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| Title | Description | Keywords | Genre |
PRA Archive # |
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| 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 | |
| Rita Mae Brown at the Woman's Building |
Writer and activist Rita Mae Brown (1944 - ) delivers a speech at the Woman's Building in Los Angeles on July 4, 1976. Brown talks about the way both men and women suffer under the patriarchy through pornographic violence and nostalgia in the mass media. She tells the audience that "you've got to become an actor, not a reactor" and that the Equal Rights Amendment is a "worn-out issue" meant to distract from more pressing issues. Brown also calls for the feminist movement to establish a public policy regarding violence. The author takes audience questions and also reads several poems (both her own and others') and a lengthy excerpt from her novel <i>In Her Day</i>. Recorded by Annette Hunt. , |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Brown, Rita Mae., Woman's Building (Los Angeles, Calif.), Lesbian authors, Hunt, Annette. | American Women -- Authors and journalists, American Women -- Lesbians | KZ1213 | Rita Mae Brown at the Women's Building (CD) |
| Lesbian sisters / Deborah Posey and Rita Mae Brown interviewed by Helene Rosenbluth |
This episode of "Lesbian Sisters" features an interview with Deborah Posey, a Black lesbian mother from Detroit and member of the Revolutionary Socialist League, who talks about the gay movement in Detroit, her family's recent harassment and forcible eviction by a homophobic landlord, and how gay liberation can only truly be achieved in a socialist society. The second half features an interview with writer Rita Mae Brown regarding the newly released edition of her book "Rubyfruit jungle," the ascendancy of the conservative right, and how people shouldn't constantly seek approval and validation from others. Ends with a calendar of local events. Music by Mary Watkins (Hiding place), and Joan Armatrading (People). Produced by Helene Rosenbluth. Program is self contained. Contains sensitive language. Outdated calendar at end. |
Brown, Rita Mae., Posey, Deborah, Lesbian mothers, Socialism, Feminists, Lesbian sisters / Deborah Posey and Rita Mae Brown ; interviewed by Helene Rosenbluth., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Work and unions, American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination | KZ1215 | |
| Which side are you on? / produced by Susan Anderson. |
Susan Anderson hosts an episode of "Richland woman" in honor of International Women's Day, March 8, 1978. She presents music of the working woman for the holiday, and the program was rebroadcast for Labor Day that year. Songs heard on the program are: Barbara Dane, "Working class woman"; Carmen Moreno and Los Lobos, "Corrido de Dolores Huerta #39"; Rosalie Sorrels - "Goodbye Joe Hill"; Hattie Burleson, "Sadie's servant room blues"; Frankie Armstrong, "I'm gonna be an engineer"; Frankie Armstrong, "Collier lass"; Aunt Molly Jackson, "Hard times in Coleman's mine"; Hazel & Alice, "Mining camp blues"; Sarah Ogan Gunning, "Come all you coal miners"; Buffy Sainte-Marie, "Rolling log blues"; Joni Mitchell, "Barangrill"; Malvina Reynolds, "Daddy's in the jail"; Judy Collins, "Brother, can you spare a dime?"; Bessie Smith, "Poor man's blues"; Joan Baez, "All the weary mothers"; and ends with a reprise of Barbara Dane, "Working class woman." |
Women -- Songs and music., International Women's Day, Working classes -- Songs and music., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Work and unions, American Women -- Music and musicians | KZ1216 | |
| Ourselves, our children / produced by Pearl Skotnes. |
February 14th, 1979 episode of "Holding up more than half the sky". Segments include: a tribute to Susan B. Anthony, including a dramatization of her trial for "having voted knowingly, wrongfully, and unlawfully"; Janet Dodson interviews Ruth Bell and Joan Ditzion, members of the Boston Women's Health Book Collective and co-authors of "Ourselves and our children: a book by and for parents" (1978). Includes music: "Frontier" by Cris Williamson, and "Everybody has to have a mother" by New Miss Alice Stone Ladies Society Orchestra. Produced by Pearl Skotnes. |
Dodson, Janet., Skotnes, Pearl., Women's movement, Women -- Political activity., Boston Women's Health Book Collective, Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Feminism, American Women -- Women's history, American Women -- Parenting and children | KZ1217 | |
| International working women's day / Neda Azad |
Using Rosa Luxemburg as a model of what women can do, Iranian feminist Neda Azad explains how Luxemburg broke from the reformist party and participated in the anti-war movement in Germany at the turn of the century. Azad points to the work of feminists who carry on the tradition in 1981. She begins by pointing out the United Nations Decade on Women. Produced by Neda Azad and Helene Rosenbluth. |
Women's movement, Luxemburg, Rosa, 1871-1919, Azad, Neda, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Work and unions, American Women -- International women | KZ1219 | |
| A Visit with the Peace Pilgrim / produced by Pearl Skotnes. |
The woman who is self-proclaimed as the Peace Pilgrim (née Mildred Norman) has been walking for peace since 1953. In this interview she discusses her psychology and philosophy and tells how she will continue to walk until there is peace in the world. Mixed with music by Malvina Reynolds, Holly Near and Chad Mitchell Trio. Produced by Pearl Skotnes, with interviewed Peace Pilgrim with assistance from Ann Rush. |
Skotnes, Pearl., Pacifists., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Peace Pilgrim, -1981 | American Women -- Peace and Antinuclear activism | KZ1220 | A Visit with the Peace Pilgrim (CD) |
| Helen Gahagan Douglas |
Helen Gahagan Douglas, who ran against Richard Nixon in the 1950 Republican congressional primary, is interviewed by two unidentified interviewers. Topics include Douglas as a victim of Nixon's "dirty tricks," Nixon's 1950 smear tactics, and the necessity of election reform. Interview occurred during Watergate circa 1973. |
Douglas, Helen Gahagan, 1900-1980, Elections -- Corrupt practices., Women politicians, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994. | American Women -- Politicians and politics | KZ1221 | Helen Gahagan Douglas |
| Chrysalis / Susan Rennie and Kirsten Grimstad interviewed by Barbara Cady |
Susan Rennie and Kirsten Grimstad, co-editors of Chrysalis: a magazine of women's culture, published by the Los Angeles Woman's Building, are interviewed by Barbara Cady. Rennie and Grimstad discuss their conception of women's culture, talk about some of the pieces they have published in the magazine, and compare themselves to other feminist magazines of the time. Program is self-contained. |
Rennie, Susan., Cady, Barbara., Grimstad, Kirsten., Women's publishers and publishing., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Authors and journalists | KZ1223 | |
| We remember Jean Donovan / produced by Blase Bonpane and Chuck Moore. |
Pat and Ray Donovan, parents of Jean Donovan, one of four American nuns who was murdered in El Salvador, are interviewed by KPFK commentator Blase Bonpane on December 24, 1980. Actor David Clennon also talks about Jean, as well as his visit to El Salvador to discover more about the death of Michael Kline, another American slain in El Salvador. Produced by Chuck Moore. |
Donovan, Pat., Clennan, David., Donovan, Ray., Bonpane, Blase., Moore, Chuck., Murder -- El Salvador., Donovan, Jean, Kline, Michael, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Activists | KZ1230 | We remember Jean Donovan / produced by Blase Bonpane and Chuck Moore. (CD) |