American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982

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PRA Archive #	Title	Description	Genre	Broadcast Date
BC1522	Our days in court / produced by Fran Watkins and Isabel Welsh.	Overview of the history of legal issues concerning women, including name changes in marriage...	American Women -- Law	KPFA, 25 June 1973.
BC1526	Rape : the victim as suspect / produced by Susan Scheftel and Gail Boehm.	A documentary examining the mythology surrounding rape and its effect upon the social, medical...	American Women -- Violence against women, American Women -- Law	Part 1: KPFA, 2 Oct. 1973; Part 2: KPFA, 16 Oct. 1973.
BC1539	Other people's houses	The half-hour serial reading program “Continued tomorrow” featured “Other people’s houses” by...	American Women -- Authors and journalists, American Women -- Autobiographies and Biographies	WBAI, December 14-15, 1972.
BC1540	Petticoat politics: the rise and fall of the phallic empire / produced by Jon Doyle	This is an historical recreation of the struggle which American women had to be heard and, more...	American Women -- Women's history	KPFT, July 24, 1972
BC1554	Total orgasm: Jack Rosenberg interviewed by Barbara Cady	Jack Rosenberg talks with Barbara Cady about his how-to book, "Total Orgasm." The book...	American Women -- Sex	KPFK, 1973 (day unknown)
BC1567	Interview with Mary Kahlenberg, co-organizer of the Navajo blanket exhibition at the Rice Gallery	The Navajo Blanket, an exhibit of blankets woven between 1840 and 1900, was gathered together...	American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination, American Women -- Art and artists	KPFT, ca. 5 Dec. 1972.
BC1574	Lesbian-Feminist Dialogue / produced by Nanette Rainone.	After two years of dispute during which lesbians accused various women's groups of...	American Women -- Feminism, American Women -- Lesbians	WBAI, 16 Dec. 1972; 2 Apr. 1974.
BC1580	N.O.W.'s Women's Sexuality Conference: "Speak Out" portion / produced by Nanette Rainone.	This recording contains four women's speeches from the "Speak Out" portion of the...	American Women -- Sex	WBAI 1973? (broadcast date unknown)
BC1586	Fat is a feminist issue / Carol Munter and Susie Orbach ; interviewed by Ann Snitow.	WBAI's Ann Snitow discusses body image, overweight and feminist issues with Carol Munter...	American Women -- Beauty and body image	WBAI, March 24, 1973
BC1587	The Ruth Benedict collective (Parts 1 and 2 only) / produced by Nanette Rainone.	The Ruth Benedict Collective is a group of 25 women in the New York area including...	American Women -- Anthropology and societal role, American Women -- Feminism	WBAI, Sept. 1971?; KPFA, 4 Jan. 1974.
BC1592	Texas texts / produced by Patricia Meredith	Documentary examining hearings in Austin at the State Board of Education concerning sexism in...	American Women -- Education, American Women -- Parenting and children	KPFT, 20 Nov. 1973.
BC1595	Women and childcare in China / Ruth Sidel.	A talk by Ruth Sidel, author of "Women and Child Care in China: A Firsthand Report,"...	American Women -- International women	WBAI, January or February 1973 (day unknown)
BC1600	Interview with Susan Sontag	Author Susan Sontag (1933 - 2004) is interviewed by WBAI's Nanette Rainone in October 1973...	American Women -- Authors and journalists	WBAI, 1973?
BC1601	Hillbilly Women / Kathy Kahn ; interviewed by Nanette Rainone and Paul McIsaac.	Kathy Kahn, songwriter, singer and author of Hillbilly Women (Doubleday) sings and talks to...	American Women -- Music and musicians, American Women -- Environmentalism, American Women -- Authors and journalists	WBAI, 14 Oct. 1973.
BC1604	Childbirth / interviews by Nanette Rainone.	A series of tapes of women discussing their experiences with childbirth, including the shame and...	American Women -- Parenting and children	WBAI, 197-.
