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| Title | Description | Keywords | Genre | PRA Archive # |
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| Mooncircles: Kay Gardner and Marilyn Ries on women's music |
This is an interview with flutist Kay Gardner and musician technician Marilyn Ries about women's music, how it is produced, women's musical heritage, and future visions. Included are Kay Gardner's original instrumental compositions from her album "Mooncircles" and flute improvisation recorded during the interview. Produced by Marcia Danab. Recorded by Adrienne Piscitello. Technical assistance by Richard Harris. Completely self-contained. Long musical piece in beginning before intro. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Gardner, K. (Kay), Ries, Marilyn, Women's music | American Women -- Music and musicians | IZ1403 | |
| The History of England / Jane Austen ; read by Penelope Dellaporta. |
Penelope Dellaporta reads Jane Austen's "The history of England from the reign of Henry IV to the death of Charles I" (1791). Written when she was fifteen, Austen characterized the work as written "by a partial, prejudiced and ignorant Historian," and "N.B.: There will be very few dates in this history." |
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817., Dellaporta, Penelope., England -- History -- Anecdotes, facetiae, satire, etc., Women authors, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Authors and journalists | BC2518 | |
| Perspectives on criminal justice: Women in and after prison |
Perspectives on Criminal Justice for August 19, 1981, likely the first episode. Guest is Sister Mary Nerney, Executive Director of Project Green Hope, a residence for women who have been recently released from prison. Host is Tom O'Connor, and they discuss women in prison and prison reform. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Criminal justice system., Women prisoners., Women -- Legal status, laws, etc., Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States., Sex discrimination in justice administration | American Women -- Activists | IZ1471 | |
| Women's legal clinic: April 9, 1979-Sex discrimination in employment |
Women's legal clinic. Broadcast live. Topic: Sex discrimination in employment. Hosted by Betty Levinson, Eve Cary and Judith Levin and another unnamed host discuss the Lochner vs. New York Supreme Court case (1905), which involved a New York law that limited the number of hours that a baker could work each day to ten, and limited the number of hours that a baker could work each week to 60, and Muller vs. Oregon (1908), which justified both sex discrimination and usage of labor laws during the time period. Call-ins were not recorded. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Sex discrimination in employment, Labor laws and legislation -- United States. | American Women -- Work and unions | IZ0449.05 | |
| Janice Mirikatani, Joaquin Legaspi and Momo Yashima / interviewed by Frank Chin. |
Frank Chin interviews Janice Mirikatani, the editor of Aion magazine, a journal of Asian-American writing; Joaquin Legaspi, a writer and activist who is on the faculty of the Asian Studies department at San Francisco State; and Momo Yashima, actor and member of the Brotherhood of Artists, a group of Asian-American artists who are protesting the casting of a Caucasian actor in a Japanese part in an upcoming SF production of the musical comedy Lovely Ladies and Kind Gentlemen. Mirikitani reads the poems No Words, Beyond Silence, Death Is Not the Same Darkness, and The Question Is. Legaspi reads the poems Friendship, Sphinx, and Mist, and discusses his involvement in community organizing in support of the International Hotel in San Francisco. Yashima's interview, which was pre-recorded separately, is not included on this tape; tape ends with Chin's introduction of Yashima. Contains sensitive language. |
Mirikatani, Janice., Chin, Frank, 1940-, Legaspi, Joaquin., Asian Americans -- Social conditions., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Literature--Asian American authors | American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination, American Women -- Authors and journalists | BC0116 | |
| Suffocation in suburbia 5: dimensions of living space / Irene Taeuber (Episode 13 of 15) |
Part 13 of KPFA's presentation of the University of California's Medical Center Conference "The Challenge to Women: the Biological Avalanche" held in San Francisco this year. This is Part 5 of "Suffocation in Suburbia." In this recording Irene Barnes Taeuber, Ph.D. (1906-1974), Research Associate, Office of Population Research, Princeton University presents "Dimensions of Living Space," a talk on some potential means for ending the population explosion. Dr. Taeuber discusses the relationship between man and space and the economic, social, and demographic dynamics of developing countries. |
Taeuber, Irene B. (Irene Barnes), 1906-1974, The challenge to women : the biological avalanche, Overpopulation., Suffocation in suburbia, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Reproductive rights | BB0521.13 | |
| Spirituality and integrity : basis or vulnerability / by Dr. Albert E. Ross (Episode 7 of 7) |
First half of last lecture in the series. It is difficult to attain spirituality, which is not religiosity. Today ritual is substituted for experience in religion and love. Spirituality is the sum total of our inner experience. A relationship can attain such intensity that it can fill all our needs: security, love, self-esteem, and creativity. We need all. Produced by Roy E. Tuckman. Last lecture in a series of seven. Tapes can be purchased through UCLA Extension. Contains sensitive language. Previously cataloged as KZ0457A. |
Men -- Psychology., Psychology., Women -- Psychology., Interpersonal relations., Spirituality and integrity : basis or vulnerability / by Dr. Albert E. Ross., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Men's commentary and experiences | KZ0451.07 | |
| Gloria Naylor interviewed about her novel The Women of Brewster Place |
Raw tape of Gloria Naylor, Black woman author, interviewed by Doris Austin[?] about her novel "The Women of Brewster Place." She reads a passage from the book and then talks with Doris about the book, how Naylor's visions of the women who populate the book came into being, and more specifically about some of the female characters. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Naylor, Gloria, African American women authors | American Women -- Authors and journalists | IZ0895 | |
| Arab woman, guerilla leader / Leila Khaled ; interviewed by Colin Edwards. |
Colin Edwards interviews Miss Leila Khaled, a young Palestinian woman who has become a heroine to the whole Arab world through leading a two-man team in taking over a TWA airliner between Rome and Athens and ordering it to proceed first to Lydda, to circle over her homeland to challenge the Israelis, and then to Damascus where she blew up the entire front end. A member of the Marxist-Leninist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, she describes the origins of that movement, its philosophy, its strategy and its tactics, as well as her memories of the hijacking. Recorded just after she surfaced in Beirut following her release from 44 days of detention in Syria, where other PFLP guerillas have suffered imprisonment. Title of program originally "Arab girl guerilla leader." |
Khaled, Leila, 1944-, Palestine -- Politics and government., Arab woman, guerilla leader / Leila Khaled ; interviewed by Colin Edwards., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Activists, American Women -- International women | BB2482 | |
| Civil defense in the nuclear age : what survival does it promise? / Jennifer Leaning. (Episode 1 of 16) |
Jennifer Leaning, M.D., National Executive Committee Member of Physicians for Social Responsibility, describes the problem of understanding the concept of civil defense in regard to nuclear war when survival is questionable. This is a presentation from the "On the Fate of the Earth" conference held October 19-21, 1982 at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine and Columbia University, New York City. On this weekend physicians, environmentalists, physicists, writers, economists, professors, biologists, and others gathered together to share their perspectives on the peaceful preservation of life. The recordings and excerpts were produced by Raffaelo Mazza and Bob Rufsvold, KPFK. All have intros, none have outros. The introductions were done by David Brower, President, Fate of the Earth Foundation. |
Leaning, Jennifer., Environmentalists., Nuclear warfare., Peaceful change (International relations)., Survival (after nuclear warfare)., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Peace and Antinuclear activism | KZ1199.01 |