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| Title | Description | Keywords | Genre | PRA Archive # |
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| The Velvet Sledgehammer: April 7, 1980- Leith Mullings on sex roles |
Today's program features a talk by Dr. Leith Patricia Mullings, professor of anthropology at Columbia University. Her talk discusses the relevance of biological gender to societally assigned sex roles, presented at the 1979 "Genes and Gender" conference. Produced by Eileen Zalisk. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Mullings, Leith, Feminist anthropology, Gender roles, GENDER | American Women -- Anthropology and societal role | IZ1505 | |
| Radical psychiatry and women's oppression / Hogie Wyckoff ; introduced by Claude Steiner. |
In July of 1970, Dr. Claude Steiner, one of the founders of the Rap Center of Berkeley, offered a course in Radical Psychiatry at the Free University of Berkeley. This presentation of the course is on women's oppression and how he now deals with it in his groups. Hogie Wyckoff, also a radical therapist, presents her views and ideas for women to deal with their own oppression through radical psychiatry problem solving groups. In her presentation here she discusses the externalized and internalized oppression of women. She also discusses some fundamental principles of radical psychiatry and transactional analysis and how they can be used by women in problem solving groups. Steiner speaks for the first ten minutes and introduces Wyckoff. |
Wyckoff, Hogie., Psychotherapy., Women -- Psychology., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Steiner, Claude. | American Women -- Psychology and psychotherapy | BC0158 | |
| Local chamber music / featuring soprano Lucy Shelton (Part One only) |
A program of local Chamber music, organized by and featuring vocalist Lucy Shelton, performed at WBAI's Free Music Store on November 7, 1973. Performers include Elizabeth Wright, piano; Joanna Jenner, violin; Carol Buck and Fred Goldstein, cello; John Austin, viola; Crick Bergfeld[sp?], flute; Randy Haviland, bassoon; John Weaver, organ; and Jane Bryden, soprano. Pieces on this reel include assorted Beethoven folksongs, Shostakovich's Romantic Suite (op. 127), and Mozart's Canzonetta. Recorded in stereo by David Rapkin, produced by Candy Cohen. Part 2 of this recording is missing. Previously cataloged as IZ1461.01A. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Chamber music., Shelton, Lucy, Sopranos (Singers) | American Women -- Music and musicians | BC0709.34 | |
| Interview with Mary Kahlenberg, co-organizer of the Navajo blanket exhibition at the Rice Gallery |
The Navajo Blanket, an exhibit of blankets woven between 1840 and 1900, was gathered together and is being taken on a tour by Mary Kahlenberg. This program is an interview with her and a tour of the exhibit at the Rice Museum. Note on label: "The program is not meant to be a substitute for actually viewing the exhibit, but in conjunction with having seen it, this program provides much history and context from which the blankets have come to us." |
Indians of North America -- Art., Navajo Indians -- Art., Navajo Indians., Native Americans., Kahlenberg, Mary Hunt, Navajo blankets., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination, American Women -- Art and artists | BC1567 | |
| Moldavia minority / produced by William Mandel |
Interview done in U.S.S.R. in September 1977, with Maria Vasilievna Marievich, a female anthropologist of a Turkic-speaking tribal minority the Gagauz, living in Soviet republic, Moldavia, bordering Romania. She is the assistant head of the anthropology sector of the Academy of Sciences of Moldavia, which at the time, was in the Republic of the Soviet Union just east of Romania. First we discuss the changes in the life of her minority, as experienced by her personally, in Soviet times. She is 40, but her area was held by Romania 1920-1940 but for one year, so the "Russian Revolution" occurred for her after World War II. Then we turn to her personal autobiography: 1 of 9 children of peasants who had too little land to make ends meet and had to work as laborers on the side before the Soviets came. Two children died essentially of starvation, one of hardship-caused illness. Interview portion contains Russian spoken in low volume in right channel, Mandel's English translation in left channel. The interview is approximately 28 minutes long, followed by listener call-ins. |
Women -- Soviet Union., Minorities -- Soviet Union., Moldavia, Gagauz (Turkic people), Chișinău (Moldova), American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- International women | AZ0136.10 | |
| Our children / George Roth interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson |
George Roth, physician and member of the Committee of Responsibility, talks with Elsa Knight Thompson. Roth had just returned from South Vietnam where he selected another group of war-injured children who will be given medical aid in the United States, as he discussed in a previous interview with Elsa Knight Thompson. Roth goes into detail in describing the chemical burns, amputations, and other traumatic physical ailments suffered by the civilian children of South Vietnam as a result of the war there. The program was originally aired in two parts: part one during the KPFA Marathon in May 1970; the second part during KPFA's open hour in June 1970; then broadcast in its complete form on August 6, 1970. |
Roth, George., Vietnam -- Social conditions., Medical facilities -- Vietnam., Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Children, Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Atrocities, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Vietnam conflict, American Women -- Health | BB2486 | |
