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  • Feminist Perspectives on Pornography Conference (1978): Kathleen Barry and Susan Griffin

    Lilia Medina opens the first session of the Feminist Perspectives on Pornography Conference, held November 17-19, 1978 at Galileo High School in San Francisco, CA. The conference was organized by Women Against Violence in Pornography and Media. Medina introduces Kathleen “Kathy” Barry who speaks on “Beyond pornography: creating a vision.” Next Judith Reisman is introduced…

  • Susan Griffin and Nellie Wong at the Feminist Perspectives on Pornography conference

    Susan Griffin, poet, playwright and author, and Nellie Wong, poet and activist, read on the opening night of the Feminist Perspectives on Pornography Conference in San Francisco on November 17, 1978, organized by Women Against Violence in Pornography and Media (WAVPM). Lilia Medina introduces the reading. Griffin reads her poem Deer Skull (for Hallie) and…

  • Women poets reading at Cody’s Bookstore (Part 1 only)

    Women’s poetry reading sponsored by the Berkeley Poets Commune, at Cody’s Bookstore on April 18, 1972. The poets are: Sharon Ulrich, Lynda Koolish, Barbara Gravelle, Judith Stevens, Susan Griffin, Jeanne Lance, Maggie Cloherty, and Rachel Nahem. Note: This is the first half of the reading. The second half of the same reading was scheduled for…

  • Women and nature / produced by Alan Soldofsky.

    Poet and feminist Susan Griffin reads from her book of prose, “Woman and Nature: the roaring inside her” (Harper & Row, 1978). Griffin reads the sections Prologue, Gravity, The garden, Consequences (What always returns), The lion in the den of the prophets, Vision, and Erosion. The reading was recorded in November 1978 at Cody’s Books…

  • The Velvet Sledgehammer: June 29, 1983

    Production reel for June 29, 1983 episode of The Velvet Sledgehammer, produced and hosted by Eileen Zalisk. Three parts: 1. “Nothing lights a fire like a dream deferred,” a series of dramatic readings on the feminist response to militarism, produced by Phaye Poliakoff & Adina Back. Blanche Jackson, Lizzie Olesker, Phaye Poliakoff and Cherise[sp?] Williams…

  • Adrienne Rich reads from Susan Griffin’s “Woman and Nature”

    Adrienne Rich (1928 – 2012), poet and author, reads excerpts from Susan Griffin’s Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her (New York: Harper & Row, 1978), a book she introduces as being “essential reading.” She reads first from the book’s introduction, which speaks on the subject of challenging the prevailing androcentric world view. In the…

  • Pornography and silence / Susan Griffin

    Susan Griffin, noted feminist author, discusses the thesis of her book “Pornography and silence.” She discusses the difficulties and conditions under which she wrote the book and analyzes pornography in terms of the ideology of patriarchy, drawing parallels between sexism, racism and anti-semitism. Recorded at Pacific Oaks College, August 1981. Produced by Molly Bosted.

  • Woman Poet anthology reading / produced by Alan Soldofsky (Part 1 only)

    Woman Poet West: the first part of a two-part program featuring excerpts of a reading done in honor of the publication of the Woman Poet anthology West Coast edition (Women-in-Literature, Incorporated, 1980). The reading was recorded in September 1980 at Cody’s Books in Berkeley. The poets heard in the first part of the program are…

  • War and peace: woman’s moral universe / produced by Peggy Irene Bray.

    Women from Japan, Germany, England, and the United States speak on their efforts toward a worldwide peace movement, particularly a movement to end the nuclear arms race.|WAR AND PEACE: WOMAN’S MORAL UNIVERSE / produced by Peggy Irene Bray. – Women from Japan, Germany, England, and the United States speak on their efforts toward a worldwide…

  • Voices / by Susan Griffin ; directed by Rena Down.

    A dramatic radio work for five women.