American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982

  • Blood ties / by Anica Mander ; produced by Michael Butler

    Anica Vesel Mander (b. 1935 – d. 2002), feminist author and professor (2014 note: founded Women’s studies department at New College of San Francisco), reads from her autobiography “Blood Ties, A Woman’s History” (Moon Books and Random House, 1976) about the search for her own roots. The reading is about the family’s forced migration from…

  • The Dinner Party / Judy Chicago interviewed by Karla Tonella

    Feminist visual artist Judy Chicago, one of the founders of the Women’s Building in Los Angeles and author of “Through the Flower” talks with Karla Tonella, KPFA, about her exhibit “The Dinner Party.” In the making for five years, “The Dinner Party” is a major piece of sculpture that encompasses the history of western women…

  • Always a bridesmaid, never a groom / Robin Tyler interviewed by Denise Wagner

    An interview with Robin Tyler by Denise Wagner. She talks about her background, how she got started as a stand-up comic, and some of their political views. With generous sprinklings of excerpts from Robin’s new album on Olivia Records, “Always a Bridesmaid, Never a Groom.” Recorded June 16, 1979. Notes on label: “References to Dan…

  • Asian American women vs. the women’s movement

    Panel discussion between Asian-American women on how racism, ageism, and classism have corrupted the women’s movement. The panelists are Rina Hirai, former member of NOW’s National Task Force on Women in Poverty; Siew-Hwa Beh, co-founder of the periodical Women & Film; Chris Kobayashi and Giselle Dohan (the latter two unidentified in the program). Produced by…

  • Red crystal : Sheli Nan / interviewed by Susan Sailow

    Sheli Nan is an exceptional composer in the classical/jazz field. Her pieces reflect great beauty, and to hear her talk about them and her music is an experience in itself – she is charming, touching, and very, very personable. Born in 1950, she has lived and studied music in such diverse places as New York,…

  • Rickie Lee Jones / by Susan Sailow

    Susan Sailow talks about Rickie Lee Jones’ life and music. Program features her eponymous debut album on Warner Brothers Records; no interview. Produced by Susan Sailow.

  • Yelena Zeltin interviewed by William Mandel

    William Mandel interviews, in English, Professor Yelena Zeltin of Moscow, speaking of her life: her parents were revolutionaries exiled to Siberia under Tsar, and Zeltin was thus born in Siberia; her mother is Jewish, her father Latvian. Her husband died as a result of World War II hardships. Very human, interesting life. |Previously attributed to…

  • Wanderground : stories of the hill women / Sally Gearhart ; produced by Karla Tonella.

    Sally Gearhart reads from her book “The wanderground: stories of the hill women” (Boston: Persephone Press, 1978), a feminist fantasy fiction account of a separate woman’s culture wherein the women have highly developed psychic powers, have children parthenogenetically, and live in harmony with all the rest of the Earth, except the men who control the…

  • Lesbians and alcoholism / produced by Karla Tonella

    Host: Ann Noolen, Lesbian Task Force of the San Francisco Commission on the Status of Women. Guests: Ann Worthington, Women’s Alcohol Coalition; Celinda Cantu, Center for Feminist Therapy & Education; Bonnie Malcolm, Whitman Radcliffe Foundation; and musician Meg Christian, Olivia Records. Includes a song by Meg about her own alcoholism. Includes listener phone-in comments. Produced…

  • The lesbian underground: on being a lesbian before the women’s liberation movement

    Sabrina Sojourner hosts a discussion on the lesbian underground, or what it was like to be a lesbian before the feminist and gay liberation movement. Guests include Del Martin, author and Commissioner of the San Francisco Commission on the Status of Women; Phyllis Lyon, Commissioner for the Human Rights Commission in San Francisco; and Pat…