This week on From the Vault, guest host Lynn Ballen, producer of Feminist Magazine heard on KPFK in Los Angeles, introduces A Retrospective on Radical Feminism, produced in 1980 by Moira Rankin and co-produced by Deborah George for Sophie's Parlor Collective, the oldest women's radio collective on the air at Pacifica's youngest station, WPFW in Washington D.C. A Retrospective on Radical Feminism is composed of interviews, actuality, and music, and includes:
- Alix Kates Shulman, activist and author of "Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen" is interviewed and reads from her book, "Burning Questions."
- A woman from the Emergency Brigade recounts the 1937great general motor sit down strike in Flint, Michigan.
- Fannie Lou Hamer, founder of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic party recalls the physical abuse she suffered in prison in a 1966 KPFA interview.
- Leslie Cagan, then-Chair of the New York University Committee to End the War of Vietnam describes the beginning of an autonomous women's movement that grew out of the anti-Vietnam war movement.
- Joan Byron, a member of the Furies, one the first radical lesbian separatist groups describes, their reasons for organizing.
- Betty Friedan renounces her position on the lesbian issue and supports the sexual preference resolution at the 1977 United States International Women's Year conference in Houston, Texas.
- Carol Downer, one of the founders of the Los Angeles Feminist Health Clinic speaks about the need for women to control their own bodies and have access to abortions.
- Edith Barksdale Sloane, Executive Director of the National Committee on Household Employment, is interviewed about the need for basic services for women.
- Donna Keck, a founder of Women: A Journal of Liberation, speaks about race within the women's movement.
- Activist Cynthia Washington speaks about all the aspects of oppression including racism, classism, elitism, sexism, and ageism.
From the Vault is presented as part of the Pacifica Radio Archives Preservation and Access Project, funded in part by an award from the GRAMMY Foundation and the National Historical Publications and Records Commission at the National Archives and Records Administration, and past grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ford Foundation, and the American Archive funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, along with the generous support of Pacifica Radio Listeners. We also thank our partners and collaborators at the Pop-Up Archive, Amara, Other Minds Archives, George Blood Audio, and the California Audio Visual Preservation Project.
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