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| Title | Description | Keywords | Genre | PRA Archive # | StoreItem |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lesbians and alcoholism / produced by Karla Tonella |
Host: Ann Noolen, Lesbian Task Force of the San Francisco Commission on the Status of Women. Guests: Ann Worthington, Women's Alcohol Coalition; Celinda Cantu, Center for Feminist Therapy & Education; Bonnie Malcolm, Whitman Radcliffe Foundation; and musician Meg Christian, Olivia Records. Includes a song by Meg about her own alcoholism. Includes listener phone-in comments. Produced by Karla Tonella. Engineered by Chana Wilson. Technical note from Wilson: Aircheck. Levels too low...a whole lot of studio noise, needs everything possible, but worth it for the content. I keep telling them those are the wrong mics but what do I know, I'm not techie (sic). From label: "What do you know about alcoholism in general and how it affects lesbians specifically? What is a co-alcoholic? What games do alcoholics play with themselves? Is there a double standard for men and women alcoholics? What is alcoholism anyway? The program includes several women speaking about their alcoholism, phone-ins, and Meg Christian singing about her own alcoholism. The references to the San Francisco Bay Area at the end can easily be edited. A moving discussion. Produced by Karla Tonella, KPFA, 1979." Lesbe Friends was a program that was put together by the Lesbian Task Force of the San Francisco Commission on the Status of Women. |
Noolen, Ann., Malcolm, Bonnie., Cantu, Celinda., Christian, Meg, Alcohol and women., Alcoholics -- Psychology., Lesbians -- Alcohol use, Radio call-in shows, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Lesbians | AZ0293 | Lesbians and alcoholism / produced by Karla Tonella |
| Liberty, equality, and fraternity (Episode 3 of 14) |
On women's view of their role in Colonial life. Contains dramatic readings of Benjamin Franklin's "The Speech of Polly Baker," excerpts from the letters of Abigail Adams, and Charles Brockden Brown's "Alcuin: a Dialogue." Episode three of the 14-episode series produced and broadcast on KPFA by Virginia Maynard and Charles Levy from 1958 to 1959. The series was written and directed by Virginia Maynard and produced by Maynard and Chuck Levy, narrated by Levy, and engineered by David Talcott. It was funded in part by the Educational Television and Radio Center in Ann Arbor and distributed nationally by the National Association of Educational Broadcasters. |
Feminism, Women's rights -- United States -- History, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN, 1706-1790., Adams, Abigail, 1744-1818, Brown, Charles Brockden, 1771-1810 | American Women -- Feminism, American Women -- Women's history | BB0130.03 | Liberty, equality, fraternity / produced by Virginia Maynard and Charles Levy (Episode 3 of 14) (CD) |
| Life in the female job ghetto : service and office work / produced by Peggy Irene Bray, Maggie Geddes, and Karla Tonella. |
A documentary that takes a look at women's place in the paid labor force. Features audio of members of Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees and Bartenders International Union Local 2, protesting the mental and physical brutality of their work in San Francisco, July 1980, as well as interviews with San Francisco hotel maids describing their strenuous work conditions. Issues of racism and sexism in labor unions are also discussed. Also examines women office workers who criticize their workplace as a female job ghetto. Featured in the program are Joyce Maupin, Union Women's Alliance to Gain Equality (Union WAGE); Rita Boyle, Women Organized for Employment (WOE); Margaret Butz and Agnes Ramirez, Coalition for Labor Union Women (CLUW); Mary Ann Massenburg, former office worker and clerical organizer for District 65 of the United Auto Workers (UAW). Produced by Peggy Irene Bray, Maggie Geddes, and Karla Tonella. |
Women Organized for Employment, Tonella, Karla., Boyle, Rita, Bray, Peggy., Maupin, Joyce., Massenburg, Mary Ann., Geddes, Maggie., Office workers -- Personal narratives., Sex discrimination in employment, Women -- Employment -- Social conditions., Servants -- Personal narratives., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Work and unions, American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination | AZ0808 | Life in the female job ghetto : service and office work / produced by Peggy Irene Bray, Maggie Geddes, and Karla Tonella. (CD) |
| Life is motion / Jane Brown interviewed by Betty Roszak |
An interview with Jane Brown, dancer, choreographer, and teacher, conducted by Betty Roszak. Miss Brown talks about her recently published manual, The Evolution of Erect Human Motion, and its relationship to daily living as well as dance. |
Human mechanics, Dancing -- Social aspects., Brown, Jane, d. 2006, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Art and artists, American Women -- Authors and journalists | BB2820 | |
| Lilian Westphal reads selections from European literature |
