Women — United States — History.

  • The Crippled Person / lecture and interview with Dr. Carl Faber (Episode 1 of 4)

    This is the first episode “The Crippled Person” in a four part series of lectures by Dr. Carl Faber entitled “Woman as slave.” This episode is in three parts. In part one, Dr. Faber is interviewed prior to KPFK’s presentation of the first lecture by Helene Rosenbluth, a young lesbian feminist and Roy Tuckman, male…

  • Interview no. 2 with Dr. Carl Faber (Episode 1 of 4, Part 3 of 3)

    Dr. Faber is interviewed after the first lecture in the series. Helene Rosenbluth, a young lesbian feminist, and Roy Tuckman, male feminist, interview Faber about how men can avoid abusing women and being sexist; women working alone versus women in a group; coupleism versus groupism; definitions of vulnerability; ego defense; and eastern versus western philosophical…

  • Dorothea Dix (Episode 4 of 6)

    The fourth in a series of six episodes on important women in American history presented by historian Gerda Lerner. “Dorothea Dix (1802-1887) played an instrumental role in the founding or expansion of more than 30 hospitals for the treatment of the mentally ill. She was a leading figure in those national and international movements that…

  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: partners in the solutions of women’s problems (Episode 5 of 6)

    The fifth in a series of six episodes on important women in American history presented by historian Gerda Lerner. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, founders of the National Woman Suffrage Association. With this lecture, Lerner attempts to expose the suffragists as human beings rather than symbols, and to put into context the work…

  • Frances Willard’s temperance crusade: a political school for women (Episode 6 of 6)

    The last in a series of six episodes on important women in American history presented by historian Gerda Lerner. This episode is on Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard’s (September 28, 1839 – February 17, 1898) temperance movement — a political school for women. Lerner puts the temperance movement into perspective and explains why women were so…

  • The causes of Francis Wright (Episode 1 of 6)

    The first in a series of six episodes on important women in American history presented by historian Gerda Lerner. Francis Wright D’Arusmont (September 6, 1795 – December 13, 1852), widely known as Fanny Wright, was an intellectual pioneer, abolitionist, lecturer, the first women traveler to write an account in the U.S., and the first women…

  • Angelina and Sarah Grimke (Episode 3 of 6)

    Sarah and Angelina Grimke: slaveholders turned abolitionists, the first American women to give public lectures and to advocate women’s rights. The third in a series of six episodes on important women in American history presented by historian Gerda Lerner. Sarah Moore Grimké (1792–1873) and Angelina Emily Grimké (1805–1879), known as the Grimké sisters, were 19th-century…

  • Ozark rap: experiences of women in the mid 1930s to the 1960s / produced by Clara Kern

    This is an episode of Clara Kern’s special series “Ozark rap.” In this program she examines the experiences of the middle 1930s to the 1960s, focusing on the ways in which her mother and aunts translated their rugged early lives into strength for modern-day living. She plays records of “hillbilly music” throughout the program. Produced…

  • 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…

  • The crippled person (Episode 1 of 4, Part 2 of 3)

    This is the lecture portion of the first part of the series on “Woman as slave” featuring Dr. Carl Faber, a clinical psychologist formerly with UCLA. In this lecture, Faber says men can’t define women’s roles and that psychology is piggish. The deal with men has been for women to be crippled, allowed various thoughts…