BC1610	Women in China / Linda Gordon and Jean Tepperman (Episode 12)	Talks by Linda Gordon and Jean Tepperman. Gordon is an historian teaching at the University of...	American Women -- International women	WBAI, February 20, 1973
BC1628.04	Rape and punishment / Paul Leser (Episode 4 of 10)	Paul Leser talks about differing attitudes about rape between America and Europe, and how in the...	American Women -- Violence against women	KPFA, 15 Nov. 1973.
BC1651	The Israeli women's movement: Naomi Sharron / produced by Bonnie Bellow.	Bonnie Bellow talks with Naomi Sharron of the Israeli women's group Women for a New Society (...	American Women -- International women	WBAI, 26 Mar. 1974.
BC1661	Reflecciones de la Raza: September 8, 1973	Aircheck for "Reflecciones de la Raza", hosted by a woman (identity unknown), likely...	American Women -- Music and musicians, American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination, American Women -- Work and unions	KPFA, ca. September 8, 1973.
BC1668	The oldest profession organizes / Margo St. James ; interviewed by Jan Legnitto.	Margo St. James (born September 12, 1937), a self-described prostitute and sex-positive feminist... , ...	American Women -- Sex, American Women -- Activists	KPFA, 6 Feb. 1974; 24 Apr. 1974.
BC1669	Does the feminist movement equal sexual suicide? / George Gilder ; interview by Jan Legnitto.	KPFA's Jan Legnitto interviews George Gilder, author of the book Sexual Suicide (Quadrangle...	American Women -- Men's commentary and experiences	KPFA, 10 Feb. 1974.
BC1670	Monogamy : does it work? / produced by Joan Lecky.	Examination of marriage and marriage values. Includes statements by a sociologist, a divorce...	American Women -- Sex	KPFA, 3 Dec. 1973.
BC1679	Clare Spark's New York diary from December 1973	Clare Spark, producer, introduces this episode: "...the goal I have set for this series,...	American Women -- Art and artists	KPFK, January 6, 1974
BC1681	Womantruth / Megan Terry ; produced by Clare Spark.	Originally titled "Woman Fibbers." A funny and fast-moving collage of songs, poetry...	American Women -- Art and artists, American Women -- Poetry, American Women -- Theater	KPFK, 13 Jan. 1974.
BC1683	The prison business : an interview with Jessica Mitford / interviewed by Jan Legnitto.	Jan Legnitto interviews Jessica Mitford (1917-1996), author of "The American Way of Death...	American Women -- Authors and journalists	KPFA, 23 Apr. 1974
BC1689	Michael Korda and male chauvinism	Michael Korda, author of "Male Chauvinism and How It Works in the Home and Office",...	American Women -- Work and unions, American Women -- Men's commentary and experiences	KPFK, 1973 (day unknown)
BC1691	An Interview with Judy Collins / interviewed by Barbara Cady.	Singer-songwriter Judy Collins discusses her music, her politics and her career with KPFK's...	American Women -- Music and musicians	KPFK, 1973.
BC1692	Sexism and children's literature / produced by Beverly Stein and Laurie Simms.	Evaluating the alternative to Dick and Jane-type Primers for Living in Amerika. Examined are...	American Women -- Parenting and children	KPFA, 16 May 1973.
BC1716	Current themes in women's writing : masturbation / produced by Irene Schram, Ellen Turner, Dorothy Engleman and Linda Cohen.	This program explores the evolution of women's consciousness through poetry, prose, fiction...	American Women -- Authors and journalists, American Women -- Sex	WBAI, 12 Mar. 1974.
BC1717	Women Office Workers (W.O.W.) speak out	Women office workers, members of the group W.O.W. (Women Office Workers) tell their experiences...	American Women -- Work and unions	WBAI, either April 16 or 23, 1974
BC1719.01	Pagan press review: Wiccan feminist journals (Episode 1 of 4)	A program reviewing the journalism of contemporary earth religions such as Feraferia, the Church...	American Women -- New age/Wicca, American Women -- Environmentalism	WBAI, 27 Jan. 1974
BC1719.02	Pagan press review: Matriarchy (Episode 2 of 4)	This second program in the series "Pagan press review" will take up the question of...	American Women -- New age/Wicca	WBAI, February 28, 1974
BC1719.03	Pagan press review: Anti-defamation attempts by Pagans (Episode 3 of 4)	this third episode of Pagan press review will focus on modern day persecution and defamation of...	American Women -- New age/Wicca	WBAI, Mar. 28 1974.