The distinguished Swiss actress in a program of readings in German and English. Miss Westphal presents first a selection of poems from Christian Morgenstern’s Gallows Songs, and secondly, a selection from Romulus, the Great by Friedrich Durrenmatt. This program was recorded at KPFA during Miss Westphal’s recent tour through the United States and is presented through the courtesy of the Goethe Institute in Munich and Pro Helvetia in Zurich. English translations of Morgenstern by Max Knight, Berkeley University. BROADCAST: KPFA, 2 Feb. 1967. Technical note: Bleed-through of a previous recording occurs during the first half hour. |
Swiss literature (German), Morgenstern, Christian, 1871-1914., Bilingual materials -- English/German., Poetry, German., Dürrenmatt, Friedrich, Westphal, Lilian, 1926-1997, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Literary readings (Radio programs) | American Women -- International women, American Women -- Poetry | BB1656 | |
| Lives and times of some famous and not-so-famous Black personalities / produced by Gene De Alessi. |
An audio history featuring the lives and times of some famous and not-so-famous black people. This program presents the stories of the following people: Pedro Alonzo Nino, Kid Steve Esteban, Phyllis Wheatley, Jupiter Hammon, Gustavas Vassa (aka Olaudah Equiano), Benjamin Banneker, James Derham, Crispus Attucks, Peter Salem, Salem Poore, Black Sampson, Tack Sisson, Pompey, Nat Turner, Gabriel— the slave of Prosser, Denmark Vesey, Harriett Tubman, Dred Scott, Sojourner Truth, George Washington Carver and Booker T. Washington. Produced by Gene De Alessi. Contains recordings of music by black composers William Dawson, Ulysses Kay, and Howard Swanson. |
Tubman, Harriet, 1820?-1913, Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination | BB1719.01 | |
| Lois Ann Thomas / produced by Joan Medlin (Episode 20) |
Feminist folksinger and composer Lois Ann Thomas has long been performing her music for the women's community in the San Francisco Bay Area. Two of her performances were recorded live with a grant from the California Arts Council; the first set was recorded at The Bacchanal, a woman's bar in Albany, California in February 1977; the second set, beginning with Woman at the Bottom was recorded at Bishop's Coffee House in Oakland. This program was produced by Joan Medlin. Previously cataloged as AZ0108. |
Thomas, Lois Ann., Folk music., Women composers., Women musicians., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Music and musicians | AZ1132.20 | |
| Lois Ann Thomas live at Bishop's Coffeehouse |
Lois Ann Thomas singing and playing at the Bishop's Coffeehouse in Oakland, California October 17, 1975. Songs performed (Reel 1): 1. Sisterhood Sounds Good (2:30); 2. Ellen's Song (2:00); 3. A Good Woman's Easy to Find (2:00); 4. Night Wind (3:44); 5. Autoerotic Blues Again (3:16); 6. I've Got Nothin' to Say (2:00); 7. Cry, Baby, Cry (2:30); 8. Life (2:30). 9. It's All Right (3:20); 10. Rag Time Song (2:40); 11. Wheel of Fortune (1:30). Songs performed (Reel 2): 1. That Ain't The Way (3:10); 2. Fly, Woman, Fly (3:30); 3. Pig (3:00); 4. Witchin' Free (4:00); 5. New York City (1:40); 6. Berkeley Shuffle (2:40); 7. Lullaby (4:00). This program was produced by Susan Elisabeth, Fran Tornabene, and Joan Medlin. Contains sensitive language. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Thomas, Lois Ann., Women musicians. | American Women -- Music and musicians | AZ1674.01 | |
| Los Angeles Symposium of Women Composers, July 24, 1976 (Episode 9) |
Presentation of women composers of all musical periods. Tapes from women composers affiliated with the Los Angeles Symposium of Women Artists. Presented by Elizabeth Pizer and Susan Sailow. Produced by Elizabeth Pizer. Self contained. Contents: 1. Sheep in Fog, from Songs to Death, Anna Rubin; 2. continuity; 3. Plainsong, Jan Greenwald; 4. continuity; 5. Ni-Zwei, Lois Vierk; 6. continuity; 7. Flowers, Bells, and Migrations, Susan Palmer; 8. continuity; 9. This Again, Not This Again, Susan Palmer; 10. continuity; 11. Among Windy Spaces, Carey Lovelace; 12. continuity; 13. Sheep in Fog, from Songs to Death, Anna Rubin (reprise). Master by Joan Medlin. |
Women composers., Women musicians., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Rubin, Anna, 1946-, Greenwald, Jan, 1952-, Vierk, Lois V., Palmer, Susan, Lovelace, Carey | American Women -- Music and musicians | AZ1132.09 | |
| Lotte Eisner interviewed by Herbert Feinstein |
Prof. Herbert Feinstein talks with Lotte Eisner (1896-1983), curator of the Cinematheque of Paris, about the arts, methods and politics of collecting and preserving film classics at the Cinematheque, whose state subsidy was recently abolished by Andre Malraux. Eisner was restored to her job after a public scandal raised by filmmakers Jean Renoir, Francois Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol and others. |
Eisner, Lotte., Feinstein, Herbert., Film industry -- France., Film criticism., Film historians, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Film and television | BB2012.11 |