American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982

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PRA Archive #	Title	Description	Genre	Broadcast Date
BB0522.09	Sources of contemporary purpose / by Miriam Weinberg	Miriam Weinberg, student in Psychology at San Francisco State College, speaks on the causes and...	American Women -- Politicians and politics	KPFA, 15 Feb. 1966.
IZ0777	Soundtrack: Liz Alexander interviewed about the film The Killing of Angel Street	Paul Wunder (not identified on tape) of WBAI's Soundtrack program interviews Australian...	American Women -- Film and television	WBAI, March 1981
BC0185	Soundtrack from "The Woman's Film"	The audio portion of "The Woman's Film," a documentary film about the economic...	American Women -- Film and television	KPFA, 16 Apr. 1971.
AZ0017	Sound poetry of Lily Greenham / with interview by Charles Amirkhanian	Lily Greenham (1924-2001) has made her reputation all over Europe as one of the most effective...	American Women -- Poetry	KPFA, Oct. 11, 1972
IZ1474	Sophie Cohen speaks on the 1913 Paterson, New Jersey silk strike	This program is a talk give by Sophie Cohen, IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) worker who...	American Women -- Work and unions	WBAI, November 27, 1976
BB2709.04	Sonia Sanchez / interviewed by David Henderson. (Episode 4 of 4)	Sonia Sanchez (1934 - ), poet and co-founder of the Black Studies department at San Francisco...	American Women -- Poetry, American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination	KPFA, 24 Jan. 1969
BB2799	Something about women / read by Eleanor Sully; produced by Sue Blumenberg	Variations on themes from Virginia Woolf, read by Eleanor Sully with the musical support of...	American Women -- Theater, American Women -- Authors and journalists	KPFA, September 29, 1969
BB3864.01	Some voices of the town (Episode 1 of 5)	The first in a series of five parts produced in 1965 by then-folio editor of WBAI, Marcia...	American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination	WBAI, Mar 21, 1965 and Aug 2, 1970 and KPFA Dec 10, 1970
KZ1067	Some of us have become... / Gloria Steinem at Pierce College	Feminist Gloria Steinem speaks about the institutional changes that the women's movement...	American Women -- Feminism	KPFK, Sept. 1981.
KZ1079	Solidarity day : Washington, D.C.	Actuality from the rally against the Reagan administration; includes statements by Lane Kirkland...	American Women -- Activists, American Women -- Work and unions	KPFK, Sept. 21, 1981.
KZ1041	Solidarity : power of the future / Bella Abzug ; produced by Carol Brycen.	Congresswoman Bella Abzug addresses the "Solidarity: Power of the Future" coalition at...	American Women -- Politicians and politics	KPFK, 31 Mar. 1981; 10 June 1981.
IZ0397	Sojourner's Journal: The role of the Black woman worker	The role of the Black woman worker. An episode of Sojournour's Journal produced by Yasmine...	American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination, American Women -- Work and unions	WBAI, 1981 or 1982 (date unknown)
IZ1414.01	Sojourner's Journal: November 19, 1981-Black women writers and artists	Sojourner's Journal, a series about Black women. Yasmin Pierre speaks with four Black women...	American Women -- Poetry, American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination	WBAI, November 19, 1981
IZ1414.02	Sojourner's Journal: Battered women	Sojourner's Journal hosted Yasmine Pierre. Today's episode is about battered women,...	American Women -- Violence against women	WBAI, ca. 1982 (date unknown)
AZ0471.03	Sojourner Truth : walking to freedom / produced by Darcell King. (Episode 3 of 7)	This program tells the life of Sojourner Truth (c. 1797 - 1883), African-American abolitionist...	American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination, American Women -- Activists, American Women -- Women's history	KPFA, July 20, 1979.
KZ4183	Sojourn Shelter for Battered Women	This program was produced to be broadcast during Domestic Violence Awareness Week. This...	American Women -- Violence against women	KPFK, October 3, 1981
BC2908.03	Soft voices and big sticks : big business and the Third World / moderated by Linda Strawn. (Episode 3 of 5)	This episode features discussion of corporate response to the shifting tide and expectations and...	American Women -- Science and scientists	KPFK, 17 Mar. 1976.
