Browse the American Women collection
| Title | Description | Keywords | Genre | PRA Archive # | StoreItem |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| People's theatre magazine: October 1977 |
People's Theatre Magazine: October 1977. Part 1: Interviews with three men of San Francisco's Gay Mens' Theatre Collective, Anthony Eshbach[sp?], Greg Konnenborn, and Tommy Pace about the production of their very popular theatre piece, "Crimes Against Nature," with excerpts from the play (45:00). Other clips are played including the United Fruit Co., a gay street theatre group from Portland, OR and their skit and run techniques. Part 2 (on Reel 2): Excerpts from Broken Dishes, a two woman musical-comedy review written and directed by Delores DeLux and Amber Waves with help from Martin Worman and Scrumbly Koldewyn. Featured excerpts: What a Scream for a Woman, Hello Wheeze, Tappin Those Varicose Veins, Carmen Sutra, and Prime Time. |
Gay men -- Drama., Musical revues, comedies, etc., Street theater., Gays in literature., Women comedians, People's theatre magazine: October 1977, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Comedians, American Women -- Theater | AZ0130 | |
| Phumzile Zulu interviewed by Laurie Garrett |
Laurie Garrett interviews Phumzile Zulu at the 11th Annual People's World Banquet at Goodman's, Jack London Hall in Oakland, California, November 15, 1980. Phumile Zulu is a 23 year old South African woman living in exile in Morogoro, Tanzania. She was part of the Soweto Movement and was a prominent student leader at Zulu University in South Africa. She was detained and tortured twice by the South African security forces. She is now in the U.S. seeking medical treatment for damage suffered in these long sessions of torture. Phumzile's name means "to serve the Zulu people." She now teaches at the Freedom School for Exiled South African Children in Tanzania. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, African National Congress., Garrett, Laurie, Anti-apartheid movement., Apartheid -- South Africa -- Personal narratives. | American Women -- Activists, American Women -- International women | AZ1680 | |
| Physically adult, mentally unprepared / Ernest Page. (Episode 2 of 12) |
The first speaker in the symposium "The Uncertain Quest - The Dilemmas of Sex Education" produced by and held at the University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco is Ernest W. Page, M.D., Professor and Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the UC Medical Center, San Francisco He talks on the sexual problems of adolescence, specifically how they are experienced by girls. He is a national authority on the physiology and biochemistry of human pregnancy. |
Sex (Psychology), Adolescent psychology., Sex instruction, Teenagers -- Sexuality., Girls, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Page, Ernest W. | American Women -- Sex | BB0722.02 | |
| Planned parenthood in the ghetto / Emily Lewis and Dr. Edward Lampley interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson |
Dr. Edward Lampley and Emily Lewis talk with Elsa Knight Thompson about the problems of birth control work in minority areas. Mrs. Lewis is Clinic Director of the Planned Parenthood Clinics in Alameda County and Dr. Lampley, who has had three years experience in Harlem hospitals, is the new director of the East Oakland Planned Parenthood clinic. They discuss birth control, family planning, prenatal care, and more. |
Inner cities -- Health aspects -- United States, Lampley, Edward C., 1931-2015, Lewis, Emily Vernon, 1920-2007, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Birth control -- United States., African American physicians, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Prenatal care. | American Women -- Health, American Women -- Parenting and children, American Women -- Reproductive rights, American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination | BB1802 | |
| Poems of Janet Sage. |
Janet Redemann Sage reads her poetry, including several from her first collection entitled "An Odyssey of Love." Possibly an episode of the series Womankind. Recorded at WBAI. |
Poetry -- Women authors., Redemann Sage, Janet, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Poetry | BC0418 | |
