Women

  • Odetta / interviewed by Celestine Ware.

    African American folk, blues, jazz and spirituals singer Odetta (1930-2008) discusses her life in America, and her experiences in the music industry. An easy going interview held just before the closing of New York’s Fillmore East. She talks about Black musicians in America, her childhood, being a woman in the performing world, her metaphysical view…

  • Who was Gertrude Stein? / David Mauro.

    A biographical sketch of the progressive woman author, Gertrude Stein.

  • Look Me In The Eye: Old Women, Aging, And Ageism / Barbara Macdonald; Produced By Ginny Z. Berson.

    Reel 1 of an Autobiographical sketch by the co-author of a collection of essays about growing old as a woman (published by Spinsters Ink.), Barbara MacDonald, discusses the course she and Cynthia Rich (co-author) have taken while encountering the obstacles of invisibility, poverty, fear of death, and alienation. MacDonald refuses to be dismissed as useless,…

  • I’m a woman– W-O-M-A-N

    Special program for International Women’s Day. Includes conversation, music, and poetry by, for, and about women. Begins with a reading of quotes by famous men in history that castigate women. Also includes readings of Jean Tepperman, Sylvia Plath, Lucy Crawford, Judy Grahn, Susan Griffin, and others, interspersed with songs sung by Ruthie Gorton and other…

  • Tribute to Barbara Nestor by her daughter Dorothy Healey

    This program is Dorothy Healey’s personal tribute to her mother Barbara Bass Nestor, who died November 23, 1979 at the age of 95 (quickly, of a heart attack). Includes the broadcast of a September 1974 aircheck of Dorothy’s interview of her mother when she was 90 (33 min.) The songs heard at end of interview…

  • The Human connection / Ashley Montagu. (Episode 7 of 9)

    The physical anthropologist Dr. Ashley Montagu discusses his career, the importance of love in life, Hitler, women’s place, women’s intution, Jewish sensitivity, politics and muscle power, sexism, abortion, medicine, sexuality, Christianity, and destructive beliefs. Recorded at the Explorers of Humankind: First International Congress on the Bodily Arts & Sciences conference, Los Angeles, June 10, 1978.…

  • An interview with Andrea Dworkin / interviewed by Nanette Rainone and Carol Lopate. (Part 2 of 2)

    An interview with Andrea Dworkin, author of “Woman Hating” (E.P. Dutton, 1974), conducted by Nanette Rainone with Carol Lopate. Contains sensitive language.