From the Vault 411: Germaine Greer at the National Press Club, 1971

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From the Vault 411: Germaine Greer at the National Press Club, 1971
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PZ0673.411
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As the efforts by women during Second Wave of Feminism began paying dividends, one of the long standing barriers came crumbling down: on May 18, 1971, the National Press Club, which was founded in 1908, would finally open its doors to women. Fitting, then, that Germain Greer, the firebrand writer of the bestselling book Female Eunuch (1970), was the first woman to address this distinguished press corps. This week, on From the Vault, we listen to a recording of that historic address, in which Greer took the opportunity to implore the Press Club audience to respect their power to report and make news, and was quick to point out the inequality of news coverage of Women's issues.

This program is part of our current preservation and access project, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 funded in part by a matching grant from the NHPRC at the NARA called Documenting Democracy access to historical records. For more information on this project visit us at pacificaradioarchives.org

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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