American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982

  • Writer’s talk / Mary Oppen, Rachel Blau Duplessis, Anita Barrows, Frances Jaffer ; produced by Norma Smith.

    A conversation with four women authors, Mary Oppen, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Anita Barrows, and Frances Jaffer, ranging from 34 to 72 years old in age. The women discuss their work, feminism, and long associations with one another. Produced (and hosted?) by Norma Smith. Program also contains readings of some of the authors’ works. Outro is…

  • Maxine Hong Kingston / interviewed by Helen Mickiewicz and Elaine Kim.

    Maxine Hong Kingston won rave reviews in 1977 for her book “The Woman Warrior.” She has a new book “China Men.” Kingston views the two books as parts of the same work, chronicling the experiences of the women and men in her family and their experiences in moving from China to America. Here she is…

  • Fear of fat : the politics of body size / produced by Santiago Casal and Laura Finkler.

    This program examines the existing medical perspective on body size, the ideology of individualism/self-control, the weight and diet foods industry, and the powerful feeling that fatness arouses in us. The program includes interviews with fat and thin people, some of whom are authors and leaders in the new movement which challenges our myths about fat.…

  • A Black Russian woman / with William Mandel

    William Mandel and his wife conduct an interview in English with Dr. Lily Golden-Hanga, a Black Russian woman, born in Soviet Central Asia of United States parentage. Dr. Golden-Hanga was married to the first premier of Zanzibar, who was later killed in a coup in his country. Dr. Golden-Hanga did her Ph.D. in Moscow on…

  • Interview with Ukranian woman manager / William Mandel

    23rd Annual International Women’s Day Broadcast in this series. Translated interview (English on one stereo track Russian on the other, balance makes English louder and clearer over Russian on sets without speaker control) with Svetlana Ivanovna, a 42-year-old female manager of clothing factory with 3800 workers in Ukraine (Slavic ethnic republic of USSR). Her father…

  • Healing sounds and Lifting off, learning how to fly / by Joanna Brouk and Maggi Payne

    Two musical works: one composed for use in hospitals, one for Peter Pan theme. 1. Piano: Healing Sounds (23:22), 2. Flute: a) Lifting off: Learning how to fly, b) 2 Birds (24:56). Flute: Maggie Payne, Piano: Joanna Brouk. This recording is likely an aircheck of Brouk and Payne’s album Healing Music. Box notes list both…

  • The energy will flow: antinuclear music by women / produced by Susan Kernes and Kori Kody

    This program presents music by activist women working in the anti-nuclear/safe energy movement. Very little of it is available on records. Featured are Ede Morris, Kate Wolf, Holly Near, and Women With Wings (a Northern California based women’s chorus). Also included is an interview with Lynn Grasberg, musician and member of Women for a Nuclear…

  • Feminist perspective on pornography / produced by Karla Tonella.

    A panel discussion about pornography and eroticism, its connection to the left, racial stereotypes in pornography, First Amendment rights, and pornography’s effect on women’s self-image. The panelists are Sabrina Sojourner (moderator); Kathleen Barry, sociologist and author of “Female Sexual Slavery”; Valerie Miner, journalist and lecturer at U.C. Berkeley; Margaret Sloan (aka Sloan-Hunter, b. 1947 –…

  • Elizabeth Huddle interviewed by William Mandel

    American actress Elizabeth Huddle discusses impressions of Soviet audiences, theater people, and the country. Recording begins with an announcement from KPFA staff giving the time and place to meet for a march and rally called by lesbians and gays of San Francisco against the death penalty in response to the verdict of Dan White. Previously…

  • Woman scientist interviewed by William Mandel

    This episode of Mandel’s focus on the Soviet Union begins with a lengthier introduction than usual. He then plays the interview with Vera Osipovna, a 70-year-old female scientist from the Soviet Union, who discusses her life from the revolution to becoming the head of a large research institute. This interview was conducted by William Mandel…