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| Title | Description | Keywords | Genre | PRA Archive # | StoreItem |
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| The Politics of nursing / produced by Toni Gray. |
This documentary describes the history of the healing arts in the U.S., especially the women involved. This history of nursing education is described as well as the socialization that went along with it, the struggle to unionize, and strategies for the future. Contains news clips from KPFA, music and is self-contained. There is discussion of the oppressive training of nurses in apprenticeship programs and the switch to college/university education; the fight for control over their practice; organizing efforts such as Nurses Against Nukes, the Nestle boycott, and support for United Farm Workers (UFW); and strategies for the future, such as collective bargaining, legislation, the Women's movement, etc. Interviewed in the program are Grace Ricco-Peña of Nurses in Transition; Toni Propotnik, past president of the California Nurses Association (CNA); Mike Smith, labor representative for the CNA; and Dr. Margretta Styles, dean of the University of California, San Francisco School of Nursing. Also contains news clips from KPFA and music clips woven throughout. This program received the Women at Work Broadcast award, 1980. |
Medical care -- United States., Women -- Health., Nurses -- Political activity., Women at Work Broadcast awards., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Work and unions, American Women -- Health | AZ0389 | The Politics of nursing / produced by Toni Gray. (CD) |
| The population bomb / Dennis Parnell and Paul Ehrlich interviewed by Al Silbowitz |
An interview with Stanford Professor Paul R. Ehrlich (noted population biologist and author of the book titled "The Population Bomb,") and Professor Dennis Parnell (Catholic scientist and biologist at California State College at Hayward). They talk with Al Silbowitz about the drastic measures called for by the increasingly critical population explosion, and about Pope Paul's encyclical opposition to birth control. Originally broadcast during KPFA's open hour. note: "1971 catalog p. 13" |
Ehrlich, Paul R., Overpopulation., Birth control -- Moral and religious aspects., Paul VI, Pope, 1897-1978, Parnell, Dennis R., KPFA open hour, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Reproductive rights | BB1803 | |
| The power to prescribe / moderated by Albert Fine |
Rabbi Alvin Fine (b. 25 Oct. 1916; d. 19 Jan. 1999), professor of humanities at San Francisco State College referees a 3-way duel between Dr. Don Jackson, director of the Mental Research Institution at Palo Alto, Dr. Albert Long, chief of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Presbyterian Medial Center, and Dr. Donald Minkler, clinic medical director for the Planned Parenthood League of Alameda County. The panel of doctors discuss the implications of family planning at the "The Pill and the Puritan Ethic" symposium held in San Francisco on February 12, 1967. Includes questions from the audience. Sponsoring the symposium were: the Faculty Program Center of San Francisco State College, the Presbyterian Medical Center, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists--California Section, and Planned Parenthood-World Population League of San Francisco. Originally broadcast by KXKX from KQED, 12 Feb. 1967.
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Fine, Alvin I., Jackson, Don D. (Don De Avila), 1920-1968, Long, Albert, Minkler, Donald H., Birth control -- United States., The Pill and the Puritan Ethic, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Sex, American Women -- Reproductive rights | BB1318 | |
| The prison business : an interview with Jessica Mitford / interviewed by Jan Legnitto. |
Jan Legnitto interviews Jessica Mitford (1917-1996), author of "The American Way of Death", "The Trial of Dr. Spock", and most recently, "Kind and Usual Punishment: The Prison Business". Mitford discusses the historical roots of the American penal system, the failure of corrections, plea bargaining as an example of how the system fails, "therapy" and human experimentation, and parole, reform or abolition as the answer. |
Legnitto, Jan., Prisons -- United States -- History., Judicial system -- United States., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Mitford, Jessica, 1917-1996 | American Women -- Authors and journalists | BC1683 | |
| The psychology of inferiority (Episode 2 of 7) |
Norma Haan, a research psychologist and professor in the graduate school of social welfare at the University of California (Berkeley) speaks on "The psychology of inferiority" at a teach-in on the oppression of women at San Francisco State College on December 10, 1969. Haan discusses how the psyches of women and men can only be examined in relation to one another; how Freud's Victorian notions of women affect women today; how women's unrecognized feelings may play out in their social interactions. This is the second in a series of seven of the talks at the teach-in. Contains some sensitive language. |
Haan, Norma, Sex discrimination against women, Women -- Social conditions., Oppression of Women teach-in, San Francisco, 1969, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Feminism, American Women -- Psychology and psychotherapy | BB2366.02 | |