BB2366.01	Socialization: the pink blanket routine (Episode 1 of 7)	Brenda Brush, a member of the National Organization of Women and of Women's Liberation,...	American Women -- Feminism	KPFA, January 29, 1970
BC2817.02	Socialist feminist theory : third world panel / produced by Bonnie Bellow (Episode 2)	The Third World Panel from a series on Socialist Feminist Theory recorded at the first national...	American Women -- Radical Feminism, American Women -- International women	WBAI, August 14, 1975.
BB0521.03	Social role and the search for identity / Mirra Komarovsky (Episode 3 of 15)	Part 3 of KPFA's presentation of the University of California's Medical Center Conference "The...	American Women -- Parenting and children, American Women -- Feminism	KPFA, June 15, 1965
KZ0612	So you've heard it before / produced by Susan Anderson and Pearl Skotnes.	This is the story of South African Black women under apartheid, portrayed through women's...	American Women -- International women, American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination	KPFK, Sept. 20, 1978.
KZ1105	Slavery and equality / Margaret Creel interviewed by Clare Spark.	Margaret Creel, historian and professor of African-American Studies at University of California...	American Women -- Women's history	KPFK, Feb. 26, 1982.
IZ0046	Six women playwrights / produced by Lin Harris	Six women playwrights, Corinne Jacker, Myrna Lamb, Ruth Wolff, Tina Howe, Alice Childress, and...	American Women -- Theater	WBAI, May 15, 1977.
BC0588	Six experiences of unwanted pregnancy	This program was originally produced in October 1971 for "Unlearning to not speak" by Lois...	American Women -- Reproductive rights, American Women -- Theater	KPFK, 14 Oct. 1971.
BC2997	Siv Cedering Fox reads her poetry	Poet Siv Cedering (Fox) reads selections of her poetry. Siv Cedering Fox was born in Sweden, has...	American Women -- Poetry	WBAI, 9 Mar. 1976.
BC2628	Sisters By Choice / interviewed by Viv Sutherland.	Interview with and music by Sisters By Choice, a music group consisting of feminist musicians...	American Women -- Music and musicians	WBAI, 1975 (day unknown)
AZ0144	Sister of the road : the autobiography of Boxcar Bertha / by Bertha Thompson; produced by the Unlearning To Not Speak Collective	This is a recording of members of the Unlearning To Not Speak Collective reading excerpts from...	American Women -- Autobiographies and Biographies	KPFA, September 28, 1973
BB2906	Single and pregnant / Ruth Pierce interviewed by Joan Churton	Ruth I. Pierce, author of "Single and Pregnant," is interviewed by Joan Churton. The...	American Women -- Authors and journalists, American Women -- Reproductive rights	KPFA, December 14, 1970
AZ1132.21	Singer Bessie Smith (Episode 21)	A program about blues singer Bessie Smith (1894 - 1937), with many examples of her music and...	American Women -- Music and musicians	KPFA, November 13, 1976
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
BB0130.01	Sinful Eve / produced by Virginia Maynard and Charles Levy (Episode 1 of 14)	This episode is on the long-standing view of woman's responsibility for man's sins....	American Women -- Feminism, American Women -- Women's history	KPFA, 12 Nov. 1958, as part of this series. First aired on December 23, 1956.
WZ0173	Simplemente Jenny / Helena Solberg and Melanie Maholick ; interviewed by Ron Sutton and Pam Peabody.	Latin American film director Helena Solberg-Ladd and editor Melanie Maholick, discuss their...	American Women -- International women, American Women -- Film and television	WPFW, May 31, 1977.
KZ0125	Simone de Beauvoir : in conversation / with Studs Terkel ; narrated by Janet Dodson.	Simone de Beauvoir (b.1908- d.1986) French writer, intellectual, political activist, and...	American Women -- Authors and journalists	KPFK, Mar. 8, 1977.
