Browse the American Women collection
| Title | Description | Keywords | Genre | PRA Archive # |
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| Carnival strippers / by Susan Meiselas ; interviewed by Barbara Londin. |
Barbara Londin speaks with photographer Susan Meiselas about her book "Carnival Strippers." This book is a photo-documentary of the intimate professional and private lives of New England county carnival strippers. Meiselas talks about how she gained entrance into the world of carnival strippers, explains how the world of strippers operates, and about stripping as the objectification of women. The program contains many of Ms. Meiselas' taped conversations of the girls and their "clients." Produced by Barbara Londin for WBAI. Contains sensitive language. |
Meiselas, Susan., Londin, Barbara., Strip-tease., Women photographers., Photography -- Portraits., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Art and artists | IZ0078 | |
| Bettina Aptheker interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson |
Bettina Aptheker discusses with Elsa Knight Thompson her reasons for being a Communist Party member, her experiences as a young woman, traveling in Europe, and various related subjects. Knight mentions that it has been a year since Sproul Hall and the FSM activities, and asks Aptheker to discuss where she thinks the student movement is now, how she feels about her election as one of the three student reps to the campus rules committee, and other current concerns. |
Aptheker, Bettina, Free Speech Movement (Berkeley, Calif.), Communists -- California., Women -- Political activity., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Activists, American Women -- Politicians and politics | BB1280 | |
| An eclectic evening with Rosalyn Drexler and David Shapiro |
This is part one of a performance which was presented live in Studio C at WBAI in November 1972. In Part One, David Shapiro plays the violin and reads his poetry and that of his young students from Bedford-Stuyvesant. In Part Two, Rosalyn Drexler sings torch songs from the 1920s and 1930s, and reads excerpts from her novels. Mimi Anderson gives the introduction, and is the producer of the program. Engineered by Bill Taylor, Nancy Allen and Susan Sheftel. |
Drexler, Rosalyn, Shapiro, David, 1947-, Women authors, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Authors and journalists, American Women -- Music and musicians | IZ1390 | |
| Marian Seldes / interviewed by Bruce Kenyon. |
Actress Marian Seldes (1928-2014), recipient of Tony, Obie and Drama Desk Awards, is interviewed by WBAI's Bruce Kenyon. They touch on virtually every facet of her craft, in addition to sharing memories of such coworkers as Judith Anderson, John Gielgud, Colleen Dewhurst, and shows such as "Medea", "Tiny Alice", and "Equus." Program begins with a reading by Seldes. |
Seldes, Marian., Kenyon, Bruce., Acting., Actors and actresses, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Actresses -- Correspondence, reminiscences, etc. | American Women -- Theater | BC2342 | |
| Family in history: interview with Carl Degler |
Eileen Zalisk interviews historian Dr. Carl Degler (1921 - 2014) author of "At Odds: Women and the Family in America" about the family in history. Broadcast as part of WBAI's all-day programming in honor of International Women's Day, March 8, 1981. Unknown if this interview was first broadcast previous to that date. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Degler, Carl N., Women's history, Motherhood, Women -- Social conditions -- History., Family -- United States., Gender roles | American Women -- Parenting and children | IZ1463 | |
| Reflecciones de la Raza: September 8, 1973 |
Aircheck for "Reflecciones de la Raza", hosted by a woman (identity unknown), likely broadcast on September 8, 1973. Program begins with a report on the grape strike from Dan Sudran, Chairperson of the United Farm Workers, San Francisco Chapter. He discusses the boycotts, numbers of workers jailed, costs, law enforcement during the strike. Musica latina begins at approximately 17:00: Las Nuves "Baila familia" [sp?], Nuestra Cosa "Arrest" [sp?], Eddie Palmieri "Algo razon" [sp?], Erti "Papo Furato" [sp?], Willie Colon "La Amarilla" [sp?]. Contains PSA's for upcoming events including "Days of Concern" regarding the Vietnam conflict, latin music performances, and Gay Rap meetings. Produced by Communicacion Aztlan. |
