Browse the American Women collection
| Title | Description | Keywords | Genre | PRA Archive # |
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| Readings on national liberation / translated and read by William Mandel |
Readings on national liberation / translated and read by William Mandel. Soviet news stories on world events. Phone-ins. pt.1. story on the escape of Assata Shakur, a Black woman poet, from a U.S. prison. -- pt.2. stories about Iranian embassy takeover. -- pt.3. phone-ins. |
Women, Black., Journalism -- Soviet Union., Press and politics., Prisoners -- United States., Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981., Shakur, Assata., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Radio call-in shows | American Women -- Activists, American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination | AZ0649 | |
| Women in China / Linda Gordon and Jean Tepperman (Episode 12) |
Talks by Linda Gordon and Jean Tepperman. Gordon is an historian teaching at the University of Massachusettes and is writing a history of the birth control movement in the U.S. Tepperman is a high school teacher. Both were members of Bread and Roses, a Boston Women's group. They traveled to China in December, 1972. The talk covers marriage, divorce and the position of women in China since the Revolution up to and after the Cultural Revolution. They discuss the means by which women were organized and the pros and cons of an autonomous women's movement. Note on box: "A plain and simple but sophisticated program--it doesn't make China sound like Nirvana for women." |
Tepperman, Jean., Gordon, Linda., Women's movement -- China., China -- Social conditions., Women -- China., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- International women | BC1610 | |
| Mary Jane Menuez reads her poetry |
Poet Mary Jane Menuez reads selections from her work. Menuez was born in Chicago. She began writing poetry as a student of Ellen Bryant Voigt at Goddard College. Her poetry has appeared in such places as Orion's Dolphin, Countermeasures, Xanadu, and the Grolier Press Annual Anthology of Children's Poetry. She has taught poetry workshops at Suffolk Community College on Long Island, and, under the sponsorship of the Poetry Therapy Association, run a poetry therapy program for over a year at a veteran's hospital. This program was produced by Paul Oppenheimer for the Drama and Literature Department of WBAI New York. |
Poetry -- Women authors., Mary Jane Menuez., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Poetry | BC2995 | |
| The Lesbian Show: July 15, 1980 - Third World Lesbian Writers Conference (2nd annual) |
The Lesbian Show, produced by Donna Allegra, features readings from the 2nd Annual Third World Lesbian Writers Conference in April 1980, sponsored by the Azalea collective and Salsa Soul. Audre Lorde opened the night reading "Need." The following readers are Imani, Joan Gibbs, Anita Cornwell, Isis, Arisa Reed, Candice Boyce, Chirlane McCray, and Jabu reading Ntozake Shange. This program does not include all of the women who read at the conference. |
Lorde, Audre, Lesbian authors, Black women -- Social conditions., African American women authors, African American lesbians, Gibbs, Joan., Violence -- Personal narratives., African American women poets, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Cornwell, Anita, 1923- | American Women -- Poetry, American Women -- Lesbians, American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination | IZ1061.02 | |
| A woman's cry / read by Selma Lawrence and Barbara Kraft |
A montage of selected readings about women's social conditions, read by Julie Adams, Jo Raskin, Selma Lawrence and Norma Connolly. Readings by Thomas Aquinas, George Bernard Shaw, Edna St. Vincent Millay, George Sand, Joan Didion, and others. Written, produced, and directed by Barbara Kraft. Edited by Everett Frost. |
Lawrence, Selma., Radio programs -- Fiction., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Women -- Social conditions. | American Women -- Authors and journalists, American Women -- Poetry, American Women -- Radio | BC0603 | |
| Lois Ann Thomas live at Bishop's Coffeehouse |
