Women — Psychology.

  • Consciousness raising-KPFA (Episode 4 of 4): The single woman

    Consciousness raising. An examination of “the single woman”. Six women relate their personal experiences in marriage and discuss dating, engagement, infidelity, the fear of being single, married women’s fear and envy of single friends, divorce, and the ultimate realization that marriage is not a short cut to happiness and fulfillment. Consciousness raising broadcasts began by…

  • Consciousness raising-KPFA (Episode 1 of 4): How we feel about our bodies

    Consciousness raising. This is the first episode in a series to air on KPFA from June 21, 1972 until October 19, 1972. An examination of how self awareness affects our bodies, our attitudes, and our life. Consciousness raising broadcasts began by playing taped sessions, then listeners could call in and share their experiences and feelings.…

  • Consciousness raising (KPFA) / produced by Jan Legnitto.

    Series record for KPFA’s Consciousness-Raising series, 4 episodes (BC1087.01-.04). Produced by Jan Legnitto and broadcast on KPFA approximately every other Wednesday at 12:30PM between June 21 and October 18, 1972. The series was introduced in the June 1972 KPFA folio: “We’re starting and important new series with on-the-air Consciousness-Raising…CR groups are central to the Women’s…

  • Consciousness raising-WBAI (Episode 1 of 4): Housework

    This is one of four episodes of WBAI’s first Consciousness-raising series, originally titled: “Consciousness-raising: An examination of women’s issues.” This discussion focuses on the issue of housework, particularly the balance of housework between husband and wife, and what these women learned from their mothers and other wives. This recording was possibly broadcast with a series…

  • Some of us have become… / Gloria Steinem at Pierce College

    Feminist Gloria Steinem speaks about the institutional changes that the women’s movement had just begun, the organized opposition to what changes are made and proposed, the four stages of a women’s life, “male-junkies,” the naming of our children, the politics of work, cross-cultural differences and similarities, and other topics in this wide-ranging speech. Delivered at…

  • Spirituality and integrity : basis or vulnerability / by Dr. Albert E. Ross (Episode 7 of 7)

    First half of last lecture in the series. It is difficult to attain spirituality, which is not religiosity. Today ritual is substituted for experience in religion and love. Spirituality is the sum total of our inner experience. A relationship can attain such intensity that it can fill all our needs: security, love, self-esteem, and creativity.…

  • Woman as slave / Carl Faber (Series record)

    A special broadcast of a four-hour series of lectures by UCLA Psychologist Dr. Carl Faber (ca. 1937-1996) on the role of women in American society and the psychological consequences of that assigned role. Dr. Faber also talks informally about the subject in special interviews conducted by KPFK’s Helene Rosenbluth and Roy Tuckman. Produced by Roy…

  • Women and alienation / Connie Sutton

    Lecture by Connie Sutton, anthropologist at New York University, on women and alienation. Produced by Viv Sutherland in cooperation with National Organization for Women-New York (NOW-NY) and NOW’s Women in the Arts committee coordinator Diane Feeley.

  • Strong at the broken places: middle class women and drugs

    Two women – Barbara Kerr, author of “Strong in the Broken Places: Women Who Have Survived Drugs”, and “Kathleen,” a former drug addict – discuss middle class women and drugs with KPFK’s Barbara Cady.

  • New concepts of women : implications for therapy

    Helen Landgarten talks with Elizabeth Estrup, M.A., Hannah Lerman, Ph.D., and Aurelia Morris who are all active members of an organized consciousness-raising group for workers in the “helping profession” in Los Angeles. They are also active in the Women’s Center and discuss therapy as a means of discovering one’s individual identity.