Feeley, Diane

  • Women in China : past and present.

    Discussion of Chinese women’s status historically and presently. This recording is Part 3 of a series of talks by Diane Feeley on Women in China, including BC2196.11. Taped on location at the National Organization for Women Center in New York. Produced in cooperation with NOW-NY.

  • Women, culture, and society / Diane Feeley.

    An historical examination of the development of women’s societal role traced by Diane Feeley, Coordinator of Women in the Arts Committee of National Organization for Women (NOW), New York. Feeley gives examples of past societies in which women were more productive and played a far more active role than our own. She sees the view…

  • Women’s liberation in China / Diane Feeley

    Diane Feeley, coordinator of National Organization for Women, New York (NOW-NY)’s Women in the Arts Committee, lectures on the struggle of Chinese women for liberation from their traditional subservient roles. She traces the history of women’s labor unions and self-defense groups, and the effect of the 1949 revolution on ending such barbaric practices as slavery,…

  • Women in Russia / Diane Feeley.

    Lecturing before a class at the National Organization for Women (NOW) offices in New York, Diane Feeley discusses the role of women in Russian history. She relates the early oppression of women in old Russia, when women were nothing more than chattels to their husbands. She then describes the major feminist reforms of the early…

  • Women in the American revolution / moderated by Viv Sutherland (Episode 5 of 15)

    Seminar moderated by Viv Sutherland on women during the American Revolution, produced in cooperation with the New York chapter of the National Organization of Women. Speakers include Diane Feeley; Carol Berkin, Assistant Professor at Baruch College, and author of “Within the conjurer’s circle: women in Colonial America”; Irene Javors, graduate student of history specializing in…

  • Women in Ireland / Jean Wertheimer ; hosted by Diane Feeley

    Class lecture on the status of women in Ireland, past and present, by Jean Wertheimer. Program hosted by Diane Feeley, National Organization for Women, New York (NOW-NY) coordinator of the Women in the Arts Committee. Produced by Viv Sutherland.