Feminism

  • Sagaris and the August 7th Survival Community

    This summer, 200 active feminists from all over the United States and Canada came to Lyndonville, Vermont to attend Sagaris, the first independent institute for the study of radical feminist thought. This program includes interviews with Sagaris students and teachers, excerpts from taped classes, and readings from the analysis written by the August 7th Survival…

  • Interview with Sharon Presley

    Kirkpatrick Sale speaks with Sharon Presley, a libertarian feminist. Contains listener phone calls.

  • The effects of racism on the economic rights of women (Part 2 of 2)

    This is the second tape of a symposium sponsored by Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). In this symposium, women from diverse ethnic backgrounds discuss racism: why it exists, who is racist, who benefits, its effects both nationally and globally, and what Affirmative Action may mean to most women. Spring 1981. Produced by…

  • Making it and not making it (Episode 3)

    Ann Herschfang (aka Ann Forfreedom), feminist activist, discusses ways in which women can succeed in today’s society, independent of male orientation at the University of Southern California in April 1970. She talks about the ways to “make it” individually that women have found, the responses of both men and women to women who have made…

  • Elinore Pruitt Stewart letters: letters from a woman homesteader (Part 2 of 3) / read by Luce Morgan

    Reading of letters written by a woman homesteader, Elinore Pruitt Stewart (1876-1933) in Wyoming around 1910. Part 2 of 3. These three episodes of Stewart’s letters were part of a continuing series on KPFA based on women’s diaries and letters. Part two: Stewart recounts her life on the ranches of her husband’s and her own,…

  • Elinore Pruitt Stewart letters: letters from a woman homesteader (Part 3 of 3) / read by Luce Morgan

    Reading of letters written by a woman homesteader, Elinore Pruitt Stewart (1876-1933) in Wyoming around 1910. Part 3 of 3. These three episodes of Stewart’s letters were part of a continuing series on KPFA based on women’s diaries and letters. Part three: This portion begins in December 1913. Stewart describes Christmas with her neighbors; how…

  • Socialization: the pink blanket routine (Episode 1 of 7)

    Brenda Brush, a member of the National Organization of Women and of Women’s Liberation, speaks on “Socialization: the pink blanket routine” at a teach-in on the oppressions of women at San Francisco State College on December 10, 1969. Brush opens by exposing the brainwashing both women and men go through, from the moment of birth,…

  • The Fire of female fury / Mary Daly. (Part 2 of 2)

    Mary Daly (October 16, 1928 – January 3, 2010), one of the most important figures in contemporary feminist theory and author of “Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism” published in 1978; “Beyond God The Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women’s Liberation,” 1973; and “The Church and The Second Sex,” 1968– all published by Beacon Press.…

  • American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, 2013 Sampler

    Item: MP3 format compact disc Running time: 10 hours, 22 minutes The American Women project is a two-year preservation and access project funded by a matching grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) at the National Archives (NARA).  The project documents the emergence and evolution of the Women’s movement in the United…

  • Pacifica Radio Archives 2013 1-Day Fund Drive Premium

    1 CD Sampler “Clips from American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982″ PLUS 1 4G USB Drive with 48 HOURS of AUDIO  |”Clips from American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982” [1 hour sampler CD] The American Women collection is a two-year preservation and access project funded by a matching grant from the National Historical…