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| Title | Description | Keywords | Genre | PRA Archive # |
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| Household workers / produced by Nanette Rainone and Bonnie Bellow. |
This report is on the recent and unprecedented organization of household workers, and includes interviews recorded during the 2nd National Committee on Household Employment (NCHE) conference held in New York (ca. October 1972). At the conference, six hundred household workers met to hear speeches from the likes of Gloria Steinem and Shirley Chisholm. There are nearly 1.5 million household workers, 97% of whom are women and 2/3 of whom are Black. The conference included the announcement of the formation of the Household Technicians of America. Interviewees include Edith Sloan, Executive Director and Josephine "Jo" Hulett, organizer for NCHE. Other interviewees are unnamed household workers. This program was part of a series called "The Household Worker" broadcast on WBAI during the month of December 1972 (according to WBAI December 1972 folio). Produced by Nanette Rainone and Bonnie Bellow. |
Household employees, Labor organizing., Natinal Committee on Household Employment, Household Technicians of America, Sloan, Edith Barksdale, Bellow, Bonnie., Rainone, Nanette., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Work and unions | BC1069 | |
| Interview with Eleanor Cooper of the Women's Liberation Center |
Judy Pasternak interviews Eleanor Cooper of the Women's Liberation Center of New York about the history of the center and the what takes place at the center. Thisis an edited excerpt from More Than Half the World, Sunday, February 11, 1979. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Cooper, Eleanor., Women’s Liberation Center of New York, Feminists, Feminism -- History., Women's organizations. | American Women -- Feminism | IZ1456 | |
| Design process Olivetti, 1908-1978 / Nathan Shapira ; interviewed by Clare Spark. |
UCLA professor discusses industrial design, the role of the user in design, corporate patronage, the role of women in the Olivetti corporation, and the Olivetti exhibition which he prepared at UCLA. Also a discussion of the new satellite technology for public radio. |
Shapira, Nathan H., Spark, Clare., Women workers., Industrial design -- Italy., Exhibitions., Industry -- Social aspects., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Art and artists | KZ0929 | |
| The novel of the future : realism and reality in the novel |
Anais Nin (1902-1977) introduces this program as a summary of many discussions she's had while traveling and speaking all over the United States on writing and the "novel of the future." She says her novel of the future will employ such diverse techniques as the interior monologue, stream of consciousness, symbolism, abstraction, and metaphor, to interpret character and experience, and which stems from writers such as Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Virginia Woolf, and D. H. Lawrence. The program is interspersed with readings from her work "Realism and Reality". Recording likely a rebroadcast of a July 13, 1960 program, though there is no indication on the tape box or record. |
Radio programs -- Fiction., Literature -- History and criticism., Nin, Anaïs, 1903-1977, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Poetry | BC0899 | |
| Consciousness raising-KPFA (Episode 3 of 4): Role-playing |
Consciousness raising. An examination of role-playing and stereotypes that oppress women: "The lesbian," "The single mother," "The Lady," "The woman as provider," "The attractive woman," "Masculine-feminine roles," "Married woman," "Childless woman," "Single women who are pregnant,"Women as sex object." Consciousness raising broadcasts began by playing taped sessions, then listeners could call in and share their experiences and feelings. This recording is only the taped CR group. Previously numbered BC1087.04. |
Consciousness raising., Women -- Psychology., Women -- Social conditions., Women -- Personal narratives., Sex role, Consciousness raising / produced by Jan Legnitto., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Feminism, American Women -- Beauty and body image, American Women -- Marriage and divorce | BC1087.03 | |
| Reactions to the Redstockings journal, "Feminist Revolution" |
Local women discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the Redstockings journal, "Feminist Revolution," and about some of the issues raised by the journal: leadership, separatism, cultural feminism, social issues, and men. The guests are Judith Van Allen, a socialist who has taught courses about women in politics at SF State, San Jose State and UC Berkeley's Strawberry Creek College; Nicki Sachs, radical activist and lesbian who teaches a women's work seminar at UC Berkeley; and Martha Shelley, poet and lesbian who works at the Women's Press Collective. Hosted by Susan Elisabeth, produced for KPFA by Susan Elisabeth, Nicki Sachs and Clare Freewoman. The Archives' copy of this recording lacks music cues. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Redstockings, Inc., Shelley, Martha, Sachs, Nicki, Van Allen, Judith | American Women -- Radical Feminism | AZ1674.03 | |
| The Relationship of the Lesbian Feminist Movement and the Gay Movement : a National Gay Task Force Panel / produced by Ronald Gold. |
A tape of the National Gay Task Force (NGTF)'s December 1975 panel on the relationship between the lesbian feminist movement and the gay movement. The panel was held at NYU Medical Center's Schwartz Auditorium and was chaired by Jean O'Leary, legislative director of the NGTF . The panelists are Betty Powell, instructor of foreign language theory and sociology of education at Brooklyn College and member of the Board of Directors of the NGTF; Martin Duberman, playwright and historian; Ronnie B. Smith, special projects director for the New York State Division of Human Rights and New York State Women's Political Caucus; Bert Hansen, assistant professor of history at the State University of New York-Binghamton; Cathy Samuels, director of the National Women's Agenda Project and author of the book The Forgotten Five Million: Women in Public Employment: A Guide to Eliminating Sex Discrimination; Charlotte Bunch, editor for Quest, a feminist quarterly, resident fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies, and member of the Board of Directors of the NGTF. The two respondents heard on the recording are Roger Wilkins, former Assistant Attorney General and member of the editorial board of the New York Times; and Charlotte Curtis, editor of the op-ed page and associate editor of the New York Times. The panel was held at NYU Medical Center's Schwartz Auditorium. Produced for WBAI by Ron Gold. Executive Producer: Jeffrey Shaw. |
