American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982

Sensuality in marriage: question-and-answer session / Maxine Serett. (Episode 2 of 4)

Maxine Serett, author of the book “The Housewife’s handbook on selective promiscuity” (under the pen name Rey Anthony), fields audience questions following a lecture on sexuality and marriage (in California, venue unknown) on January 14, 1965. The lecture centered on how monogamy in marriage doesn’t work and how to best approach being monogamous in marriage.…

August 24, 2025

The lesbian in literature and other poems

Dramatic reading: “The Lesbian in Literature,” and other poems. Recorded at WBAI-FM in 1975 by Chana (Karen) Wilson. Aired on “Radio Free Lesbian” on KPFA-FM in Berkeley in 1975. This recording has two separate dramatic readings of poetry and prose. The first is “The Lesbian in Literature” read by Elizabeth Amada, Lucina Kathman, and Rose…

August 24, 2025

Hot flashes: women’s news from Majority Report (Series record)

This is the series record “Hot Flashes,” women’s news from the Majority Report, broadcast on WBAI. Pacifica Radio Archives has five episodes, broadcast in 1977 and 1978.

August 24, 2025

Feminist Perspectives on Pornography Conference (1978): Kathleen Barry and Susan Griffin

Lilia Medina opens the first session of the Feminist Perspectives on Pornography Conference, held November 17-19, 1978 at Galileo High School in San Francisco, CA. The conference was organized by Women Against Violence in Pornography and Media. Medina introduces Kathleen “Kathy” Barry who speaks on “Beyond pornography: creating a vision.” Next Judith Reisman is introduced…

August 24, 2025

Mom’s a dyke: interview with Gloria Wilson by Chana (Karen) Wilson

KPFA’s Chana (Karen) Wilson’s interviews her mother, Gloria Wilson. The two women are both lesbians, and the interview focuses on Gloria’s coming to identify as a lesbian and the multiple psychiatric hospitalizations she endured to “treat” her depression and homosexuality. Music breaks: Elizabeth Cotton “Going Down the Road Feeling Bad”; Alix Dobkin “A Woman’s Love”;…

August 24, 2025

Know your body (Series record)

This is the program record for the series “Know Your Body,” a series of eight lectures which comprised a course by and for women also entitled “Know Your Body.” The course was given at the Women’s Medical Center in New York City, where this lecture was recorded for WBAI in May and June, 1972, by…

August 24, 2025

Nuclear disarmament: moving forward / Charlene Spretnak, Willis Harman and Bill Wahpepah

An excerpt from the “Nuclear Disarmament: Moving Forward” conference sponsored by Meeting of the Ways, held in San Francisco, September 23-25, 1983. Charlene Spretnak (1946 – ), author and ecofeminist, speaks about the founding ideas of the Green Party in Germany and how it influenced the nascent American Green Party. Willis Harman (1918 – 1997),…

August 24, 2025

Out of wedlock / produced by Celestine Ware (Part 2 of 2)

Interviews with unmarried mothers and an examination of their problems and ideas.

August 24, 2025

Report on the Congress to Unite Women

This is a February 1985 rebroadcast of a November 1969 Womankind episode, hosted by Nannette Rainone. The episode is a rundown of events at the 1969 Congress to Unite Women held in New York on November 21-23, 1969. Guests are four women who were at the Congress: Shulamith Firestone (1945-2012), active in Women’s Liberation in…

August 24, 2025

Virginia Woolf: voices that fly ahead / produced by Maureen McIlroy (Part 2 of 2)

Part two of a documentary on Virginia Woolf, her work, and her life, based on the letters, diaries, and published works of Virginia and Leonard Woolf, in an original production for KPFK by Maureen McIlroy. Madness, love and death are among the themes traced through Virginia Woolf’s life into her novels. The KPFK Folio description…

August 24, 2025