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| Title | Description | Keywords | Genre | PRA Archive # |
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| Consciousness raising-WBAI (Episode 1 of 4): Housework |
This is one of four episodes of WBAI's first Consciousness-raising series, originally titled: "Consciousness-raising: An examination of women's issues." This discussion focuses on the issue of housework, particularly the balance of housework between husband and wife, and what these women learned from their mothers and other wives. This recording was possibly broadcast with a series of discussions by ex-wives or separated wives ca. October 1971 through April 1972. Recording ends abruptly. Produced by Nanette Rainone. , |
Consciousness raising., Women's movement, Feminism, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Women -- Social conditions., Women -- United States -- Social conditions., Women -- United States -- Personal narratives., Women -- Psychology. | American Women -- Feminism, American Women -- Work and unions, American Women -- Marriage and divorce | BC0724.01 | |
| Diary of a pacifist feminist |
On this episode of Everywomanspace, a reading from the book "Lella Secor: A Diary in Letters, 1915-1922" (Burt Franklin & Co., 1978), and interview with the books editor Barbara Moench Florence. Selections from the letters read by Bonnie Delorme[sp?]. Produced for the WBAI Women's Department by Penelope Franklin. Hosted by Didi Goldenhar. Recording may have been previously cataloged as IZ0449.23. |
PEACE MOVEMENT, Peace movement., Peace movement -- Personal narratives., Peace movement -- United States -- 1920-1940., Florence, Barbara Moench, Secor, Lella Faye, 1887-1966, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Peace and Antinuclear activism, American Women -- Women's history | IZ0449.22 | |
| Women in Ireland / Jean Wertheimer ; hosted by Diane Feeley |
Class lecture on the status of women in Ireland, past and present, by Jean Wertheimer. Program hosted by Diane Feeley, National Organization for Women, New York (NOW-NY) coordinator of the Women in the Arts Committee. Produced by Viv Sutherland. |
Feeley, Diane, Women -- Ireland., Women in Ireland / Diane Feeley ; produced by Viv Sutherland., Gonne, Maud, 1866-1953, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- International women | BC2196.17 | |
| Report from Vietnam by Judy Coburn - August 7, 1970 |
This is a special report broadcast the same day as it was recorded, from Pacifica's Saigon correspondent Judy Coburn. Coburn reports on the military situation in "I" Corps, as seen through interviews with members of Ripcord Company. This special report was broadcast immediately following the 7:00 p.m. news on WBAI on Friday, August 1, 1970, pushing the scheduled broadcasting for the evening. Note: interviews with soldiers in field have poor sound quality due to noise present at time of recording. |
Coburn, Judy., Vietnam War, 1961-1975, Reporters and reporting., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Vietnam conflict | IZ1436 | |
| Lappin and Lapinova by Virgina Woolf; read by Maureen McIlroy |
KPFK's Maureen McIlroy reads Virginia Woolf's feminist short story "Lappin and Lappinova". |
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941., Short story., Feminism and literature., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Authors and journalists | BC1076 | |
| Museum of Azerbaijani Literature and Arts / produced by William Mandel |
Interview, done in Baku, Azerbaijan, on shore of Caspian Sea, September 1977, with two women: first the director of block-square Museum of Azerbaijani Literature and Arts, second a museum tour guide and director of a TV show on the arts. The former is the daughter of school teachers who were the first generation of educated people in this formerly 90% illiterate, Muslim, Turkic-speaking oil country of the Soviet Union. The second, although only 30, is the daughter of illiterate peasant parents. The museum director earns twice as much as her husband. The other woman earns much less than her husband, who is a solo singer, but will earn equally when she gets her Ph.D. Interview portion contains original Russian spoken at low volume on right channel, Mandel's English translation on left channel. The interview is about 27 minutes long, and during the rest of the program, Mandel answers phone calls from listeners. Produced by William Mandel, KPFA, first broadcast 12/8/77. |
Mandel, William M., Museums -- Soviet Union., Women -- Soviet Union., Baku (Azerbaijan), American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- International women | AZ0136.07 | |
| Elinore Pruitt Stewart letters: letters from a woman homesteader (Part 3 of 3) / read by Luce Morgan |
Reading of letters written by a woman homesteader, Elinore Pruitt Stewart (1876-1933) in Wyoming around 1910. Part 3 of 3. These three episodes of Stewart's letters were part of a continuing series on KPFA based on women’s diaries and letters. Previously cataloged as BC0721C. |
Stewart, Elinore Pruitt, 1876-1933, Frontier and pioneer life -- Wyoming, Women's writings., Women pioneers, Women, Wyoming, Feminism, Women's movement, Women's diaries and letters series (KPFA), American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Autobiographies and Biographies, American Women -- Women's history | BC0721.03 | |
| Activist Donna Allen and her experience with HUAC |
Feminist and political organizer Donna Allen speaks on her experience with the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). She is on the National Committee to Abolish HUAC. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Allen, Donna, 1920-1999, National Committee to Abolish the House Un-American Activities Committee | American Women -- Activists | AZ1682 | |
| On a clear day in L.A. / Denise Levertov interviewed by Anita Frankel |
Denise Levertov reads her poetry and talks with Anita Frankel about her politics and her life, and how the two work together. There is a lot of discussion about the 1960s and describing intense moments in the antinuclear movement in places like Seabrook and Washington, D.C. No intro or outro. Among the poems read are For the blind, Talk in the dark, Psalm: people power at the die-in, In silence, Olga poems pt. v, and The split mind. |
Levertov, Denise, 1923-1997, Antinuclear movement, Political poetry., Women poets, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Poetry | KZ0977 | |
| If they'd had a room of their own |
The sister of Felix Mendelssohn, Fanny, was herself a pianist, singer and composer. Dorothy Wordsworth, sister of William, was a writer. This program explores these two women, their frustrations and successes in the arts, with examples of their works and readings of their writings. Produced by Martha Lifson and Anna Rubin. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Women artists -- History., Wordsworth, Dorothy, 1771-1855., Hensel, Fanny Mendelssohn, 1805-1847 | American Women -- Music and musicians, American Women -- Authors and journalists | BC1933 |