Women authors
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An interview with Dr. Han Suyin /conducted by Marshall Windmiller
Marshall Windmiller interviews Dr. Han Suyin, noted writer and lecturer and author of “A Many-Splendored Thing.” She discusses her life and work, her publications on the Chinese revolution, the Vietnam war, Communism, and the new Western colonialism and imperialism which causes her to recall China in the 1920s. Marshall Windmiller was Associate Professor of International…
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An interview with Elizabeth Bowen conducted by David Watmough (Episode 3 of 4)
Author Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) talks with David Watmough, discussing her writings and opinions. Bowen was born in Dublin in 1899, and her first short stories were written when she was 20. Her publications include The Hotel (1927); Friends And Relations (1931); To The North (1932); The House In Paris (1935); The Heat Of The Day…
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Large mind history / Paula Gunn Allen, Judy Grahn, Carol Lee Sanchez ; produced by Ginny Z. Berson and Pam Scola.
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Sassafrass, cypress, and indigo / Ntozake Shange ; produced by Ginny Z. Berson and Pam Scola.
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Characters: a one woman sharing by Kathy Kendall ; produced by Karla Tonella
This is a set of monologues performed by Southern writer/actor Kathy Kendall called “Characters,” which was being sponsored by the Feminist Writers’ Guild. They are based on taped conversation she had with real women telling how it has been for them: housewives, businesswomen, dykes, kids, warriors, and grandmothers. Produced by Karla Tonella, KPFA, 1982. Not…
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You can’t keep a good woman down / Alice Walker ; interviewed by Karla Tonella.
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Writer’s talk / Mary Oppen, Rachel Blau Duplessis, Anita Barrows, Frances Jaffer ; produced by Norma Smith.
A conversation with four women authors, Mary Oppen, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Anita Barrows, and Frances Jaffer, ranging from 34 to 72 years old in age. The women discuss their work, feminism, and long associations with one another. Produced (and hosted?) by Norma Smith. Program also contains readings of some of the authors’ works. Outro is…
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Maxine Hong Kingston / interviewed by Helen Mickiewicz and Elaine Kim.
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Blood ties / by Anica Mander ; produced by Michael Butler
Anica Vesel Mander (b. 1935 – d. 2002), feminist author and professor (2014 note: founded Women’s studies department at New College of San Francisco), reads from her autobiography “Blood Ties, A Woman’s History” (Moon Books and Random House, 1976) about the search for her own roots. The reading is about the family’s forced migration from…
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Wanderground : stories of the hill women / Sally Gearhart ; produced by Karla Tonella.
Sally Gearhart reads from her book “The wanderground: stories of the hill women” (Boston: Persephone Press, 1978), a feminist fantasy fiction account of a separate woman’s culture wherein the women have highly developed psychic powers, have children parthenogenetically, and live in harmony with all the rest of the Earth, except the men who control the…