Browse the American Women collection
| Title | Description | Keywords | Genre | PRA Archive # |
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| U.S. prisoners in North Vietnam / Madeline Duckles interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson |
An interview with Madeline Duckles, of Women for Peace, who was one of three American women who went to Hanoi for two weeks in December 1969 at the invitation of the North Vietnamese Women's Union. She talks with KPFA's program director Elsa Knight Thompson. There is no intro; the first voice heard is Madeline Duckles. First broadcast on KPFA's open hour the same day it was recorded. |
Duckles, Madeline, 1915-2013, Prisoners of war -- Vietnam., Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Personal narratives., KPFA open hour, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Vietnam conflict, American Women -- Peace and Antinuclear activism | BB2306 | |
| Fiddle music / Marie Rhines ; interviewed by Edward Haber. |
Marie Rhines is a fiddler of Scottish, Irish, and American music. In this interview with Edward Haber, she talks about her music and plays examples of her fiddling style from records. Rhines talks about her interest in American Appalachian fiddle music, her particular interpretations of different styles of folk music, and the difficulties of notation and improvisation. Produced by Edward Haber. |
Rhines, Marie., Folk music., Women musicians., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Music and musicians | IZ0152 | |
| Sagaris and the August 7th Survival Community |
This summer, 200 active feminists from all over the United States and Canada came to Lyndonville, Vermont to attend Sagaris, the first independent institute for the study of radical feminist thought. This program includes interviews with Sagaris students and teachers, excerpts from taped classes, and readings from the analysis written by the August 7th Survival Community, the group that found it necessary to disassociate from Sagaris in order to make a political statement. Produced by Marcia Jo Danab and Helene Verna Schiff. Technical production by Peter Zanger and Dave Marx. Producer's note: Good resource materials for women's studies courses. |
Feminism, Women's studies, Women -- Education., Collectives., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Activists | IZ1361 | |
| Sex and the sword of Damocles (Episode 7 of 12) |
Talk on the legal and social assumptions about women's sexuality. Hosted by Nancy Reeves, attorney and lecturer-writer on the status of women. Using the metaphor of the jigsaw puzzle, she asserts that the dilemma of the modern American women is how to narrow her field and how to establish her priorities, especially in the realm of politics (which she defines generally as participation in public life). She discusses how the distractions of modern life and of domestic caretaking, however, frustrate this participation. |
Women -- Legal status, laws, etc., Feminism, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Feminism | BB4451.07 | |
| 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 | |
| I Never Promised You a Rose Garden / Kathleen Quinlan ; interviewed by Barry Parker. |
Kathleen Quinlan (b. 1954), star of the film "I Never Promised You a Rose Garden," discusses her career and the film. She is interviewed by Barry Parker in a Washington, DC hotel room. |
Actresses -- Correspondence, reminiscences, etc., Actresses., QUINLAN, KAREN., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Film and television | WZ0176 | |
| Lesbian sisters: August 5, 1975 - Witchcraft / produced by Judy Chunco and Jan Oxenberg. |
This episode of the series "Lesbian sisters" is an examination of witchcraft. Produced by Judy Chunco, Mona ?, and Jan Oxenberg. Includes chanting, interviews with attendees of a coven gathering, and an interview with Z. Budapest of the Susan B. Anthony Coven, a feminist coven. Music by Barbara Mauritz, Maggie Bell and Lavender Jane. |
Budapest, Zsuzsanna Emese, 1940-, Witchcraft., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- New age/Wicca | BC2416 | |
| Pagan press review: Anti-defamation attempts by Pagans (Episode 3 of 4) |
this third episode of Pagan press review will focus on modern day persecution and defamation of Pagans, and the attempts by Pagans to fight back. Includes readings from the following: "The aquarian manifesto" by Isaac Bonowitz available either in The Samhain, The Green Egg (Missouri) or the October Gnostica News; "Witch burning now and then" by Isaac Bonowitz, available in the January 1974 Gnostica News (Minnesota); "Witchcraft, the old religion" by Dr. Leo Martello, published by University Books; the articles on Robert Williams came from The New York Times March 24, 1974 and the Spring Equinox, 1974 issue of Earth Religion News (NY); the review of The Exorcist came from the Esotaur issue of The Witches' Trine (California); Songs: "Can Cerridwen" by Gwydion Pendderwen of Nemeton (verified); "Yellow brick road" by Elton John; and "Priestess" by Ed Sanders. Engineering by Jim Freund. Produced by Margot Adler. |
Witchcraft., New religious movements., Pagan press review / produced by Margot Adler., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- New age/Wicca | BC1719.03 | |
| Suffocation in suburbia 1: introduction / Sripati Chandrasekhar (Episode 9 of 15) |
Part 9 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. This is Part 1 of "Suffocation in Suburbia." In this recording Sripati Chandrasekha, Ph.D.(1918-2001), Visiting Professor, Department of Sociology, U.C. Riverside, member of Parliament, New Dehli, India, and Director of the Indian Institute for Population Studies in Madras, India, gives introductory remarks and a statement of the problem of overpopulation. |
Chandrasekhar, S. (Sripati), 1918-2001, The challenge to women : the biological avalanche, Overpopulation., Suffocation in suburbia, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Parenting and children, American Women -- Reproductive rights | BB0521.09 | |
| Testimony of a mother of a desaparecido / produced and read by Paz Cohen. |
Reading of the deposition of Oriana Sánchez Romero, mother of university student Maria Isabel Beltrán Sánchez, who was arrested in Chile on December 18, 1973, tortured and killed by military police, and whom the junta said had fled to Argentina with other extremists. The first three minutes provide historical background and context of missing persons in Chile, where "missing persons" are usually known or suspected to be in military custody, but whom the military denies holding. Read and produced by Paz Cohen. |
Political atrocities -- Latin America., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Chile -- Politics and government -- 1973-1988., Disappeared persons -- Chile. | American Women -- International women, American Women -- Violence against women | BC2675 |