Women — Legal status, laws, etc.
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Our days in court / produced by Fran Watkins and Isabel Welsh.
Overview of the history of legal issues concerning women, including name changes in marriage contracts, control of one’s earnings, divorce and custody rights, and employment discrimination. Includes interviews with Nancy Davis, Mary Dunlap and Wendy Williams, Equal Rights Advocates attorneys in San Francisco. Produced by Fran Watkins and Isabel Welsh.
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Rape : the victim as suspect / produced by Susan Scheftel and Gail Boehm.
A documentary examining the mythology surrounding rape and its effect upon the social, medical and legal treatment of rape victims. Includes interviews with victims, attorneys, and organizations founded to combat the problem of rape. The first part of the program deals with the problems that rape victims encounter when they report their rape and attempt…
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The Abortion handbook / Pat Maginnis ; interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson.
Author Pat Maginnis, joint author with Lana Clark Phelan of The Abortion Handbook (Contact Books, 1969), discusses her book with Elsa Knight Thompson. They discuss the declining practice of midwifery, the religious and political forces driving anti-abortion sentiment, and how to change public perception of the practice of abortion.
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Abortion laws : the cruel fraud / read by Bobbie Harms.
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Abortion: inside and outside the hospital / moderated by Lucinda Cisler and James Clapp (Episode 2)
This is the same tape as BB3770.02, broadcast as the second episode of the WBAI produced Abortion (1969) series. James Clapp and Lucinda Cisler, members of the Abortion Committee of the New York chapter of the National Organization for Women, host the program. Their guest in-studio is Bernard Nathanson, M.D., assistant professor of obstetrics and…