KZ0806	Shoulder to shoulder / Midge McKenzie interviewed by Beverly Polokoff	Beverly Polokoff of KPFK interviews Midge MacKenzie (1938-2004), documentary film maker,...	American Women -- International women, American Women -- Women's history	KPFK, 1976.
BB4214	Should abortion be legalized? : a public forum / moderated by Bob Kaufman	"Should abortion be legalized?: a public forum. Part 1 gives three points of view on the...	American Women -- Reproductive rights	KPFK, 17 May 1964.
BC0830	Shirley Chisholm : campaign and interview / produced by Miriam Rosen.	Short interview with African-American Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm (b. November 30, 1924 – d....	American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination, American Women -- Politicians and politics	WBAI, 20 June 1972.
KZ1272	Shigeko Sasamori addresses Physicians for Social Responsibility.	Shigeko Sasamori, a "Hiroshima Maiden" who survived the dropping of the atomic bomb...	American Women -- International women, American Women -- Activists	KPFK, 1980?
BB1592	Shelter for the shelterless / Reverend Glenn Smiley interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson	Elsa Knight Thompson interviews Reverend Glenn Smiley, Associate Secretary in charge of field...	American Women -- Peace and Antinuclear activism	KPFA, May 19, 1962
IZ0219	Sheila Tobias speaks at the NOW conference, 1972; recorded by Lynne Robbins.	Sheila Tobias, Associate Provost of Wesleyan University, speaks on the programs for and problems...	American Women -- Politicians and politics	WBAI, Aug. 28, 1972.
BC1144	She who is electric / Judy Grahn.	Women-loving poems by poet Judy Grahn (1940 - ), including She Who and The Common Women series....	American Women -- Lesbians, American Women -- Poetry	KPFA, Dec. 1972.
BC0991	She also ran / produced by Jan Legnitto, Ruth Rosen and Isabel Welsh.	In 1872, Victoria C. Woodhull (1838-1927) became the first woman to run for President of the...	American Women -- Women's history, American Women -- Politicians and politics	KPFA, 6 Nov. 1972.
AZ1662	Sharing feminism: empowerment or imperialism? / Mary E. Hunt	A discuss of feminist liberation theology in Latin America by Mary E. Hunt at the Graduate...	American Women -- Activists, American Women -- Feminism	KPFA, January 2, 1982.
BB4147	Shakespeare's sister / Fran Teague	Talk about the discrimination and limited roles of women during the Renaissance. Fran Teague...	American Women -- Women's history	KPFT, May 1972 and KPFK, September 5, 1972
KZ0197.03	Sexuality, violence, and aggression / lecture and interview with Dr. Carl Faber (Episode 3 of 4)	This is the third episode "Sexuality, violence, and aggression" in a four part series...	American Women -- Men's commentary and experiences, American Women -- Sex	KPFK, 8 March 1977.
IZ1377.01	Sexuality and the family	This week: Sexuality and the family with Lynne Zeavin, Howard Gatlin, and Muriel Dimen. No phone...	American Women -- Psychology and psychotherapy, American Women -- Sex	WBAI, May 26, 1981
KZ0776	Sexual survival / Dennis Munjack ; interviewed by Richard Mahler.	KPFK's Richard Mahler talks about human sexuality with sex therapist Dennis Munjack, M.D....	American Women -- Sex, American Women -- Men's commentary and experiences	KPFK, Oct. 8, 1979.
BC0672	Sexual slavery : alternative visions	Antoinette Bower presents a dramatic reading of differing approaches to woman's role in...	American Women -- Authors and journalists, American Women -- Feminism	KPFK, February 29, 1972
KZ1071	Sexual shakedown : the sexual harassment of women on the job / Lin Farley interviewed by Helene Rosenbluth	Helene Rosenbluth interviews author Lin Farley on her book "Sexual shakedown: the sexual...	American Women -- Authors and journalists, American Women -- Work and unions	KPFK, Jan. 23, 1980.
