Browse the American Women collection
| Title | Description | Keywords | Genre | PRA Archive # | StoreItem |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terry Garthwaite in concert. |
Terry Garthwaite from Joy of Cooking with Fritz Kasten and David Garthwaite, in concert at the U.C. Art Museum October 1, 1972. The performance was part of the Bay Area Festival of Women's Works. Women in the Arts is produced by Jan Legnitto. Contains 16 seconds of tone at top of Part One. No intro or outro. |
Women musicians., Garthwaite, Terry., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Music and musicians | BC1040 | |
| Test tube babies / produced by Laurie Garrett. |
Documentary on the moral, physical, and socio-political controversy surrounding artificial insemination and egg implantation, based on hearings conducted in San Francisco in November 1978 by Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) Secretary Joseph Califano. Heard on the program are Dr. Alan Enders from the University of California, Davis; Francis Filice, Professor Emeritus of Biology at University of San Francisco; Mary Ann Schwab, Legislative Information Chairman for the National Council of Catholic Women; and others. Produced, researched and engineered by Laurie Garrett at KPFA. Previously cataloged as AZ0643. |
Artificial insemination, Human., Fertilization in vitro, Human., Science -- Social aspects., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Health, American Women -- Science and scientists | AZ0027.14 | Test tube babies / produced by Laurie Garrett. |
| Testimony of a mother of a desaparecido / produced and read by Paz Cohen. |
Reading of the deposition of Oriana Sánchez Romero, mother of university student Maria Isabel Beltrán Sánchez, who was arrested in Chile on December 18, 1973, tortured and killed by military police, and whom the junta said had fled to Argentina with other extremists. The first three minutes provide historical background and context of missing persons in Chile, where "missing persons" are usually known or suspected to be in military custody, but whom the military denies holding. Read and produced by Paz Cohen. |
Political atrocities -- Latin America., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Chile -- Politics and government -- 1973-1988., Disappeared persons -- Chile. | American Women -- International women, American Women -- Violence against women | BC2675 | |
| Teurai Ropa interviewed by Laurie Garrett |
Teurai Ropa (Amai Joice T.R. Mujuru) discusses the Zanu women's movement in Zimbabwe and her role in it. Ropa, 25 years old at the time of the interview, was Secretary of Women's Affairs in Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU), a member of the ZANU Central Committee, and a field commander with Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army (ZANLA) with eight years of combat experience behind her. Interview by Laurie Garrett, 1979. End of recording includes suggested intro and outro to the program. |
Ropa, Teurai., Garrett, Laurie, Women's movement -- Zimbabwe., Women -- Zimbabwe., Mujuru, Amai Joice T. R. (Amai Joice Teurai Ropa), American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Zimbabwe African National Union | American Women -- International women, American Women -- Politicians and politics | AZ0393 | Teurai Ropa interviewed by Laurie Garrett |
| The Abortion handbook / Pat Maginnis ; interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson. |
Author Pat Maginnis, joint author with Lana Clark Phelan of The Abortion Handbook (Contact Books, 1969), discusses her book with Elsa Knight Thompson. They discuss the declining practice of midwifery, the religious and political forces driving anti-abortion sentiment, and how to change public perception of the practice of abortion. |
Maginnis, Patricia Therese, Women -- Legal status, laws, etc., Abortion, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Reproductive rights | BB2271 | The Abortion handbook / Pat Maginnis ; interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson. (CD) |
| The Affair of Gabrielle Russier / read by Miriam Bjerre and Barbara Morris Freed. |
