American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982

  • Waitresses on strike

    Judy Sackoff interviews Sophia Guthertz and Patty Gulino, two waitresses from Al Buon Gusto Restaurant in Manhattan who have been on strike since April 2, 1981.

  • Femininism and therapy vs. Feminist therapy

    This week: Lynne Zeavin and Muriel Dimen discuss feminism and therapy versus feminist therapy. Self-contained with phone calls edited but left in, including a call with British psychotherapist and author Susie Orbach. Program brought to you by Group For Radical Human Science.

  • Feminist psychoanalytic therapy

    The topic is psychoanalytically-informed feminist therapy, with moderators Lynne Zeavin and Adrienne Harris. Guests include therapists Susie Orbach, Luise Echenbaum, and Carol Bloom from the Women’s Therapy Center Institute, 80 11th Street, New York, 10003. Program sponsored by the Group for Radical Human Science. Note on box “competition/separation, power, woman-woman, woman to man.”

  • Radical History Radio: Feminism in the 1800s

    Interview with Ellen DuBois, Associate Professor of History and American Studies at SUNY Buffalo, on her new book entitled “Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony: correspondence, writings, speeches.” DuBois discusses the origins of feminism in England with Mary Wollstonecraft and Frances Wright. While the US feminist movement in the 1920’s fought for education for women…

  • History of women workers and women in the labor movement

    Historian Dr. Blanche Wiesen Cook interviews historian Dr. Alice Kessler Harris about women and work and women in the labor movement. Harris talks about challenging the notion of work as being “work for pay” and talks about both women’s household labor and women as wage workers, both historically and in contemporary times. Harris’ books includes…

  • Black Awareness: Ti-Grace Atkinson

    Feminist author and activist Ti-Grace Atkinson discusses her involvement with the feminist movement and her decision to leave the Women’s Liberation group. Atkinson also discusses Mayor John Lindsay asking Gloria Steinem to mobilize the women’s movement to support moving welfare recipients from hotels into abandoned housing near Floyd Bennett Field. Hosted by Deloris Costello.

  • Washington Report: March 6, 1972

    Washington Report: March 6, 1972. Interview with Dr. Rona Fields, an American psychologist who is the first American psychologist to visit the Long Kesh internment camp in Northern Ireland. She describes the physical and psychological torture present in the camps. Includes subsequent report on House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee hearings on Ireland. Program is self-contained.

  • Janet Sternburg: Journal from a semi-private room

    Janet Sternburg reads her autobiographical fiction, titled “Journal from a semi-private room.” Sternburg relates her experiences as an adult spending time in hospital with an injury to her arm. Her mother also goes to hospital and is operated on for cancer. She returns for a visit to her family home.

  • Poetry reading: Barbara Holland and Paul Oppenheimer

    Barbara Holland reads selections from her book “Crises of Rejuvenation:” Crises of Rejuvenation — The inevitable knife — Not fungus, no, never that! — A tryst beneath a bird house — Autumn wizard — This certain quaintness — An abominable breakfast — Rag picker — My old friend, the sorcerer — In the cause of…

  • Women Against War – discussion (Part 3 of 3)