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| Title | Description | Keywords | Genre | PRA Archive # | StoreItem |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Women and the world in the 1980s: October 22, 1982-Author Elizabeth Wilson |
Episode from October 22, 1982. Blanche Wiesen Cook interviews Elizabeth Wilson, feminist theorist and lecturer on social policy in London and author of Women and the Welfare State (Tavistock, 1977) and Only Halfway to Paradise: Women in Postwar Britain, 1945-1968 (Tavistock, 1980) and Mirror Writing: An Autobiography (Virago Press, 1982). |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Wilson, Elizabeth, 1936-, Authors, English., Feminists -- Great Britain -- Personal narratives., Women -- Great Britain | American Women -- Authors and journalists, American Women -- International women | IZ1349.08 | |
| Women as health consumers / Ellen Frankfort. (Episode 4) |
Ellen Frankfort (1937-1987) was a medical writer and the author of "Vaginal Politics". Here she discusses health consumerism and women. This lecture was given at WBAI on October 24, 1972. |
Consumer advocacy., Medical care -- Quality control., Frankfort, Ellen, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Health | BC0981.04 | |
| Women as internationalists : sharing the future. |
A discussion of women as internationalists and the 1975 United Nations conference in Mexico City, part of a conference on Sharing the Future, held at the New School for Social Research and sponsored by the Human Relations Work Study Center. The panel questions whether the feminist movement is truly international and whether the U.N. conference reinforced or destroyed that notion, how to sustain international momentum, and whether American feminists can or should try to help women in the Third World. The panelists are Zohreh "Zuzu" Tabatabai from the Iranian Mission to the U.N.; Angela King, Social Affairs Officer of the International Women's Year secretariat; Betty Friedan, American feminist; and Betty Reardon, School Program Director at the Institute for World Order. The panel was chaired by Judy Lee Klemesrud, writer for the New York Times. The program was recorded by Bill O'Neil. |
Tabatabai, Zohreh, Friedan, Betty, King, Angela., International relations., Women -- Social conditions -- Congresses., Reardon, Betty, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, International Women's Year, 1975 | American Women -- International women | BC2802 | |
| Women composers / Judy Sherman |
Women composers explore the question of why so many women composers have emerged of late, and talk about women composers from both historical and social points of view. The composers interviewed are Carla Bley, jazz composer; Lucia Dlugoszewski, classical composer; Vivian Fine, composition teacher at Bennington College; Laura Greenberg, classical composer; Pauline Oliveros, who talks by phone from the New Music Center at La Jolla, CA; and Ann Sternberg, pop composer. 21:35--their pieces of composition are played including: "Deep Down", "No Rest For Me" (Sternberg); "Density" (Dlugoszewski), "Sound Patterns" (Oliveros); "Duet for Harp Synthesizer" (Greenberg); "Peon" (Fine); "This Is Here" (from Bley's opera, "Escalator over the Hill). 65:00--comments continue. Produced by Judy Sherman. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Women composers., Women musicians. | American Women -- Music and musicians | IZ0766 | |
| Women composers: interviews with Ora Williams and Virginia Eskin |
This series is "Portraits of women composers," produced by Jeannie Pool for the Women's Department at WBAI. In this episode we will hear an interview and performance done at KPFK in Los Angeles with with musicologist Dr. Ora Williams, professor at Cal State Long Beach who has published American Black Women in the Arts and Social Sciences: A Bibliographic Survey (Scarecrow Press, 2nd ed. 1978). Later Jeannie Pool interviews concert pianist Virginia Eskin about composer Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (1867-1944). |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, African American women composers, Women composers., Williams, Ora, 1926-, Eskin, Virginia, Beach, H. H. A., Mrs., 1867-1944 | American Women -- Music and musicians | IZ1411.01 | |
| Women composers: Janice Giteck and Gloria Coates |
Jeannie Pool interviews and plays music of Janice Giteck and Gloria Coates, two American women composers. "Portraits of women composers" was produced by Jeannie Pool for the Women's Department at WBAI. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Women composers., Giteck, Janice, 1946-, Coates, Gloria | American Women -- Music and musicians | IZ1411.02 | |
| Women in advertising. |
Discussion of the presentation and exploitation of women by mass media advertising held at the Advertising Club of New York on Friday, December 15th, 1972. The subject of the panel is "Womanpower." The moderator is Joyce Snyder, former executive managing director of Art Directors Magazine and image coordinator for the NY chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW). The panelists are Jane Trahey, 1970's Advertising Woman of the Year; Anne Tolstoi Foster (Wallach), head of NOW's advertising volunteer group and senior vice president and creative director of Degarmo Advertising; and Patricia "Pat" Carbine, formerly executive editor of Look Magazine, editorial director of McCall's Magazine, and now editor-in-chief and publisher of Ms. magazine and editorial director of the Harvard Radcliffe Publishing Procedures course. |
Women in advertising., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Mass media and women, Wallach, Anne Tolstoi, Trahey, Jane, Carbine, Patricia Theresa | American Women -- Feminism, American Women -- Beauty and body image | BC1255 | |
| Women in art / produced by Bonnie Bellow. |
The problems of "women in art" are discussed by a panel of women artists and critics. The program was recorded during a series of Art Forums at the Emanu-El Midtown Y in New York. Panelists include Lucy Lippard, art critic; Cindy Nemser, teacher, writer and curator; Ruth Vodicka, sculptor; Camille Billops, sculptor and ceramics teacher at CCNY; Ce Roser, painter; Amy Stromsten, photographer and sculptor; Therese Schwartz, painter and editor of the New York Element; and May Stevens, artist and teacher at School of Visual Art and Queens College. Produced by Bonnie Bellow. Likely same series as BC0289. |
Women in art., Women artists, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Art and artists | BC0290 | |
| Women in Chile / Batya Weinbaum and Mishy Lesser ; interviewed by Viv Sutherland |
Batya Wienbaum and Mishy Lesser, Chilean specialists, discuss the conditions which led to one of the most brutal overthrows in Latin American history, describing the large role upper-class Chilean women played, the economic decline, the part the United States played in collaborating directly with Chilean reactionaries and finally the broad movement to free political prisoners taking place. Hosted by Viv Sutherland. |
Weinbaum, Batya., Lesser, Mishy., Women -- Chile., Women in Chile / Batya Weinbaum and Mishy Lesser ; interviewed by Viv Sutherland., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- International women | BC2196.13 | |
| Women in China / Linda Gordon and Jean Tepperman (Episode 12) |
Talks by Linda Gordon and Jean Tepperman. Gordon is an historian teaching at the University of Massachusettes and is writing a history of the birth control movement in the U.S. Tepperman is a high school teacher. Both were members of Bread and Roses, a Boston Women's group. They traveled to China in December, 1972. The talk covers marriage, divorce and the position of women in China since the Revolution up to and after the Cultural Revolution. They discuss the means by which women were organized and the pros and cons of an autonomous women's movement. Note on box: "A plain and simple but sophisticated program--it doesn't make China sound like Nirvana for women." |
Tepperman, Jean., Gordon, Linda., Women's movement -- China., China -- Social conditions., Women -- China., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- International women | BC1610 |