BC1719.04	Pagan press review: A rational view of magic (Episode 4 of 4)	This program attempts to come up with a definition of magic acceptable to even the most hardened...	American Women -- New age/Wicca	WBAI, 25 Apr. 1974
BC1736	Rosalie Sorrels : travelin' lady in concert.	Concert by blues, country and folk singer, Rosalie Sorrels (1933 - ) recorded at Upsala College...	American Women -- Music and musicians	WBAI, 9 July 1973.
BC1737	What woman and who, myself, I am / Rosalie Sorrels.	Program of women's songs and poetry by Sylvia Plath, Denise Levertov and Anne Sexton, read...	American Women -- Poetry, American Women -- Music and musicians	WBAI, October 4, 1973
BC1738	The world split open / Louise Bernikow.	"The world split open" is the title of a new anthology of women's poetry. In this...	American Women -- Poetry	WBAI, December 3, 1973
BC1739	Circle of sound	This recording is inspired from a live event last August (1973) at the Manhattan Theater Club...	American Women -- Theater, American Women -- Music and musicians	WBAI, October 8, 1973
BC1758.10	Women in the economy / presented by Lauri Helmbold.	Ramparts Report, the weekly program of news and current happenings, brought to you by the staff...	American Women -- Work and unions	KPFA, 26 Apr. 1974.
BC1758.11	The New Woman / Anais Nin.	Ramparts Report, the weekly program of news and current happenings, brought to you by the staff...	American Women -- Authors and journalists, American Women -- Feminism, American Women -- Art and artists	KPFA, 28 May 1974.
BC1762	Let 'em eat kitsch	A broad collage portrait of American society, made up of music, improvisations and speeches...	American Women -- Art and artists	WBAI, March 24, 1974
BC1768	Why PASTA-MoMA?	Susan Bertram, Rose Kolmetz and Joan Rabenau, employees at the Museum of Modern Art, talk with...	American Women -- Work and unions, American Women -- Art and artists	KPFK, ca. January 1974
BC1776	Rhyme and reason	English actress Rohan McCullough is interviewed by Barbara Kraft and discusses and then reads...	American Women -- Poetry, American Women -- Theater	KPFK, March 11, 1974
BC1779	Men like their women "liberated"	A documentary exploration of changing sexual relationships within the family and social...	American Women -- Sex, American Women -- Marriage and divorce	KPFK, May 22, 1974
BC1790	Dr. Reuben tells how to get more out of sex	Dr. David Reuben, "sexpert" and author of "Everything You Always Wanted to Know...	American Women -- Sex	KPFK, April 2, 1974
BC1805	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...	American Women -- Film and television	KPFK, April 19, 1974
BC1814.05	Holly Near with sisters Timothy and Laurel Near, Jeff Langley, piano (Episode 5)	On this episode of Folkscene, Howard and Roz Larman interviews singer songwriter Holly Near, who...	American Women -- Music and musicians	KPFK, 27 May 1973.
BC1817	Pensamientos femeninos	The perspective of five Chicanas in today's movement, featuring Adelaida Del Castillo,...	American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination	KPFK, 27 May 1974
BC1833	Black women in America / Angela Davis.	On April 12, 1974, Angela Davis gave a speech at the UCLA campus as a part of the University...	American Women -- Activists, American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination	KPFK, 8 July 1974.
