Women — Personal narratives.

  • Diary of Beatrice Webb.

    Reading of diary of English woman who worked for social justice and change.|DIARY OF BEATRICE WEBB. – Readings from the diary of an English whoman who worked for socia ljustice and change. – Special Lord Russell tape. – RECORDED: Feb. 1966. BROADCAST: KPFK, 9 May 1966.

  • Women and breast cancer / Rose Kushner ; interviewed by Kathy McAnally.

    Kathy McAnally talks with Rose Kushner, author of Breast Cancer, A Personal History and an Investigative Report (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Jovanovich, 1975). Kushner discusses breast cancer as it affects women’s relationships with men, her own personal experience with breast cancer, and the general lack of literature on the subject.

  • The fairer sex : portraits of five women / produced by Marie Blazek

    This is an intimate set of interviews with five women whose lives are both typical and unique; unique portraits of women outside of traditional gender roles. Subjects include a domestic worker, a Chicana who wanted to be a dancer, an elderly executive into Zen, and a teenage “biker chick” (motorcyclist), and a lower class White…

  • A minority of one

    Women professors frequently number only one or two in college department. Tonight, four women Ph.D’s from local colleges and universities discuss their feelings and experiences as they cope with their minority status in male-dominated college faculties. Panelists are Marie Louise Gollner, BA from Vassar, Fulbright to Germany, teaches music history at UCLA; Nathalie Babel, from…

  • Six experiences of unwanted pregnancy

    This program was originally produced in October 1971 for “Unlearning to not speak” by Lois Hansen of the KPFA Women. It begins with a short play by Myrna Lamb, “What have you done for me lately?” about a man’s pregnancy, induced by a female doctor who had been forced to bear that man’s child 19…

  • Characters: a one woman sharing by Kathy Kendall ; produced by Karla Tonella

    This is a set of monologues performed by Southern writer/actor Kathy Kendall called “Characters,” which was being sponsored by the Feminist Writers’ Guild. They are based on taped conversation she had with real women telling how it has been for them: housewives, businesswomen, dykes, kids, warriors, and grandmothers. Produced by Karla Tonella, KPFA, 1982. Not…