Browse the American Women collection
| Title | Description | Keywords | Genre | PRA Archive # | StoreItem |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I was first locked up at fourteen / produced by Frances Emley. |
A documentary on the physical and emotional reality of incarceration, profiling a young woman whose father had her locked up at the age of fourteen for "incorrigibility." The "incorrigibility" stemmed from her work with young Chicano migrant families, of which her father disapproved. Since his beatings couldn't set her straight, the state tried solitary confinement and Thorazine on and off for a period of four years. She describes how she finally submitted to the physical power of the institution guards and the dulling drugs which allowed her not to feel. Produced by the Women's Prison Collective. The program is dedicated to a California Death Row inmate who was first incarcerated at the age of eleven. |
Prisons., Juvenile corrections., Incorrigibles (Juvenile delinquency)., Women prisoners., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Violence against women | AZ0031 | I was first locked up at fourteen / produced by Frances Emley. (CD) |
| Impotence and frigidity : is there a cure? / Earle Marsh and Alex Finkle. |
A rebroadcast of the Medical Radio Conference which was broadcast live on KPFA on March 5, 1968 from the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco (UCMCSF) and re-aired due to popular demand. The topic is sexual dysfunction as it affects men and women. The speakers are Dr. Earle M. Marsh, assistant clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology, UCMCSF, and chief department of gynecology, Franklin Hospital, SF; and Dr. Alex L. Finkle, associate clinical professor of urology and chief of urologic research, UCMCSF. Moderator is Dr. L. S. Kimbrough. |
Marsh, Earle M., Sex counseling and therapy, Finkle, Alex, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Infertility, Male, Infertility, Female | American Women -- Health, American Women -- Men's commentary and experiences | BB4452 | |
| In Celebration of Black Womanhood / Aileen Hernandez |
Aileen Hernandez, former President of the National Organization for Women, and founder of the Black Women Organized for Action, gives a brilliant presentation of the problems, triumphs, and realities of life for Black women in the USA. Opens with Joyce Carol Thomas reading "A Poem for Black Women." Hernandez is introduced by Margaret Sloan. Venue of speech unknown. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Hernandez, Aileen C., African American women poets, Thomas, Joyce Carol., Sloan-Hunter, Margaret, 1947-, African American women civil rights workers | American Women -- Activists, American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination | AZ1669 | |
| Income trend in the Soviet Union ; Women in the Soviet Union / William Mandel |
Soviet Press and Periodicals. Regular weekly show on KPFA, hosted by top Soviet Analyst William Mandel. Position of women in medical science is highlighted. Contains phone-ins. Mandel states it is his 20th annual program for International Woman's Day. Program begins with an answer to the last week's question regarding the Soviet income spread. (From label) Excellent show. Really informative and eye-opening for people traditionally filled with antipathy towards the U.S.S.R. Handwritten note: Opens with condemnation of KPFA's public affairs and traffic departments. |
Women -- Soviet Union., Income distribution -- Soviet Union., Radio call-in shows, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- International women | AZ0038 | Income trend in the Soviet Union ; Women in the Soviet Union / William Mandel |
| Informed consent / produced by Amanda Spake |
Amanda Spake from "Mother Jones" talks to Howard Rosenberg about his article "Informed Consent" about a child receiving radiation treatment. Between 1960 and 1975, 194 cancer patients were treated with high level whole body radiation at the Atomic Energy Commission's Oakridge, Tennessee laboratory. Rosenberg describes what he learned about that research: a description of the facilities, what was really being tested for, how he obtained the information, how effective the treatment was, what the doctors expected to learn, and what was published. Spake also interviews Mary Sue Sexton, mother of the child in the article who was being treated with radiation, and who died at the age of six. The child's treatment is described as well as its possible effects. Also described is the kind of research the facility is doing now. Experiments for Space Program NASA. Ends abruptly. Needs outro. |
