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| Title | Description | Keywords | Genre | PRA Archive # |
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| The rite of football / Dr. William Arens ; interviewed by Barbara Londin. |
State University of New York Stony Brook Professor Dr. William Arens talks about his "Natural History" magazine article called "The Rite of Football," an anthropological piece in which U.S. football and its followers are seen to share characteristics with primitive religions: violence, sexual exhibitionism, submersion of the individual to the mob. He describes the professional player as a giant corporation and how the game's aggressive tactics reflect our age of super-weapons and militarism. Interview by Barbara Londin. Program later called "The Worship of Football." |
Arens, William, Sports -- Psychological aspects., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Anthropology and societal role | BC2682 | |
| The Velvet Sledgehammer: December 20, 1978 |
The Velvet Sledgehammer for December 20, 1978, produced by Adrienne Gantt. Contents: Interview with Marie-Therese Brincard of the Brooklyn Museum of Art on its exhibition of Nubia,"African and Antiquity"; a report on HEW hearings on government funding to research in vitro fertilization, including an interview with Barbara Mishkin and excerpts from the hearings; Merlin Stone reading two goddess stories, one from China and one from Africa. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Fertilization in vitro, Human., Art, African, Goddesses., Folklore, Museums -- New York City. | American Women -- Health, American Women -- Art and artists | IZ1489 | |
| Consciousness raising-WBAI (Episode 4 of 4): Sex and divorce |
Consciousness-raising: An examination of women's issues. This discussion focuses on the sex lives of married couples. These participants were all divorced or separated, and discussed the ways sex with their exes affected their marriage. The program was broadcast ca. October 1971 through April 1972. Recording ends abruptly. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Women's movement, Feminism, Consciousness raising., Women -- Social conditions., Women -- Personal narratives. | American Women -- Sex, American Women -- Marriage and divorce, American Women -- Feminism | BC0724.04 | |
| The Federalists in the world / Sally Bray interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson |
Sally Bray, who has been a member of the National Council of United World Federalists since 1949, talks with Elsa Knight Thompson about the international activities of the Federalists. Mrs. Bray spent six months in Europe in 1951 helping to organize an International Federalist Congress in Rome, and in the following years, had been a member of the American delegation to the annual international congresses in Holland, Copenhagen, London, Paris, Tokyo, Manchester, The Hague, Oslo, and San Francisco. |
Bray, Sally., Thompson, Elsa Knight, World politics -- 1945-, United World Federalists (U.S.), American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Politicians and politics | BB1829 | |
| Sexual abuse of children |
Viv Sutherland interviews Florence Rush, author of "Sexual abuse of children: the best kept secret." Contains phone calls. Produced by Sutherland. |
Rush, Florence, 1918-2008, Child sexual abuse, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Parenting and children, American Women -- Violence against women | IZ0672 | |
| Do as I do, be as I am : the bruising conflict / Ben Ard. (Episode 12 of 12) |
The third Sunday morning speaker at the symposium "The Uncertain Quest - The Dilemmas of Sex Education," produced by and held at the University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco and simulcast on KPFA, is Ben Ard, Ph.D., Professor of Counseling, Department of Counseling, San Francisco State College. He talks on the psychological challenge for adolescents learning about sexuality. The Archives do not have tapes of the Sunday afternoon sessions "The Challenge to Understand," "Facts and Values: the Approach to Education," "How much information? At what age?", "Who's to teach: the Multi-disciplinary approach," and "Let's Talk Turkey." |
Sex role, Masculinity (Psychology)., Femininity (Psychology)., Ard, Ben N., Sex instruction, Adolescent psychology., Teenagers -- Sexuality., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Sex | BB0722.12 | |
| Battles, feats and solitude: the writings of Colette / produced by Maureen McIlroy |
Dramatic documentary on the life and views of Colette and her feminist writings. An original documentary by Maureen McIlroy. The script was taken from the works and letters of Colette and the autobiography of Maurice Goudeket. Colette was played by Maureen McIlroy; her mother Sido was portrayed by Eve Brenner; Henri de Jouvenel by George Murdoch; Maurice Goudeket by Bill Cort; Georges Wague by Harry Lessen. Others in the cast included Karen Bekar, Bill Myers, Carol Kanarsky, Jim Rosen, Craig Abernathy, Mike Hodel, Jim Berland, Peter Sutheim, and Janet Dodson. Technical direction by Peter Sutheim. Editing by Janet Dodson, Tom Biel, and Emily Schiller. Mike Hodel was the announcer. |
Women authors -- Biography., Feminism and literature., Colette, 1873-1954, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Authors and journalists, American Women -- Autobiographies and Biographies | KZ1373 | |
| Hyphenated expletives need not apply / Judith Bernstein and Carl Baldwin ; interviewed by Clare Spark. |
Discussion of artists and of censorship with artist Judith Bernstein (1942 - ), whose giant, black, furry screw was recently censored at the Philadelphia Civic Center, and Carl Baldwin (? - 2004), an art historian and censorship activist. This program was produced with the partial support of a grant from the National Endowment of the Arts, a federal agency. Contains sensitive language. |
Spark, Clare., Censorship., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Bernstein, Judith., Arts -- Censorship | American Women -- Art and artists | BC1881 | |
| The American Place Theatre women's project |
Louise Thompson interviews Julia Miles, Kathleen Chalfant and Gayle Austin of the American Place Theatre Women's Project. Over the last several months the Women's Project of the American Place Theatre solicited new plays from women playwrights around the country. Of the hundreds of plays they received, they chose twenty, which were read to an invited audience of theatre professionals. In the spring, four of these will be given studio productions open to the public. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Thompson, Louise., Miles, Julia, Chalfant, Kathleen, 1945-, Austin, Gayle, 1949- | American Women -- Theater | IZ1457 | |
| Charlotte Bunch: organizing in the '80s / interviewed by Karla Tonella |
Charlotte Bunch talks about women organizing in the Reagan years. The mobilization organization needed in the changing political climate, the new theory that is needed, how we can test our politics are some of the topics covered in this interview conducted with Karla Tonella, KPFA, 9/81. Feminist strategies, organizations, and coalitions in the 1980s are discussed. |
Bunch, Charlotte, 1944-, Women -- Political activity., Feminism, Women's organizations., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Feminism, American Women -- Politicians and politics, American Women -- Work and unions | AZ0604 |