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| Title | Description | Keywords | Genre | PRA Archive # | StoreItem |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rape : the victim as suspect / produced by Susan Scheftel and Gail Boehm. |
A documentary examining the mythology surrounding rape and its effect upon the social, medical and legal treatment of rape victims. Includes interviews with victims, attorneys, and organizations founded to combat the problem of rape. The first part of the program deals with the problems that rape victims encounter when they report their rape and attempt to pursue it in court. The second part details the steps that can and are being taken to confront the problem of rape. Some of those interviewed on this program are Camille Legrand, law associate at Boalt Hall, Dr. Kermit Gruberg, consulting psychiatrist to the Berkeley Police Department, California State Assemblyman Ken Meade, Margaret Stone, co-founder of Women Against Rape, Joanne Brown, legal assistant in the Oakland Public Defenders Office, Maxine Mackler (Chesney), assistant district attorney in San Francisco. Produced at KPFA and WBAI by Susan Scheftel and Gail Boehm, technical production by Peter Zanger. Contains sensitive language. |
Scheftel, Susan., Rape., Women -- Crimes against., Women -- Legal status, laws, etc., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Violence against women, American Women -- Law | BC1526 | |
| Rape and punishment / Paul Leser (Episode 4 of 10) |
Paul Leser talks about differing attitudes about rape between America and Europe, and how in the United States (at that time, ca. 1946), it's often be considered the worst crime possible. He also discusses the difficult legal process in rape trials. Control through fear. Arrest and kill only the innocent. Nazi Germany, the Daniels cousins and Willie Magee. |
Leser, Paul, 1899-1984, Judicial system -- United States., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Rape. | American Women -- Violence against women | BC1628.04 | |
| 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 | |
| Reading of the short story, "Changes" by author Denise Oliver |
Reading of short story "Changes" by author Denise Oliver / Produced by WPFW, Broadcast on KPFA. This program features a reading of the short story "Changes" by author Denise Oliver, former program director for WPFW in Washington, DC. The story is about a young black woman who lived in a black neighborhood in Queens as a teenager and would hang out and later work in the Puerto Rican neighborhood of East Harlem (El Barrio) New York. She finds herself in her early twenties teaching young kids and struggling with the fact that people don't recognize her as black. Her broken Spanish, light skin and straight hair hide her heritage. She falls in love with a young man who is recovering from drug addiction. This program was part of a mini-marathon held at KPFA to raise funds for WPFW, which was not yet on the air. May 3rd, 1976. WZ0019 is a duplicate of this program. |
Oliver, Denise, African American women authors, Puerto Rican-Americans -- New York (City)., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Authors and journalists, American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination | WZ0268 | |
| Readings on national liberation / translated and read by William Mandel |
Readings on national liberation / translated and read by William Mandel. Soviet news stories on world events. Phone-ins. pt.1. story on the escape of Assata Shakur, a Black woman poet, from a U.S. prison. -- pt.2. stories about Iranian embassy takeover. -- pt.3. phone-ins. |
Women, Black., Journalism -- Soviet Union., Press and politics., Prisoners -- United States., Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981., Shakur, Assata., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Radio call-in shows | American Women -- Activists, American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination | AZ0649 | |
| Recombinant DNA : genetic engineering in the corporate world / produced by Adi Gevins and Laurie Garrett (Episode 3) |
In this program on DNA, the thin line between research and corporate profit, public benefits and public menace is debated in interviews with industrial, academic, and government biogeneticists. Includes interviews with Dr. Sidney Udenfriend of Hoffmann-La Roche Pharmaceutical Corporation, Jeremy Rifkin and Dan Smith of the People's Business Commission, and Dr. Steven Beckenford of UC Berkeley, and others. Produced by Laurie Garrett and Adi Gevins, with engineering assistance from Philip Maldari. Previously cataloged as AZ0029. |
Gevins, Adi., Peabody awards, Corporate profits., Recombinant DNA., Genetic engineering., Garrett, Laurie, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Health, American Women -- Science and scientists | AZ0027.03 | Recombinant DNA : genetic engineering in the corporate world / produced by Adi Gevins and Laurie Garrett (Episode 3) (nid:1250) |
| Red crystal : Sheli Nan / interviewed by Susan Sailow |
Sheli Nan is an exceptional composer in the classical/jazz field. Her pieces reflect great beauty, and to hear her talk about them and her music is an experience in itself - she is charming, touching, and very, very personable. Born in 1950, she has lived and studied music in such diverse places as New York, Wisconsin, Italy, St. Thomas, Israel, Mexico and California. She believes her music reflects elements of the different cultures she's been exposed to. Now living in San Francisco bay area with her family. Program features Susan Sailow interviewing Sheli Nan with several of her pieces recorded in the KPFA studio interspersed throughout. In Part 1 14:00 she discusses the pleasure of working with women engineers and programmers at KPFA, a unique experience. |
Nan, Sheli., Jazz music., Women composers., Red crystal : Sheli Nan / interviewed by Susan Sailow., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Music and musicians | AZ0298 | |
| Reflecciones de la Raza: September 8, 1973 |
Aircheck for "Reflecciones de la Raza", hosted by a woman (identity unknown), likely broadcast on September 8, 1973. Program begins with a report on the grape strike from Dan Sudran, Chairperson of the United Farm Workers, San Francisco Chapter. He discusses the boycotts, numbers of workers jailed, costs, law enforcement during the strike. Musica latina begins at approximately 17:00: Las Nuves "Baila familia" [sp?], Nuestra Cosa "Arrest" [sp?], Eddie Palmieri "Algo razon" [sp?], Erti "Papo Furato" [sp?], Willie Colon "La Amarilla" [sp?]. Contains PSA's for upcoming events including "Days of Concern" regarding the Vietnam conflict, latin music performances, and Gay Rap meetings. Produced by Communicacion Aztlan. |
Strikes -- Vinyard workers -- Calfiornia., Report on the grape strike : boycott, costs and law enforcement during the strike., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Music and musicians, American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination, American Women -- Work and unions | BC1661 | |
| Relevant theater of the now / Leslie Perry interviewed by Eleanor Sully |
Eleanor Sully interviews Leslie Perry, Black playwright and director, about his commitment to changing the order of things - not only in the theatre; but as Mr. Perry indicates, since theatre is his thing, he's trying to make it "a relevant theatre of NOW." Perry discusses his production of "The Mock Trial Of Huey Newton" in Berkeley, and certain reactions to it. |
Perry, Leslie, 1936-2014, Theater -- Social aspects., Authors -- Black., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Theater, American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination | BB4089 | |
| Revolt of Mother (Episode 10 of 14) |
Dramatization of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's story The Revolt of "Mother" (1890), concerning a woman in rural New England rejecting the role imposed upon her by her husband. This is the tenth episode of the fourteen-episode series produced and broadcast on KPFA by Virginia Maynard and Charles Levy from 1958 to 1959. The series was written and directed by Virginia Maynard and produced by Maynard and Chuck Levy, narrated by Levy, and engineered by David Talcott. It was funded in part by the Educational Television and Radio Center in Ann Arbor and distributed nationally by the National Association of Educational Broadcasters. |
Feminism, Women's rights -- United States -- History, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins, 1852-1930 | American Women -- Feminism, American Women -- Women's history | BB0130.10 | Revolt of mother / produced by Virginia Maynard and Charles Levy (Episode 10 of 14) (CD) |