Sexism

  • The new child : growing up without sex-role stereotypes (Part 2 of 2)

    An examination of current views on child raising. Suggestions of new roles for families, schools, and the media will be discussed, including excerpts from the Workshop on Non-Sexist Child Rearing, held February 6, 1972 at the Women’s Center. Includes live audience participation. Produced by Lee Sisson.

  • Title 9 / produced by Carolyn Berger. (Part 2 of 2)

    Panel discussion by L.A. City Public School teachers about Title IX; how they put the law into effect in their classroom, what the new law means to students, how parents can make certain that teachers and parents use Title IX fairly. Sensitive material: Reference by Jean Tavlin to sexist textbooks used in L.A. city. Clear…

  • Sexual assault / produced by Sophie’s Parlor Media Collective.

    On sexism, racism and rape; focus on the cases of Inez Garcia and Joan Little. Host Del Dobbins interviews two black women participants from the Washington Conference on Sexual Assault, held in D.C. in 1977. They are Nkenge Toure, Director, and Michelle Plate, Counselor at the D.C. Rape Crisis Center. They discuss the unique issues…

  • Politics of oppression / Florence Kennedy.

    An attack on complacency, university spending, Nixon, and institutionalized racism and sexism by the Black activist. Contains live music.

  • Against our will : men, women and rape / by Susan Brownmiller.

    Lecture on the thesis of her book: that sexual force is consciously used by men to intimidate women.

  • 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.

  • The Human connection / Ashley Montagu. (Episode 7 of 9)

    The physical anthropologist Dr. Ashley Montagu discusses his career, the importance of love in life, Hitler, women’s place, women’s intution, Jewish sensitivity, politics and muscle power, sexism, abortion, medicine, sexuality, Christianity, and destructive beliefs. Recorded at the Explorers of Humankind: First International Congress on the Bodily Arts & Sciences conference, Los Angeles, June 10, 1978.…

  • Title IX / produced by Carolyn Berger.

    Carolyn Berger reports on the content and meaning of federal legislation prohibiting discrimination against people because of sex in federally funded education programs. The first reel of the program is a documentary about Title IX; interviewed for the documentary are Walter Norwood, Fair Employment Coordinator for LA City Schools; Jean Tavlin, first-grade teacher in Los…

  • Texas texts / produced by Patricia Meredith

    Documentary examining hearings in Austin at the State Board of Education concerning sexism in children’s textbooks. Program is comprised of interviews, music, and tapes on the hearings. The purposes of the hearing were to draw attention to the fact that sexism is in textbooks, and that the state of Texas is the largest buyer of…

  • The new child : growing up without sex-role stereotypes

    An examination of current views on child raising. Suggestions of new roles for families, schools, and the media will be discussed, including excerpts from the Workshop on Non-Sexist Child Rearing, held February 6, 1972, sponsored by the Women’s Center of Los Angeles. Includes live audience participation. Speakers include Chris DeSecco, a children’s librarian, who discusses…