Browse the American Women collection
| Title | Description | Keywords | Genre | PRA Archive # |
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| The unholy alliance / Edith Green |
Speech given by Edith Green (1919-1987), Democratic Congresswoman from Oregon, at the 27th American Civil Liberties Union meeting of Northern California, on or around October 13, 1961. Presentation on findings in the Soviet Union and on the expanding network of right-wing political and religious groups in the United States. Green describes the "unholy alliance" as the extreme right-wing conservative economic groups, the fundamentalist religious groups, and the military. RECORDED: San Francisco, 1961. BROADCAST: KPFA, 1961. |
Civil rights., Green, Edith, 1910-1987, American Civil Liberties Union. Northern California Branch, Right-wing extremists -- United States, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Politicians and politics | BB1594 | |
| Interview with cellist Eva Heinitz / by Will Ogdon |
Cellist Eva Heinitz (1907-2000) is interviewed by Will Ogdon of KPFA about playing the cello and the viola da gamba. Previously cataloged as IZ1497. Date unknown. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Women musicians., Heinitz, Eva, CLASSICAL MUSIC, MUSIC MUSIC, CLASSICAL, Cellists | American Women -- Music and musicians | AZ1762 | |
| What have you done for me lately? / by Myrna Lamb. |
What Have You Done For Me Lately? By Myrna Lamb. A one-act play performed by Anne Lippe and Wes Robinson at a U.C. Berkeley Female Liberation Meeting, October 6, 1971. The subject is abortion; the man, finding himself pregnant by the miracle of modern medicine, is forced to reconsider all the objections he used against legalized abortion as a Congressman. |
Abortion -- Law and legislation., Women -- Legal status, laws, etc., Lamb, Myrna, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Reproductive rights, American Women -- Theater | BC0442 | |
| Women and the world in the 1980s: Barbara Smith and Michele Cliff (ca. 1984) |
Interview with Barbara Smith, writer, co-founder of Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press and editor of Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology (Kitchen Table, 1983) and Michelle Cliff, author of the novel Abeng (1984). Cliff and Smith read from their respective publications. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, African American women authors, Cliff, Michelle, Smith, Barbara, 1946-, Blacks -- Personal narratives. | American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination, American Women -- Authors and journalists | IZ1349.13 | |
| Hot flashes: women's news from Majority Report: January 17, 1978 |
Women's news and current events from Majority Report for January 17, 1978. Produced by Nancy Boreman for WBAI's Women's Department. Topics include ERA ratification in Virginia and other unratified states, New York City funding for abortion, women apple pickers in New York State, arguments against the Hyde Amendment, women's rights in Texas, Canadian gay rights, protest against the travel ban against Iranian former prisoner Gholam-Hossein Sa'edi, jobs in Pennsylvania in energy conservation, and a new women's center in Albany, NY. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Women -- Social conditions., Women -- Economic conditions., Equal Rights Amendment (Proposed)., Women's rights, Feminism, Reproductive rights | American Women -- Feminism | IZ1458.04 | |
| Abortion : is it murder or a woman's right? |
Panel discussion with: Walter Trinkaus, professor at Loyola University, and President of the Right to Life League; Lana Clarke Phelan, co-author of the Abortion Handbook, and Western Regional Director of Women's National Organization (NOW); and Rev. J. Hugh Anwyl, minister of the United Church of Christ, and director of Clergy Counseling Service for Problem Pregnancies. They discuss the issues surrounding abortion, and the problems of pregnancy. Initially heard on Gather 'Round the Stake on Sunday, July 12, 1970. Includes listener phone calls. Produced and moderated by Tom Ritt. |
Anwyl, J. Hugh, Phelan, Lana Clarke, Trinkaus, Walter, Women's rights, Abortion, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Reproductive rights | BB4504 | |
| Organization, control, and planning for medical services (Episode 6 of 6) |
Documentary on New York City hospitals, evaluating the affiliation program between municipal and voluntary hospitals and abuses in the system. Episode 6: Organization, control, and planning for medical services. In this sixth and last of the medical series, the future of New York's hospital system is explored: how it will be organized, who will run it, who will plan for it, and whether there will be any community control. Voices heard in this program include Dr. Martin Cherkasky, administrator of Montefiore Hospital; Gerard Piel of Scientific American and who created the Piel Report on New York healthcare system by request of Mayor Lindsay; Robb Burlage, director of the Health Policy Advisory Center; New York state senator Seymour Thaler; former health services administrator Dr. Howard Brown; Dr. Philip Hennig, director of ambulatory care at Metropolitan Hospital; Dr. Donald Dixon, associate commissioner of the New York state health department; Dr. George Bayer, member of the New York City board of hospitals; health services administrator Dr. Bernard Bukoff; Harry Becker, a professor of community health at the Einstein College of Medicine; hospital commissioner Joseph Terenzio; Dr. Jack Haldeman of the Health and Hospital Planning Council; Ramon Velez, director of the Hunts Point Multi-service Center; Columbia economist Robin Elliott; and unidentified interns and medical students. |
Hospitals -- New York (State) -- New York, Health facilities -- New York (City)., Medical care -- Economic aspects., Voluntary hospitals, Burlage, Robb, 1937-, Brown, Howard, 1924-1975, Haldeman, Jack C., 1912-1985, Piel, Gerard, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Health | BB3817.06 | |
| 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 | |
| The Federalists in the world / Sally Bray interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson |
Sally Bray, who has been a member of the National Council of United World Federalists since 1949, talks with Elsa Knight Thompson about the international activities of the Federalists. Mrs. Bray spent six months in Europe in 1951 helping to organize an International Federalist Congress in Rome, and in the following years, had been a member of the American delegation to the annual international congresses in Holland, Copenhagen, London, Paris, Tokyo, Manchester, The Hague, Oslo, and San Francisco. |
Bray, Sally., Thompson, Elsa Knight, World politics -- 1945-, United World Federalists (U.S.), American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Politicians and politics | BB1829 | |
| How to cook a peacock : media coverage of Iran / Joan Vogel and Clare Spark. |
Media coverage of Iran critiqued by Joan Vogel, graduate student in anthropology at UCLA, and "Sour Apple Tree" host Clare Spark. The two commentators condemn both American media coverage of Iran as well as the absence of a critique from the Left. Phone calls begin around 25 minutes into recording. |
Vogel, Joan., Press and politics., Journalism., Reporters and reporting., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Iran -- Politics and government -- 1945- | American Women -- Politicians and politics, American Women -- Authors and journalists | KZ0777 |