Women — Social conditions.

  • Now you have touched the women : now you have struck a rock.

    Actuality of a women’s event, held at the Berkeley Community Theater. |r.1. pt.1. Panel discussion : women and apartheid / Alice Walker, Oesi Wood Jones, Genina Abron ; moderated by Parish Williams (30 min.) ; pt.2. Children’s drumming ; pt.3. Introduction from the stage / Angela Davis and Janice Mirakatoni ; pt.4. Interview with the…

  • Fire eyes / Soyara Mire ; interviewed and produced by Karole Selmon.

    Born in Belet Huen, Somalia in 1961, Soyara Mire discusses her decision to quite working as a freelance journalist in 1992 to devote herself to a documentary about female genital mutilation. She discusses the documentary film which resulted from this effort, the true nature of female circumcision, and explores the mythology which protects any discussion…

  • 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…

  • The effects of racism on the economic rights of women

    This is the first tape of a symposium sponsored by Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) recorded in Spring 1981. In this symposium, women from diverse ethnic backgrounds discuss racism: why it exists, who is racist, who benefits from racism, its effects both nationally and globally, and what Affirmative Action may mean to…

  • Classism and relationships among women / Jane Wagner and Josy Catoggio

    Jane Wagner and Josy Catoggio give previews of their upcoming talks at the 4th Annual Women and Alternative Lifestyles Conference, sponsored by the Sexuality and Lesbianism Task Force of LA-NOW. which was held June 9-10, 1979 at the University of Southern California. Wagner’s talk is titled “Lovers: Do We Choose or Are We Driven or…

  • A unique recital by Kres Mersky

    One-woman performance of monologues performed and produced by Kres Mersky. The works performed are “Lady on a Street of Smart Shops” by Jordan Crittenden; “Did I Ever Tell You” by Charles Bukowski; “The Birthmark” by Anna Kavan; “Arrangement in Black & White” by Dorothy Parker; “Mrs. Gilbertson Manages on Her Own” by Jordan Crittenden; “Birthday…

  • 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 woman’s cry / read by Selma Lawrence and Barbara Kraft

    A montage of selected readings about women’s social conditions, read by Julie Adams, Jo Raskin, Selma Lawrence and Norma Connolly. Readings by Thomas Aquinas, George Bernard Shaw, Edna St. Vincent Millay, George Sand, Joan Didion, and others. Written, produced, and directed by Barbara Kraft. Edited by Everett Frost.

  • The role of the Black woman in America / moderated by Ed Cumberpatch ; produced by Kay Lindsay.

    Four Black women–Peachie Brooks, housewife and mother of five living in Brownsville, NY; Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor, mother, actress, and Temple University and Sorbonne alum who has lived in New York and Paris; Florynce “Flo” Kennedy, attorney, director of Media Workshop and member of the Steering Committee of the Peace and Freedom Party; and Eleanor (Holmes) Norton,…

  • The oppression of women (Series record)

    Series record for teach in “The Oppression of Women.” Includes speeches on various aspects of discrimination against women in American society. Recorded at San Francisco State College December 10, 1969. r.1. Socialization : the pink blanket routine / Brenda Brush (17 min.) — r.2. The Psychology of inferiority / Norma Haan (15 min.) — r.3.…