| Poems of Joyce Peseroff. |
Joyce Peseroff reads selections from her work. She is a former student of Queens College, winner of Queens College's Dwight Darling Award for Poetry, and one of the original Queens Naissance Poets. Program may be part of the Womankind series. Recorded at WBAI. |
Poetry -- Women authors., Peseroff, Joyce, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Poetry | BC0417 | |
| Poet Karen Stanley reads her work. |
Karen Stanley, 23-year-old Bay Area poet, reads selections of her work. Stanley was born and raised in Michigan and started writing at the age of 7. She resides in Oakland and works part-time as a mail carrier, and is also involved with the Good Earth Commune. The poems read include Of Oedipus and poets and kings, How was it not, With my hands, Life in Three Acts, I hold the sky by reborn glasses of beer, I knew a man and a river, The sky bent out of shape, Talk in the glasses of a blue Earth, Light upon light, I feel my edges all grown sharp, A round of miscellaneous lifetimes, Fishes climb this body gray, Last week's shoes in the right closet, I just needed you to say I was your woman, and The only things that feel. Announcer is not introduced. |
Poetry., Women poets, Karen Stanley., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Poetry | BC0175 | |
| Poet Rosalie Moore reads her work |
Bay Area poet Rosalie Moore (1910-2000) reads from her work and talks about her life. Poems read include Fog Crossing, Catalog, The Mind's Disguise, Fear by Hanging, Dirge for the Living, and excerpts from her book Year of the Children (1977). |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Moore, Rosalie, 1910-2000, Women poets | American Women -- Poetry | AZ1672 | |
| Poetry from Violence (Edited) / Glide Memorial Church, San Francisco |
Poetry from Violence (edited version), a poetry reading in conjunction with the San Francisco Conference on Violence Against Women (to be held December 4 & 5, 1976). This reading was held at Glide Memorial Church, San Francisco, November 19, 1976. Contents: Intro by Ruth Hughes, who reads a poem; Kathy Barr: A Woman Is Sitting Next to Me Drowning, Suicide of Boss' Wife; Sandy Boucher: Particularly In the Case of Children; Rosalie Cassell: Hitchhiking Blues; Beverly Dahlen: For Darlene Tower, My Friend, Died of Suicide: July 17, 1972; Suky Durham: How They Endured, For Janice; Rosella Felsenfeld: Yankee PIG DOG Poem; Phoenix Spring Ensemble, intros to Celestial Dwellers, Fisherman's song; Carole Lamb: Sequel to The Butchers; Lynn Lonidier: The Woman Sex-Partner Enterprise Dream; Edith Loyd: Working Women Poems, Love Story; Dorinda Moreno: Dios era su esposo; Gail Newman: A little affection; Gyl Rosenblum, Forgetting; Barbara Starkey, Institution; Carol Seajay, Sister Killed, Sister Died, Suicide?; Ray Smith, Electric Shock Treatment, West London Hospital, 1971; Gail Todd, Vietnamese Orphans; Nellie Wong, "Is the act of murder..."; Contains sensitive language. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Dahlen, Beverly, Felsenfeld, Rosella, Wong, Nellie., Lonidier, Lynn, Loyd, Edith Grantham, 1936-, Women poets, Glide Memorial United Methodist Church (San Francisco, Calif.), Domestic violence | American Women -- Poetry, American Women -- Violence against women | AZ1144 | |
| Poor diet in pregnancy: cause of toxemia / panel moderated by Lou Hartman |
A panel discussion with Dr. Howard Jacobson, associate professor of obstetrics at the University of California Medical Center; Dr. Tom Brewer, obstetrician at the Richmond Health Clinic and author of Metabolic Toxemia of Late Pregnancy: A Disease of Malnutrition; Dr. Ruth Steinkamp, medical consultant for the Bureau of Nutrition, State of California; and Dr. Robert Nelson, who has a private practice in obstetrics and also works with the Highland Medical Clinic. The moderator is Lou Hartman; the panel discusses the impact of diet on fostering the pre-natal ailment. Very impassioned conversation. |
Pregnancy, Complications of., Toxemia of pregnancy, Fetal malnutrition, Brewer, Thomas H., Jacobson, Howard N., Nelson, Robert N., Steinkamp, Ruth C., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Health, American Women -- Parenting and children | BB1703 |