Nuclear power -- Health hazards., Medical research -- Moral and religious aspects., Cancer -- Research., Radiation -- Physiological effect., Leukemia, Medicine, Experimental, Lushbaugh, Clarence C. (Clarence Chancelum), 1916-, Rosenberg, Howard L., 1951-, Sexton, Mary Sue, Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies, United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Health, American Women -- Parenting and children | AZ0577 | Informed consent / produced by Amanda Spake |
| International League of Women Composers: String quartets (Episode 1 of 2) |
First of two episodes of a series called "Expressions", produced by the International League of Women Composers, highlighting string quartets by living American women composers. Track list: 1. Intro by Crane; 2. Ellen Taaffe Zwilich - String Quartet No. 1; 3. Continuity; 4. Gloria Coates, String Quartet No. 3 - 12:00; 5. Continuity; 6. Gloria Coates, String Quartet No. 4 - 12:00; 7. Continuity; 8. Ann Silsbee, Quest - 17:00; 9. Concluding commentary. Compiled by Doris Hays, with commentary by Joelle Wallach Crane. Produced by KPFA's Women's Department. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Zwilich, Ellen Taaffe, 1939-, Coates, Gloria, Silsbee, Ann, Women composers., Women musicians., String quartets | American Women -- Music and musicians | AZ1666.01 | |
| International League of Women Composers: String quartets (Episode 2 of 2) |
First of two episodes of a series called "Expressions", produced by the International League of Women Composers, highlighting string quartets (and one quintet) by living American women composers. Track list: 1. Intro; 2. Ruth Schontal, String Quartet in 13 movements; 2. Continuity; 3. Marga Richter, String Quartet No. 2; 4. Continuity; 5. Joyce Orenstein - Quintet for Strings; 6. Continuity; 7. Tui St. George Tucker - String Quartet. 8. Concluding commentary. Compiled by Doris Hays, with commentary by Joelle Wallach Crane. Produced for KPFA's Women's Department. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Women composers., Women musicians., String quartets, Schonthal, Ruth, Richter, Marga, Orenstein, Joyce Ellin, Tucker, Tui St. George, 1924-2004 | American Women -- Music and musicians | AZ1666.02 | |
| Interview with "The Woman's Film" maker / Louise Alaimo ; interviewed by Portia Shapiro. |
Portia Shapiro of KPFA talks with Louise Alaimo about "The Woman's Film," an exploration by members of San Francisco Newsreel of the economic and psychological oppression of poor women. This program includes excerpts from the soundtrack of "The Woman's Film," which illustrate these women's feelings about their oppression and the consciousness of women's liberation that they begin to develop. This interview is excerpted in BC0178. The entire soundtrack of the entire film is BC0185. |
Alaimo, Louise., Filmmakers -- San Francisco (Calif.)., Women filmmakers., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, San Francisco Newsreel (Firm) | American Women -- Film and television | BC0247 | |
| Interview with cellist Eva Heinitz / by Will Ogdon |
Cellist Eva Heinitz (1907-2000) is interviewed by Will Ogdon of KPFA about playing the cello and the viola da gamba. Previously cataloged as IZ1497. Date unknown. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Women musicians., Heinitz, Eva, CLASSICAL MUSIC, MUSIC MUSIC, CLASSICAL, Cellists | American Women -- Music and musicians | AZ1762 | |
| Interview with Judy Mowatt / produced by Sue Supriano. |
In Jamaica 1982, Sue Supriano interviewed Judy Mowatt, singer who was one of the "I-Threes," Bob Marley's back-up singers (along with Rita Marley and Marcia Griffiths). Mowatt talks about her music and her struggles as a Black woman. Three of her songs (pre-recorded) are featured in the recording: Black woman, My my people, and Think. |
Supriano, Sue., Women singers -- Personal narratives., Black singers -- Personal narratives., Marley, Bob, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- International women, American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination, American Women -- Music and musicians | AZ0780 | Interview with Judy Mowatt / produced by Sue Supriano. (CD) |