The story and letters of the French school teacher, Gabrielle Russier, who committed suicide after being sentenced for having an affair with one of her younger students during the turmoil of May 1968. Based on the publication by Alfred Knopf, edited from the introduction by Mavis Gallant, and read by Miriam Bjerre and Barbara Morris Freed. Produced and directed by Ruth Hirschman, technical production by Bruce Gossard. |
Bjerre, Miriam., Freed, Barbara Morris., Gallant, Mavis., Teachers -- Correspondence, reminiscences, etc., Knopf, Alfred A., 1892-1984, Russier, Gabrielle, 1937-1969, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Women's history, American Women -- Autobiographies and Biographies | BC0647 | |
| The American woman / Felix Greene |
The commentator is Felix Greene, journalist and producer for KPFA. Commentary: "The American Woman." Greene comments on the differences between American women and British women in such areas as public behavior with strangers, relations towards men, self image and appearance, femininity, and motherhood. Recorded April 12, 1955; broadcast April 19, 1963. Master by K. Winslow. |
Women -- United States., Greene, Felix, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Men's commentary and experiences | BB1504 | |
| The Anglo-Irish novel / Robert Tracy and Joan Keefe (Episode 7 of 7); produced by Padraigin McGillicuddy. |
Number seven in the series Irish Contributions to English Literature. Discussion of Anglo-Irish literature, one of the two distinct trends in Irish literature (the other clumsily called Irish literature in English). The Anglo-Irish novel has a well established history. Stemming from the land-holding class, it deals with the interaction of the gentry with the peasantry. The leading exponents of this genre were women. Commentary by Professors Robert Tracy and Joan Trodden Keefe. "Some Experiences of an Irish R.M." written by two eccentric ladies, Somerville and Ross, read by Gail Chugg. "comic!" Produced by Padraigin McGillicuddy. BROADCAST: KPFA, 1982, in the Evening Reading broadcast time slot. |
English literature -- Irish authors, English literature., Irish literature., Keefe, Joan., Tracy, Robert, 1928-, Somerville, E. Œ. (Edith Œnone), 1858-1949, Ross, Martin, 1862-1915, Evening reading., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- International women, American Women -- Authors and journalists | AZ0621.07 | |
| The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein, read by Alice B. Toklas |
Alice Toklas reading from The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein and The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook. From the folio "It isn't really an autobiography, of course, because it was written by Gertrude Stein, which is known as too many ironies in the fire. This selection is taken from the Verve record (MGV-15017), and was loaned to KPFA by Campus Records, Berkeley." Contents include: The Garden at Bilignin, Haschich Fudge, Before I came to Paris, AND On first meeting with Gertrude Stein. Recording made April 29, 1960. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas brodcast on April 11, 1963 and The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook broadcast on April 16, 1963. Ends abruptly. |
Toklas, Alice B., Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946, Literature -- Women authors., Women authors, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Authors and journalists | BB1178 | Autobiography and Alice B. Toklas. (CD) |
| The Berkeley Women's Music Collective |
The Berkeley Women's Music Collective in concert, recorded Winter 1975. Members of the group include: Susan Shanbaum, Nancy Vogel, Debbie Lempke, Nancy Henderson, and Bonnie Lockhart. Songs performed (Reel 1): 1. SF Bank Song -- Shanbaum (4:00); 2. Back to Boston -- Vogel (2:00); 3. Work Song -- Lockhart (3:30); 4. Harp Solo -- Shanbaum (2:30); 5. Janet's Song-- (6:50); 6. Susann's Mother song -- Shanbaum (3:00); 7. Henderson's Mother song -- Henderson (3:00); 8. & 9. ?; 10. The Fury -- Shanbaum (3:00); 11. Rape -- Lockhard (5:30). Songs performed (Reel 2): 1. The Fury (dropout); 2. Seawoman -- Lempke (4:10); 3. Forever Must Begin -- Lempke (4:40); 4. So You Say -- Vogel (4:00); Album tapes--1. We're Hip -- Henderson (4:10); 2. Take the Time -- Henderson (4:30); 3. Gay and Proud -- Lempke (2:00). |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Berkeley Women's Music Collective, Women's music, Women musicians. | American Women -- Music and musicians | AZ1674.02 |