Strikes -- Vinyard workers -- Calfiornia., Report on the grape strike : boycott, costs and law enforcement during the strike., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Music and musicians, American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination, American Women -- Work and unions | BC1661 | |
| Women in advertising. |
Discussion of the presentation and exploitation of women by mass media advertising held at the Advertising Club of New York on Friday, December 15th, 1972. The subject of the panel is "Womanpower." The moderator is Joyce Snyder, former executive managing director of Art Directors Magazine and image coordinator for the NY chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW). The panelists are Jane Trahey, 1970's Advertising Woman of the Year; Anne Tolstoi Foster (Wallach), head of NOW's advertising volunteer group and senior vice president and creative director of Degarmo Advertising; and Patricia "Pat" Carbine, formerly executive editor of Look Magazine, editorial director of McCall's Magazine, and now editor-in-chief and publisher of Ms. magazine and editorial director of the Harvard Radcliffe Publishing Procedures course. |
Women in advertising., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Mass media and women, Wallach, Anne Tolstoi, Trahey, Jane, Carbine, Patricia Theresa | American Women -- Feminism, American Women -- Beauty and body image | BC1255 | |
| Healing sounds and Lifting off, learning how to fly / by Joanna Brouk and Maggi Payne |
Two musical works: one composed for use in hospitals, one for Peter Pan theme. 1. Piano: Healing Sounds (23:22), 2. Flute: a) Lifting off: Learning how to fly, b) 2 Birds (24:56). Flute: Maggie Payne, Piano: Joanna Brouk. This recording is likely an aircheck of Brouk and Payne's album Healing Music. Box notes list both March and April 1980. Note on box: NO CUSTOMER DUBS. |
Brouk, Joanna, 1949, Women musicians., Sound -- Psychological effect, Mind and body therapies, Sound -- Physiological effect, Payne, Maggi, Healing music, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Healing | American Women -- Music and musicians | AZ0447 | |
| May Swenson reads at the Poetry Center |
This is a recording of May Swenson (1913 - 1989) reading from her own work at the YM-YWHA Poetry Center in New York City. On Part 1, Swenson reads Living Tenderly, The Surface, Fountain Piece, The Exchange, The Engagement, Death, Great Smoothener, At First, At Last (introduced as A Diagram of Life), The Lightning, Working on Wall Street, Snow in New York, A Bird's Life, The Watch, A Fixture, To Make a Play, and Italian Sampler. On Part 2, Swenson reads The Centaur, Flying Home from Utah, and While Seated in a Plane. The reading took place on December 16, 1965. |
Swenson, May., Poetry., Women poets, Poetry reading, Poetry Center of the 92nd Street YM-YWHA (New York, N.Y.), American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Poetry, American Women -- Lesbians | BB3804.09 | |
| Women in marriage / Dr. Elizabeth Howes |
Elizabeth Boyden Howes (1907-2002) was a Jungian psychotherapist and founder of the Guild for Psychological Studies in San Francisco. Howes had been in practice in the Bay Area since 1944 and co-editor of The Choice Is Always Ours (R. R. Smith, 1948), and co-edited And A Time To Die (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1961). In this program, Howes delivers the inaugural lecture in a series of discussions on marriage, on how to develop interpersonal relations in a marriage. Howes' lecture concentrates on independence, communication, and the different needs and tendencies of men and women in relation to each other. The other two talks in this unnamed series were Men In Marriage, delivered by Dr. Jean E. Neighbor, and Children In Marriage, delivered by Dr. Charles R. Graham. Recorded at the Mt. Diablo Unitarian Church, February 23, 1964. |
Marriage -- Social aspects., Domestic relations., Howes, Elizabeth Boyden, 1907-2002, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Psychology and psychotherapy, American Women -- Sex | BB0507 |