Browse the American Women collection
Title | Description | Keywords | Genre | PRA Archive # | StoreItem |
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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 | |
Women in China : past and present. |
Discussion of Chinese women's status historically and presently. This recording is Part 3 of a series of talks by Diane Feeley on Women in China, including BC2196.11. Taped on location at the National Organization for Women Center in New York. Produced in cooperation with NOW-NY. |
Women -- China., Feeley, Diane, National Organization for Women, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- International women | BC2196.12 | |
Women in consumer advocacy |
Consumer activist Ida Honorof discusses survival on a polluted planet with Dr. Ruth Harmer, author of "Unfit for Human Consumption," and Dr. Charlotte Taylor, UCLA Biochemist. Conversations centers mostly around the food industry, food quality, and growing one's own food. Produced by Ida Honorof. |
Pollution., Environmental health., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Health, American Women -- Environmentalism | BC0670 | |
Women in Cuba / moderated by Viv Sutherland. |
A discussion with Margaret (Meg) Crahan, historian; Mary Lou Suhor, co-coordinator of the Cuba Resource Center; and Margarita (Samad?) Matias, anthropologist and professor of Carribbean studies at CUNY, about women's roles and the women's movement in Cuba. Hosted by Viv Sutherland. |
Samad-Matias, Margarita., Cuba -- Social conditions., Women -- Cuba -- Social conditions., Crahan, Margaret E., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- International women | BC2196.08 | |
Women in early Ireland : an interview / with Sharon Devlin ; produced by Padraigin McGillicuddy |
This recording is an interview Padraigin McGillicuddy conducted with Sharon Devlin concerning the role of women in early Celtic societies. Includes discussions of relative equality, marriage customs, fosterage, taboos as mind control, culture in general, the tribal systems, similarities to native American Indian structures, and religions. RECORDED: at Devlin's home. BROADCAST: KPFA, 17 March 1977. (Note on box: Same as AZ0320) Produced by Padraigin McGillicuddy. Closing music "The women of Ireland" by Sean O Riada as played by The Chieftans. From box label: Some unusual stuff, received many requests for copies of same. Self contained. May have initially been broadcast as part of the Roots of Consciousness series. |
Devlin, Sharon, Marriage customs and rites, Celtic., Women -- Ireland., Fosterage., Paganism -- Ireland, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- International women | AZ0047 | Women in early Ireland : an interview / with Sharon Devlin ; produced by Padraigin McGillicuddy |
Women in entertainment / produced by Heather Schoen |
Documentary on women in the entertainment business through a collage of recordings of the entertainers themselves. Profiled in the program are Sophie Tucker, Fanny Brice, Mae West, Ethel Waters, Helen Morgan, Frances Faye, Marlene Dietrich, Billie Holiday, and Belle Barth. Produced by Heather Schoen. Joe Franklin introduces a segment on the first reel, and on the third reel Lillian Herlein discusses her early vaudeville career and Paul Lipson discusses Belle Barth. |
Women entertainers., Tucker, Sophie, 1884-1966, Brice, Fanny, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Vaudeville -- United States., Women comedians | American Women -- Music and musicians | BC3015 | |
Women in film / Siew-Hwa Beh and Sharon Smith ; interviewed by Judy Chicago. |
Women in Film is the title of a new magazine edited by Saunie Salyer and Siew-Hwa Beh. Editor Siew-Hwa Beh and contributor Sharon Smith, University of Southern California graduate student, are interviewed by Judy Chicago about the magazine and women in film. |
Salyer, Saunie., Smith, Sharon P., Beh, Siew-Hwa., Chicago, Judy, 1939-, Film industry., Periodicals, Publishing of., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Film and television | BC0612 | |
Women in films / Marjorie Rosen ; interviewed by Jena Blumenfield. |
Jena Blumenfield speaks with feminist film critic Marjorie Rosen, author of "Popcorn Venus: women, movies and the American Dream" (New York: McCann and Geoghegan, 1973). They discuss the role of women in the film industry, how most women's dialogue was scripted to be witty in the early days of talkies, how women's roles in the 1950s were retrograde, and about recently released films and their relationship to the women's movement. This is part of a film series produced by Paul McIsaac. |
Rosen, Marjorie., Film industry -- Employment., Women in films / Marjorie Rosen ; interviewed by Jena Blumenfeild., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Women in motion pictures. | American Women -- Authors and journalists, American Women -- Film and television | BC3033 | |
Women in France |
Interview with French feminist Danielle Sabatier, member of the National Council of Working Women, discussing the state of the French movement after ten months of Socialist government. Interview by Kathy Ann Kersey. English translation of the interview is read by Barbara Day. |
Feminism -- France, Socialism -- France., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- International women | BC2196.22 |