Browse the American Women collection
| Title | Description | Keywords | Genre | PRA Archive # |
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| Washington report-May 24, 1971: Margot Adler interviews professor and author Arthur R. Miller |
Margot Adler talks with Arthur R. Miller (b. 1934) author of "The Assault on Privacy: Computers, Data Banks and Dossiers" (University of Michigan Press, 1971), about the loss of privacy due to computerization and data banks. |
PRIVACY, RIGHT OF, Technology -- Social aspects., Civil rights., Computers -- Laws and legislation., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Miller, Arthur R. (Arthur Raphael), 1934- | American Women -- Law | BC0019.13 | |
| Feminists conversations / Jane Lazarre and Rayna Reiter ; interviewed by Nanette Rainone. |
Nanette Rainone interviews two women authors about their experiences, women's roles and the Women's movement. They are Jane Lazarre, author of "The Mother Knot" (McGraw Hill), a personal account of pregnancy and childrearing; and Rayna Reiter, editor of "Toward an Anthropology of Women." |
Lazarre, Jane., Reiter, Rayna R., Women's movement, Pregnancy., Motherhood, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Parenting and children, American Women -- Anthropology and societal role | BC3034 | |
| Rona Fields interviewed by Clare Spark about the psychology of Northern Ireland |
Clare Spark interviews Dr. Rona M. Fields, author of "Society under siege, a psychology of Northern Ireland." Fields is a clinical psychologist who studies terrorism and resistance among oppressed social groups. She visited KPFK while visiting Los Angeles for the meetings of the American Psychological Association. She talks about her research and writing about the psychology of Northern Ireland. Book published in 1977, so the date of this program may be inaccurate. Produced by Clare Spark. |
Fields, Rona M., Minorities Psychology, Northern Ireland -- Social conditions., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Psychology and psychotherapy, American Women -- International women | KZ2652 | |
| Interview with Meg Christian by Nancy Guinn |
Nancy Guinn interviews musician Meg Christian in mid-July 1981, just after recording her new album, Turning It Over. Christian talks about the stylistic shift on her new album, about her Southern heritage, her involvement in the women's music movement, and whether she considers herself a "woman warrior." A number of songs from the album are premiered for the first time on this program. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Christian, Meg, Women musicians -- United States., Lesbian musicians, Women's music | American Women -- Music and musicians | AZ1655 | |
| NEW PAL / Ronald Pereira interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson |
Ronald Pereira, ex-heroin addict age 21, tells KPFA's Elsa Knight Thompson about a drug rehabilitation program which began in Santa Rita prison initiated by the inmates to help themselves, since no part of the correctional system was providing help with addiction. He describes its problems and objectives. The group is called NEW PAL, for Narcotics Elimination Work Practiced Among Losers. Pereira also explains how his addiction was handled by the judge who sentenced him, and within the prison. |
Pereira, Ronald., Drug abuse -- Treatment., Prisoners -- Medical care., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Health | BB2349 | |
| Elinore Pruitt Stewart letters: letters from a woman homesteader (Part 1 of 3) / read by Luce Morgan |
Reading of letters written by a woman homesteader, Elinore Pruitt Stewart (1876-1933) in Wyoming around 1910. Part 1 of 3. These three episodes of Stewart's letters were part of a continuing series on KPFA based on women’s diaries and letters. |
Stewart, Elinore Pruitt, 1876-1933, Frontier and pioneer life -- Wyoming, Women pioneers, Women's writings., Wyoming, Women, Feminism, Women's movement, Women's diaries and letters series (KPFA), American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Autobiographies and Biographies, American Women -- Women's history | BC0721.01 | |
| The Capitalist function of the family / Sarah Elbert and Silvia Federici |
On April 5 and 6, 1975, the New School chapter of the Union of Radical Political Economists hosted a conference on Marxian Approaches to History. This recording consists of the formal presentations given during a session on the capitalist function of the family. Sarah Elbert, State University of New York at Binghamton, delivers a talk entitled "The Concept of Domestic Feminism" about the domestic reform movement of the early 19th century which sought to cushion the shock of industrialization and nuclearization of American families with a cult of conservative domesticity. As opposed to the 1700's, when they often worked alongside their men, 19th century women were relegated to the unpaid caste of housewives. The second speaker, Silvia Federici, sees the nuclear family as a factory for capitalism. She calls for women to undermine this exploitative system by demanding wages for work in the home. |
Federici, Silvia., Capitalism., Domestic relations -- History., Home economics., Housewives, Elbert, Sarah, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Wages -- Housewives | American Women -- Work and unions | BC2216 | |
| Virginia Woolf: in her own right / produced by Joanna Brouk (Episode 2 of 7) |
The focus of Virginia Woolf's life was writing, and as she developed her art and gained recognition, she began to speak more and more directly to the issues of feminism. She turned to the problem of creative achievement in a society where any such efforts were looked down on by men. She recognized an inherent problem in culture which made it impossible for women to achieve artistic recognition was the economic dependency of women on men due to job discrimination, insufficient salaries and lack of educational and political opportunities. This program includes discussions between Woolf scholars about her life, and readings from Woolf's work A Room Of One's Own. The box and all Folio appearances refer to this program title as Virginia Woolf: In Her Own Right. At the close of the program, the announcer calls the program Virginia Woolf: A Room Of One's Own. Produced by Joanna Brouk, with the assistance of Wanda McCaddon and Milani Cask. The role of Virginia Woolf was performed by Wanda McCaddon. |
Women authors, A Room Of One's Own, Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Authors and journalists | AZ0471.02 | |
| The November 10, 1977 CCNY conference: Black and Latin women in art and politics |
Excerpts from the November 10, 1977 conference of Black and Latin women in arts and politics, organized by the Black and Latin Women's Organization of City College New York. The thoughts of Jill Nelson, June Jordan, and Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, African American Women, African American women artists, Black women -- Intellectual life., Black women -- Political activity., African American women politicans, Chisholm, Shirley, 1924-2005, NELSON, JILL, Jordan, June, 1936-2002 | American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination | IZ1405 | |
| Educating for peace |
Educating for Peace, a program about teaching peace in the schools. Hosts are Greg Haycock[sp?] of KPFK's "Catch 22" and Pat Ducrany (nee Benson). Guests are Betty Reardon, noted as the most renounced peace educator in the world; Priscilla Prostman, of the Children's Creative Response to Conflict program; Madeleine Ray of Educators for Social Response at the Bank Street College of Education; and Janice Etchison[sp?], a practitioner and private high school teacher. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Reardon, Betty, Prutzman, Priscilla, Peace education, Education -- Aims and objectives. | American Women -- Peace and Antinuclear activism | IZ1472 |