Women’s movement

  • Mabel Vernon : suffragist / produced by Melanie Maholick.

    Juanita Weaver interviews the suffragist who began organizing with the National Women’s Party in 1913 and worked for the Equal Rights Amendment until 1930.|MABEL VERNON: SUFFRAGIST / produced by Melanie Maholick. – Mabel Vernon began organizing in 1913 with the National Women’s Party for suffrage and continued until 1930 working for the Equal Rights Amendment.…

  • 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…

  • Margaret Papandrou on an international women’s movement / edited and produced by Helene Rosenbluth.

    Speech at the Women’s Action for Nuclear Disarmament Conference. Ms. Papandrou is dedicated to the international peace and women’s movement, serves as the international liason to Women for a Meaningful Summit, and is President of the Greek Women’s Union. Her talk centers around her hopes for an internationalist women’s movement.|MARGARAT PAPANDREOU ON AN INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S…

  • Ourselves, our children / produced by Pearl Skotnes.

    February 14th, 1979 episode of “Holding up more than half the sky”. Segments include: a tribute to Susan B. Anthony, including a dramatization of her trial for “having voted knowingly, wrongfully, and unlawfully”; Janet Dodson interviews Ruth Bell and Joan Ditzion, members of the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective and co-authors of “Ourselves and our…

  • Solidarity : power of the future / Bella Abzug ; produced by Carol Brycen.

    Congresswoman Bella Abzug addresses the “Solidarity: Power of the Future” coalition at the University of California, Los Angeles, on March 3, 1981. Abzug lists the problems facing women and minorities in the atmosphere created by increased military spending and the feudal mentality of the Moral Majority. She appeals to women to unite and become involved…

  • Strange paradise / Cris Williamson interviewed by Helene Rosenbluth

    Musician Cris Williamson talks with Helene Rosenbluth about her spiritual self, her role as a superstar of the women’s community, her old albums, her new work, and her future vision. This is an in-depth interview that is mixed with music from three of her albums: Changer and the changed; Live dream; and Stranger in paradise.…

  • Shoulder to shoulder / Midge McKenzie interviewed by Beverly Polokoff

    Beverly Polokoff of KPFK interviews Midge MacKenzie (1938-2004), documentary film maker, feminist, and author of “Shoulder to shoulder,” a documentary publication on the history of the militant suffragettes of Great Britain. She talks about what inspired her to write the book, the disappearance of these women in written history, and the fate of the radical…

  • Future issues in the women’s movement / lecture and interview with Dr. Carl Faber (Episode 4 of 4)

    This is the fourth and final episode, “Future issues in the Women’s movement,” in a four part series of lectures by Dr. Carl Faber entitled “Woman as slave.” This episode is in two parts. Part one is the lecture portion of the episode, recorded in January 1977. In this lecture, Faber looks at possibilities in…

  • Feminists conversations / Jane Lazarre and Rayna Reiter ; interviewed by Nanette Rainone.

    Nanette Rainone interviews two women authors about their experiences, women’s roles and the Women’s movement. They are Jane Lazarre, author of “The Mother Knot” (McGraw Hill), a personal account of pregnancy and childrearing; and Rayna Reiter, editor of “Toward an Anthropology of Women.”

  • It changed my life / Betty Friedan ; interviewed by Barbara Cady.

    Barbara Cady interviews Betty Friedan, feminist and author, about her new book, It Changed My Life: Writings on the Women’s Movement (New York: Random House, 1976). In the interview, she discusses her hopes and fears concerning the women’s movement in America, and her feeling that ideological clashes within the movement and the belief that the…