Curtis, Charlotte, 1928-1987, Gold, Ronald., Powell, Betty., Smith, Ronnie., O'Leary, Jean., Samuels, Catherine, 1947-, Bunch, Charlotte, 1944-, Wilkins, Roger W., 1932-, Gay liberation movement., Feminism, Lesbianism and feminism, Duberman, Martin B., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Lesbians, American Women -- Feminism | IZ0018 | |
| KPFA poetry festival (1977) / recorded by Randy Thom and Doug Maisel. |
KPFA Poetry Festival May 14, 1977. From the folio: "On Saturday, May 14, U.C.'s S.U.P.E.R.B. Productions will present what will be the biggest poetry reading staged in the Bay Area since the Vietnam era, and perhaps the biggest ever. And all on behalf of raising funds for KPFA! KPFA and Pacifica have long been an important medium for the presentation of the works of contemporary poets. So it is fitting that KPFA now be the 'cause' for the poets and their toilers to rally around. The first part of the festival opens with Allen Ginsberg leading the audience in breathing exercises, mantra and an approx 2 minute silent meditation. He then sings Wiliam Blake's "Voices of the Bard". He is followed by Fred Cody, Bobbie Louise Hawkins, and Jana Harris. The second part of the festival begins with Harlem's David Henderson followed by Jessica Hagedorn reading with musical accompaniment by Steve Marshall (clarinet, saxophone, flute), Clara Williams and Ota[sp?] (vocals), Hashima Mark Williams (bass), Bob Marshall (drums), William Brown (electric guitar), and Bugsy Moore (percussion). This tape ends with a mystical, miniature sermon by 1968 National Book Award winner Robert Bly, incorporating poems by, among others, Rilke, Yeats, and the world's first whirling dervish. Part three begins with Max Schwartz, poet and host of KPFA's prison poetry show STATE OF EMERGENCY, who conducts a spontaneous jam with his jazz musician friends. Edward Dorn, Joanne Kyger, and Simon Ortiz are the other poets on this program. The fourth part of the Poetry Festival begins with a reading by Lewis MacAdams, who opens with the question "What do you do if you are raised in Iowa and you still want to be a poet?" Next is Puerto Rican poet Victor Hernandez Cruz, followed by poet, novelist and publisher Ishmael Reed. This part finishes with the dynamic poet Alta of the Shameless Hussy Press. The fifth and final part of the program is Allen Ginsberg singing songs (with musical accompaniment) and reading poetry. More information about the event available in the folios here: https://archive.org/details/kpfafoliojul77paci and here: https://archive.org/details/kpfafoliomay77paci |
KPFA Poetry Festival 1977, Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-, Cody, Fred., Hawkins, Bobbie Louise., Harris, Jana, 1947-, Henderson, David, 1942-, Hagedorn, Jessica Tarahata, 1949-, Bly, Robert., Schwartz, Max, Dorn, Edward., Kyger, Joanne., MacAdams, Lewis., Ortiz, Simon J., 1941-, Cruz, Victor Hernandez, 1949-, Reed, Ishmael, 1938-, Alta, 1942-, McClure, Michael., McClure, Michael. Beard, Soldofsky, Alan., Poetry reading, Beat generation -- Poetry, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Poetry | AZ0079 | |
| The Velvet Sledgehammer: July 30, 1980 (Part 1 only) |
This is the production reel for the July 30, 1980 episode of The Velvet Sledgehammer. This recording contains a reading by Kate Millet of her statement denouncing death by stoning of Iranian women in Iran. Next is Eileen Zalisk interviewing Marge DeFazio about Women 80 and a planned march down 5th Ave upcoming on August 26, 1980. Next is a talk by African American physician Linda Harris on racism in health care, particularly for minority women, from the June 1980 Women for Racial and Economic Equality (WREE) Conference. Last is "Mirror Images," a segment on women office holders--today's featured women are Hannah Jensen Kempfer (1880-1943), Minnesota Legislator, and Grace Montañez Davis (b. 1926), former Deputy Mayor of Los Angeles, CA. Produced by Eileen Zalisk. This is part 1 of 2, part 2 missing. On part 2: Soho 20 [Art Gallery?] Tape by Ann Stubb [?]. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Millett, Kate., Women -- Iran -- Social conditions., Women's organizations., Women's health services, Women politicians, Women for Racial and Economic Equality (Organization) | American Women -- International women, American Women -- Activists, American Women -- Health, American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination, American Women -- Politicians and politics | IZ1076 | |
| Majority report, December 4, 1982: Barbara Christian |
Barbara Christian (1943 - 2000) delivers a speech as part of the lecture series on "Gender, Race and Class in Society" sponsored by the Center for Research on Women (CROW) at Stanford University, April 1982. Christian is chair of the Afro-American Studies Department at UC Berkeley and author of "Black Women Novelists, 1892-1977: the Development of a Tradition" (Greenwood Press, 1980). In this speech, Christian discusses the tradition of Afro-American women poets, and reads from the works of Alice Walker and June Jordan. Aired as part of the Woman's Magazine program on December 4, 1982. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Christian, Barbara, 1943-2000, African American women poets, Stanford University. Center for Research on Women | American Women -- Authors and journalists, American Women -- Poetry, American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination | AZ0642.12 |