Browse the American Women collection
| Title | Description | Keywords | Genre | PRA Archive # |
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| Parents against the draft / interviews by Lou Hartman |
Lou Hartman talks with a psychiatrist, an electrical engineer, a teacher in a medical school, a housewife, and a professor of economics concerning their experiences in the Santa Rita Rehabilitation Center, growing out of their arrests at the Oakland Induction Center, where they sat in the doorway to demonstrate their opposition to the draft and the war in Vietnam. Guests are Genevieve Knupfer, a private practice and research psychiatrist; John Bernstein, an electrical engineer at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center; Hadley Kirkman, a teacher of microscopic anatomy in the medical school at Stanford; Virginia Brink, a housewife, formerly an administrative assistant at Stanford; and John Gurley, a professor of economics at Stanford University. This was a follow-up program to a previous broadcast during KPFA's Open Hour wherein Hartman interviewed young adults who had also participated in the sit-in and were subsequently incarcerated at Santa Rita. |
Prisoners -- Personal narratives., Protests, demonstrations, vigils, etc. -- California., Santa Rita Rehabilitation Center (Pleasanton, Calif.), Draft resistance -- California., Gurley, John G., Kirkman, Hadley, 1901-1997, Knupfer, Genevieve, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Peace and Antinuclear activism, American Women -- Vietnam conflict | BB1485 | |
| The Powerful Jew : myth or reality? / Lynn Kerman and Erica Silverman |
Ellen Willis wrote an article called "The myth of the powerful Jew," which was published in a September 1979 edition of New York City's free paper the Village Voice, as part of an ongoing debate on Black-Jewish relations appearing in that paper. KPFK's Helene Rosenbluth and Anita Frankel read excerpts of the article in this program, and then are joined by Jewish feminists Lynn Kerman (sp?) and Erica Silverman in a discussion with listener phone-ins. Varied viewpoints; important discussion. Begins and ends with the Phoebe Snow song "Take your children home." Self-contained. Low left channel - voices off mike in beginning. |
Willis, Ellen, Jews -- Identity., Blacks -- Relations with Jews., Silverman, Erica, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Leiman, Lynn | American Women -- Authors and journalists, American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination | KZ0775 | |
| Women in the United Kingdom |
Viv Sutherland talks with professor Helen Baehr of the Center Polyclinic of London about the status of women in the United Kingdom. |
Baehr, Helen, Women -- Great Britain, Feminism, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- International women | BC2196.20 | |
| It's your body / by Dr. Niels Lauersen interviewed by Clara Kern |
Producer Clara Kern interviews Dr. Niels Lauersen on the responsibility and prerogatives of women's health care through his best-selling gynecological guide, "It's your body." Lauersen advises women to take care in selecting a doctor, that people need to be partners with their doctor for health. He also talks specifically about cramps, breast cancer, infertility, and abortion. Broadcast October 1982. |
Medical care -- Quality control., Lauersen, Niels H., Healthcare for women, Women -- Health., Women -- Medical care., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Health | TZ0028 | |
| Lesbian sexuality |
This episode of the Lesbian Radio Spectacular with a Cast of Millions, hosted by Judy Pasternak, is on lesbian sexuality. The guests are Sharon, Shelley, and Melinda. Program opens with "I'd like to make love to you" by Margaret Sloan from the compilation by the Lesbian Feminist Liberation "A Few Loving Women." There are announcements about lesbian events for the first ten minutes. Then poetry by Sharon and Shelly and a song by Cassie Culver about oral sex are played. This is a very honest and personal conversation among lesbian friends about their sex lives. This program was inspired by the recently released Hite Report. Phone calls are taken during the second part of the program. Closes with "The Woman In Your Life" by Alix Dobkin from her album Lavender Jane. |
Lesbians, Women -- Sexuality., Lesbian couples, Sex, Hite, Shere, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Lesbians, American Women -- Sex | IZ1455.01 | |
| How to do your own divorce / Charles E. Sherman ; interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson. |
Attorney Charles E. Sherman, better known as Ed Sherman, author of the book "How to do your own divorce in California" (Occidental, CA: Nolo Press, 1972), talks to Elsa Knight Thompson. Sherman advises not representing yourself in a divorce case, and discusses legal fees, divorce rates, and religious versus legal interpretations of divorce law. Also broadcast on WBAI on 7/28/71. |
Thompson, Elsa Knight, Sherman, Charles Edward, 1938-, Divorce -- United States., Law -- Examinations, questions, etc., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Men's commentary and experiences | BB5504 | |
| Penelope Gilliatt interviewed by Anne Fremantle (Episode 5 of 5) |
Anne Fremantle interviews Penelope Gilliatt (1932 - 1993) -- film critic for the New Yorker, fiction writer, and screenwriter about her work and career. She talks about her recently published book on Jean Renoir, and how she manages to be both creative and a critic. Produced by WBAI's Drama and Literature Department under the auspices of PEN (Poets/Playwrights, Essayists/Editors, Novelists). |
Gilliatt, Penelope., Women authors, Film criticism., Penelope Gilliatt / interviewed by Anne Freemantle., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Film and television, American Women -- Authors and journalists | BC2945.05 | |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: partners in the solutions of women's problems (Episode 5 of 6) |
The fifth in a series of six episodes on important women in American history presented by historian Gerda Lerner. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, founders of the National Woman Suffrage Association. With this lecture, Lerner attempts to expose the suffragists as human beings rather than symbols, and to put into context the work that they did and the sacrifices they made for solving women's problems. |
Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906, Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902, Suffrage -- United States., Women -- Suffrage -- United States., Women -- United States -- History., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Activists, American Women -- Women's history | BB3802.05 | |
| Women's legal clinic: May 7, 1979-Legal rights related to pregnancy |
The topic of this week's Women's Legal Clinic is pregnancy, disability, and women's legal rights with respect to pregnancy. Hosts are Eve Cary and Judy Levin. Cary is an attorney with Legal Aid Society of New York and the author of the NYCLU Guide to Women's Rights in New York State. Levin is an attorney with the ACLU Reproductive Rights Program. Broadcast live with listener phone calls. Produced by Eileen Zalisk. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Pregnancy., Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States., Women's rights, Sex discrimination against women -- Law and legislation, Pregnancy, Unwanted., Pregnant women -- Employment -- United States. | American Women -- Work and unions | IZ0449.06 | |
| U.S. prisoners in North Vietnam / Madeline Duckles interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson |
An interview with Madeline Duckles, of Women for Peace, who was one of three American women who went to Hanoi for two weeks in December 1969 at the invitation of the North Vietnamese Women's Union. She talks with KPFA's program director Elsa Knight Thompson. There is no intro; the first voice heard is Madeline Duckles. First broadcast on KPFA's open hour the same day it was recorded. |
Duckles, Madeline, 1915-2013, Prisoners of war -- Vietnam., Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Personal narratives., KPFA open hour, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Vietnam conflict, American Women -- Peace and Antinuclear activism | BB2306 |