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| Title | Description | Keywords | Genre | PRA Archive # |
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| Sexual freedom: the middle road / Lester Kirkendall |
Dr. Lester Kirkendall, Professor of Family Life at Oregon State University and author of "The Problems of Remaining a Virgin," gives a talk entitled "Sexual Freedom: The Middle Road" at the "The Pill and the Puritan Ethic" symposium held in San Francisco on February 12, 1967. His talk attacks both the Puritan right and the libertine left on the problem of sexual ethics. Includes a question and answer session after the lecture. This talk concludes the symposium. Episode 8 in a series of 8. Sponsoring the symposium were: the Faculty Program Center of San Francisco State College, the Presbyterian Medical Center, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists--California Section, and Planned Parenthood-World Population League of San Francisco. Originally broadcast on KQED-TV. |
Kirkendall, Lester Allen, 1903-, Sex customs -- Moral and religious aspects, Birth control -- Moral and religious aspects., The Pill and the Puritan Ethic, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Sex, American Women -- Reproductive rights | BB1283 | |
| The telephone voices / produced by Jim Higgins |
This program contains interviews with several Southwestern Bell directory assistance operators, expressing what types of calls they receive and relating experiences about their work. Also includes an interview with the woman whose voice is heard on all recorded messages. Produced by Jim Higgins for KPFT. Broadcast on KPFK, April 25, 1977; KPFA, September 29, 1977. |
Telephone operators -- Personal narratives., Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Work and unions | TZ0002 | |
| Tell us all about your friends : the grand jury system / interviewed by Bruce Soloway and Jackie Friedrich |
This program is examining the new use of the Grand Jury, as a problem in American criminal justice and Constitutional law. The guests have all had first hand experience with investigative grand juries during the past year. Jim Reif, a lawyer from the Center for Constitutional Rights in New York; Tom Davidson, who was indicted in the Harrisburg Kissinger kidnapping case; Sister Carol Vericker, a member of the Sisters of Charity of the St. Vincent De Paul in New York; Judy Gumbo of the Madam Inn Brigade and who has been subpoenaed in front of the Grand Jury in New York; and Leslie Bacon who testified before a Grand Jury in Seattle. The guests are interviewed by Bruce Soloway and Jackie Friedrich. This is an edited version (produced by Tiji) of the 96-minute program produced by Bruce Soloway at WBAI on October 18, 1971. See BC0364. |
Soloway, Bruce., Friedrich, Jackie., Judicial system -- United States., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Law | BC1927 | |
| Inside the female mind |
A panel discussion on female psychology, the problems inherent in traditional methods of treatment of women, and look at the alternatives which are being explored today by women, who are traditionally the largest group of people seeking psychiatric treatment. Panel consists of Bernice Augenbraun, Marilyn Leigh and Marlene Bram. Features listener call-ins. Hosted and produced by Teri Friedrichs. |
Augenbraun, Bernice., Friedrichs, Teri., Bram, Marlene., Women -- Psychology., Psychotherapy., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Psychology and psychotherapy | BC1939 | |
| History of women workers and women in the labor movement |
Historian Dr. Blanche Wiesen Cook interviews historian Dr. Alice Kessler Harris about women and work and women in the labor movement. Harris talks about challenging the notion of work as being "work for pay" and talks about both women's household labor and women as wage workers, both historically and in contemporary times. Harris' books includes Women Have Always Worked: An Historical Overview (Feminist Press, 1982) and Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States (Oxford University Press, 1982). Produced as part of a May Day 1982 special on WBAI. The program was engineered by Julie Light and produced by Eileen Zalisk. |
LABOR MOVEMENT, Working class women, Women employees, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Kessler-Harris, Alice | American Women -- Work and unions | IZ1438 | |
| Women in science / Dr. Mary B. Kennedy, Dr. Jeanne Nerbonne and Maureen Ockert |
On this episode of The Wizard show, hosts Robert Nelson and Shel Plotkin talk with Professor Mary Kennedy of the biology department at Cal Tech; Dr. Jeanne Nerbonne, a post-doctoral research fellow at Cal Tech; and Maureen Ockert, an undergraduate student in science who also works as a data scientist at JPL, about the experiences and changing roles of women in the sciences. |
Science -- Social aspects., Women in science, Kennedy, Mary B., 1947-, Scientists., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Science and scientists | KZ1340 | |
| Recent studies in the psychology of abortion (Episode 4) |
This is the fourth program in the WBAI series on abortion. In this program, guests are Lawrence Lader, Eastern Coordinator for The National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws and author of a biography of Margaret Sanger; and Dr. Wardell Pomeroy, a doctor of clinical psychology, co-author of the Kinsey reports, and president of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex. Moderated by Lucinda Cisler and James Clapp; produced by Kay Lindsey. SERIES: Abortion| no. 4 - One in a series of discussions about abortion. - BROADCAST: WBAI, 22 Jan. 1969. Same as BB2032--this version has been preserved as part of the American Women project. |
Abortion, Abortion -- Psychological aspects., Abortion -- Law and legislation., Pomeroy, Wardell Baxter., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Lader, Lawrence | American Women -- Reproductive rights | BB3770.04 | |
| Anais Nin interviewed by Frank Roberts on her diary and letters from Henry Miller |
Author Anaïs Nin (1903-1977) talks with KPFK's Frank Roberts and reads excerpts from the book of letters to her from Henry Miller, recently published by Putnam, and from her diaries, now being readied for publication. |
Nin, Anaïs, 1903-1977, Women authors, Authorship., Roberts, Francis., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Authors and journalists | BC0900 | |
| Interview with attorney Susan McGreivy on the Norton Sound lesbian purges from the Navy |
Susan McGreivy, attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union, discusses the present state of the Norton Sound 8 case, where eight women were purged from the United States Navy for homosexuality. McGreivy talks about the evidence being presented against the women in the case as insubstantial and the result of jealousy, as well as the vagueness of attempting to "prove" homosexuality. Interviewer is Lucia Chappelle of KPFK. This recording was formerly cataloged as AZ1690. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Discrimination in the military, Chappelle, Lucia., McGreivy, Susan | American Women -- Lesbians, American Women -- Law | KZ4547 | |
| Population control as the new fascism : Germaine Greer at UCLA. |
Germaine Greer (1939 - ), Australian theorist, feminist and academic, speaks at UCLA, November, 1974. From the box label: The new fear in the world now is overpopulation, and some say that to overcome it, we must limit people's choices: i.e. compulsory birth control. But what we must do, she argues, is not submit to control, because that control is fascism. Greer criticizes Paul Ehrlich and his family planning program in India; gives a history of the birth rate in England in the early 19th century, discusses contraception, analyzes what is behind Italy's stable birth rate; and concludes that birth control propaganda is very hollow because it "blackmails" people into sterilization programs. Greer argues that we must maintain control of our bodies and expose those who cannot differentiate between the terms "population" and "people." Contains sensitive language. |
Greer, Germaine, 1939-, Ehrlich, Paul R., Women's movement, Contraception., Overpopulation -- Analysis., Sterilization (Birth control)., Birth control -- Social aspects., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Reproductive rights | BC2088 |