BC1844	Maxine Sellers : from the heart with a sense of humor	Examination of the intense, romantic and humorous work of composer/performer Maxine Sellers....	American Women -- Music and musicians	KPFK, May 22, 1974
BC1871	Which doctors are witches?	A discussion with Deirdre English and Barbara Ehrenreich, authors of "Witches, midwives,...	American Women -- Health, American Women -- New age/Wicca	KPFK, June 20, 1974
BC1872	Music by and about women in middle and rural America / produced by Carlos Hagen	In this program Carlos Hagen makes a brief survey of how women in rural and middle America view...	American Women -- Music and musicians, American Women -- Men's commentary and experiences	KPFK, May 26, 1974
BC1880	The First movie director's name was Alice / produced by Terry Hodel.	Documentary on women editors, writers, actresses and directors throughout film history. This...	American Women -- Film and television	KPFK, 29 May 1974.
BC1881	Hyphenated expletives need not apply / Judith Bernstein and Carl Baldwin ; interviewed by Clare Spark.	Discussion of artists and of censorship with artist Judith Bernstein (1942 - ), whose giant,...	American Women -- Art and artists	KPFK, 9 June 1974.
BC1923	Tense : in limbo / Leon Golub and Nancy Spero interviewed by Clare Spark	Activist artists Leon Golub (1922-2004) and Nancy Spero (1926-2009) discuss how their political...	American Women -- Art and artists	KPFK, August 4, 1974
BC1924	A conversation with artist Miriam Schapiro	Artist and feminist educator Miriam Schapiro (1923 - ) reconstructs her development as a painter...	American Women -- Art and artists	KPFK, May 19, 1974
BC1927	Tell us all about your friends : the grand jury system / interviewed by Bruce Soloway and Jackie Friedrich	This program is examining the new use of the Grand Jury, as a problem in American criminal...	American Women -- Law	KPFK, August 12, 1974
BC1932	The time of man: American conceptions of the overpopulation problem	A documentary produced by KPFK's Ruth Buell concerning popular American views about the...	American Women -- Environmentalism, American Women -- Reproductive rights	KPFK, April 22, 1970
BC1933	If they'd had a room of their own	The sister of Felix Mendelssohn, Fanny, was herself a pianist, singer and composer. Dorothy...	American Women -- Music and musicians, American Women -- Authors and journalists	KPFK, May 28, 1974
BC1939	Inside the female mind	A panel discussion on female psychology, the problems inherent in traditional methods of...	American Women -- Psychology and psychotherapy	KPFK, May 13, 1974
BC1950	New York Radical Feminists' Marriage speak-out	In February 1973, the New York Radical Feminists held a marriage conference which they called...	American Women -- Marriage and divorce, American Women -- Radical Feminism	WBAI, July 8, 1973
BC1954	The book business	Barbara Burn, who edits art books for Viking Press in New York City, discusses the values and...	American Women -- Authors and journalists, American Women -- Art and artists	WBAI, August 25, 1974
BC1963	Indians and medicine : sterilization and genocide / Dr. Connie Uri ; interviewed by Jim Berland.	Connie Uri, MD, a Native American doctor, discusses the Bureau of Indian Affairs'...	American Women -- Reproductive rights, American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination	KPFK, 25 Sept. 1974.
BC1984	Women in religious life	Documentary on the role of women in organized religion, featuring several women in religions...	American Women -- Religion, American Women -- Education	KPFK, 23 May 1974
BC1986	Linda Nochlin at the National Conference on Women in the Arts	A talk by feminist art historian Linda Nochlin delivered at the National Conference of Women in...	American Women -- Art and artists	KPFK, 5 May 1974.
BC1989	Masters and Johnson speak at the University of New Mexico	William H. Masters (1915 - 2001) and Virginia E. Johnson (1925 - 2013), the St. Louis-based...	American Women -- Sex	possibly KPFK, Dec. 1973.
