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| Title | Description | Keywords | Genre | PRA Archive # | StoreItem |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Older men, older women / Lucy Forrest (April 22, 1980) |
This program, part of KPFA's regular series for and about the elderly, is an interview by Harry Sheer and Teddy Lewis with Lucy Forrest. Forrest recently returned from a visit to Vietnam and Cambodia (Kampuchea). She went to those two countries as a representative of both the International League for Peace and Freedom, and the East Bay Women for Peace (a San Francisco Bay Area group), after receiving an invitation from the Vietnam Women's Union. In the show, Forrest recounts her impressions of life in Vietnam and Cambodia. Harry Sheer gives an announcement at the beginning of the program about Mama O'Shea, host of Shoutin' Out, and her recuperation after a serious operation. After an initial interview portion, Sheer and Forrest respond to listener's phone calls for the last 15 minutes of the program. Broadcast: KPFA, 22 April 1980 |
Cambodia -- Description., Forrest, Lucy., Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Hội liên hiệp phụ nữ Việt Nam (Vietnam Women's Union), Radio call-in shows | American Women -- International women, American Women -- Peace and Antinuclear activism | AZ0428 | Older men, older women / Lucy Forrest (April 22, 1980) |
| On the road to the 1980 Democratic National Convention. |
Actualities -- Democratic Party Convention coverage. New York, 1980 (Aug.) Includes: Ron Dellums, Gene LaRoque, Bella Abzug, Leo McCarthy, Coretta Scott King, Jerry Brown, Phyllis Schlafly, Jimmy Carter, Majorie Phyfe, Harvey Milk, and the voices of several male and female reporters, including Brenda Wilson. Opens with recording of phone call that gets repeated twice. Much of the recording sounds recorded over the phone. Ends with nine-minute-long speech by Dellums. Most speakers are not identified. |
DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION (1980: NEW YORK (CITY))., Political conventions., Abzug, Bella S., 1920-1998, Brown, Jerry, 1938-, Carter, Jimmy, 1924-, Dellums, Ronald V., 1935-, King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006, Milk, Harvey., Schlafly, Phyllis, Phyfe, Marjorie, La Rocque, Gene R. (Gene Robert), 1918-, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, McCarthy, Leo T., 1930-2007 | American Women -- Politicians and politics | AZ0483 | On the road to the 1980 Democratic National Convention. |
| Open every eye / produced by Padraigin McGillicuddy |
This is a documentary/collage on Ireland, quick scan past and present, from 1169 to the Easter Uprising of 1916, with music, poetry, actualities from the Irish Republican Army, the Civil Rights Association, and the women's movement, an analysis of the present society in the 'free' South, then a look at the situation in the North. With taped excerpts from members on the Provisional Sinn Fein, the Official Six County Republican Clubs, the Communist Party of Ireland, the Civil Rights Movement, and Friends of Irish Freedom. Produced by Padraigin McGillicuddy. With technical assistance from Randy Tom and David Anger. Sources for the program included On Our Knees: Ireland 1972 by Rosita Sweetman; Governing Without Consensus: an Irish Perspective by Richard Rose; The London Times report on Northern Ireland; and the CBS Legacy collection. |
Irish Republican Army, McGillicuddy, Padraigin., Women's movement -- Ireland., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- International women | AZ0052 | Open every eye / produced by Padraigin McGillicuddy |
| Our children / George Roth interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson |
George Roth, physician and member of the Committee of Responsibility, talks with Elsa Knight Thompson. Roth had just returned from South Vietnam where he selected another group of war-injured children who will be given medical aid in the United States, as he discussed in a previous interview with Elsa Knight Thompson. Roth goes into detail in describing the chemical burns, amputations, and other traumatic physical ailments suffered by the civilian children of South Vietnam as a result of the war there. The program was originally aired in two parts: part one during the KPFA Marathon in May 1970; the second part during KPFA's open hour in June 1970; then broadcast in its complete form on August 6, 1970. |
Roth, George., Vietnam -- Social conditions., Medical facilities -- Vietnam., Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Children, Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Atrocities, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Vietnam conflict, American Women -- Health | BB2486 | |
| Our days in court / produced by Fran Watkins and Isabel Welsh. |
Overview of the history of legal issues concerning women, including name changes in marriage contracts, control of one's earnings, divorce and custody rights, and employment discrimination. Includes interviews with Nancy Davis, Mary Dunlap and Wendy Williams, Equal Rights Advocates attorneys in San Francisco. Produced by Fran Watkins and Isabel Welsh. |
Watkins, Fran., Women -- Legal status, laws, etc., Law and society -- United States., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Law | BC1522 | |
| Out of the kitchen and into the sweat shop : the story of working women in America / produced by Joanna Brouk and Toni Maher. (Episode 5 of 7) |