BC0943.01	Sexual response in women and men / Joy Norin and Leslie Cohen	This program deals with sexual response in women and men. The speakers are Joy Norin and Leslie...	American Women -- Health, American Women -- Sex	WBAI, June 24 and September 10, 1972
IZ0502	Sexual politics today	Sexual Politics Today : Produced by WBAI. Recorded on April 10, 1978. Psychotherapist Diane...	American Women -- Psychology and psychotherapy, American Women -- Marriage and divorce	WBAI, 10 Apr. 1978
BC0981.02	Sexual liberation and women's liberation / Mary Jane Sherfey (Episode 2)	Dr. Mary Jane Sherfey (1918-1983), a practicing psychiatrist and author of "The Nature and...	American Women -- Sex, American Women -- Feminism	WBAI, 26 Sept. 1972.
BB1283	Sexual freedom: the middle road / Lester Kirkendall	Dr. Lester Kirkendall, Professor of Family Life at Oregon State University and author of "The...	American Women -- Sex, American Women -- Reproductive rights	KPFA, April 8, 1967
WZ0094	Sexual assault / produced by Sophie's Parlor Media Collective.	On sexism, racism and rape; focus on the cases of Inez Garcia and Joan Little. Host Del Dobbins...	American Women -- Violence against women	WPFW, July 15, 1977 and February 6, 1978
IZ0672	Sexual abuse of children	Viv Sutherland interviews Florence Rush, author of "Sexual abuse of children: the best kept...	American Women -- Parenting and children, American Women -- Violence against women	WBAI, December 14, 1980
AZ0069	Sexism on the hill / Ellin O'Leary	Reporter Ellin O'Leary talks about how sexism and racism stands in the way of female...	American Women -- Authors and journalists, American Women -- Politicians and politics	KPFA, 1977.
BC2781	Sexism and racism / Gloria Steinem and Margaret Sloan.	Gloria Steinem and Margaret Sloan-Hunter, in a joint appearance at the Brooklyn Montessori...	American Women -- Feminism, American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination	WBAI, 2 June 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.
BB4475.02	Sex, sex, sex (Episode 2)	Dr. Nancy Rosser, a resident psychiatrist at the neuropsychiatric institute at University of...	American Women -- Sex, American Women -- Lesbians	KPFK, 8 June 1970
BB4485.04	Sex without babies (Episode 4)	Dr. H. Curtis Wood, medical consultant of the Association for Voluntary Sterilization, and...	American Women -- Reproductive rights	KPFK, 6 Aug. 1968.
IZ1393	Sex discrimination: women of the C.U.N.Y. system	Mimi Rosenberg speaks with three women: Lilia Melani, Sandy Cooper, and Nancy Dean. They discuss...	American Women -- Work and unions, American Women -- Education	WBAI, January 1979
BB4727	Sex and the teenager / Ruth B. Michaelson.	Ruth B. Michaelson, M.A., psychologist, discusses the sexual activities and problems of...	American Women -- Sex	KPFK, 18 Oct. 1963.
BB4451.07	Sex and the sword of Damocles (Episode 7 of 12)	Talk on the legal and social assumptions about women's sexuality. Hosted by Nancy Reeves,...	American Women -- Feminism	KPFK, 31 Jan. 1967.
BB0722.08	Sex and the mass media / Rose Franzblau. (Episode 8 of 12)	The second afternoon speaker at the symposium "The Uncertain Quest - The Dilemmas of Sex...	American Women -- Sex	KPFA, 10 Apr. 1965.
BC1495	Sex and birth control for the teenager	Barbara Cady talks with Ellen Peck (1942-1995) and Stewart Mott (1937-2008). Ellen Peck is a...	American Women -- Sex, American Women -- Parenting and children	KPFK, November 13, 1973
IZ1382	Sex and art: scholarship and vulgarity	A program on sex and art. Begins with a reading from Edward Albee's introduction to...	American Women -- Art and artists	WBAI, June 11, 1980
KZ0451.02	Sex : the male ego / by Dr. Albert E. Ross (Episode 2 of 7, Part 1 of 2)	In his second lecture in the series, Dr. Al Ross explores our attitudes toward sex and sexuality...	American Women -- Men's commentary and experiences	KPFK, 11 Jan. 1978.
