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Part 2 of KPFA's presentation of the University of California's Medical Center Conference "The Challenge to Women: the Biological Avalanche" held in San Francisco this year. In this recording John B. de C. M. Saunders (1907-1991), Chancellor, Professor of Anatomy, and Chair of Medical History and Bibliography at the UC Medical Center San Francisco, gives a welcome, and talks about the roles of women in terms of population explosion, birth control, and the influence of government policy. Much of his talk is based on quotes from Benjamin Franklin.

The third speaker at the symposium "The Uncertain Quest - The Dilemmas of Sex Education," produced by and held at the University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco and simulcast on KPFA, is Dr. Clark E. Vincent, Ph.D. He is a Professor of Sociology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at The Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Wake Forest College, Winston-Salem, NC. He talks on the need for proper sex education.

Three readings of the diary of Alice James, the invalid sister of author Henry James and psychologist William James. She kept her journals from the year 1889 until a few days before her death in 1892. The journals tell the story of a woman struggling against life during the Victorian Era, and the experience of being diagnosed with "hysteria". The diaries were not published until 1934, long after her death, because of the many members of society she told stories about and mentioned by name. The readings were broadcast on KPFA's "Morning Reading" June 26, July 3, and July 10, 1973. Each reading is introduced by Erik Bauersfeld and read by Eleanor Sully.

Feminist visual artist Judy Chicago, one of the founders of the Women's Building in Los Angeles and author of "Through the Flower" talks with Karla Tonella, KPFA, about her exhibit "The Dinner Party." In the making for five years, "The Dinner Party" is a major piece of sculpture that encompasses the history of western women from the beginning of time using traditional crafts and symbols as well as the new technology and feminist ideas. None of the controversy surrounding the project is discussed. Chicago explains that there are three parts to the project: the exhibition itself, the book she wrote that relates to, explains the piece, and is itself another expression of the information, and the film made by Johanna Demetrakas, who made the Womanhouse film and who had been filming the project for two and a half years and will produce a feature color documentary, which deals not only with the making of the piece but also the relationship between the past and the present and the experience of working on the project. Chicago also gives a full, illustrative description of the physicality of this exhibition, which premiered at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in March, 1979. They also discuss the status and experience of women in the art world. Interviewed and produced by Karla Tonella, February 1979.