Women authors
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Women’s words / Adrienne Rich ; interviewed by Eloise Klein Healy.
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Tar baby / Toni Morrison ; interviewed by Barbara Cady.
Author Toni Morrison (1931 – ) discusses her latest book, Tar Baby (Alfred A. Knopf, 1981) with KPFK’s Barbara Cady. Morrison discusses class conflicts between Black people as one of the book’s themes, her feelings about authors’ personalities showing in their books, and about other Black women writers.
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The obsession / Kim Chernin
Author Kim Chernin talks about the fixation American women have with their bodies, what they eat, and their appearances, and food in literature. Chernin reads excerpts from her book, “The obsession: reflections on the tyranny of slenderness” (New York: Random House, 1981) and answers questions from the audience (audience questions are edited out of this…
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Shoulder to shoulder / Midge McKenzie interviewed by Beverly Polokoff
Beverly Polokoff of KPFK interviews Midge MacKenzie (1938-2004), documentary film maker, feminist, and author of “Shoulder to shoulder,” a documentary publication on the history of the militant suffragettes of Great Britain. She talks about what inspired her to write the book, the disappearance of these women in written history, and the fate of the radical…
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With child / Phyllis Chesler interviewed by Anita Frankel
Phyllis Chesler, feminist and author of “Woman and madness,” “Women, money, and power,” and “About men,” speaks with Anita Frankel of KPFK about her new book “With child: a diary of motherhood” (Crowell, 1979), a record of pregnancy and childbirth which is as much about the birth of a mother as it is about the…
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Rise gonna rise : a portrait of Southern textile workers / Mimi Conway interviewed by Dorothy Healey
Mimi Conway describes the present status of the unionization of textile workers in the South. She discusses how she became involved in the textile industry, why it is difficult to organize today, J. P. Stevens, what we can do to help, and how she came to write “Rise gonna rise: a portrait of Southern textile…
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Up against the clock : career women speak out about the choice to have children / Norma Wikler interviewed by Ruth Ziony
Norma Wikler (1942-2002) is interviewed about her new book by Ruth Ziony. The title of the book is Up against the clock : career women speak on the choice to have children, co-authored with Marilyn Fabe (New York: Random House, 1979). The book deals with women over the age of thirty-five opting to have children…
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Nuclear madness / by Helen Caldicott
Dr. Helen Caldicott, author of “Nuclear madness: what you should do”, speaks on the nuclear war possibilities of the past (Cuban missile crisis) and present. She also explains the possibilities of excess radiation, the problems of uranium waste, how radiation causes cancer and the genetic implications of such elements as plutonium, nuclear power proliferation and…
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A conversation with Ntozake Shange / interviewed by Clare Spark
Ntozake Shange, the black feminist poet, author of “For colored girls who have considered suicide, when the rainbow is enuf,” is interviewed by Clare Spark on The Sour Apple Tree. Shange discusses reactions to her work and emphasizes how the poems are misperceived by many critics. Ends with a one-minute cut from the album of…
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Simone de Beauvoir : in conversation / with Studs Terkel ; narrated by Janet Dodson.
Simone de Beauvoir (b.1908- d.1986) French writer, intellectual, political activist, and feminist is interviewed by Studs Terkel in 1960. For 1977 broadcast, narrator Janet Dodson reads excerpts from de Beauvoir’s books, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter, Prime of Life, All Said and Done and The Second Sex. Recording ends abruptly (perhaps part 1 of 2?)…