IZ0438	Seven times around: interview with Women's suffrage activist Isola Dodic	Marjorie DeFazio interviews suffragist, Isola Dodic (1892-1986) about her suffragist activity...	American Women -- Activists, American Women -- Women's history	WBAI, 25 Oct. 1978
AZ0232	Setting the stage, 1949 : enter the Cold War	The mood of the Cold War era is explored in interviews with Jessica Mitford, Helga Lohr-Bailey,...	American Women -- Politicians and politics	KPFA, Mar. 1, 1979.
BB1303	Sentencing of the Berkeley free speech movement defendants	Speeches and interviews given by Free Speech Movement defendants as they are sentenced, enter,...	American Women -- Activists	KPFA, June 30, 1967; July 1, 1967.
BC0312.02	Sensuality in marriage: question-and-answer session / Maxine Serett. (Episode 2 of 4)	Maxine Serett, author of the book "The Housewife's handbook on selective promiscuity" (under the...	American Women -- Marriage and divorce, American Women -- Sex	KPFK, 27 Jan. 1965.
BC0312.01	Sensuality in marriage: lecture / Maxine Serett. (Episode 1 of 4)	Maxine Serett, author of the book "The Housewife's handbook on selective promiscuity" (under the...	American Women -- Marriage and divorce, American Women -- Sex	KPFK, 20 Jan. 1965.
PZ0492	Second Birth: Anais Nin At College Of Marin, California, 1973	Anais Nin [1903-1977] speech to students at College of Marin, California, 1973. She discusses...	American Women -- Authors and journalists	Pacifica National Programming, 1973
IZ1420	Sea-Spell and Moor-Magic by Sorche Nic Leodhas	Fredi Dundee reads from a collection of stories by Sorche Nic Leodhas entitled “Sea-spell and...	American Women -- Authors and journalists	WBAI, October 7, 1969
KZ0716	Screen actors stand up for Jane Fonda : a speech by Kathleen Nolan	On July 20, 1979, the California State Senate overwhelmingly rejected the appointment of Jane...	American Women -- Film and television, American Women -- Activists	KPFK, 7 Aug. 1979.
AZ0027	Science story	Science Story was a bi-monthly program dedicated to the demystification of science and medicine...	American Women -- Science and scientists	KPFA, January 1977 through circa May 1978
IZ1428	Science reporter Laurie Garrett speaks about the AIDS epidemic	Interview with science reporter for National Public Radio, Laurie Garrett, about the political...	American Women -- Health	WBAI, ca. 1988 (date unknown)
BC2908.01	Science fiction, ideology, and evolving consciousness / hosted by Linda Strawn (Episode 1 of 5)	Linda Strawn hosts this program which includes interviews with researchers and activists on the...	American Women -- Science and scientists	KPFK, 3 Mar. 1976.
IZ1464	School of hard knocks or, mallets with forethought	Jan Albert hosts his program about the resumed construction (after a 37-year of hiatus) of the...	American Women -- Work and unions	WBAI, June 18, 1980
BC0954	Sappho was a right-on woman.	A discussion about lesbians and lesbianism in America: their oppression and liberation, their...	American Women -- Lesbians	KPFA, 29 Sept. 1972; Nov. 1972.
BB2018	Sappho / read by Beryl Grafton	Sappho. The lyrics of the Greek poetess born between 615-612 BC are read by Beryl Grafton,...	American Women -- Poetry	KPFA, February 27, 1968
BC0799	Santa Maria de Iquique / produced by Elizabeth Farnsworth.	Historical documentary about the 1907 massacre of 3,600 men, women, and children during a labor...	American Women -- Work and unions, American Women -- International women	KPFA, 21 Mar. 1972; 24 May 1972.
AZ0706	Sandy Silver speaks out against the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant	A member of Mothers for Peace, the organization which brought a lawsuit against the Diablo...	American Women -- Peace and Antinuclear activism	KPFA, September 1981
AZ1665	San Francisco Women's Music Festival, 1974	Recordings from the 1974 San Francisco Women's Music Festival, recorded at the First...	American Women -- Music and musicians	KPFA, February 4, 1974
BC0707	San Francisco women's liberation media project (Episode 3)	The third collage, produced by the San Francisco Women's Liberation Media Project, to...	American Women -- Radical Feminism, American Women -- Radio	KPFA, 6 Nov. 1970; 8 Mar. 1971.
