Browse the American Women collection
| Title | Description | Keywords | Genre | PRA Archive # |
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| Football wives |
Pam Josephson, Diane Youngblood and Clarice Alexander, all wives of professional football players, reveal how much they relate to other women, to themselves, and to their husbands' world of institutionalized violence. Also discussed are their attitudes toward being in the public eye, the sexual peccadilloes of professional athletes, and football as mass media escape. The interviewer is John Brower. |
Sports -- Psychological aspects., Women -- Attitudes., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Marriage and divorce, American Women -- Relatives of notable men | BC2093 | |
| Labor fights for the ERA |
This episode of "Them and Us" is asking "Should labor unions support ERA (Equal Rights Amendment)?". Hosts are Carmen Delle Donne and Karen Boyd. Guests are Lizzie Corban, Sarah Nelson, and Susan Holleran. Includes live call-ins. Broadcast 1-19-78 Thursday, 7:00pm-8:00pm. |
Working classes -- United States., Equal Rights Amendment (Proposed)., Discrimination in employment -- United States., Radio call-in shows, Women labor unionists., Labor unions, Sex discrimination in employment, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), American Women -- Work and unions | WZ0002.02 | |
| She also ran / produced by Jan Legnitto, Ruth Rosen and Isabel Welsh. |
In 1872, Victoria C. Woodhull (1838-1927) became the first woman to run for President of the United States. On this Election Day, exactly 100 years later, Jan Legnitto, Ruth Rosen and Isabel Welsh explore the personality of the most notorious woman of the late 1800s, with excerpts from Woodhuff's writings on feminism, free love and birth control. Portions of this program were excerpted from an article by Miriam Schneier entitled "The woman who ran for president in 1872" which appeared in Ms. Magazine in September 1972. |
Legnitto, Jan., Welsh, Isabel., Women -- History., Feminists, Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Women's history, American Women -- Politicians and politics | BC0991 | |
| Women's health movement and the WATCH arrests |
Eileen Zalisk speaks with Debbie Stuart-Smalley from Womancare, a feminist healthcare center in San Diego, CA; Mary Ann Bennett, with the Abortion Rights Movement of Women's Liberation in Washington, D.C.; and Peggy Roberts, a family physician who also volunteers at a women's healthcare center in Albuquerque, NM. The topic is the legal case of Carol Downer and Ginny Cassidy-Brinn, two women's healthcare activists from Los Angeles involved with Women Acting to Combat Harassment (WATCH), who were arrested in Tallahassee, Florida for undertaking an unannounced consumer inspection of the maternity unit at Tallahassee Memorial Hospital in 1977. Discussion recorded November 8, 1979. Previously cataloged as IZ1353.02. |
Women's health services, Abortion, Abortion -- Law and legislation., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Reproductive rights, American Women -- Health | IZ1536 | |
| The Velvet Sledgehammer: November 23, 1983 (Part 1 only) |
Production reel for the November 23, 1983 episode of The Velvet Sledgehammer, hosted and produced by Eileen Zalisk. This tape contains the continuation (from the October 12th episode) of recordings from The Scholar and the Feminist Conference held April 23rd in NYC. The conferences, sponsored by the Barnard College Women's Center, centered around women and technology. This program features Dr. María Patricia Fernández Kelly and Prof. Donna Haraway speaking at the conference. This is Part 1 of 2 of the episode. Part 2 which contained a mini-documentary about marriage by Ash Correa[sp?] and a book review by Judie Pasternak, is missing. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Fernández-Kelly, María Patricia, 1948-, Haraway, Donna Jeanne, Women's studies, Feminism | American Women -- Feminism, American Women -- Science and scientists | IZ1092 | |
| Interview with Brett Harvey of The Feminist Press |
Eileen Zalisk interviews Brett Harvey of the Feminist Press, founded in 1970 in Baltimore, MD and now located in Old Westbury, NY. They discuss the founding and history of the press and what books the press has and is publishing. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Harvey, Brett., Feminist literature., Women's mass media, Women's publishers and publishing., Feminist Press, Women authors | American Women -- Feminism, American Women -- Authors and journalists | IZ1459.02 | |
| Women passing / Lynn Fonfa |
Lynn Fonfa, member of the San Francisco Lesbian History Project, talks about women who passed for men in the late 1800's and 1900's. Fonfa quotes correspondence and interviews from numerous women who "masqueraded" during that time and describes the ways in which these women passed. She is introduced by documentary filmmaker Liz Stevens. Mixed with music. Produced by Helene Rosenbluth for KPFK. |
Fonfa, Lynn, Women -- History., Lesbians -- History, Cross dressing--1890-1900, Cross dressing--1900-1910, San Francisco Lesbian and Gay History Project (Calif.), American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Lesbians, American Women -- Women's history | KZ0883 | |
| Is it Marxist feminists or feminist Marxists? |
Linda Eldon, Sherry Weber, Ethel Herring, and Jackie Goldberg discuss the relationships between the feminist and Marxist movements. Recent publications such as "The Dialectic of Sex" and "The Fourth World Manifesto" are discussed. Produced and moderated by Clare Spark (nee Loeb). Contains sensitive material. |
Feminism, Marxism., Goldberg, Jackie., Eldon, Linda., Herring, Ethel, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Nicholsen, Shierry Weber | American Women -- Feminism, American Women -- Politicians and politics | BC0758 | |
| Women: "Childness" / produced by Kay Lindsey (Episode 5 of 5) |
Part five in a series of documentaries and discussions which focus upon issues of the Women's movement, produced by Kay Lindsey. pt.5. The perspective of women as everybody's children in society. Guests are Carol Goodman of the October 17th Movement; Brian Goldfarb, a 15-year-old student; Richard Cook, a 15-year-old student at Glen Rock Community; and Nanette Rainone. The topics of discussion are the ties that bind women and children, the possibilities of breaking those ties, and what that might mean in a future society; the oppression of women by youth and vice versa; taught gender roles; the family unit; more. |
Goodman, Carol, Women's movement -- United States., Women / produced by Kay Lindsey, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Parenting., Motherhood, Rainone, Nanette. | American Women -- Feminism, American Women -- Parenting and children | BB3866.05 | |
| Women and the world in the 1980s - August 8, 1983: Interview with Kitty Tsui |
Blanche Wiesen Cook interviews Chinese-American lesbian poet Kitty Tsui (b. 1952), who was born in Hong Kong, moved to the U.K. at the age of 5, and later came to the United States. Recorded on August 8, 1983. Broadcast on August 8, 1983. Previously cataloged as IZ0478. |
Tsui, Kitty, Women poets, Asian American women, Lesbian poets, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Poetry, American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination, American Women -- Lesbians | IZ1349.14 |