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  • Women’s Equality Day in Central Park, August 27, 1977

    Actuality from a march to support ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)  and celebrating the 57th anniversary of women’s suffrage. The march was held August 27, 1977 in Central Park, New York City. This recording includes speeches by Betty Friedan, Goldie Chu of Asian American Women’s Caucus, Ruth Gilbert of the United Methodist Women,…

  • The lesbian in literature (Episode 3 of 4)

    Cynthia Secor and Janet Cooper discuss the lesbian in literature at the 2nd Gay Academic Union Conference in New York City, 1974. Janet Cooper of the American Library Association (ALA)’s Task Force on Gay Liberation (TFGL) speaks on female crushes, friendships, and affections in children’s literature prior to the 1920’s. Author Cynthia Secor, PhD, Chairperson…

  • The lesbian in literature (Episode 3 of 4, Part 2 of 2)

    Cynthia Secor, Janet Cooper and Virginia Apuzzo discuss sensuous women in the literature of James Joyce and Gertrude Stein, patriarchy, and changes in children’s literature in response to these issues. Janet Cooper speaks on female crushes, friendships, and affections in children’s literature prior to the 1920’s. Cynthia Secor compares the sensuous women in Stein vs.…