Feminism

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • The Tree of knowledge (Episode 8 of 14)

    On the gradual growth of opportunity for women to attain a secondary education during the early 1800s. Contains readings of excerpts from Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Emilius: or, a treatise on education (1774), John Gregory’s A father’s legacy to his daughters (1761), Thomas Jefferson’s letters to his daughters; Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Oldtown folks (1869), Alice Stone Blackwell’s…

  • The womanly woman (Episode 9 of 14)

    This recording centers on a story about a woman aboard ship with a group of men. The scene is taken from The Lady of The Aroostook written by William Dean Howells in 1879. This is the ninth episode of the fourteen-episode series produced and broadcast on KPFA by Virginia Maynard and Charles Levy from 1958…

  • Revolt of Mother (Episode 10 of 14)

    Dramatization of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman’s story The Revolt of “Mother” (1890), concerning a woman in rural New England rejecting the role imposed upon her by her husband. This is the tenth episode of the fourteen-episode series produced and broadcast on KPFA by Virginia Maynard and Charles Levy from 1958 to 1959. The series was…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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.…

  • 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.…