American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982

  • 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…

  • 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.…

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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),…

  • Letters of a woman homesteader (Series title)

    Readings of letters written by a woman homesteader, Elinore Pruitt Stewart (1876-1933) in Wyoming from 1909-1913. The materials used in this program come from “Letters of a woman homesteader” by Elinore Pruitt Stewart, published by the Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. Elinore Stewart’s letters were copyrighted by herself and by Atlantic Monthly in 1913. The letters…

  • Women’s liberation and Black civil rights / Catharine R. Stimpson (Episode 1)

    Catharine R. Stimpson speaks on ‘Women’s liberation and Black Civil Rights.” Stimpson, a Literature professor from Barnard College, speaks about the relationship between the Women’s movement and the Black Civil Rights movement and possible tensions. Contains a very passionate question and answer period with well-known feminist theorists (although their identities are not obvious). Recorded in…

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

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