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| Title | Description | Keywords | Genre | PRA Archive # | StoreItem |
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| Sources of contemporary purpose / by Miriam Weinberg |
Miriam Weinberg, student in Psychology at San Francisco State College, speaks on the causes and consequences of alienation. One of a series of talks by SF State College students exploring student concerns about American culture, politics and education. Originally broadcast in 1966 by KPFA, this talk was published in book form by Harper & Row under the title To Make a Difference, ed. Otto Butz of the Department of Social Science at SF State College. |
Alienation (Social psychology)., Students -- San Francisco (Calif.)., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, College students -- Political activity. | American Women -- Politicians and politics | BB0522.09 | |
| Soviet nuclear power plants / Helen Caldicott interviewed by William Mandel |
Dr. Helen Caldicott talks of Soviet nuclear power plants, nuclear weapons, SALT II, and Afghanistan. The distinguished Australian medical researcher, now living in the United States, visited the USSR last Fall with a delegation of the American Friends Service Committee. This Quaker group had very high-level talks in the USSR, going frankly into many questions not usually discussed except in negotiations between governments. She was interviewed by William Mandel in January, after Soviet forces were sent into Afghanistan. On nuclear power she takes a tough position in opposition to Soviet development, which is going ahead. She believes SALT II is necessary, more than ever before, after the Afghan events. She also discusses the US-NATO decision to place in Europe for the first time rocket and cruise missiles capable of reaching the USSR itself from there. |
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics -- Defenses., Caldicott, Helen, Mandel, William M., Nuclear disarmament., Nuclear power plants -- Soviet Union., Antinuclear movement, Disarmament., SALT (Strategic Arms Limitations Talks)., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Peace and Antinuclear activism | AZ0405 | Soviet nuclear power plants / Helen Caldicott interviewed by William Mandel |
| Speaking of exotic dancing : unlearning to not speak / Zenia Daragahey and Donna Whitley ; interviewed by Betty Mayer and Marina Bostead. |
A discussion originally broadcast live November 15, 1971 on Unlearning to Not Speak. It brings out the differences between American nightclub "belly dancing" and the meaning of such dancing in Moroccan and Indian villages. And the subject of dance is but the point of departure for an interesting comparison of women's lifestyles in these different societies. Zenia Daragahey and Donna Whitley, both teachers (in 1971 anyway) at EveryBody's Dance Studio in Oakland speak with Marina Bostead and Betty Mayer, then working with the Unlearning to Not Speak Collective. |
Whitley, Donna., Bostead, Marina., Daragahey, Zenia., Dancing -- United States., Women dancers., Unlearning to Not Speak collective., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Dance, American Women -- International women | BC1503 | |
| Street haunting: a London adventure by Virginia Woolf; read by Vivian Schaeffer |
Reading of Virginia Woolf's short story "Street Haunting: A London Adventure." Read by Vivian Schaeffer. No intro or outro. Tape ends "from all the treasures of the city, a lead pencil." |
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941., Radio programs -- Fiction., Literary readings (Radio programs), American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Authors and journalists | BB0996 | |
| Suburban sadness / produced by Lili Francklyn and Robin Steinhardt. |
"Suburban Sadness" was produced for the year 1952 in KPFA's thirty-year retrospective. Suburbia's housing developments and housewives, cars, televisions, drive-ins and Cold War anxieties are all discussed in the context of music from the early fifties. There is the story of a typical American family according to one journalist, and an analysis of suburbia by Prof. David Riesman of the Center for Leisure Studies in Chicago. Pacifica recorded all of Reisman's lecture series and called it "The American Future." Contains dubs of pirated 1950s television commercials and readings by Tillie Olsen of excerpts from Here I Stand Ironing, recorded at KPFA in the mid-1950's. Produced for KPFA's Public Affairs Department by Lili Francklyn and Robin Steinhardt, engineered by Lili Francklyn. |
Francklyn, Lili., Steinhardt, Robin., Riesman, David, 1909-2002, Suburban life -- United States, The Fifties, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Anthropology and societal role | AZ0241 | Suburban sadness / produced by Lili Francklyn and Robin Steinhardt. (CD) |
