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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 Massachusettes and is writing a history of the birth control movement in the U.S. Tepperman is a high school teacher. Both were members of Bread and Roses, a Boston Women's group. They traveled to China in December, 1972.

Childbirth / interviews by Nanette Rainone.

A series of tapes of women discussing their experiences with childbirth, including the shame and abuse they've experienced at the hands of doctors. Interviewees are Lolly Hirsch, Dr. Doris Hare, author of The Cultural Warping of Childbirth, and Dorothy Tennor[sp?, name cut off at end of recording]. Hosted and produced by WBAI's Nanette Rainone. No intro.

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 Nanette Rainone and Paul McIsaac about her book about women in the mountains. Kahn discusses her work organizing with Appalachian women activists to protest strip mining, and her decision to write a book on their struggles because there hadn't been any books written yet about the subject.

Women on Watergate.

Gloria Steinem, Frances FitzGerald, Brett Vuolo and Nanette Rainone discuss the Watergate affair. Their discussion touches on how all of the coverage on the Watergate hearings on WBAI has been by men; the impression one gets of the absence of women; and whether past observations tells us anything about Watergate at all. They take phone calls from listeners. Recorded at WBAI June 27th, 1973.

Dial 'O' for operator / produced by Bonnie Bellow and Nanette Rainone.

Examination of the New York Telephone worker. Includes interviews with Louella Smith, who filed charges of racial discrimination with the State Division of Human Rights against New York Telephone and had her case taken up by the Center for United Labor Action, as well as other operators, service representatives and management.
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