BC1992	What have women done?	Based on the book published by the San Francisco Women's History Group, this program...	American Women -- Work and unions	KPFK, 2 Sep 1974
BC1998	Toilet training in less than a day	Dr. Richard M. Fox, psychologist, discusses his new toilet training method. Produced by Barbara...	American Women -- Parenting and children	KPFK, 15 Jul 1974
BC2005	Strong at the broken places: middle class women and drugs	Two women - Barbara Kerr, author of "Strong in the Broken Places: Women Who Have Survived...	American Women -- Health	KPFK, 3 Aug 1974
BC2013	PSI discoveries	Barbara Cady talks with Sheila Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder, authors of "Psychic...	American Women -- New age/Wicca	KPFK, 24 Jun 1974
BC2017	Urban education: October 6, 1973	Taped one week after graduation, a group of sixth graders from P.S. 42 in the Lower East Side...	American Women -- Education, American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination	WBAI, October 6, 1973
BC2023	Let us now praise laboring men and women	A collage of labor news, history, music, poetry and comment. Produced by Jim Berland of KPFK...	American Women -- Work and unions	KPFK, 2 Sep 1974
BC2040	No appointment necessary : the joy of comfort / Alex Comfort ; interviewed by Dick Huemer.	Alex Comfort (1920 - 2000), British scientist, physician, and author of "The Joy of Sex...	American Women -- Sex	KPFK, 12 Dec. 1974.
BC2047	Bernadette Devlin / interviewed by Tom Curtis.	KPFT's News Director Tom Curtis interviewed Irish Catholic militant Bernadette Devlin (...	American Women -- International women	KPFT, 29 Oct. 1974.
BC2069.02	The original people / Sagga Cook and Joan Hayes Garabedian (Episode 2 of 15)	Sagga Cook (Mohawk Nation) and Joan Hayes Garabedian (Wampanoag-Cherokee) discuss their views of...	American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination	WBAI, 1975? and KPFA, 8 May 1975
BC2069.05	Women in the American revolution / moderated by Viv Sutherland (Episode 5 of 15)	Seminar moderated by Viv Sutherland on women during the American Revolution, produced in...	American Women -- Women's history	WBAI, ca. July 24, 1975?
BC2069.06	Marion's cauldron looks at Salem / hosted by Marion Weinstein (Episode 6 of 15)	Discussion of witchcraft and witch hunts in colonial Salem. Part VI of the series "Life,...	American Women -- Women's history, American Women -- New age/Wicca	WBAI, July? 1975 (day unknown)
BC2069.09	Women's Coalition for the Third Century (WC3C) / interviews by Nanette Rainone and Brett Harvey. (Episode 9 of 15)	The Women's Coalition for the Third Century (WC3C) is an outgrowth of women's...	American Women -- Women's history	WBAI, ca. July?, 1975 (day unknown)
BC2072	After the news : work / Selma James ; interviewed by Nanette Rainone.	Selma James, proponent of the idea of "Wages for Housework", is interviewed by WBAI...	American Women -- Radical Feminism, American Women -- Work and unions	WBAI, 28 Nov. 1974.
BC2088	Population control as the new fascism : Germaine Greer at UCLA.	Germaine Greer (1939 - ), Australian theorist, feminist and academic, speaks at UCLA, November,...	American Women -- Reproductive rights	KPFK, 17 Jan. 1975.
BC2091	Cleaning up / produced by Clare Spark and Joseph Byrd.	The Sour Apple Tree presents "Cleaning up: a tribute to America's rich and how they...	American Women -- Art and artists	KPFK, 12 Jan. 1975.
