Browse the American Women collection
| Title | Description | Keywords | Genre | PRA Archive # |
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| Here she is: the making of Miss America, 1970 / reported by Mary Lou Oates; produced by Robert Kuttner |
Report and actuality of the events surrounding a major beauty pageant, including a protest and police interaction. An impressionistic documentary about the Miss America Pageant, September 2-7 in Atlantic City. Includes interviews with contestants, chairwoman of the Miss America Hostess Committee, chairman of the Executive Committee of the Miss America Pageant, other reporters at the event, and local residents of Atlantic City, including a bartender and a local prostitute. Reported by Mary Lou (Marylouise) Oates and Bob Kuttner. Produced by Bob Kuttner. |
Miss America Pageant, Women in mass media., Sex discrimination against women, Women's movement, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Feminism | BB4155 | |
| Rose Kushner / interviewed by Viv Sutherland |
Viv Sutherland interviews Rose Kushner (1929 - 1990), author of "Breast Cancer: A Personal History and Investigative Report" about her experience having breast cancer and current practices treating breast cancer. |
Kushner, Rose, Cancer, Breast -- Radiography, Breast -- Cancer, Cancer in women., Rose Kushner / interviewed by Viv Sutherland., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Health | BC2641 | |
| I remember Mama |
Collage of interviews with women talking about mothering. Recorded and broadcast: May 9, 1982. Produced by Marsha Steinberg and Suzi Weissman. |
Motherhood, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Parenting and children | KZ2393 | |
| Report on the Congress to Unite Women |
This is a February 1985 rebroadcast of a November 1969 Womankind episode, hosted by Nannette Rainone. The episode is a rundown of events at the 1969 Congress to Unite Women held in New York on November 21-23, 1969. Guests are four women who were at the Congress: Shulamith Firestone (1945-2012), active in Women's Liberation in New York and currently writing a book on Radical Feminism; Rosalyn Regelson (1921-1996), freelance arts writer at the New York times, who is writing a book about Sex and the Revolution; Ann Koedt (b. 1941), a member of the Stanton-Anthony Brigade for Radical Feminism and has written a paper on The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm; and journalist Lucy Komisar (b. 1942), a member of Mediawomen and the National Organization for Women. |
Women's organizations., Feminists, New York Radical Feminists, Koedt, Anne, Komisar, Lucy, 1942-, Firestone, Shulamith, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Radical Feminism, American Women -- Feminism | BB3958.01 | |
| 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 work for the Fellowship of Reconciliation about their recent efforts to help provide housing to those in need. They talk about a new program for housing millions worldwide who have no dwellings, building fallout shelters and the threat of nuclear war to people who don't have proper shelter. Smiley also discusses the need for nonviolent protest against nuclear war, and the possibility that our worst danger is our own fear. |
Smiley, Glenn E., Public welfare., Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.), Fallout shelters, Shelters for the Shelterless (Project), Shelters for the homeless, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Peace and Antinuclear activism | BB1592 | |
| The cost of naivete / Clark Vincent. (Episode 4 of 12) |
The third speaker at the symposium "The Uncertain Quest - The Dilemmas of Sex Education," produced by and held at the University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco and simulcast on KPFA, is Dr. Clark E. Vincent, Ph.D. He is a Professor of Sociology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at The Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Wake Forest College, Winston-Salem, NC. He talks on the need for proper sex education. |
Sex instruction, Adolescent psychology., Teenagers -- Sexuality., Vincent, Clark E., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Sex | BB0722.04 | |
| Interview with Mamie Williams |
This July is WPFW's tribute to women month, and Upstream is celebrating with programs about "living legends." This episode is an interview with Reverend Mamie Williams of the Calvary United Methodist Church in Northwest Washington, D.C. Produced by Nikki Jeter and Marie Smith. Program opens with a song "Cosmic Climax"(?) artist unknown and "The Creator Has a Master Plan" by Pharoah Sanders. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Williams, Mamie, African American Women, Women religious leaders, African American women -- Religious life | American Women -- Religion, American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination | WZ0255.01 | |
| Debate on the Equal Rights Amendment (E.R.A.) |
This recording is of a debate on the Equal Rights Amendment held before a meeting of the American Women in Radio and T.V. on March 27, 1975. The debate between Karen DeCrow, President of N.O.W. and Phyllis Schlafly, leader of "Stop E.R.A." is chaired by Maureen Christopher, radio and T.V. editor for Advertising Age. The questions in the Q&A period have been re-recorded as they were inaudible in the original recording. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Equal Rights Amendment (Proposed)., DeCrow, Karen, Schlafly, Phyllis, Anti-feminism, National Organization for Women | American Women -- Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) | IZ1426 | |
| Circle of sound |
This recording is inspired from a live event last August (1973) at the Manhattan Theater Club entitled "Circle of Sound". Eight women composers sang their own music, as produced by the club. The event was assembled and directed by Christopher Alden. The host is Lynn Meadow, executive and artistic director of the Manhattan Theater Club. OBIE winners Gretchen Cryer and Nancy Ford are among the composers included. Other songs in this recording are performed by Paula Lark, Terry Molina[sp?], and Taro Meyer. |
Cryer, Gretchen., Women composers., Music, Popular (Songs, etc.) -- United States., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Theater, American Women -- Music and musicians | BC1739 | |
| San Francisco women's liberation media project (Episode 2) |
The second collage of music and words produced by the San Francisco Women's Liberation Media Project for KPFA, to further the struggle for women's liberation. Includes pronouncements about the women's liberation movement: women and housework, women and bodily autonomy, the structure of women's liberation groups and others. Also includes brief news segments on: women protesting the San Francisco Chronicle; efforts by women to free Black Panther Joan Bird from prison; a women's protest at a Boston consulting firm; the formation of Trapped Housewives Anonymous in San Diego; welfare mothers protesting in Alameda County; Washington, D.C.'s General Hospital refusing to provide abortions for women; and others. Pre-recorded music woven between each segment. None of the speakers are introduced. |
Feminist movement, Women's liberation media project., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Radical Feminism, American Women -- Radio | BC0693 |