Browse the American Women collection
| Title | Description | Keywords | Genre | PRA Archive # |
StoreItem |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lesbian Express: Sweet Chariot interview |
Sweet Chariot is a women's rock band from the Bay Area who play funk, blues, rock and soul for women. The group talks their origins, their music and their influences. The band's members are Sharon Russell (vocals), Pamela "Tiik" Pollet (guitar), Bonnie Johnson (drums), and Peggy Mitchell (bass). Archives copy of this recording lacks music cues. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Women musicians., Funk (Music) | American Women -- Music and musicians | AZ1675.03 | |
| Circle of sound |
This recording is inspired from a live event last August (1973) at the Manhattan Theater Club entitled "Circle of Sound". Eight women composers sang their own music, as produced by the club. The event was assembled and directed by Christopher Alden. The host is Lynn Meadow, executive and artistic director of the Manhattan Theater Club. OBIE winners Gretchen Cryer and Nancy Ford are among the composers included. Other songs in this recording are performed by Paula Lark, Terry Molina[sp?], and Taro Meyer. |
Cryer, Gretchen., Women composers., Music, Popular (Songs, etc.) -- United States., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Theater, American Women -- Music and musicians | BC1739 | |
| Abortion and the law. |
A panel discussion sponsored by the Citizens' Committee for Humane Abortion Laws in San Jose in September 1962. Participants include David Newman, clinical psychologist and associate professor of psychology at San Jose State College; Emmanuel Silver, psychiatrist and neurologist in Palo Alto; the Reverend Sidney Peterman, minister of the First Unitarian Church in San Jose; and Pat Maginnis, secretary of the Citizens' Committee. The panelists discuss the legal and moral controversies surrounding abortion: the existing laws, the Knox Bill, and social realities of abortion. |
Newman, David., Peterman, Sidney., Silver, Emmanuel., Women's rights, Maginnis, Patricia Therese, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Abortion, Abortion -- Law and legislation., Abortion -- United States. | American Women -- Reproductive rights | BB0574 | |
| Lesbian perspectives (Part 2): the Christmas holiday |
The Real Live Lesbian Show's lesbian Christmas special, also called "Lesbian Perspectives, Part 2". Hosted by Rebecca Tron and Carmen Garcia, featuring Rose Jordan and Eileen Kane. Discussion and listener calls. Lesbian Perspectives Part 1 not in the collection. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Lesbians, Lesbianism -- Social aspects, Christmas | American Women -- Lesbians | IZ1066 | |
| Womanhouse |
Judy Chicago, Miriam Schapiro, and Faith Wilding discuss the house "Womanhouse" reconstructed by the Feminist Art Program at the California Institute of the Arts as a feminist statement. Produced by Petrie Mason and Everett Frost. |
Chicago, Judy, 1939-, Mason, Petrie., Schapiro, Miriam, 1923-, Women artists, Feminism, Womanhouse / produced by Petrie Mason., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Wilding, Faith. | American Women -- Art and artists | BC0715 | |
| Majority report, February 18, 1982: Shirley Chisholm and Maya Angelou #1 |
Sherry Krynski and Ginny Z. Berson host Majority Report for February 18, 1982. Segments: 1. News wrap-up -- 2. A report by NPR's Jo Ann Allen on Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm (D-NY), who the week before had announced her retirement from politics, followed by an interview with Chisholm -- 3. The first part of a three-segment interview with Maya Angelou by NPR's Brenda Wilson, about her life and work -- 4. A brief tribute to opera singer Marian Anderson on the occasion of her 80th birthday, including Anderson performing the gospel song "Hold On" -- 5. Calendar of community events. A final segment, titled "On the Edge" about women over the age of forty, is introduced but not included on PRA's copy of this recording. Executive producer Karla Tonella, theme music by Laurie Spiegel. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Chisholm, Shirley, 1924-2005, Angelou, Maya, Anderson, Marian, 1897-1993, Tonella, Karla., Krynski, Sherry, Berson, Ginny Z., Radio news programs | American Women -- Politicians and politics, American Women -- Authors and journalists, American Women -- Music and musicians | AZ0642.04 | |
| Men like their women "liberated" |
A documentary exploration of changing sexual relationships within the family and social institutions, and among different generations. Introduction: "In this program we will explore the implications and limits of the sexual revolution with five women of varied ages and situations. Debbie is 19 and presently bisexual. Patty is 25 and now consciously celibate. Susan is 32, married, divorced, and has been living with the same man for over five years. Ann is 37, married for 20 years and has four children. My name is Millie. I'm 24 and have been living with a man for six months after three years of conscious celibacy." The panel discusses sex education, gender identity (of themselves and toward others), and choices in sexual lifestyles. Includes reading of "Talking to a man," written by Adrienne Rich and "What did you do today, dear," published in Women's Consciousness Man's World. Both were read by Emily Schiller. The male voice is Jim Berland. The song "Private property" was written by Randy Craig, Judy Avrams, and Ruthie Gorton. "I told you not to sleep with my musicians" was also written by Ruthie Gorton. Both songs were performed by Ruthie Gorton. "Custom-made women blues" was done by Hazel and Alice on Rounder Records. Engineering by Emily Schiller, Wendy Sisson, and Peter Sutheim. Produced and hosted by Millie Martinez for KPFK. |
Sex role, Women's movement, Sexuality, Women -- Sexuality., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Sex, American Women -- Marriage and divorce | BC1779 | |
| Black women of achievement: Stephanie Colbert Hopkins |
Interview with Stephanie Colbert Hopkins, president of Star Step, Inc, a public relations firm. Hopkins, a Black small business owner, discusses her professional and personal successes, the current job market for Black people, and the double stigma she faces as a business owner of being both Black and a woman. Contains listener phone calls. Hosted and produced by Marie Smith. Intro of host and guest cut off at beginning. The month's theme for Upstream was Black Women of Achievement. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Black women -- History., African American Women, Business enterprises, Black | American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination | WZ0255.02 | |
| Women and the world in the 1980s: February 26, 1982 |
Blanche Wiesen Cook hosts. Interview with Ruth Meyers, one of the founders of Women Strike for Peace and a child psychologist and Kathy Engel, poet, co-director of the Fund for Open Information and Accountability who is active in the Anti-Klan Network. The program begins with a call-in from Theresa Funicello of the Downtown Welfare Advocacy Center. The topic is resistance to violence against women, children and Black people. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Mass media -- Social aspects., Minorities in the mass media -- Analysis., VIOLENCE, Violence -- Social aspects., Nonviolence., WELFARE, Welfare recipients -- New York (City)., Meyers, Ruth S., Engel, Kathy, Children, Racism -- Psychologial aspects., RACISM | American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination, American Women -- Parenting and children | IZ1349.03 | |
| I don't like atheists very much / Madalyn Murray O'Hair |
A speech and question-and-answer session by Madalyn Murray O'Hair, an atheist, and the moving force behind numerous atheist institutions. In this speech delivered at the Mensa Annual Gathering in Houston in June 1971, O'Hair catalogs 57 varieties of atheists and explains her contempt of them. Both the speech and the Q&A period have been cut heavily and tightly. Original recording by K Thomson, 6/12/71. Master by Teague, 7/31/71. |
Atheists., O'Hair, Madalyn Murray., Philosophy and religion., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Religion | BC0460 |