BC2093	Football wives	Pam Josephson, Diane Youngblood and Clarice Alexander, all wives of professional football...	American Women -- Marriage and divorce, American Women -- Relatives of notable men	KPFK, 12 Jan 1975
BC2110	Virginia Woolf: voices that fly ahead / produced by Maureen McIlroy	Part one of a documentary on Virginia Woolf, her work, and her life, based on the letters,...	American Women -- Authors and journalists, American Women -- Autobiographies and Biographies	KPFK, May 15, 1974
BC2116	The Trojan Women	Production of a tragic play by Euripides, set on the morning after the fall of Troy. The cast in...	American Women -- Radio, American Women -- Theater	KPFK, 29 Jan 1975
BC2146.03	The lesbian in literature (Episode 3 of 4)	Cynthia Secor and Janet Cooper discuss the lesbian in literature at the 2nd Gay Academic Union...	American Women -- Lesbians, American Women -- Authors and journalists	KPFK, 29 July 1975
BC2148	The woman boxer / Jackie Tonawanda ; interviewed by Bonnie Bellow	Bonnie Bellow talks with woman boxer Jackie Tonawanda (1933-2009), who is currently fighting the...	American Women -- Athletes	WBAI, 1974 (day unknown)
BC2149	Emma Goldman: 1869-1940 / produced by Marcia Danab and Nina Mende	Emma Goldman (1869-1940) committed her life to fighting economic and sexist exploitation and was...	American Women -- Activists, American Women -- Women's history	WBAI, circa 1975 and September 18, 1981
BC2165	An interview with Andrea Dworkin / interviewed by Nanette Rainone and Carol Lopate	An interview with Andrea Dworkin, author of the book "Woman Hating" (E.P. Dutton, 1974...	American Women -- Radical Feminism, American Women -- Authors and journalists	WBAI, 1974 (day unknown)
BC2181	The true believers	Discussion of the parallel experiences of women who grew up in various ideologies. Guests are...	American Women -- Religion, American Women -- Parenting and children	WBAI, 27 Jan. 1975.
BC2182	Boxing / produced by Bonnie Bellow and Neal Conan	A two part program on boxing. The first part is Bonnie Bellow's interview with woman boxer...	American Women -- Athletes	WBAI, 1974 (day unknown)
BC2191	Sing a battle song: poems by women of the Weather Underground	Reading of "Sing a Battle Song"; a clandestine publication of the Red Dragon Print...	American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination, American Women -- Poetry	KPFK, 8 Mar and 26 Nov 1975
BC2196.01	Women and alienation / Connie Sutton	Lecture by Connie Sutton, anthropologist at New York University, on women and alienation....	American Women -- Psychology and psychotherapy, American Women -- Marriage and divorce	WBAI, 1975 (day unknown)
BC2196.02	Mary : our lady queen of feminists / Ann Plogsterth: interviewed by Viv Sutherland.	Viv Sutherland interviews Ann Plogsterth, member of Catholic Women for the ERA, the National...	American Women -- Religion, American Women -- Women's history	WBAI, December? 1974, December 27, 1975, and December 1976, 1977,1978
BC2196.03	Women to women : European feminists / Bonnie Charles Bluh.	Viv Sutherland interviews Bonnie Charles Bluh, author of "Women to Women: European...	American Women -- International women	WBAI, 1975 (day unknown)
BC2196.04	Women in the Judeo-Christian tradition / Rosyln Lacks	A lecture and discussion with Roslyn Lacks, writer for the Village Voice, of the religious/...	American Women -- Religion	WBAI, March 30?, 1975
BC2196.05	Women, culture, and society / Diane Feeley.	An historical examination of the development of women's societal role traced by Diane...	American Women -- Women's history, American Women -- Anthropology and societal role	WBAI, 1975 (day unknown)
BC2196.06	The incest taboo / Mariam Slater.	Discussion of society, incest, and institutionalized marriage outside the family with...	American Women -- Anthropology and societal role, American Women -- Marriage and divorce, American Women -- Sex	WBAI, 1975 (day unknown)
BC2196.07	Women in Japan / Shirley Herman ; produced by Viv Sutherland.	A discussion of the status of women in Japan with Shirley Herman, translator, who spent several...	American Women -- International women	WBAI, 1975 (day unknown)
BC2196.08	Women in Cuba / moderated by Viv Sutherland.	A discussion with Margaret (Meg) Crahan, historian; Mary Lou Suhor, co-coordinator of the Cuba...	American Women -- International women	WBAI, 1975 (day unknown)
BC2196.09	Women and mental health / moderated by Viv Sutherland.	A discussion about women and mental health with Irene Javors, Coordinator of the National...	American Women -- Psychology and psychotherapy	WBAI, 27 May 1975.

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