A survey of the lives and works of Emma Goldman, Rose Schneiderman, Mother Jones, Jane Addams, and other women who struggled to alleviate the horrendous conditions of working classes in America. Features interviews with labor historians and dramatic readings of writings by the subjects of this documentary. Produced by Joanna Brouk and Toni Maher. Interviewees and speakers featured in the program are not identified. |
Working women in America., Brouk, Joanna, 1949, Women -- Employment -- United States., Working classes -- United States -- Political activity., Great women, Goldman, Emma, 1869-1940, Jones, Mother, 1837-1930, Schneiderman, Rose, 1882-1972, Addams, Jane, 1860-1935, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Activists, American Women -- Women's history, American Women -- Work and unions, American Women -- Autobiographies and Biographies | AZ0471.05 | Out of the Kitchen and into the Sweatshop: The Story of Working Women in America (CD) |
| Panel discussion on women (Episode 14 of 14) |
Discussion of the woman's struggle for social equality. Panelists include Mark Shorer, English literature professor at the University of California; Ethel Albert (1918-1989), anthropologist; Dr. Anna Maenchen, Berkeley psychiatrist; Peter Odegard, professor of political science at the University of California; Miriam Allen DeFord, writer; and Virginia Maynard, writer and director of "The American woman" series. As a starting point for the discussion, each participant read the chapter entitled "The ordeal of the American woman," from America as a civilization by Max Lerner (1957). This is the fourteenth and final episode in the 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, Radio panel discussions, Schorer, Mark, 1908-1977, Albert, Ethel M., Maenchen, Anna, Odegard, Peter H., 1901-1966, De Ford, Miriam Allen, 1888-1975, Maynard, Virginia., Lerner, Max, 1902-1992, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Feminism, American Women -- Women's history | BB0130.14 | Panel discussion on women / produced by Virginia Maynard and Charles Levy (Episode 14 of 14) (CD) |
| Parents against the draft / interviews by Lou Hartman |
Lou Hartman talks with a psychiatrist, an electrical engineer, a teacher in a medical school, a housewife, and a professor of economics concerning their experiences in the Santa Rita Rehabilitation Center, growing out of their arrests at the Oakland Induction Center, where they sat in the doorway to demonstrate their opposition to the draft and the war in Vietnam. Guests are Genevieve Knupfer, a private practice and research psychiatrist; John Bernstein, an electrical engineer at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center; Hadley Kirkman, a teacher of microscopic anatomy in the medical school at Stanford; Virginia Brink, a housewife, formerly an administrative assistant at Stanford; and John Gurley, a professor of economics at Stanford University. This was a follow-up program to a previous broadcast during KPFA's Open Hour wherein Hartman interviewed young adults who had also participated in the sit-in and were subsequently incarcerated at Santa Rita. |
Prisoners -- Personal narratives., Protests, demonstrations, vigils, etc. -- California., Santa Rita Rehabilitation Center (Pleasanton, Calif.), Draft resistance -- California., Gurley, John G., Kirkman, Hadley, 1901-1997, Knupfer, Genevieve, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Peace and Antinuclear activism, American Women -- Vietnam conflict | BB1485 | |
| Pauline Bart interviewed by Paula Darte |
Dr. Pauline Bart, feminist sociologist at Abraham Lincoln School of Medicine in Chicago, is interviewed by Paula Darte about her NIH-funded research on rape in November 1978. In her research, Bart interviewed 94 women who had either been raped or had avoided being raped to determine the best combination of variables that would lead to rape avoidance. She discusses how the findings of her study have largely contradicted the advice given by Frederic Storaska in his book "How to Say No to a Rapist and Survive It." Contains brief readings from Storaska's book by John Rieger and from Dell Fitzgerald-Richards' "The Rape Journal" by Carole Bennett. Technical assistance by Karla Tonella, Carole Bennett and Shelley Real[sp?]. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Bart, Pauline, Rape., Storaska, Frederic, 1942- | American Women -- Authors and journalists, American Women -- Violence against women | AZ0631.04 | |
| Peggy Seeger at KPFA / produced by Susan Kernes |
Peggy Seeger visited KPFA and talked about performing, writing music, why she doesn't call herself a feminist, and why women need to work together. Interspersed with the interview are excerpts from a performance at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco, recorded by Tony Ferro on November 21, 1978. The interview was also recorded in November 1978, while Seeger and her English songwriter husband Ewan MacColl were touring the United States. The concert portion of the program was produced for Pacifica by Nancy Guin. The rest of the program was produced by Susan Kernes for Pacifica. |
Seeger, Peggy, 1935-, Women folk musicians, Women composers., Women musicians., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Music and musicians, American Women -- Relatives of notable men | AZ0431 | Peggy Seeger at KPFA / produced by Susan Kernes |