Browse the American Women collection
| Title | Description | Keywords | Genre | PRA Archive # |
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| Feminist theatre: a woman alone |
The fears, strengths, and hopes of women alone are explored in the reflections of three women. The program was written by Riane Eisler, directed by Constance Pfeiffer and produced by Sherry Tyler and Sue Welch. The original music is by Lynn Patrick. Actress Judith Roberts also appears in this production for KPFK by the Women's Center for Theatre and Media. |
Pfeiffer, Constance., Radio plays., Women -- Psychology., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Psychology and psychotherapy, American Women -- Radio | BC0450 | |
| Madame Nhu at the University of California |
MADAME NHU AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA. Trần Lệ Xuân (22 August 1924 – 24 April 2011), popularly known as Madame Nhu, wife of South Vietnamese Premier and de facto First Lady of South Vietnam from 1955 to 1963, speaks to students at U.C. Berkeley. In this recording, we hear an introduction from Professor Robert Scalopino, chairman of the Political Science Department of the University. Includes a question and answer session, and actuality of the anti-war demonstration outside the hall. SLATE, a U.C. student group which was involved in the protest, held a rally during which Hal Draper of the Socialist Party and Leonard Glaser spoke. Announcer is Burton White, Pacifica Public Affairs. RECORDED: University of California, Berkeley on October 29, 1963. BROADCAST: KPFA, 29 Oct. 1963. |
Vietnam War, 1961-1975, Trần, Lệ Xuân, 1924-2011, Draper, Hal., Protests, demonstrations, vigils, etc. -- Berkeley (Calif.), Glaser, Leonard, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- International women, American Women -- Vietnam conflict | BB0645 | |
| Alice Walker reads Fame from her book You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down / Karla Tonella |
Alice Walker reads her short story "Fame" from her book of short stories, "You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down," at the San Francisco Women's Building on May 23, 1981. Susanne Lee and Karla Tonella recorded the reading. Walker is the author of three books of poetry: "Once" (1968), "Revolutionary Petunias and other Poems" (1973), "Good night, Willie Lee, I'll see you in the morning" (1979). She also edited an anthology of the work of Black Renaissance writer Zora Neale Hurston entitled "I Love Myself When I'm Laughing: a Zora Neale Hurston reader." |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Walker, Alice, 1944-, Tonella, Karla., African American women authors, Lee, Susanne | American Women -- Poetry, American Women -- Authors and journalists | AZ1127 | |
| The ooze on the Atlantic / produced by Margot Adler. |
A look at offshore oil exploration on the Atlantic coast: what the oil companies are planning and how environmentalists are trying to stop them. Program includes comments from Tom Macres, Executive Director of the Committee on Resource Management; Albert Jensen, director of the Division of Marine and Coastal Resources, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation; L.P. Haxby, Shell Oil Company and also chairman of an Oil Spills Commission of the American Petroleum Institute; Hallman Kalman[sp?], Department of Interior, Public Relations; Angelo Roncallo, Nassau County Comptroller; Norman Lent, Congressman, Rockville Center; Michael Nadel, executive director of the Wilderness Society; Barry Weisberg of the Bay Area Institute; Dr. Ian Marceau, Director, Environmental Protection for the Town of Huntington; and Carl Grossman, investigative reporter for the Long Island Press. The comments were recorded in separate locations over a period of two months. This program was produced by Margot Adler, technical production by David Rapkin. |
Oil industry and trade -- United States., Oil industry and trade., OIL & GAS, OIL SPILLS, Water -- Pollution., Offshore oil well drilling, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Environmentalism | BC0532 | |
| Women and the New Right / produced by Helene Rosenbluth. |
On Saturday, March 7, 1981, Los Angeles City College sponsored a day of panels celebrating International Women's Day. Erica Silverman of the Jewish Feminist Coalition and Cecily Kahn of the Southern California Anti-Klan Network spoke on the rise of the New Right. Silverman voices her concerns about anti-Semitism infiltrating both the right and the left in the United States and the need for the Jewish community to confront their own oppression. Kahn talks about the history of her organization and about the resurgence of the Klan in recent years. Produced by Helene Rosenbluth. |
Silverman, Erica., Kahn, Cecily, 1959-, New Right., International Women's Day, Women and the New Right / produced by Helene Rosenbluth., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination, American Women -- Politicians and politics | KZ1211 | |
| A visit to Club Orgy / produced by Robert Kuttner and Danice Bordett. |
Documentary on the sex club "Club Orgy" on 24th Street in New York City's Westside; includes interviews with performers and patrons. Sensitive language. |
Bordett, Danice., Sex-oriented businesses, Sex, Pornography -- Social aspects., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Sex | BB3986 | |
| Lesbian sisters: October 5, 1976 |
This is Helene Rosenbluth's first episode of the series "Lesbian Sisters" on KPFK. The program opens with "Face the Music" by Meg Christian, then author Rita Mae Brown speaking at the Women's Building about art and politics. Later, Helene interviews Meg Christian and Judy Dlugacz about Olivia Records, and they feature the newly released Be Be K'Roche album. |
Women musicians., Lesbian musicians, Brown, Rita Mae., Christian, Meg, Be Be K'Roche (Musical group), Olivia Records, Inc., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Authors and journalists, American Women -- Music and musicians | KZ4500 | |
| Rochelle Owens reads her poetry |
Poet Rochelle Owens reads selections of her work. Owens is the award-winning author of many controversial and innovative plays. They have been produced throughout the world and presented at festivals in Edinburgh, Berlin, Paris and Rome. In addition to writing for the theater, she has published five books of poetry, two collections of plays and has given many readings across the country. Her books are: Salt and Core (Black Sparrow Press), I Am the Babe of Joseph Stalin's Daughter (Kulchur Press), Poems from Joe's Garage (Burning Deck Press), The Joe Eighty-Two Creation Poems (Black Sparrow) and The Karl Marx Play and Others (Dutton). The New York Strategy recently performed "She." This program was produced by Susan Howe for WBAI-New York. |
Poetry -- Women authors., Owens, Rochelle, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Poetry | BC3002 | |
| Author Lois Gould interviewed by Josephine Hendin |
Josephine Hendin, teacher of American fiction at the New School for Social Research, interviews Lois Gould (1931-2002), the author of "Such good friends" and "Necessary objects." Program was produced by Mimi Anderson. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Women authors, Gould, Lois., Feminist literature., Women in literature. | American Women -- Authors and journalists | IZ1363 | |
| Thinking of suicide / Bernard Mayes interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson |
Bernard Mayes was an ordained Episcopal priest, a volunteer radio producer at KPFA, and the founder of the first suicide prevention hotline in America, started in San Francisco in 1963. Mayes published his autobiography Escaping God's Closet: The Revelations of a Queer Priest through the University of Virginia Press in 2001. In this program, founder of San Francisco Suicide Prevention and volunteer hotline manager Bernard Mayes discusses the psychology of suicide in America with Elsa Knight Thompson. They also discuss statistics and psychology of suicide in other cities and states in the country. |
Suicide -- Prevention, Mayes, Bernard., Psychology., Suicide., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Health, American Women -- Psychology and psychotherapy | BB0394 |