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| Title | Description | Keywords | Genre | PRA Archive # |
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| Birth control and the college co-ed / William Baird |
Talk on the need for widespread birth control among college age youths by William Baird, an outspoken advocate of birth control. Humanity is breeding itself into extinction, Baird asserts, and have not addressed the fundamental cause: human sexuality. The population crisis of India and China will soon spread to the entire world, he continues, which proves that the presence or absence of birth control does not contribute to promiscuity. The problem of attaining an abortion in the United States, Baird points out, leads to thousands of deaths. The more functional form of birth control, therefore, is prevention of pregnancy through IUD's, the pill, or prophylactics. Baird also attacks the double sexual standards in society for young men and young women. |
Sexual ethics, Birth control, Overpopulation., Baird, Bill, 1932-, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Reproductive rights | BB3903 | |
| International women's day (1978) music (Part 1 only) |
Aircheck of Morning Music on International Women's Day with Eileen Kane and Manya La Bruja. Features women's music, particularly women classical composers. Station break at :30 on this reel. Part 1 of 2. Part 2 not currently held by Archives. |
International Women's Day, Women's music, Women composers., Women musicians., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Music and musicians | IZ1368 | |
| Battered women |
Recordings from a conference on battered women sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee in February 1977. The recording includes testimony from battered women as well as historical information on the oppression of women, legal aspects, and ways of overcoming this problem. Produced by Kimberly Willis for WBAI. |
Battered women., Domestic violence, Family violence, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Violence against women | IZ1450 | |
| What is Montessori / Mario Montessori and Lena Wikramaratne interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson |
WHAT IS MONTESSORI? / Mario Montessori and Lena Wikramaratne interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson. Mario Montessori is the son of the founder of the famous Montessori system of education, and Miss Lena Wikramaratne is the West Coast Director of Association Montessori Internationale teacher training program. In this program, they discuss the experimental school for young children. - BROADCAST: KPFA, 7 June 1967. |
Wikramaratne, Lena, Association Montessori internationale, Child development., Educational innovations., Montessori method of education, Montessori, Mario, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Education | BB1697 | |
| The Negro woman in American literature (Episode 2 of 12) |
This program from the "Negro Writer's Vision of America" conference held April 23-25, 1965 at New York’s New School is a discussion of the Negro woman in America and in American literature. Participants are poet Sarah Wright, playwright Alice Childress, singer and actress Abbey Lincoln, novelist Paule Marshall and poet Sterling A. Brown. This is the second episode of a twelve-part series of recordings from the Negro Writer's Vision of America Conference; the remaining episodes are not currently held by the Archives. |
African Americans--Civil rights--History, African American women authors, African American women in literature, Childress, Alice., Lincoln, Abbey, Marshall, Paule, 1929-, Wright, Sarah E., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination, American Women -- Authors and journalists | BB5284 | |
| Alternative cancer cures (Program Two) / produced by Margot Adler and Paul McIsaac. (Episode 7 of 11) |
This is the second program dealing with unorthodox cancer cures. Diets, psychic healing and other treatments are explored with guests including Ruth Sackman, Director of Alternative Cancer Cures. Dr. Benjamin Frank, and Jessie and Chuck Bell." |
Sackman, Ruth., Alternative medicine., Cancer, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Health | BC2249.07 | |
| Sex, sex, sex (Episode 2) |
Dr. Nancy Rosser, a resident psychiatrist at the neuropsychiatric institute at University of California, Los Angeles, speaks of the psychological aspect of being female, intercourse, pregnancy, contraception, sexual orientation, menstruation, menopause and theories of sexuality. Bo Siewert, a representative of the Daughters of Bilitis, also speaks of the problems of discrimination and alienation for the female homosexual. The lecture was recorded April 1970. Announcer is Stephanie Powsner. |
