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| Title | Description | Keywords | Genre | PRA Archive # | StoreItem |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Women and the world in the 1980s: August 20, 1982- Audre Lorde |
Episode from August 20, 1982. Blanche Cook interviews poet, essayist and civil rights activist Audre Lorde (1934-1992). Lorde reads some selections from her new book Chosen Poems: Old and New (W.W. Norton, 1982). |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Lorde, Audre, African American women authors, African American women poets | American Women -- Authors and journalists, American Women -- Poetry | IZ1349.07 | |
| Women and the world in the 1980s: Barbara Smith and Michele Cliff (ca. 1984) |
Interview with Barbara Smith, writer, co-founder of Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press and editor of Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology (Kitchen Table, 1983) and Michelle Cliff, author of the novel Abeng (1984). Cliff and Smith read from their respective publications. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, African American women authors, Cliff, Michelle, Smith, Barbara, 1946-, Blacks -- Personal narratives. | American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination, American Women -- Authors and journalists | IZ1349.13 | |
| Women and the world in the 1980s: Cora Weiss and Annette Rubenstein |
Blanche Wiesen Cook interviews Cora Weiss, activist with Women Strike for Peace and director of the disarmament program at Riverside Church, and Annette Rubinstein, editor of Science and Society, an editor of Jewish Currents, and author of the two-volume work The Great Tradition in English Literature: From Shakespeare to Shaw (Monthly Review Press Classics, 1983). Topics discussed include the growing rise of anti-progressivism and anti-Communism. Live with listener phone calls. Two phone calls contain unscreened expletives. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Weiss, Cora, 1934-, Rubenstein, Annette T., Anti-communism. | American Women -- Activists | IZ1349.12 | |
| Women and the world in the 1980s: February 26, 1982 |
Blanche Wiesen Cook hosts. Interview with Ruth Meyers, one of the founders of Women Strike for Peace and a child psychologist and Kathy Engel, poet, co-director of the Fund for Open Information and Accountability who is active in the Anti-Klan Network. The program begins with a call-in from Theresa Funicello of the Downtown Welfare Advocacy Center. The topic is resistance to violence against women, children and Black people. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Mass media -- Social aspects., Minorities in the mass media -- Analysis., VIOLENCE, Violence -- Social aspects., Nonviolence., WELFARE, Welfare recipients -- New York (City)., Meyers, Ruth S., Engel, Kathy, Children, Racism -- Psychologial aspects., RACISM | American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination, American Women -- Parenting and children | IZ1349.03 | |
| Women and the world in the 1980s: Grenada in 1983 |
Blanche Wiesen Cook speaks with poet and novelist Audre Lorde (1934-1992) and Zala Chandler from the Coalition of Concerned Black Women on the recent US-led invasion of Grenada. Lorde reads an excerpt from Zami: A New Spelling of My Name - A Biomythography (Crossing Press, 1983, repress). |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, GRENADA, Grenada -- Invasion, 1983., Lorde, Audre | American Women -- International women | IZ1349.11 | |
| Women and the world in the 1980s: January 22, 1982 |
Blanche Cook interviews writer Adrienne Rich (1929-2012), who reads poems from her newly published book A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far (W.W. Norton, 1982). |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Rich, Adrienne, 1929-2012, Women poets | American Women -- Poetry, American Women -- Authors and journalists | IZ1349.02 | |
| Women and the world in the 1980s: July 2, 1982 |
Blanche Cook interviews Marilyn Young, professor of history at New York University and co-author of Transforming Russia and China: Revolutionary Struggle in the 20th Century (Oxford University Press, 1980), about women in China. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Young, Marilyn Blatt, Women -- China. | American Women -- International women | IZ1349.06 | |
| Women and the world in the 1980s: March 26, 1982 |
Blanche Cook interviews Cathy Porter about her book "Alexandra Kollontai: a biography," about Kollontai (1872-1952), a female Russian Communist revolutionary who fought for workers and women's rights. Music ends abruptly at red leader. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Porter, Cathy, Kollontaĭ, A. (Aleksandra), 1872-1952, Women -- Soviet Union -- History., Women -- Soviet Union -- Political activity. | American Women -- Authors and journalists, American Women -- Autobiographies and Biographies | IZ1349.04 | |
| Women and the world in the 1980s: November 20, 1982-Audre Lorde |
Blanche Wiesen Cook interviews poet, essayist and civil rights activist Audre Lorde (1934-1992) about her new book, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name - A Biomythography (Persephone, 1982), from which she reads excerpts. Lorde and Cook discuss various scenes in the book, including Lorde's relationship with her mother, her process of becoming a reader, writer and poet, and her experiences with racism as a child and as an adult. Contains listener phone calls. (This program is different from IZ1349.07) |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Lorde, Audre, African American women poets, African American women authors | American Women -- Authors and journalists, American Women -- Lesbians, American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination | IZ1349.09 | |
| Women and the world in the 1980s: November 26, 1982 |
Blanche Wiesen Cook interviews Lucy Gilbert, psychotherapist in private practice specializing in work with women who have experienced violence in their lives and Paula Webster, co-director of the Institute for the Study of Sex in Society and History, about their book Bound by Love: The Sweet Trap of Daughterhood (Beacon Press, 1982). |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Girls, Domestic violence, Gender roles, Gilbert, Lucy, 1941-, Webster, Paula, 1943- | American Women -- Violence against women, American Women -- Parenting and children | IZ1349.10 |