BC0693	San Francisco women's liberation media project (Episode 2)	The second collage of music and words produced by the San Francisco Women's Liberation...	American Women -- Radical Feminism, American Women -- Radio	KPFA, 26 Aug. 1970.
BC0098	San Francisco women's liberation media project (Episode 1)	Collage of music and sound, prepared by the Women's Liberation Media Project, designed to...	American Women -- Radical Feminism, American Women -- Radio	KPFA, 8 July 1970.
AZ0147	Samille Gooden interviewed by Angela Davis	Angela Davis speaks with Samille Gooden, president of local 1695 of the American Federation of...	American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination, American Women -- Work and unions	KPFA, January 23, 1978
IZ1433	Sally George reads four short stories	Sally George reads four short stories: Dreaming; Hard Winter; Church Music; and Peter, Peter....	American Women -- Authors and journalists	WBAI, November 8, 1978
IZ1361	Sagaris and the August 7th Survival Community	This summer, 200 active feminists from all over the United States and Canada came to Lyndonville...	American Women -- Activists	WBAI, October 19, 1975
BC0633	Sadie and Maude, 1971 / Jeanette Henderson and Linda Taylor.	In this program of poetry, discussion and music dedicated to Angela Davis, two young Black women...	American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination, American Women -- Poetry	KPFK, 27 May 1971
BB5133	Sadie and Maude / Jeanette Henderson and Linda Taylor	In this program of poetry, discussion and music dedicated to Angela Davis, two young Black women...	American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination, American Women -- Poetry	KPFK, 8 Feb. 1971.
AZ0228	Ruthie Gorton sings her own songs / produced by Ed Schoenfeld	Ruthie Gorton is a Los Angeles based "movement singer" who has performed around the...	American Women -- Music and musicians	KPFA, March 25, 1977
BC2745	Ruth Gage-Colby interviewed by Dorothy Eletz	Dorothy Eletz attended the U.N. International Women's Year Conference in Mexico City [June...	American Women -- Activists	KPFK, 14 July 1975.
IZ0485	Runaways / Elizabeth Swados ; interviewed by Virginia Goldner.	Virginia Goldner speaks to Elizabeth Swados, director of the stage musical Runaways, a musical...	American Women -- Theater	WBAI, 30 May 1978.
IZ0643	Rukeyser Reading Series: Grace Paley and Allen Ginsberg interviewed by Dennis Bernstein	Rukeyser Reading Program on the Air. Part one: [30 min.] Dennis Bernstein interviews Grace Paley...	American Women -- Poetry, American Women -- Peace and Antinuclear activism	WBAI, April 6, 1980
IZ1397	Roz Baxandall on the Coalition of Labor Union Women	Bonnie Bellow and Nanette Rainone talk with historian, Roz Baxandall, who attended the founding...	American Women -- Work and unions	WBAI, April 10 and 11, 1974
AZ0534	Rosie, the red riveter / William Mandel.	Inspired by viewing the documentary The Life And Times Of Rosie The Riveter, Mandel explores the...	American Women -- International women, American Women -- Work and unions	KPFA, December 8, 1980
AZ0631.02	Rosh Hashanah through a feminist eye / Stacy Offner interviewed by Ginny Z. Berson	On the meaning of this Jewish holiday for women, both past and present; with music. Stacy Offner...	American Women -- Religion, American Women -- Feminism	KPFA, September 29, 1981
BC0601.01	Rosella Pace (Part 1 of 4)	Alvaro Cardona-Hine introduces poet Rosella Pace, who reads from her own work. Her reading is...	American Women -- Poetry	KPFK, 6 Feb. 1972.
BC2641	Rose Kushner / interviewed by Viv Sutherland	Viv Sutherland interviews Rose Kushner (1929 - 1990), author of "Breast Cancer: A Personal...	American Women -- Health	WBAI, 1975 (day unknown)

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