Browse the American Women collection
| Title | Description | Keywords | Genre |
PRA Archive # |
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| Author Alice Walker reads the short story, Roselily |
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker (1944 - ) reads her short story "Roselily" (written ca. 1967). Walker then talks with KPFA's Ginny Z. Berson about the story, how she wrote it about her first marriage to a civil rights attorney and how it questions the dominance of Christianity over all religions in the US. The story was dropped from a 10th grade English test by California state educators based on complaints from Christian conservatives in early 1994. The Traditional Values Coalition applied pressure based on what they read as "anti-religious" elements in the story. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Walker, Alice, 1944-, African American women authors, Censorship -- United States., Short stories. | American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination, American Women -- Authors and journalists | AZ1010 | Author Alice Walker, Reads The Short Story, Roselilly (CD) |
| Herbert Marcuse and Angela Davis at Berkeley |
Excerpt from a rally at University of California Berkeley featuring speeches by philosopher and political theorist Herbert Marcuse (1898 - 1979) and political activist and scholar Angela Davis (1944 - ). The rally was in support of Davis whose appointment to the faculty of U.C. Berkeley was challenged by the University of California Board of Regents because of her affiliation with the Communist Party. Dr. Marcuse was a Marxist philosopher and professor from University of California San Diego, and was one of Davis' mentors. |
Marcuse, Herbert, 1898-1979, University of California, Berkeley, African Americans--Civil rights--History, Communism, Davis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne), 1944-, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Activists, American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination | AZ1025 | Herbert Marcuse And Angela Davis At Berkeley (CD) |
| Ode To Gravity| The Music Of Germaine Tailleferre |
Ode To Gravity| The Music Of Germaine Tailleferre| Produced by KPFK and Amirkhanian| Recorded on December 29, 1973. - CONTENT: Charles Amirkhanian talks with one of the greatest women composers, Germaine Tailleferre at her home in Paris. Tailleferre was one of the members of the radical group of composers known as Les Six. Others in the group were Francis Poulenc, Arthur Honeger, Daruis Milhaud, Louis Durey and Georges Auric. Music in included within the program. Several selections of music by Tailleferre from her 1973 performance at the Holland Festival performance of her Concertino for Harp and Orchestra. - Broadcast on March 19, 1975. Note on box "RESTRICTIONS : NONE". |
Tailleferre, Germaine., Amirkhanian, Charles., Women composers., Groupe des six (Group of composers), American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Music and musicians | AZ1064 | |
| Malvina Reynolds and Bill Schechner |
Malvina Reynolds, folksinger, plays her songs live in studio for Bill Schechner and audience. Songs included on this reel: The Albatross; Turn Around; Little Boxes; The New Restaurant; Tokyo Farewell (aka Goodbye Joe). Reynolds talks to Schechner between songs about her songs, her hits, and how to order them. No dates on tape box, taken from program found in WBAI Folio. Archives copy contains only a portion of the entire recording. Formerly cataloged as IZ0835. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Reynolds, Malvina., Schechner, Bill., Women singers, Women musicians. | American Women -- Music and musicians | AZ1071 | |
| Feminist Perspectives on Pornography Conference (1978): Kathleen Barry and Susan Griffin |
Lilia Medina opens the first session of the Feminist Perspectives on Pornography Conference, held November 17-19, 1978 at Galileo High School in San Francisco, CA. The conference was organized by Women Against Violence in Pornography and Media. Medina introduces Kathleen "Kathy" Barry who speaks on "Beyond pornography: creating a vision." Next Judith Reisman is introduced to give a slide presentation, but the presentation was not recorded. Last, poet Susan Griffin is introduced and gives a reading. Previously cataloged as IZ1492E and IZ1492F. Same conference as AZ1145. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Barry, Kathleen., Griffin, Susan., Women poets, Women Against Violence in Pornography & Media (U.S.), Women authors, Pornography -- Analysis., Pornography. | American Women -- Violence against women, American Women -- Sex, American Women -- Poetry | AZ1072 | |
| And not to yield: Ella Winter interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson |
Ella Winter, author, foreign correspondent, world traveler, interviewed in studio by Elsa Knight Thompson concerning her life, views on society, government, communications. Ella was born in Australia, grew up in England, attended London School of Economics, and was married to two famous husbands: Lincoln Steffens and Donald Ogden Stewart. Her travels and observations about the Soviet Union and China are given here and in her autobiography, "And Not to Yield." Winter tells Thompson that "the pristine purity of revolutions" soon withers away, and the state with its bureaucratic complex necessary to a planned economy, contrary to Marxist dogma, is reinforced. Humans, with the keen edge of starvation withdrawn and enjoying an unaccustomed quantity of consumer goods and gadgets, revert to an anti-social state of mind which is a problem common to the USA as well as the socialist countries. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Winter, Ella, 1898-1980, Thompson, Elsa Knight, Women authors, Socialism -- Analysis. | American Women -- Authors and journalists | AZ1083 | |
| Wanda Coleman interviewed by Opal Palmer Adisa |
Poet Opal Palmer Adisa interviews writer/poet Wanda Coleman, author of Mad Dog, Black Lady, African Sleeping Sickness and Hand Dance, among other books. Coleman discusses when she found her poetic voice, talks about the function of poetry, her personal encounters with anti-Black discrimination, and about the reluctance of white liberals to discuss issues that affect the Black community. She also talks about the plight of the African American community in South Central Los Angeles. The poems Coleman reads are A civilized plague, David Polion, Notes of a cultural terrorist and Jazz wazz. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Coleman, Wanda., Adisa, Opal Palmer, 1954-, African American women poets, California--Poetry | American Women -- Poetry, American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination | AZ1084 | |
| Marge Piercy: reading and thoughts |
Marge Piercy, poet and novelist, reads her poems and talks about poetry. She announces she has four books of poetry: Breaking Camp, Hard Loving, To Be of Use, and Living in the Open (at press now); and three novels: Going Down Fast (about urban renewal in Chicago), Dance Eagle to Sleep (60s youth movement) and Small Changes (10 years in life of two women friends). Reads and comments on her poems and on poetry. Poems read include "A Work of Artifice," "To Be of Use," "Athena and the Front Lines," "High Frequency," "The Friend," "Simple Song," "Gracious Goodness," "Burying blues for Janis," and "The Provocation of the Dream." Likely a copy of "Reading and Thoughts" by Marge Piercy, recorded and distributed by Everett/Edwards Inc. (Deland, FL) as part of their "Women's Studies Series" series of recordings. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Piercy, Marge., Women poets, Women writers | American Women -- Poetry, American Women -- Authors and journalists | AZ1095 | |
| Jane Fonda: Women in Vietnam |
Part 1 of 3: Live recording of Jane Fonda speaking in San Francisco (UCSF?) week of April 10, 1973 on her recent trip to Hanoi (for several weeks in July 1972) and the position of women in North Vietnam. She witnessed bombing of Hanoi by American planes and witnessed a play based on Arthur Miller's play, "All My Sons" (with the moral point that there is no excuse for silence on moral issues of war). She seems to be showing slides or some visuals while speaking. Part 2 of 3: Speech by Fonda (a different one?). At 19:44 Fonda speaks of military stereotypes of women and atrocities against women in Vietnam war. She is reading a poem as the reel ends. Part 3 of 3: Questions and answers session following Fonda's speech. Questions are off mike and mostly not heard, only her replies. Sound drops out for 5 minutes (27:00 - 32:20). Parts 1 and Parts 2 and 3 might be unrelated to each other, no continuity between parts. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Fonda, Jane, 1937-, Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements | American Women -- Film and television, American Women -- Vietnam conflict | AZ1099 | |
| Nuclear disarmament: moving forward / Charlene Spretnak, Willis Harman and Bill Wahpepah |
An excerpt from the "Nuclear Disarmament: Moving Forward" conference sponsored by Meeting of the Ways, held in San Francisco, September 23-25, 1983. Charlene Spretnak (1946 - ), author and ecofeminist, speaks about the founding ideas of the Green Party in Germany and how it influenced the nascent American Green Party. Willis Harman (1918 - 1997), social theorist and futurist, speaks about the need to rethink ideas of Western industrialism. Bill Wahpepah (1937 - 1987), American Indian activist (Kickapoo and Sauk Fox), speaks about the need to include struggling minorities in the peace movement. Moderator of the panel is not introduced. Tape ends before Wahpepah's speech concludes. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Greens/Green Party USA, Peace movement. | American Women -- Politicians and politics, American Women -- Peace and Antinuclear activism | AZ1105 |