Women’s movement — United States.

  • Male/female : masculine/feminine (sex and gender) (Episode 1)

    Dr. Virginia Bruce discusses sex and gender in our society, illustrates that the words masculine and feminine are culturally- rather than sexually-oriented terms, and differentiates them from the biological male and female. Speech delivered April 1970 at University of Southern California. Announcer is Stephanie Powsner.

  • Sex, sex, sex (Episode 2)

    Dr. Nancy Rosser, a resident psychiatrist at the neuropsychiatric institute at University of California, Los Angeles, speaks of the psychological aspect of being female, intercourse, pregnancy, contraception, sexual orientation, menstruation, menopause and theories of sexuality. Bo Siewert, a representative of the Daughters of Bilitis, also speaks of the problems of discrimination and alienation for the…

  • Making it and not making it (Episode 3)

    Ann Herschfang (aka Ann Forfreedom), feminist activist, discusses ways in which women can succeed in today’s society, independent of male orientation at the University of Southern California in April 1970. She talks about the ways to “make it” individually that women have found, the responses of both men and women to women who have made…

  • Women: an introduction / produced by Kay Lindsey (Episode 1 of 5)

    Part one in a series of documentaries and discussions which focus upon issues of the Women’s movement, produced by Kay Lindsey. pt.1. An Introduction to the women’s movement (56 min.) Discussion in a group of women regarding realizing they felt oppressed as women, the origin of their awareness, sometimes from participating in the civil rights…

  • Women: girl watching / produced by Kay Lindsey (Episode 2 of 5)

    Part two in a series of documentaries and discussions which focus upon issues of the Women’s movement, produced by Kay Lindsey. pt.2. Girl watching as a practice. Guests on this show are Roxanne Dunbar, Maureen Mays, and Jane of the Female Liberation Front in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Discussion opens with voyeuristic “girl watching” by men and…

  • Women: birth control-abortion / produced by Kay Lindsey (Episode 3 of 5)

    Part three in a series of documentaries and discussions which focus upon issues of the Women’s movement, produced by Kay Lindsey. pt.3. The psychology of abortion and birth control. Guests are Lucinda Cisler and James Clapp of Public Education Committee of Parents Aid Society of Hempstead, Long Island, and both members of the Abortion Committee…

  • Women: love and violence / produced by Kay Lindsey (Episode 4 of 5)

    Part four in a series of documentaries and discussions which focus upon issues of the Women’s movement, produced by Kay Lindsey. pt.4. The problems of love and violence in male-female relations. The fourth program in the series on women produced by Kay Lindsey is a discussion on the nature of love in this society and…

  • Women: “Childness” / produced by Kay Lindsey (Episode 5 of 5)

    Part five in a series of documentaries and discussions which focus upon issues of the Women’s movement, produced by Kay Lindsey. pt.5. The perspective of women as everybody’s children in society. Guests are Carol Goodman of the October 17th Movement; Brian Goldfarb, a 15-year-old student; Richard Cook, a 15-year-old student at Glen Rock Community; and…

  • The Ruth Benedict collective / produced by Nanette Rainone. (Part 2 of 3)

    Collective of women in anthropology discusses the effect of feminism on their work, particularly in the areas of matriarchy, myths and sexual behavior.

  • The Ruth Benedict collective / produced by Nanette Rainone. (Part 3 of 3)

    This reel is missing. Collective of women in anthropology discusses the effect of feminism on their work, particularly in the areas of matriarchy, myths and sexual behavior.