Browse the American Women collection
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Description | Keywords | Genre | PRA Archive # | StoreItem |
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| Ann Lauterbach / produced by Susan Howe. |
Poet Ann Lauterbach reads her work. Ann Lauterbach's work has appeared in numerous magazines, among them The Little Magazine, The Poetry Review, ZZZ, The Partisan Review, Heresies, and Roof 2. Her books of poems include Vertical Horizontal, Book One, and her most recent manuscript, Chalk. Lauterbach reads are The relinquished, Words to assuage, The day after, Gramercy Park evening, and others. Produced by Susan Howe, with technical direction by Dave Marx at WBAI in NYC. Funded by a grant from the National Endowment of the Arts. |
Howe, Susan., Lauterbach, Ann, 1942-, Poetry, Modern., Women poets, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Poetry | IZ0087 | |
| Anna Quindlen, live at Barnard College |
Anna Quindlen, sydicated columnist at the New York Times, speaks about her education and background. Her column focuses on injustice and inequality of women. She describes the recent upward movement of women in law, the press, business, etc. She speaks specifically of sharing the wealth and the importance of continuing the women's movement. Recorded ca. 1993. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Quindlen, Anna, Women journalists., Feminists | American Women -- Authors and journalists | IZ0443 | |
| Anne Forer reads her work |
Anne Forer reads from her work: an autobiographical piece (title not given on recording), "I Guess Writing Is a Little Like Life," "The Adventure of the French Bathroom," and "The Psychic and the Psychoanalyst." Forer lived in the East Village and was heavily involved in feminist consciousness-raising in the 1970s. Also features a recording of Laura Lieben[sp?] performing "Daddy's Leaving Me." Contains sensitive language. This program made possible by the CAPS Community Program. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Forer, Anne U., Women authors | American Women -- Authors and journalists | IZ1430.01 | |
| Anne Sexton / produced by Ruth Hirschman. |
A tribute to the life and work of the poet Anne Sexton (1928 - 1974). Ruth Hirschman reads poet Denise Levertov's tribute to Sexton, "Light Up the Cave," written shortly after Sexton's death by suicide. Also features a recording of Anne Sexton reading her poems at the YMHA in New York City. The recording of Sexton reading at the YMHA is identical to BB3804.01. |
Biography, Poetry -- Women authors., Anne Sexton / produced by Ruth Hirschman., Sexton, Anne, 1928-1974, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Poetry, American Women -- Autobiographies and Biographies | BC2207 | Anne Sexton (CD) |
| Anne Sexton reads at the Poetry Center |
Anne Sexton reads some of her work before an audience at the Poetry Center of the 92nd St. YM-YWHA in New York City in 1965. Some of the poems read are: Her kind -- I remember -- In the deep museum -- The truth the dead know -- Walking in Paris -- For the year of the insane -- The double image. Not self-contained. Tape ends with nearly a minute of applause. |
Sexton, Anne, 1928-1974, Poetry., Women poets, Poetry reading, Poetry Center of the 92nd Street YM-YWHA (New York, N.Y.), American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Poetry | BB3804.01 | |
| Annette Hayn reads her poems. |
Poet Annette Hayn, a winner of the New School's 1969 Bernice Kavinoky Isaacson Award, reads her poems and a selection of her play, a modern fairy-tale called Hansel and Gretel set in Greenwich Village. She is assisted by two members of the Queens Village Players Paula Pluska[sp?] and Al Oscar[sp?], and her daughter Cathy. Program was recorded at WBAI[?] and broadcast there on 12-5-69. |
Poetry -- Women authors., Hayn, Annette, 1922-2004, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Poetry | BC0416 | |
| 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 | |
| Annie Christmas / narrated by William Conrad. |
William Conrad narrates the story of a legendary African-American woman from Louisiana folklore. Originally broadcast on CBS on October 19, 1956. Produced by Dave Krebs. |
Folklore -- United States, Legends, Radio programs -- 1957, Conrad, William, 1920-1994, Christmas, Annie, African Americans -- Folklore, African Americans -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Folklore, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Radio | KZ0606 | |
| Aphra speaks - December 8, 1972 |
Aphra Speaks was a series on WBAI wherein the editors of Aphra: The Feminist Literary Magazine discuss authors and literature. On the previous episode, broadcast in November 1972, the Aphra editors discussed Kate Chopin's The Awakening and Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth, asking why feminists have been attracted to these novels. In this program, they ask the same question about two 19th century novels: Ivan Goncharov's Oblomov and George Eliot's Middlemarch. The editors in this program are Elizabeth Fisher, Ellen Harold, Margaret Lamb, and Gerry Sachs. Produced by Ann Snitow. |
Aphra: The Feminist Literary Magazine, Goncharov, Ivan Aleksandrovich, 1812-1891, Eliot, George, 1819-1880, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Authors and journalists | IZ1441 | |
| April 22nd Coalition press conference |
This is a recording of a press conference during which various community members from the Bay Area give statements opposing the Vietnam War and specifically the bombing of Hanoi on April 16, 1972, and then give information about the demonstration being held the next day, April 22, 1972, at Kezar Stadium in San Francisco. Larry Bensky is heard asking questions at start and finish of tape. Many speakers reference the National Liberation Front's Seven Point Peace Proposal. Includes statements from the East Bay Women for Peace regarding police brutality at a peaceful demonstration on April 17, 1972 at the Federal Building in San Francisco; Hank Reichman; Delia Alvarez, sister of the longest-held POW in Vietnam; Ted Reid of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War; Angela Davis; questions from the press. About 30 minutes into the recording is a pre-recorded statement Angela Davis made against the Vietnam War, then it returns to the press conference coverage, where questions are asked of Vietnamese students on the panel. Then the press ask questions of Reverend Ralph Abernathy about his involvement with the anti-war movement and his involvement with the Los Angeles peace rally also being held on April 22, 1972. Previously cataloged as "Angela Davis press conference." |
Protests, demonstrations, vigils, etc. -- California., Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements, Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990, Chicano movement, Hispanic Americans--Civil rights., Reichman, Henry, 1947-, Mặt trận dân tộc giải phóng miền nam Việt Nam., South Viet Nam National Front for Liberation, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Davis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne), 1944-, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Vietnam conflict, American Women -- Activists | BC1055 | Angela Davis press conference. (CD) |