Rosser, Nancy, Women's movement -- United States., Lesbians -- Personal narratives, Gender, sexuality & culture, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Sex, American Women -- Lesbians | BB4475.02 | |
| A Joyful noise: Ana Perez in concert |
This is a performance by one of the Bay Area's most talented feminist composer/performers, recorded live at Intersection in San Francisco, September 13, 1972. Perez introduces her band: Rob Woo on lead guitar; Penny Hannah on bass. Songs include A Joyful Noise -- Blackie -- Lost And Found -- Dead End Country -- Sea Dream -- Country Time -- Season's Greetings -- Wild Woman. Recorded by E. Schilling. Not self-contained. |
Women musicians., Perez, Ana, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Music and musicians, American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination | AZ0615 | |
| Susan Brownmiller on writing and promoting. |
An interview with Susan Brownmiller, who spent four years writing her book Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape. She felt her mission in the feminist movement, after hearing women speaking openly about their rapes, was to compile the history of rape in a sound and rational analysis. She feels "the threat of rape is a very real dynamic in the interaction between men and women, and had to be exposed for what it is." She describes tremendous anxiety she felt in writing the book, her experiences with publishing and promoting the book, and the kind of changes it has made in her life. This program was originally broadcast live on Swan Song on January 19, 1976. The interviewer - and the announcer for the program - is Mickey Waldman. |
Women authors -- Personal narratives., Rape., Brownmiller, Susan, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Waldman, Mickey. | American Women -- Authors and journalists, American Women -- Violence against women | BC2912 | |
| Twelve years of lesbian activism / produced by Ginny Z. Berson and Susan Elisabeth. |
Twelve years of lesbian activism. Part one gives a history of lesbian life and activism in the United States, with a particular emphasis on 1969-1981. Movements and events are described with relevant songs, music, and actualities interspersed. The program is in part celebrating the opening of a new West Coast Lesbian Collections (now the June Mazer Lesbian Archives), the Bay Area and west coast's new lesbian archives, and the host gives a request for donations (magazines, photos, etc.) to the archives. The host says (@ 57:00) "The rediscovery of and commitment to lesbian herstory is a movement whose potential is just beginning to be recognized." Part two is a panel discussion, with music, of issues for lesbians in the 1980s. Issues discussed are the state of the lesbian movement, leadership, role of culture, separatism, internal critique, the importance of the ERA and pro-choice as issues for lesbians, what kind of progress has been made, and how we deal with threats from the New Right. Panel is hosted by Barbara Price and the panelists include (in order of appearance) Ginny Berson, Pat Parker, Meg Christian, and Barbara Cameron. Songs and performances in the recording include played include: Meg Christian's "Hello, Hooray", Ma Rainey's "Prove it on me blues" performed by Theresa Trull, Kay Gardner's "Inner Moods I", Meg Christian's "Scars", Maxine Feldman's "Bar I", Mary Watkin's "Leaving all the shadows behind", Judy Grahn's "A History of Lesbianism", Meg Christian's "Leaping Lesbians", Alix Dobkin's "Living with lesbians", Teresa Trull's "Women loving women", Lily Tomlin performing for the KSAN Gay Liberation Follies, Alix Dobkin's "View from Gayhead", Meg Christian's "Ode to a gym teacher", Chris Williamson's "In the best interests", Pat Aikin's "For straight folks", Robin Flowers' "Still ain't satisfied", Holly Near's "Imagine my suprise", Meg Christian's "Where do we go from here?", Sirani Avedis' "Witches call", Alive!'s "Spirit healer", Alix Dobkin's "Lesbian power authority", Holly Near's "No loss of pride", Robin Tyler's "Dear Phyllis Schlafly", Linda Tillery's "Brand New Thing", Chris Williamson's "Live dream", Margy Adams' "Rag Bag", Sirani Avedis' "Crazy lady". Program produced by Susan Elisabeth and Ginny Berson and engineered by Susan Elisabeth. Producer's received help from Amber Hollibaugh of the Lesbian and Gay History Project and Lynn Fanfa at the Lesbian Herstory Archives. Program rebroadcast several times in 1981, 1982, and 1983. |
Women -- Political activity., Lesbianism, Lesbians, Lesbians -- Political activity -- History -- 1970-, Lesbians -- History, Twelve years of lesbian activism / produced by Ginny Berson and Susan Elisabeth., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Avedis, Sirani | American Women -- Lesbians | AZ0576 |