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  • San Francisco Women’s Music Festival, 1974 (Part 2 of 6)

    Music from the San Francisco Women’s Music Festival, performed at the First Unitarian Church in San Francisco. Reel 2, 3, and 4 are missing.

  • San Francisco Women’s Music Festival, 1974 (Part 6 of 6)

    Music from the San Francisco Women’s Music Festival, performed at the First Unitarian Church in San Francisco. Artists: Susanne Schonklina[sp], Linda and Debbie, Betty Kaplowitz, Rosalie Sorrels. Note: needs disclaimer, Sorrels at leader, starts in the middle of set. Reel 2, 3, and 4 are missing.

  • Three plays: What Have You Done For Me Lately, Pas De Deux, and Small Change

    Three plays about women, produced by the Unlearning to Not Speak Collective. Play #1: “What Have You Done For Me Lately” by Myrna Lamb, players: “Man” – Larry Rosenthal, “Woman” – Kathy McAnally; Play #2: “Pas De Deux” by Myrna Lamb, players: “Man” – Larry Rosenthal, “Woman” – Vera Houdek; Play #3: Scenes from “Small…

  • Berkeley Women’s Music Collective, BeBe K’Roche, and Rose Bubbling

    Unlearning to Not Speak, Sisterhood Sounds Good. Bay Area women musicians live in our studio tonight. Women singing songs written by and for women. Berkeley Women’s Music Collective performs “Nicki”, “SF Bank Song”, “Gay and Proud”, “She Is My Sister”, “Learn How To Give”, and “Understand”. Program also features BeBe K’Roche and Rose Bubbling. Produced…

  • Interview with Margaret Shedd

    Interview with local author and prison activist Margaret Shedd (interviewer not identified in program or on reel box). Born at the turn of the century, Margaret talks informally about her life, writing, and women’s writing in general. Includes a short reading from one of her latest books, “Malinche and Cortés,” about the relationship between the…

  • The Woman and the Carpenter (Part 2 only)

    Linda Schiffman interviews four tradeswomen, all employed in non-traditional work and enrollees in the Women in Apprenticeship Program, about sexism on the job and the kinds of problems they encountered getting used to this different kind of work. The women interviewed are Priscilla Danzig, a carpenter’s apprentice and member of Carpenters Local 305, Marin County;…

  • San Francisco Women’s Music Festival, 1974

    Recordings from the 1974 San Francisco Women’s Music Festival, recorded at the First Unitarian Church in January 1974. Contents: Reel A: A brief rap by one of the festival’s organizers (from San Francisco Women’s Center) to be used as an introduction to the music tape. Reel B: Performances from the concert: Susie and Selby perform…

  • How Virginia Bought it in California: by Nancy Stockwell

    Nancy Stockwell (1940 – 1999), Bay Area lesbian-feminist author, reads from her semi-autobiographical work How Virginia Bought It in California (unpublished). Contains sensitive language.

  • Rita Mae Brown, Donna Eagles and Zoe Nawoe discuss class differences

    Rita Mae Brown, author of The Hand That Cradles the Rock, Songs to a Handsome Woman, Rubyfruit Jungle and other books, and Donna Eagles, Bay Area activist, discuss class differences, feminism, sexual orientation, power and lack of power, publishing, humor, how to build a successful movement, and more with KPFA’s Zoe Nawoe. Includes phone calls…

  • Group interview with Rita Mae Brown, Sally Gearhardt, Zoe Nawoe, and Ellen Dubrowin

    Group interview with Rita Mae Brown, poet and author of Songs to a Handsome Woman (Diana Press, 1973), feminist writer and activist Sally Gearhart and KPFA’s Zoe Nawoe and Ellen Dubrowin, on teaching, art, politics, humor and survival. Brown reads her poems “The New Lost Feminism,” “Deja Vu: Watching Old Movies on the Late Night…