Steinem, Gloria

  • Women Against Pornography Conference (1979): Welcome and Speakout

    These four reels contain actuality from the Women Against Pornography Conference, which took place in New York City, September 15 & 16, 1979.  Tape one includes bits from Saturday’s “Welcoming Remarks” including Dolores Alexander and Lynn Campbell, founders of Women Against Pornography (WAP, the audio is poor and choppy), and a “Speakout”, coordinated by Lynne…

  • The Velvet Sledgehammer: September 20, 1978 (Production reel)

    Production reel containing exerpts for the September 20, 1978 episode of The Velvet Sledgehammer, produced by Eileen Zalisk and Rose Jordan. Segments are: 1. Animal studies show cancer risk of Estrogens – produced by Eileen Zalisk; 2. Women in Cuba; 3. Rose Jordan reports on the Foundation for Matriachy’s “Forum for the Future.” Contains clips…

  • Women’s News: September 11, 1975

    Women’s news and commentary for KPFA, September 11, 1975. Segments: 1. The radical feminist group Redstockings’ charges that feminist activist Gloria Steinem was once involved with the CIA. Kathie Sarachild of Redstockings is interviewed about those charges and discusses Steinem’s ascendancy to her platform and MS Magazine’s ignoring of radical feminist causes and possible complicity…

  • Kathie Sarachild on Gloria Steinem and the CIA

    Kathie Sarachild is interviewed on KPFA’s “Unlearning to not speak” program by Susan Elisabeth. Sarachild is a member of the Redstockings radical feminist group which has just published a “warning” that Gloria Steinem and MS Magazine (Steinem is editor) may be fronts for the CIA and powers that be to block progress on feminist issues…

  • Women Against War forum at NYU

    Women Against War event at NYU, June 1980. From the book “Peace as a women’s issue: a history of the U.S. movement for world peace and women’s rights” by Harriet Hyman Alonso: “On June 10, 1980, soon after the House Armed Services Military Personnel Committee rejected (President) Carter’s proposal to register women, “Women, USA” met…

  • Everywomanspace: February 12, 1979-Speeches from a rally supporting Bella Abzug

    Speeches from a women’s rally that took place at Martin Luther King, Jr. High School, February 10, 1979 in support of Bella Abzug (1920 – 1998), social activist and U.S. Representative from New York who was fired from the National Advisory Committee for Women (NACW) for criticizing President Carter’s economic policies. The speakers on this…

  • The Velvet Sledgehammer – August 26, 1980: Women’s Equality Day 1980

    Edited selections from Women’s Equality Day rally in Bryant part 26 Aug 1980. Also called “Women 80.” 1980 marks the 60th anniversary of the passage of the Suffrage Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Speeches focus on the the state of women in 1980. Part one opens with chanting, then a speech by Rosemary Gaffney. The…

  • Lesbian-Feminist Dialogue / produced by Nanette Rainone.

    After two years of dispute during which lesbians accused various women’s groups of discriminating against them and attempting to bury the lesbian question, Jill Johnston, columnist for the Village Voice, and others called a conference at Columbia University in New York City on December 16, 1972 in order to make peace with straight women. In…

  • Gloria Steinem

    Gloria Steinem. Through her writing and activism, Gloria Steinem has created communication mechanisms through which women’s voices calling for recognition, equality and justice could be heard. Currently she is a writer and consulting editor of Ms. Magazine, the international feminist bi-monthly that she co-founded in 1972. In 1993, her concern with child abuse lead her…

  • Democracy Now! September 22, 1997

    Ms. Magazine 25th Anniversary |(50 Minutes) Ms. Magazine 25th Anniversary Focus on the first national circulation magazine to come out of the women’s movement. GUEST: Gloria Steinem, one of the founding editors of Ms. Magazine. GUEST: Marcia Ann Gillespie, editor-in -chief of Ms. Magazine since 1993.