordett. (Episode 1 of 6) |
Mary Breasted, author of Oh! Sex Education! (New York: Praeger, 1970) and Village Voice reporter, discusses her book, her research on prisons, and women in the press. |
Breasted, Mary., Sexual ethics, Education -- Aims and objectives., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Authors and journalists, American Women -- Sex | BC0209.01 | |
| 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 | |
| Six women playwrights / produced by Lin Harris |
Six women playwrights, Corinne Jacker, Myrna Lamb, Ruth Wolff, Tina Howe, Alice Childress, and Honor Moore, read live at the Manhattan Theater Club on May 8, 1977. The evening's program is introduced by Janet Sternberg, producer of the poetry series at the Manhattan Theater Club. Honor Moore, editor of "The New Women’s Theatre: Ten Plays by Contemporary American Women," which includes all of these playwrights, introduces each reader. Produced by Lin Harris. |
Jacker, Corinne., Childress, Alice., Howe, Tina., Moore, Honor., Lamb, Myrna, Wolff, Ruth., Dramatists., Radio programs -- Fiction., Women authors, Six women playwrights / produced by Lin Harris., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Theater | IZ0046 | |
| Second Birth: Anais Nin At College Of Marin, California, 1973 |
Anais Nin [1903-1977] speech to students at College of Marin, California, 1973. She discusses the necessity of a second birth--the search for inner strength and the initiation of indidvidual growth. She believes the only way we as people can face the despairs and horrors of history is to conquer our own prejudices, become more sensitive and develop empathy for others. Audience questions are repeated by program announcer. Recorded 1973. |
Nin, Anaïs, 1903-1977, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Women authors | American Women -- Authors and journalists | PZ0492 | |
| Conversation with Ella Leffland / interviewed by Eleanor Sully |
Eleanor Sully talks with Ella Leffland (born November 25, 1931), author of a recently published first novel, "Mrs. Munck." Woman author discusses her life and writing and reads the prologue to the book. Mrs. Munck (1970) was made into a film adapted, directed, and starring Diane Ladd in 1995. |
Leffland, Ella., Women authors, Feminism, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Authors and journalists, American Women -- Feminism | BB2877 | |
| Erotic art by women / produced by Judith Vivell. |
Hannah Wilke, sculptor; Ann Sharp, collagist; Irene Stern, photographer; Judith Bernstein, artist (in paper and charcoal); and Louise Bougeois, sculptor, discuss women's erotic art and how they define "erotic art". Produced and hosted by Judith Vivell. |
Wilke, Hannah., Sharp, Ann., Bourgeois, Louise, 1911-2010, Bernstein, Judith., Women artists, Women in art., Stern, Irene, 1911-2005, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Art and artists | BC2255 | |
| Annette Rubenstein talks to Blanch Cook about her book on Crystal Eastman |
Annette Rubinstein, editor of Science and Society, literary historian and critic, and veteran radical political activist, speaks with Blanche Cook, Associate professor at John Jay College and author of a recent book on the life and writings of Crystal Eastman, a socialist and feminist active during the early part of the twentieth century. Note "Use Bread and Roses cart". |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Eastman, Crystal, 1881-1928, Cook, Blanche Wiesen. | American Women -- Women's history, American Women -- Activists | IZ1408 | |
| The darker face of God |
The Darker Face of God features the music of French composer Marie-Juliette Olga "Lili" Boulanger (1893 - 1918) and the mystical prose of poet Marie Noel (1893-1967). Also heard on the program is a short work by Olivier Messiaen. The words of Marie Noel are read by Marian Seldes. Produced by Bruce Kenyon. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Radio art, Boulanger, Lili, 1893-1918, Noël, Marie, 1883-1967, Women composers., Women poets, Messiaen, Olivier, 1908-1992 | American Women -- Radio, American Women -- Poetry, American Women -- Music and musicians | IZ1476 | |
| Grow old with 17 million others / Clark Tibbitts interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson |
Dr. Clark Tibbitts, Deputy director of the Special Staff on Aging, a staff agency to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, discusses the social conditions of Americans over 65 with Elsa Knight Thompson. The Special Staff on Aging is a part of the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. RECORDED: 27 Sept. 1962. BROADCAST: KPFA Nov. 13, 1962 and WBAI, 29 Jan. 1975. |
Seniors -- United States -- Social conditions., Seniors -- Health and welfare., Tibbitts, Clark, 1903-1985, United States. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Health, American Women -- Aging | BB0333 | |
| Women's legal clinic: July 7, 1980 |
Judy Levin and Betty Levinson review important legal cases of the 1970s. Begins with discussion of a recent Supreme Court case concerning abortion, McRae v. Harris, which held that states participating in Medicaid were not required to provide funding for abortions, then reviews precedents of 1970s. Features a listener call-in portion. Edited and approved for broadcast by Eileen Zalisk. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Women's rights, Sex discrimination against women -- Law and legislation, Reproductive rights, Abortion -- Law and legislation. | American Women -- Reproductive rights, American Women -- Work and unions | IZ0449.10 |