Lois Ann Thomas singing and playing at the Bishop's Coffeehouse in Oakland, California October 17, 1975. Songs performed (Reel 1): 1. Sisterhood Sounds Good (2:30); 2. Ellen's Song (2:00); 3. A Good Woman's Easy to Find (2:00); 4. Night Wind (3:44); 5. Autoerotic Blues Again (3:16); 6. I've Got Nothin' to Say (2:00); 7. Cry, Baby, Cry (2:30); 8. Life (2:30). 9. It's All Right (3:20); 10. Rag Time Song (2:40); 11. Wheel of Fortune (1:30). Songs performed (Reel 2): 1. That Ain't The Way (3:10); 2. Fly, Woman, Fly (3:30); 3. Pig (3:00); 4. Witchin' Free (4:00); 5. New York City (1:40); 6. Berkeley Shuffle (2:40); 7. Lullaby (4:00). This program was produced by Susan Elisabeth, Fran Tornabene, and Joan Medlin. Contains sensitive language. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Thomas, Lois Ann., Women musicians. | American Women -- Music and musicians | AZ1674.01 | |
| Sexuality, violence, and aggression / lecture and interview with Dr. Carl Faber (Episode 3 of 4) |
This is the third episode "Sexuality, violence, and aggression" in a four part series of lectures by Dr. Carl Faber entitled "Woman as slave." This episode is in two parts. Part one is Faber's lecture on sexuality, violence, and aggression, given in January 1977. Dr. Carl Faber, a heterosexual monogamist, lectures on how, with awareness, women may get sexually spaced out, allowing sex with no closeness some feel is "mature." They may be turned off completely and may become sexually involved with a person they trust: a woman. Faber goes on to suggest that when a woman gets in touch with how men have treated her, she experiences a violent murderous homicidal rage without end. In the end, she can learn physical self-protection and respect. In part two Dr. Faber is interviewed by Helene Rosenbluth and Roy Tuckman, discussing the possibilities for a good male/female relationship; refining one's individuality and aloneness; dignity, truth, pride, and purity of experience as motivation and reward for the suffering and loneliness; the lack of awareness of sexist language in college; maturity. This part should follow lecture #3. The end introduces lecture #4, so the announcer should indicated when that lecture will be broadcast. Produced by Roy Tuckman. |
Faber, Carl., Sex (Psychology), Women -- Psychology., Women -- United States -- Social conditions., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Men's commentary and experiences, American Women -- Sex | KZ0197.03 | |
| Status-quo and otherwise / Ruth Miller (Episode 4 of 12) |
Nancy Reeves interviews Ruth Miller, Chairman of the California Advisory Commission on the Status of Women, and a national representative and West Coast Educational Director of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. She discusses the origins of the Advisory Commission as an outgrowth of a previous program carried out at the federal level, how each state Commission produces its studies, and the changing role of women in society. |
Reeves, Nancy., Labor unions -- Clothing workers -- United States., Women labor unionists., California. Advisory Commission on the Status of Women, Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Feminism | BB4451.04 | |
| The traditional approach: part two (Episode 2 of 12) |
Part two of a presentation on the new alternatives for women in American society, as well as the continuing problems. With Nancy Reeves, attorney and member of both the New York and California Bars; holding degrees in both Science and Law; writer, lecturer, member of International Federation of Women Lawyers. This part of the examination continues from the last program, and applies the second method - the historical - to see if the traditional model of woman's status is validated by the patterns of the past, and the third method - the cross-cultural - to learn whether the traditional model obtains in other living societies. The next lecture will examine the antithesis of the traditional approach, namely the challenging view. |
Women -- Social conditions., Feminism, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Feminism | BB4451.02 | |
| Women and nature / produced by Alan Soldofsky. |
Poet and feminist Susan Griffin reads from her book of prose, "Woman and Nature: the roaring inside her" (Harper & Row, 1978). Griffin reads the sections Prologue, Gravity, The garden, Consequences (What always returns), The lion in the den of the prophets, Vision, and Erosion. The reading was recorded in November 1978 at Cody's Books in Berkeley, California. Produced by Alan Soldofsky with the assistance of Mark Jaqua and the KPFA production workshop. |
Women writers, Ecofeminism, Griffin, Susan., Soldofsky, Alan., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Authors and journalists | AZ0512.02 |