American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
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Children in the dark / Daniel Blain and Lee Davenport; interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson
Two psychologists discuss views of and treatment for mentally retarded children. Dr. Daniel Blain, Director of the Department of Mental Hygiene for the state of California, and Lee Davenport, President of the East Bay Association for Retarded Children, are interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson. RECORDED: 28 Jan. 1960. BROADCAST: KPFA, 3 Mar. 1960.
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The yellow wallpaper / written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Episode 11 of 14)
This is a recording of the feminist play on the harm to society of sex discrimination, written by published sociologist Charlotte Perkins Gilman in 1892. This is the eleventh episode of the fourteen-episode series produced and broadcast on KPFA by Virginia Maynard and Charles Levy from 1958 to 1959. The series was written and directed…
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A question of justice / written by Susan Glaspell (Episode 12 of 14)
Reading of a short story about a woman on trial for the murder of her husband. Although advertised in the KPFA Folio as “A question of justice,” this is actually a short story called “A jury of her peers,” written by Susan Glaspell around 1916. This is the twelfth episode of the fourteen-episode series produced…
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Suffrage victory (Episode 13 of 14)
On the battle for women’s suffrage. Contains readings of excerpts from Sinclair Lewis’ Anne Vickers (1932) and a contemporary account of the Night of Terror, November 14, 1917, in which a group of suffragists, including Alice Paul, were brutalized by guards in front of the Occaquan Workhouse in Washington, D.C. This is the thirteenth episode…
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Panel discussion on women (Episode 14 of 14)
Discussion of the woman’s struggle for social equality. Panelists include Mark Shorer, English literature professor at the University of California; Ethel Albert (1918-1989), anthropologist; Dr. Anna Maenchen, Berkeley psychiatrist; Peter Odegard, professor of political science at the University of California; Miriam Allen DeFord, writer; and Virginia Maynard, writer and director of “The American woman” series.…
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Liberty, equality, and fraternity (Episode 3 of 14)
On women’s view of their role in Colonial life. Contains dramatic readings of Benjamin Franklin’s “The Speech of Polly Baker,” excerpts from the letters of Abigail Adams, and Charles Brockden Brown’s “Alcuin: a Dialogue.” Episode three of the 14-episode series produced and broadcast on KPFA by Virginia Maynard and Charles Levy from 1958 to 1959.…
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Lucretia Mott (Episode 4 of 14)
Biographical sketch with dramatization of the life and actions of the feminist abolitionist Lucretia Mott. Contains a dramatization of James and Lucretia Mott hiding from the anti-abolition mob that burned down Philadelphia Hall in 1838 and a dramatic reading of Wendell Phillips and William Lloyd Garrison’s motions at the World Anti-Slavery Convention of 1840 in…
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Revolution (Episode 5 of 14)
On the beginnings of feminist organizing in the mid 19th century, with a dramatization of the first women’s rights convention and Elizabeth Cady Stanton reading a new “Declaration of Independence for Women.” Also contains readings of some of the negative newspaper coverage of the Seneca Falls Convention. This is the fifth episode of fourteen in…
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Whistlin’ girls (Episode 6 of 15)
Dramatization of the Lucy Stone legend and the problems facing women who seek to be heard at public gatherings (ca. 1834). Episode six out of fourteen in the series. The series was written and directed by Virginia Maynard and produced by Maynard and Chuck Levy, narrated by Levy, and engineered by David Talcott. It was…
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The Nineteenth century Minerva (Episode 7 of 14)
Examination of Margaret Fuller and her writings which call for greater women’s rights, including a reading of an excerpt of The Blithesdale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne. This is the seventh in of the 14-episode series produced and broadcast on KPFA by Virginia Maynard and Charles Levy from 1958 to 1959. The series was written and…