| Suffocation in suburbia 1: introduction / Sripati Chandrasekhar (Episode 9 of 15) |
Part 9 of KPFA's presentation of the University of California's Medical Center Conference "The Challenge to Women: the Biological Avalanche" held in San Francisco this year. This is Part 1 of "Suffocation in Suburbia." In this recording Sripati Chandrasekha, Ph.D.(1918-2001), Visiting Professor, Department of Sociology, U.C. Riverside, member of Parliament, New Dehli, India, and Director of the Indian Institute for Population Studies in Madras, India, gives introductory remarks and a statement of the problem of overpopulation. |
Chandrasekhar, S. (Sripati), 1918-2001, The challenge to women : the biological avalanche, Overpopulation., Suffocation in suburbia, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Parenting and children, American Women -- Reproductive rights | BB0521.09 | |
| Suffocation in suburbia 2: the march of the wooden house / Paul Bigelow Sears (Episode 10 of 15) |
Part 10 of KPFA's presentation of the University of California's Medical Center Conference "The Challenge to Women: the Biological Avalanche" held in San Francisco this year. This is Part 2 of "Suffocation in Suburbia." In this recording Paul Bigelow Sears (1891-1990), Professor of Conservation, Emeritus, Yale University, presents "The March of the Wooden House," a talk on the need to develop a reciprocal relationship with the environment. Note on label: "Speaker uses slides, but this should not wipe talk out for radio. Mention, however, should be made by announcer." |
Sears, Paul B. (Paul Bigelow), 1891-1990, The challenge to women : the biological avalanche, Overpopulation., Suffocation in suburbia, Suburbs -- United States, Cities and towns -- Growth, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Reproductive rights | BB0521.10 | |
| Suffocation in suburbia 3: the emergence of womanpower / Jean Paul Mather (Episode 11 of 15) |
Part 11 of KPFA's presentation of the University of California's Medical Center Conference "The Challenge to Women: the Biological Avalanche" held in San Francisco this year. This is Part 3 of "Suffocation in Suburbia." In this recording Jean Paul Mather, D. Sc.(1914-2007), University President and General Manager, Purdue Research Foundation (Lafayette, Indiana) presents "The Emergence of Womanpower," a talk on the underdeveloped and unrecognized productive abilities among women. Part of Mather's thesis has to do with egotistical male views of and myths about women, and how these views limit women's potential and productivity. Mather encourages society to promote women in the areas of mathematics, engineering, and science.
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Mather, Jean Paul, The challenge to women : the biological avalanche, Suffocation in suburbia, Sex discrimination in employment, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Sex discrimination in education | American Women -- Feminism | BB0521.11 | |
| Suffocation in suburbia 4: Education: training ground or playground? / Kate Mueller (Episode 12 of 15) |
Part 12 of KPFA's presentation of the University of California's Medical Center Conference "The Challenge to Women: the Biological Avalanche" held in San Francisco this year. This is Part 4 of "Suffocation in Suburbia." In this recording Kate Hevner Mueller, Ph.D(1898-1984), Professor of Higher Education, Indiana University (Bloomington, Indiana) presents "Education: Training Ground or Playground?" a talk on the unequal treatment of men and women in education and the professional world. Missing portion read in studio "B" and inserted in tape (with explanation included) at about 29 minutes in. |
Mueller, Kate Hevner, 1898-1984, The challenge to women : the biological avalanche, Suffocation in suburbia, Sex discrimination in education, Sex discrimination in employment, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Education, American Women -- Work and unions, American Women -- Feminism | BB0521.12 | |
| Suffocation in suburbia 5: dimensions of living space / Irene Taeuber (Episode 13 of 15) |
Part 13 of KPFA's presentation of the University of California's Medical Center Conference "The Challenge to Women: the Biological Avalanche" held in San Francisco this year. This is Part 5 of "Suffocation in Suburbia." In this recording Irene Barnes Taeuber, Ph.D. (1906-1974), Research Associate, Office of Population Research, Princeton University presents "Dimensions of Living Space," a talk on some potential means for ending the population explosion. Dr. Taeuber discusses the relationship between man and space and the economic, social, and demographic dynamics of developing countries. |
Taeuber, Irene B. (Irene Barnes), 1906-1974, The challenge to women : the biological avalanche, Overpopulation., Suffocation in suburbia, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Reproductive rights | BB0521.13 |