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| Title | Description | Keywords | Genre | PRA Archive # |
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| Citadel of learning : the locker room / Bruce Ogilvie. (Episode 9 of 12) |
The third afternoon speaker at the symposium "The Uncertain Quest - The Dilemmas of Sex Education," produced by and held at the University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco and simulcast on KPFA, is Bruce Ogilvie (1920-2003), Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, San Jose State College. He discusses the damage done by street sex education. |
Sex instruction, Teenagers -- Sexuality., Adolescent psychology., Ogilvie, Bruce C., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Sex | BB0722.09 | |
| Sandy Silver speaks out against the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant |
A member of Mothers for Peace, the organization which brought a lawsuit against the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, delivers an unsolicited address from the floor of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Licensing Board hearing in San Luis Obispo in Summer 1981. Contains sensitive language. Tape label: "According to Mothers for Peace, the legal intervenors in the Diablo Canyon case, local opposition to the plant has sky-rocketed over the last 2 months, as the licensing date drew near and as the people of San Luis began to realize that Federal authorities were not going to keep the plant from opening. For many San Luis residents, that realization came during the most recent set of license hearings held in their town." |
Silver, Sandy., Nuclear power plants., Antinuclear movement, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Diablo Canyon Nuclear Powerplant (Calif.) | American Women -- Peace and Antinuclear activism | AZ0706 | |
| Pat Loud from "An American Family" / interviewed by Barbara Cady |
Barbara Cady talks with Pat Loud about her new autobiography and her role in the WNET television series "An American Family." Produced by Barbara Cady. |
Loud, Pat, 1926-, Television programs, Documentary films, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Film and television | BC1805 | |
| 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 | |
| Heartsounds / by Martha Weinman Lear; interviewed by Barbara Cady |
Author discusses her book "Heartsounds" (Simon & Schuster), in which explains her experiences watching her husband, Dr. Harold Lear die. Interview by Barbara Cady. |
Lear, Martha Weinman, Death in literature., Death -- Psychological aspects., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Authors and journalists | KZ1269 | |
| 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 | |
| A day at the races : the Abzug-Ryan contest / reported by Miriam Rosen. |
Report on the Bella Abzug-William Ryan contest for the 20th Congressional district in New York. Includes specifically opinions on the race from women, interviewed on the street. Abzug portion recorded from her campaign event "Women Power for Bella Day," outside her campaign headquarters in the Upper West Side of Manhattan. |
Abzug, Bella S., 1920-1998, Ryan, William., Women politicians, Elections -- New York -- 1972., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Politicians and politics | BC0828 | |
| 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 | |
| Michelle Parkerson |
This episode of Upstream features filmmaker and poet Michelle Parkerson who talks about the economics of being an independent artist. Parkerson talks about her most recent film, "...But Then She's Betty Carter" (1980), and how she supports herself as a filmmaker. Parkerson also reads some of her poetry in the second half of the program. Program begins and ends with a fundraising pitch and is mixed with music. Hosted and produced by Nikki Jeter. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Black women -- History., African American Women, Parkerson, Michelle | American Women -- Film and television, American Women -- Poetry | WZ0255.07 | |
| 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 |