| The Rubber Band performs Falling Spaces and Wild Women Don't Get the Blues |
The Rubber Band performs "Falling Spaces" by Carolyn Brandy and "Wild Women Don't Get the Blues" by Ida Cox, recorded at the Women on the Rise Concert at San Francisco State, November 13, 1976. Musicians: Rhiannon-vocals, Michele Rosewoman-keyboard, Carolyn Brandy-percussion, Annette Lipson-percussion, Marie Wilson-stand-up bass. Recording engineers Susan Elisabeth, Fran Tornabene, Martha Oelmann, Joan Medlin. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Brandy, Carolyn, Rosewoman, Michele, Lipson, Annette, Wilson, Marie, Women musicians., Women blues musicians | American Women -- Music and musicians | AZ1667 | |
| The sister's been doing her homework / Betty Shabazz |
Mrs. Betty Shabazz (May 28, 1934 – June 23, 1997), educator, activist, and wife of Malcolm X, speaks on the eve of Malcolm X's birthday at McClymonds High School in Oakland, California as a guest of Merritt College. She speaks about her and Malcolm's efforts within the Black Civil Rights movement and takes questions from the audience. Mrs. Shabazz is introduced by the President of Merritt College, Dr. Norvel Smith. Note: Audio quality is inconstant, some dips and wavering in tone. |
African Americans--Civil rights--History, X, Malcolm, 1925-1965, Blacks -- Civil rights -- United States., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Black Muslims., African American women civil rights workers, Shabazz, Betty. | American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination, American Women -- Activists, American Women -- Relatives of notable men | BC0646 | The Sister's been doing her homework / Betty Shabazz. (CD) |
| The Skin Trade: a documentary on the pornographic film market in San Francisco |
Documentary on pornographic filmmaking in San Francisco. Includes interviews with filmmakers, theater owners, actors, actresses, and the judges of the First International Festival of Erotic Cinema, held in San Francisco late 1970. This program is the second of two programs on erotic and pornographic films. This program concentrates on the social and political ramifications of pornography in films. In discussing pornography as opposed to pornography, this program covers topics such as government regulation, censorship, exploitation, psychological impact upon criminal behavior, treatment of women, and aberrant sexual themes. People interviewed include Maurice Girodias, founder of Olympia Press; Carol Park and Erin Sullivan of the Berkeley women's liberation movement; forensic psychiatrist Dr. Martin Blinder; Diane Feinstein, as a member of the Board of Supervisors in San Francisco; "Ruth", an actress in erotic and pornographic films; Jim Mitchell, a producer of erotic films. The first program "Lights, camera, action!" is BB2851, and is a report from the First International Festival of Erotic Cinema. Intro: We hear next "The Skin Trade," a program on hard core pornographic films in San Francisco. Commentators on the program are Bob Sitton and Portia Shapiro. |
Film industry -- San Francisco (Calif.)., Pornography., Blinder, Martin, Feinstein, Dianne, 1933-, Girodias, Maurice., Mitchell, Jim, 1943-2007, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Sex, American Women -- Film and television | BB2912 | |
| The Three Marias: New Portuguese Letters / by Maria Isabel Barreno, Maria Theresa Horta, and Maria Fatima Velho Da Costa ; directed by Rena Down. (Part 2 only) |
Reading of the book "The Three Marias: New Portuguese Letters." The book is a collection of letters written by three Portuguese women authors about their lives, relationships, and about being women, which exposed the oppression of women in Portugal. Their work was seized by the government and banned, and the authors arrested. The part of Maria Isabel Barreno is read by Rena Down, Maria Theresa Horta read by Kena Hunt, and Maria Fatima Velho da Costa read by Mimi Seton. Selection and direction by Rena Down. No sensitive words. This part (2) is the only one found in the Pacifica Radio collection. |
Barreno, Maria Isabel, 1939-, Women's movement -- Portugal., Women -- History., Costa, Maria Velho da, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Horta, Maria Teresa | American Women -- International women, American Women -- Authors and journalists, American Women -- Poetry | BC2248 | |
| The tracks of my tears: women on heroin / produced by Ginny Z. Berson |
According to some sources, heroin use by women has tripled in the last decade. Why? Is "the life" different for women? What about recovery programs? Is the problem the illegality of heroin or the drug itself? This program was inspired by the book "Women on Heroin," by Marsha Rosenbaum. Ginny Z. Berson talks with Sheila Murphy, Rosenbaum's research associate on the book, and two recovering addicts, Emma and Marilyn, who share some startling feelings about heroin use. Poetry by Avotcja and Sonido Afro Latina; Music by Joni Mitchell, Grace Slick, and Ricki Lee Jones. Note on box: "Levels jumpy; some buzz under call-ins." |
Murphy, Sheila., Narcotic addicts -- Personal narratives., Drugs and women., Heroin., Radio call-in shows, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Rosenbaum, Marsha, 1948- | American Women -- Autobiographies and Biographies, American Women -- Health | AZ0673 |