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Women to women : European feminists / Bonnie Charles Bluh.

Viv Sutherland interviews Bonnie Charles Bluh, author of "Women to Women: European Feminists," about the Women's movement in Europe.

Women's movement -- Europe., Bluh, Bonnie Charles, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 American Women -- International women BC2196.03
Women's Antinuclear Rally (incomplete)

Recording of speeches from an anti-nuclear rally. No date or location is given but it may be Mother's Day, 1979? in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY (Medgar Evers College is mentioned). First speaker on this is named Susan (last name not given), and she speaks about being a mother with the risk of nuclear pollution. Second speaker is Betsy Taylor, the director of the Nuclear Information and Resource Service. Third speaker is Barbara Ehrenreich, editor of Seven Days magazine, lecturer and author. This is incomplete coverage of the rally. Produced by Eileen Zalisk.

American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Ehrenreich, Barbara, Antinuclear movement -- Speeches, addresses, etc., Antinuclear movement, Protests, demonstrations, vigils, etc. American Women -- Peace and Antinuclear activism IZ1384
Women's Coalition for the Third Century (WC3C) / interviews by Nanette Rainone and Brett Harvey. (Episode 9 of 15)

The Women's Coalition for the Third Century (WC3C) is an outgrowth of women's participation in Bicentennial activities. In October 1974, WC3C held a conference in Boston and Nanette Rainone and Brett Harvey interviewed three women attending the conference about women's history, and the rise in women's history research and writings. The interviewees are Linda Grant DePauw, professor of history at George Washington University; Pat King, director of the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at Radcliffe College; and Patricia Budd Kepler, minister and head of WC3C. This program was broadcast as Part IX of the "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness" series.

DePauw, Linda Grant., King, Pat., Women -- History -- United States., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Women's Coalition for the Third Century, Kepler, Patricia Budd, 1934- American Women -- Women's history BC2069.09
Women's Equality Day in Central Park, August 27, 1977

Actuality from a march to support ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)  and celebrating the 57th anniversary of women's suffrage. The march was held August 27, 1977 in Central Park, New York City. This recording includes speeches by Betty Friedan, Goldie Chu of Asian American Women's Caucus, Ruth Gilbert of the United Methodist Women, activist Willie Mae Reid, lesbian activist Virginia "Ginny" Apuzzo, and candidate for Mayor, Bella Abzug. Recording also contains comments from women at the rally including Carolyn Pope of Lesbian Feminists Liberation, Cheryl Adams of Manhattan NOW, and many others.

American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Friedan, Betty, Equal Rights Amendment (Proposed)., MARCHES, Apuzzo, Virginia., Abzug, Bella S., 1920-1998, Reid, Willie Mae, Women's equality day American Women -- Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) IZ1491
Women's health movement and the WATCH arrests

Eileen Zalisk speaks with Debbie Stuart-Smalley from Womancare, a feminist healthcare center in San Diego, CA; Mary Ann Bennett, with the Abortion Rights Movement of Women's Liberation in Washington, D.C.; and Peggy Roberts, a family physician who also volunteers at a women's healthcare center in Albuquerque, NM. The topic is the legal case of Carol Downer and Ginny Cassidy-Brinn, two women's healthcare activists from Los Angeles involved with Women Acting to Combat Harassment (WATCH), who were arrested in Tallahassee, Florida for undertaking an unannounced consumer inspection of the maternity unit at Tallahassee Memorial Hospital in 1977. Discussion recorded November 8, 1979. Previously cataloged as IZ1353.02.

Women's health services, Abortion, Abortion -- Law and legislation., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 American Women -- Reproductive rights, American Women -- Health IZ1536
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom conference, 1981

Two speakers at the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom conference, recorded May 27, 1981. Joanna [no last name given] on U.S. strategic policy and its impact on Europe; 24:00--Edith Ballantyne, General Secretary for the League Office in Geneva, Switzerland speaks about her European perspective on the U.S. armament policy.

American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Armaments., Ballantyne, Edith, North Atlantic Treaty Organization. American Women -- Peace and Antinuclear activism IZ0904
Women's legal clinic: April 9, 1979-Sex discrimination in employment

Women's legal clinic. Broadcast live. Topic: Sex discrimination in employment. Hosted by Betty Levinson, Eve Cary and Judith Levin and another unnamed host discuss the Lochner vs. New York Supreme Court case (1905), which involved a New York law that limited the number of hours that a baker could work each day to ten, and limited the number of hours that a baker could work each week to 60, and Muller vs. Oregon (1908), which justified both sex discrimination and usage of labor laws during the time period. Call-ins were not recorded.

American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Sex discrimination in employment, Labor laws and legislation -- United States. American Women -- Work and unions IZ0449.05
Women's legal clinic: August 6, 1979- ERA

Women's legal clinic. Eve Cary and Judy Levin talk about ERA and take listener phone calls. Very good and up to date as of air date. Some of air check lost at beginning. Produced by Eileen Zalisk.

American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Equal Rights Amendment (Proposed)., Women's rights, Sex discrimination against women -- Law and legislation American Women -- Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) IZ0449.07
Women's legal clinic: December 2, 1979-Child custody

Women's Legal Clinic aircheck. Judy Levin and Betty Levinson discuss child custody and take listener phone calls.

American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, CHILD CUSTODY & SUPPORT, Women's rights -- United States -- History -- 20th century, Divorce -- United States., Women -- Economic conditions., Child support -- Law and legislation -- United States American Women -- Parenting and children, American Women -- Marriage and divorce IZ0449.08
Women's legal clinic: February 3, 1980

Everywomanspace: Women's legal clinic. Reproductive Hazards in the Workplace. February 3, 1980 with attorney Judy Levin, law student Paula Smith, and WBAI's Judy Pasternak, discussing forced sterilization of women who work in hazardous workplaces including the Dupont plant. Needs editing before broadcast.

American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Women workers., Occupational reproductive hazards., Sex discrimination in employment, DUPONT American Women -- Work and unions, American Women -- Health IZ0449.27
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