Women — China.

  • Women and the world in the 1980s: July 2, 1982

    Blanche Cook interviews Marilyn Young, professor of history at New York University and co-author of Transforming Russia and China: Revolutionary Struggle in the 20th Century (Oxford University Press, 1980), about women in China.

  • Women unbound: the role of women in the People’s Republic of China (Part 2 of 2)

    Helene Rosenbluth and Eloise Klein Healy visited the People’s Republic of China in April 1982. This program is produced from interviews they did with women in Shanghai, Nanjing, and Peking about the changing lives of women in modern China. The interviews are bi-lingual through an interpreter. Original music from the People’s Republic of China. Produced…

  • Women in China : past and present.

    Discussion of Chinese women’s status historically and presently. This recording is Part 3 of a series of talks by Diane Feeley on Women in China, including BC2196.11. Taped on location at the National Organization for Women Center in New York. Produced in cooperation with NOW-NY.

  • Women’s liberation in China / Diane Feeley

    Diane Feeley, coordinator of National Organization for Women, New York (NOW-NY)’s Women in the Arts Committee, lectures on the struggle of Chinese women for liberation from their traditional subservient roles. She traces the history of women’s labor unions and self-defense groups, and the effect of the 1949 revolution on ending such barbaric practices as slavery,…

  • Women and childcare in China / Ruth Sidel.

    A talk by Ruth Sidel, author of “Women and Child Care in China: A Firsthand Report,” published by Hill & Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux. She discusses the dimensions, variety and philosophy of child care in China, and answers questions from the audience. Recorded in 1973 as an episode of Nanette Rainone’s…

  • Women unbound

    Helene Rosenbluth and Eloise Klein Healy visited the People’s Republic of China in April 1982. This program is produced from interviews they did with women in Shanghai, Nanjing, Xi’an and Beijing (Peking) about the changing lives of women in modern China. The interviews are bilingual and translated through an interpreter. The first reel of this…

  • Women in China / Linda Gordon and Jean Tepperman (Episode 12)

    Talks by Linda Gordon and Jean Tepperman. Gordon is an historian teaching at the University of Massachusettes and is writing a history of the birth control movement in the U.S. Tepperman is a high school teacher. Both were members of Bread and Roses, a Boston Women’s group. They traveled to China in December, 1972. The…

  • Personal voices : women in China / Emily Honig ; interviewed by Deborah Lee.

    In her recent book, Personal Voices: Chinese Women inthe 80’s. Honig traces the women’s movement in China, from the Cultural Revolution to the present. She dispels the myth that Chinese women are meed and docile, the changing economic statusof women, and how the Women’s Federation has produced changes for women since its founding in the…