Browse the American Women collection
| Title | Description | Keywords | Genre | PRA Archive # | StoreItem |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| X-rays : more harm than good? / Priscilla Laws ; interviewed by Lynn Samuels. |
Priscilla Laws, author of "X-rays: More harm than good?" (Rodale Press, 1977) is interviewed by Lynn Samuels. She talks about the overuse (and misuse) of radiation in routine medical and dental procedures and urges people to learn as much as they can about it before consenting to X-ray exposure. She ties this into larger concerns about the structure of health care in the United States. Produced for WBAI by Lynn Samuels. |
Samuels, Lynn., Laws, Priscilla., X-rays -- Physiological effect., Women authors, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Consumer protection. | American Women -- Health | IZ0069 | |
| Yoko Ono / interviewed by Liza Cowan and Jan Albert. |
Artist and musician Yoko Ono discusses the evolution of her art during the 1960s with Liza Cowan and Jan Albert at the St. Regis Hotel in New York City on September 11, 1971. Includes discussion of conceptual art, her film "Lighting Piece", acting out madness in order to not go mad, her time as a building superintendent, her early loft concerts, the pea throwing ritual, and discrimination against women artists. John Lennon makes a brief appearance about halfway through the interview. |
Ono, Yōko, 1943-, Albert, Jan., Women artists, Art., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Art and artists | BC0339 | An Interview with Yoko Ono / interviewed by Liza Cowan and Jan Albert. (CD) |
| Yom HaShoah service commemorating the Holocaust |
Women's resistance in the Holocaust, a special program to mark Holocaust Remembrance day. Irena Klepfisz, Melanie Kaye and other women gather at Woman Books on April 21, 1982 to commemorate Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, and the 39th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Broadcast on April 20, 1983. |
HOLOCAUST, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)., Jewish women--United States, Warsaw (Poland)--History--Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- International women, American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination | IZ0506 | |
| Yvonne Rainer on dance / interviewed by Liza Cowan. |
Yvonne Rainer, dancer, choreographer, and founder of dance company The Grand Union talks with Liza Cowan about the Judson Dance Theater, cross- influences in dance, music, and theater, the use of space and time in dance, and the dance audience. Originally broadcast live on "Electra Rewired"--this may be a later broadcast. Also see producer Liza Cowan's letter from the same year in the WBAI November 1971 folio here: https://archive.org/stream/wbaifolio1211wbairich#page/7/mode/2up. |
Rainer, Yvonne., Dancing., Women dancers., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Dance | BC0327 | |
| Zerega Association mayoral forum with Bella Abzug |
On August 31, 1977 the community association of Zerega in the Bronx held a mayoral forum attended by Herman Badillo, Ed Koch, and Bella Abzug. This program includes the presentation given by Bella Abzug and interviews with members of the Zerega Community. Produced by John Fisk and Dave Metzger. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Abzug, Bella S., 1920-1998, Elections -- New York (City)., Women politicians, Women politicians -- Public opinion. | American Women -- Politicians and politics | IZ1365 | |
| A blind blues street singer / Flora Molton ; interviewed by Natalie Reuss. |
Interview with Flora Molton, blind blues street-singer of the Washington, D.C. area. Flora tells stories of her past, sings and plays slide guitar, and explains why she has chosen to be a performer of the street. Her band members include Ed Morris and Phil Wiggins. Natalie Reuss of Sophie's Parlor Media Collective conducts the interview. Produced by Sophie's Parlor Media Collective. |
Sophie's Parlor Media Collective., Street musicians., Musicians, Blind., Blues (Songs, etc.)., Women musicians., Molton, Flora, 1908-1990, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Music and musicians | WZ0050 | |
| A Retrospective on radical feminism / produced by Moira Rankin and Deborah George. |
A documentary that looks at the development of ideas that shaped the radical women's movement, mainly focusing on the movement in the 1970s. Includes bits of movie soundtracks, speeches and interviews with the women who made history. Topics covered in the program are women and labor unions in the early 20th century, the return to the home after WWII, women in the civil rights movement, the New Left and the beginning of the autonomous women's movement, the formation of women's liberation groups, the emergence of radical lesbian groups such as the Furies, the United Nations International Women's Year Conference of 1977, feminist health clinics and other women's centers, organizing women household workers, grand jury investigations of members of the women's movement, racism within the women's movement. Among those voices heard are Alix Kates Shulman, Fannie Lou Hamer, Leslie Cagan, Cynthia Funk, Joan Byron, Betty Friedan, Carol Downer, Gerri Traina, Edith Barksdale Sloan, Jill Raymond, Donna Keck, and Cynthia Washington. Produced by Moira Rankin and Deborah George. A presentation of the Sophie's Parlor Media Collective. |
Feminism, Women's movement, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Feminism--United States--History--20th century, Shulman, Alix Kates, Hamer, Fannie Lou, Friedan, Betty, Sloan, Edith Barksdale, Keck, Donna | American Women -- Radical Feminism | WZ0185 | A Retrospective on radical feminism / produced by Moira Rankin and Deborah George. |
| A woman artist speaks / Joyce Scott ; interviewed by Naomi Eftis and Elaine Heffernan. |
Artist Joyce J. Scott (b. 1948) talks about how she became an artist, and about creating and selling art. She is interviewed by Naomi Eftis and Elaine Heffernan. |
Art -- Marketing., Women artists, African American women artists, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Scott, Joyce, 1948- | American Women -- Art and artists | WZ0109 | |
| Among all this, you stand like a fine brownstone : Gwendolyn Brooks / produced by Taliba Holliday. |
Poet Gwendolyn Brooks (1917 - 2000), the first Black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1950, speaks with WPFW's Kathy Anderson and Angelo Gregory on location at Washington, D.C.'s Black Repertory Theatre, where a play based on her work entitled "Among All This, You Stand Like a Fine Brownstone" was being staged. Also includes an interview with Brooks by Grace Cavalieri conducted at WPFW, with Mike Hodge of the Black Repertory Theatre and Noble Lee Lester, who recites a soliloquy from the production. Brooks reads some of her poetry and comments on seeing her work dramatized, on being categorized as a "Black woman poet", and on the potentially creative uses of anger and hatred. Produced by Taliba Holliday, with associate producers Angelo Anthony and Grace Cavalieri. |
Women poets, Cavalieri, Grace, Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Anderson, Kathy, Gregory, Angelo, Lester, Noble Lee, African American women poets, D.C. Black Repertory Company | American Women -- Poetry, American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination, American Women -- Theater | WZ0014 | You stand like a fine brownstone : Gwendolyn Brooks / produced by Ialita Holliday. (CD) |
| Back Alley Theatre / Naomi Eftes and Elaine Heffernan interviewed by Ree Austin |
Naomi Eftis and Elaine Heffernan, two local Washington, D. C. artists and housewives, discuss the creation of Back Alley Theatre, and delineate workable survival avenues for the struggling artist. Interview conducted by Ree Austin. Produced by Grace Cavalieri. |
Children's theater -- Washington, D.C., Back Alley Theatre (Organization : Washington, D.C.), Eftis, Naomi, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Art and artists, American Women -- Theater | WZ0027 |