American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982

  • Women and the law: the unfinished revolution / Leo Kanowitz interviewed by Carol Amyx

    Leo Kanowitz, professor of law at University of New Mexico and author of “Women and the Law: The Unfinished Revolution” (University of New Mexico Press, 1969) about women’s legal situation, talks with Carol Amyx, KPFA news volunteer. Kanowitz says he wrote the book as a course of general human rights, seeing that women were struggling…

  • The fairness doctrine / Steven Kroll interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson

    Steven E. Kroll, president of the Boalt Hall Student Association of the U.C. law school in Berkeley, tells Elsa Knight Thompson about the U.C. law students’ complaint to the FCC against television station KPIX. Boalt Hall is the law school at the University of California, Berkeley. On December 8, 1968, KPIX in San Francisco ran…

  • Implications of the generation gap for personality / Margaret Mead.

    Anthropologist Margaret Mead (1901 – 1978) speaks on the implications of the generation gap for personality development at the New School for Social Research in New York City on February 20, 1969. She explains that generation gaps exist across all cultures, describes inter-generational relationships in Pacific Island cultures, and the growing alienation between younger and…

  • A parent’s choice / Mrs. Evalyn Dundas interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson

    Mrs. Evalyn Dundas, whose son Malcolm is serving a prison term for non-cooperation with the draft, discusses with Elsa Knight Thompson the problems that such a situation poses for parents. Malcolm was granted the status of conscientious objector, and joined the Peace Corps through which he was a teacher in Tanzania. He was then recalled…

  • A Lady called Peace Pilgrim / interviewed by Lou Hartman.

    Lou Hartman interviews the activist who called herself “Peace Pilgrim” (neé Mildred Norman), who has walked 25,000 miles since 1953 in her quest for world peace. Peace Pilgrim talks about her journey, which she’s undertaken with no possessions, money or organizational backing, why she’s chosen to adopt a pseudonym instead of using her real name,…

  • The lady’s maid / by Katherine Mansfield; read by Pat Franklyn

    The Lady’s Maid. By Katherine Mansfield. Performed by Pat Franklyn. Produced for radio by Erik Bauersfeld. Technical production by Danny McClosky. Self contained. Previously cataloged as “A lady’s maid.”

  • Roman fever / by Edith Wharton; adapted by Erik Bauersfeld

    This is a radio play based on Edith Wharton’s short story “Roman Fever” about two middle-aged American mothers in Rome, worried about their children, themselves, and life. Adaptated for radio by Erik Bauerseld. Pat Franklyn plays Mrs. Slade; Shirley Medina plays Mrs. Ansley. Technical production by John Whiting.

  • Barbara Garson on MacBird / interviewed by Jack Weinberg

    Barbara Garson discusses her controversial play, MacBird, with Jack Weinberg. The conversation was recorded at KPFA during Mrs. Garson’s recent return to Berkeley for the opening of her play at the New Committee in San Francisco on April 4, 1967. An episode of Where It’s At, March 22, 1967. Previously cataloged as BB2111.

  • Abortion: inside and outside the hospital / moderated by Lucinda Cisler and James Clapp (Episode 2)

    This is the same tape as BB3770.02, broadcast as the second episode of the WBAI produced Abortion (1969) series.  James Clapp and Lucinda Cisler, members of the Abortion Committee of the New York chapter of the National Organization for Women, host the program. Their guest in-studio is Bernard Nathanson, M.D., assistant professor of obstetrics and…

  • Julie Newmar interviewed by Herbert Feinstein

    Julie Newmar is interviewed by Herbert Feinstein on the set of Mackenna’s Gold, Columbia pictures 8/21/67. Miss Newmar won the Antoinette Perry Award for her role as a fertile Swedish girl, on Broadway, in The Marriage-Go-Round. She plays Hesh-ke, a silent Indian maiden (no lines) in Carl Foreman’s new epic of the West. Gregory Peck,…