| The Immigrant Experience / produced by Beth Friend, Nina Mende and Gail Pellett |
Examination of the most intensive period of immigration to the United States, 1890-1920. The historical context, why people left the old country, the trip to New York City, getting processed at Ellis Island and first reactions to arriving. Interview with Liz Ewen, who teaches American history at Old Westbury College; variety of short interviews with the immigrants themselves (mostly women): Italian, English, Jewish, etc. Includes music, letters, readings, reports. Produced by Beth Friend, Nina Mende and Gail Pellett. The series was broadcast on three Tuesdays in January 1976, but the archives has only two reels. Previously cataloged as BC2685.01 and BC2685.02. |
Immigrants -- Personal narratives., Immigrants -- Employment -- United States., Ewen, Elizabeth, Immigration and emigration -- United States., Immigrant experience / produced by Beth Friend, Nina Mende and Gail Pellett.**The, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Women's history | BC2685 | |
| Poet Karen Stanley reads her work. |
Karen Stanley, 23-year-old Bay Area poet, reads selections of her work. Stanley was born and raised in Michigan and started writing at the age of 7. She resides in Oakland and works part-time as a mail carrier, and is also involved with the Good Earth Commune. The poems read include Of Oedipus and poets and kings, How was it not, With my hands, Life in Three Acts, I hold the sky by reborn glasses of beer, I knew a man and a river, The sky bent out of shape, Talk in the glasses of a blue Earth, Light upon light, I feel my edges all grown sharp, A round of miscellaneous lifetimes, Fishes climb this body gray, Last week's shoes in the right closet, I just needed you to say I was your woman, and The only things that feel. Announcer is not introduced. |
Poetry., Women poets, Karen Stanley., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Poetry | BC0175 | |
| Artists, craftsmen and cancer / hosted by Paul McIsaac. (Episode 9 of 11) |
Dr. Bertram Carnow of the University of Illinois School of Public Health, Gail Barazini, artist and activist, Dr. Jeanne Stellman, chemist, consultant and author of "Work is dangerous to your health," and Dr. Michael McAnn, science writer, talk about the hazards in the workplace, which artists and craftsmen are exposed to, including dyes, paints, asbestos and other materials which are carcinogenic. |
Stellman, Jeanne Mager, 1947-, McAnn, Michael., Occupational health and safety -- United States., Cancer -- Environmental aspects., Carnow, Bertram W., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Health, American Women -- Art and artists | BC2249.09 | |
| A women's music festival on WBAI (airchecks and production) |
Tape One (Part A): Judy Pasternak starts by introducing the program that just ended, "Women and the history of music," edited tapes from the "Women in the arts: composers" panel held on May 2, 1980, at CUNY. This was the first part of the Women's music day at WBAI. Next is Jeannie Poole, the author of "Women composers of classical music" who will be talking about and playing recordings of women in classical music. This recording should be Part 1. With her is Barbara Grant, classical music scholar. Program interspersed with requests for volunteers during the pledge drive that was in progress. Also in the studio is Virginia Giordano from Ars Pro Femina. Then Ms. Poole talks more with Barbara Grant. Program originally cataloged as IZ1440 and IZ1394.03. Tape Two (Part B): a production reel with different segments from a Women's music marathon on a WBAI fundraising day. Tape one begins in the middle of a discussion between host Jeannie Gayle Pool and Barbara Grant, an expert on Hildegard von Bingen and Virginia Giordano from Ars Pro Femina about opera for and about women(00:00:00-00:11:15). Next is pitching for WBAI's fundraising marathon by an unnamed host, and later Judy Pasternak on a phone interview with Ina Glaser[sp?] about her workshop on psychological and ethical implications of the nuclear arms race and their impact on nurses. Also on phone is Mary Meredith, a nurse who has worked at Three Mile Island. (00:11:15-00:22:15)(Transition between pitching and phone call is abrupt.) At 22:15 unnamed host introduces folk and blues singer Judy Gorman Jacobs who performs live in WBAI's studio. Original box named "Betsy Rose & Cathy Winter, Judy Gorman-Jacobs, Marion Wade" as being on this tape. Previously titled "Women's music day, Spring 1980" and cataloged as IZ1394A. Tape Three (Part C): contains host Jeannie Poole playing pieces by contemporary American women composers. Pieces played on this reel include Rebecca Clarke Fisken's "Trio"; (Sorrel) Doris Hays - "Sunday nights"; Beth Anderson - "If I were a poet," "I can't stand it," and "Skate suite"; Gloria Coates - "String quartet no.3"; Sara Aderholt - "String quartet"; Daria Semegen - "Spectrum." Guests in the studio are composer Beth Anderson and violist Jill Jaffe from the Crescent String Quartet. Discussion of the First National Women's Conference of Music, which will take place March 1981. This recording was formerly titled "Women's music day, Spring 1980" and cataloged as IZ1394B. Program IZ1221 is likely part of this day of programming, but no tape or CD can be located in the archives. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Women composers., Women musicians., Women's music, Gorman-Jacobs, Judy., Anderson, Beth, 1950-, Pool, Jeannie G. | American Women -- Music and musicians | IZ1394 |