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Description | Keywords | Genre | PRA Archive # | StoreItem |
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| Women strike for peace / discussion moderated by Elsa Knight Thompson |
A panel of women organizing for peace are moderated by Elsa Knight Thompson. They all received and responded to a form letter from Dagmar Wilson, urging them to spread the word to all of their contacts regarding disarmament. Frances Herring is the only participant identified by both first and last name. The other women on the panel are Mrs. Druckman, Mrs. Trowbridge, and Mrs. Temko, possibly Elizabeth (Becky) Temko, wife of architect Allan Temko. The panel discuss their grass-roots anti-nuclear movement and the upcoming November 1, 1961 "Strike for Peace" demonstration in the Bay Area. |
Antinuclear movement, Nuclear disarmament., Feminism, Herring, Frances W., Women Strike for Peace, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Peace and Antinuclear activism | BB0292 | Women's strike for peace / moderated by Elsa Knight Thompson. (CD) |
| 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 unbound |
Helene Rosenbluth and Eloise Klein Healy visited the People's Republic of China in April 1982. This program is produced from interviews they did with women in Shanghai, Nanjing, Xi'an and Beijing (Peking) about the changing lives of women in modern China. The interviews are bilingual and translated through an interpreter. The first reel of this recording features an interview with one of the leaders of the Nanjing Municipal Women's Federation. The second reel of this recording features on-the-street interviews with a variety of Chinese women - including Pei-Chin Liu(sp?), the translator who accompanied Rosenbluth and Healy - about the status of women in China. Original music from the People's Republic of China. Produced by Helene Rosenbluth and Eloise Klein Healy. Originally aired as an episode of Feminist Magazine as part of programming in a day-long recognition of China's May 4th Movement. The program was later rebroadcast on May 14, 1984 as an episode of Poetic License. |
Healy, Eloise Klein., Rosenbluth, Helene, Women -- China., Bilingual materials -- English/Chinese., Nanjing Women's Federation, China--History--May Fourth movement, 1919, Poetic license, Feminist magazine, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- International women | KZ1249 | |
| Women's abortion coalition. |
A panel discussion on abortion with members of the Women's Abortion Coalition (WAC), a Bay Area group composed of women from various women's groups. The group discusses their efforts to liberalize abortion laws, the implications of the People v. Barksdale decision, the putative effects of abortion law repeal, abortion techniques, contraception, sterilization, and the WAC's proposed class action lawsuit. The panelists are Anne Treseder, WAC and the National Association to Repeal Abortion Laws (NARAL); Judy Syfers, San Francisco Women's Liberation and WAC; Pat Maginnis, WAC, NARAL and Society for Humane Abortion; Suzanne DuPont, French Women's Liberation Movement; and Susan Schnur from KPFA. The moderator is Mary Barnes from KPFA. |
Maginnis, Patricia Therese, Schnur, Susan, Women's Abortion Coalition, Syfers, Judy, Abortion -- Law and legislation., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Reproductive rights, American Women -- Law | BC0275 | |
| 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 concert (II): works by women composers at the Bing Theater |
Women classical musicians performing music by women composers. Recorded at the Bing Theater, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Feb. 21, 1977. Part one composers and pieces are the following: Sonata in A minor for piano / Marianne Martinez. Nocturne in B-flat for piano / Maria Szymanowska. Three etudes for piano / Maria Szymanowska. String quartet, 1931 / Ruth Crawford. Part two composers and pieces are the following: Let us walk in the white snow / Mary Howe. Two Poems by Garcia Lorca / Maria Teresa Prieto. Profiles from China / Peggy Glanville-Hicks. Part three composers and pieces are the following: String quartet in B minor / Teresa Carreno. Performers are Maurita Thornburgh, soprano; Nancy Fierro, piano; Cynthia Daley, violin; Connie Kupka, violin; Renita Koven, viola; Delores Bing, cello. David Cloud hosts. |
Martinez, Marianne, 1744-1812, Szymanowska, Maria Agata Wołowska, 1789-1831, Seeger, Ruth Crawford, 1901-1953, Howe, Mary, 1882-1964, Phillips-Thornburgh, Maurita, Fierro, Nancy., Daley, Cynthia., Kupka, Connie, Koven, Renita., Women composers., Women musicians., Concerts., García Lorca, Federico, 1898-1936, Prieto, María Teresa, Glanville-Hicks, Peggy, CARRENO, TERESA 1853-1917., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Music and musicians | KZ1287 | |
| 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 expectations : mirage or reality? / Eve Merriam (Episode 1 of 15) |
Poet Eve Merriam (1916-1992) talks about birth control, education, and the role of women in society in this keynote speech, which begins KPFA's presentation of the University of California Medical Center's Conference held in San Francisco this year. Eve Merriam is the author of After Nora slammed the door, which is an analysis of American women. At the time of the conference, Merriam was teaching a course at NYU on "Women in America: a socio-cultural inquiry." |
Feminism, Women's rights -- United States -- History, Merriam, Eve, 1916-1992, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Anthropology and societal role | BB0521.01 | Women's expectations : mirage or reality? / Eve Merriam (Episode 1 of 15) (CD) |
| 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 |