Women — Legal status, laws, etc.

  • Perspectives on criminal justice: Women in and after prison

    Perspectives on Criminal Justice for August 19, 1981, likely the first episode. Guest is Sister Mary Nerney, Executive Director of Project Green Hope, a residence for women who have been recently released from prison.  Host is Tom O’Connor, and they discuss women in prison and prison reform.

  • A Global confrontation : women vs. tradition / introduced by Edith Culiver.

    Panel discusses the status of women in India, Japan,Mexico, Sweden, East Germany and the United States.

  • Gender bias and the bottom line / Kate Butler ; produced and interviewed by Flavia Potenza.

    Interview with Kate Butler, Chief Executive Officer of the American Humanagement Association. She recounts her efforts at countering the institutionalized gender bias in Fortune 500-sized companies. Her main tactic is to point to a potential for profit enhancement, rather than the negative threat of lawsuits. She demonstrates that gender bias is responsible for waste, which…

  • What have you done for me lately? / by Myrna Lamb.

    What Have You Done For Me Lately? By Myrna Lamb. A one-act play performed by Anne Lippe and Wes Robinson at a U.C. Berkeley Female Liberation Meeting, October 6, 1971. The subject is abortion; the man, finding himself pregnant by the miracle of modern medicine, is forced to reconsider all the objections he used against…

  • People’s law school / produced by Patrick Mayers.

    Examination of the alternative approach to lawtaught at the People’s Law School. |pt.1. Consumer law (2 reels : 104 min.) — pt.2. Landlord and tenant law (2 reels : 123 min.) — pt.3. Street survival and criminal procedures (2 reels : 108 min.) –pt.4. Prison law (2reels : 99 min.) — pt.5. Women and the…

  • Sex and the sword of Damocles (Episode 7 of 12)

    Talk on the legal and social assumptions about women’s sexuality. Hosted by Nancy Reeves, attorney and lecturer-writer on the status of women. Using the metaphor of the jigsaw puzzle, she asserts that the dilemma of the modern American women is how to narrow her field and how to establish her priorities, especially in the realm…

  • Law : the laggard (Episode 12 of 12)

    Talk on the failure of the legal system to keep pace with social change in America by Nancy Reeves, attorney and writer-lecturer on the status of women. Reeves argues that mummified legal systems that preserve antiquated laws distort women’s lives and that women’s liberation should aim to sweep these laws away, and that the erosion…

  • Reproductive rights and the status of women / produced by Ginny Z. Berson ; executive producer Bill Wax ; hosted by Larry Bensky.

    Program of panel discussions, listener call-ins and special reports which examines, on the eve of the Republican National Convention, the status of women in the United States.

  • Prostitution and the law

    In April 1977, the sixth annual “Women and the law” conference was held at University of California, Los Angeles. This is the panel discussion on prostitution and the law. The participants are San Francisco Municipal Court Judge Ollie Marie-Victoire (ca. 1924-2012), and attorneys Jeff Bear and Jill Jakes. The first to speak is Judge Marie-Victoire.…

  • The women’s suffragist movement / Susan Rennie

    Feminist historian and co-editor of “The new woman’s survival catalog,” Susan Rennie talks about the suffragist movement with Helene Rosenbluth and Annette Hunt. Rennie discusses the early feminists, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and others…their efforts and accomplishments from 1848 to 1919. She speaks about the general opposition from the Church, and the linking…