Women in mass media.

  • Mannequins, millionettes, and women / produced by Frances Emley.

    This program explores the contradiction between the well-publicized women who are members of the “beautiful people” and women struggling for social justice. Describes the rise of models such as Margeaux Hemingway. African-American post office worker Flossie Morris speaks about the need for more Black women in the Women’s movement. There is also a discussion of…

  • Yoko Ono interview / by Barbara Cady.

    Musician and artist Yoko Ono discusses the feminist movement and its relationship to the mass media with KPFK’s Barbara Cady. Ono and Cady discuss how women’s art and writing is ignored by the media, dissect some of the criticisms of the women’s movement, and discuss some of Ono’s recent art. Contains some sensitive language. Identical…

  • Violent use of female images in the media / Andrea Dworkin

    Women Against Violence in Pornography & Media (WAVPM), a feminist group formed in 1977, organized the Feminist Perspective on Pornography Conference in San Francisco in November 1978. At the conclusion of this conference, organizers and attendees staged the first Take Back The Night march, protesting rape and the violent use of female images in the…

  • Approximately Yoko Ono / interviewed by Barbara Cady.

    Feminist artist-musician discusses the feminist movement and its relationship to the mass media. Rebroadcast of recording KZ1290 which has been digitized.

  • Here she is: the making of Miss America, 1970 / reported by Mary Lou Oates; produced by Robert Kuttner

    Report and actuality of the events surrounding a major beauty pageant, including a protest and police interaction. An impressionistic documentary about the Miss America Pageant, September 2-7 in Atlantic City. Includes interviews with contestants, chairwoman of the Miss America Hostess Committee, chairman of the Executive Committee of the Miss America Pageant, other reporters at the…