Feminists

  • Report on the Congress to Unite Women

    This is a February 1985 rebroadcast of a November 1969 Womankind episode, hosted by Nannette Rainone. The episode is a rundown of events at the 1969 Congress to Unite Women held in New York on November 21-23, 1969. Guests are four women who were at the Congress: Shulamith Firestone (1945-2012), active in Women’s Liberation in…

  • KPFT Special Women’s Day program (1987)

    This tape contains several clips of readings of women’s literature or speeches to be used throughout KPFT’s 1987 Tribute to Women for International Women’s Day. The readings are of the following women: Adrienne Rich, Zora Neale Hurston, Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony, Reena Rietveld[sp?], Tillie Olsen, Gerda Lerner, Patricia Ann Rodriguez, Barbara Deming, Elizabeth Cady…

  • Interview with Eleanor Cooper of the Women’s Liberation Center

    Judy Pasternak interviews Eleanor Cooper of the Women’s Liberation Center of New York about the history of the center and the what takes place at the center.  Thisis an edited excerpt from More Than Half the World, Sunday, February 11, 1979.

  • New York Radical Feminists’ talk about the 1971 Rape Speakout

    This is a February 1985 rebroadcast of a 1971 episode of Womankind, hosted by Nanette Rainone. Rainone interviews four members of the New York Radical Feminists (not introduced) about the Rape Speakout they are organizing for January 24, 1971 at St. Clements Episcopal Church in Manhattan. The speakout will consist of testimony by women on…

  • Interview With Ruby Rohrlich-Leavitt, feminist anthropologist

    Interview with feminist anthropologist and Manhattan Community College Associate Professor, Ruby Rohrlich-Leavitt . She discusses her newly edited book, Women Cross Culturally: Change and Challenge, which is an anthology of papers written for the session on women’s status and women’s movements at the 9th International Anthropological Congress in Chicago, IL held in 1973. Dates of…

  • Anna Quindlen, live at Barnard College

    Anna Quindlen, sydicated columnist at the New York Times, speaks about her education and background. Her column focuses on injustice and inequality of women. She describes the recent upward movement of women in law, the press, business, etc. She speaks specifically of sharing the wealth and the importance of continuing the women’s movement. Recorded ca.…

  • Secret kitchen / written and produced by Margaret Dragu.

    A feminist comedian examines what it is like to be an at-home mother. Contains short poems, songs, stories, and scenes. Also includes monologues from Dragu’s non-fiction book, Mothers Talk Back.|SECRET KITCHEN / written and produced by Margaret Dragu. – A feminist comedian examines what it is like to be an at-home mother. Contains short poems,…

  • Lesbian sisters / Deborah Posey and Rita Mae Brown interviewed by Helene Rosenbluth

    This episode of “Lesbian Sisters” features an interview with Deborah Posey, a Black lesbian mother from Detroit and member of the Revolutionary Socialist League, who talks about the gay movement in Detroit, her family’s recent harassment and forcible eviction by a homophobic landlord, and how gay liberation can only truly be achieved in a socialist…

  • Kate Millett and her book Flying

    Kate Millett interviewed by Paul Vangelisti on her book “Flying” and her ideals about art in her life. Previously cataloged as “The artist and Flying.”

  • Emma Goldman: 1869-1940 / produced by Marcia Danab and Nina Mende

    Emma Goldman (1869-1940) committed her life to fighting economic and sexist exploitation and was known and still inspires as an anarchist, political agitator, feminist, birth control pioneer, and advocate of sexual freedom. This documentary features interviews with women who marched on picket lines with her, her friend and ACLU founder Roger Baldwin, newspaper articles of…