Women’s organizations.

  • Report on the Congress to Unite Women

    This is a February 1985 rebroadcast of a November 1969 Womankind episode, hosted by Nannette Rainone. The episode is a rundown of events at the 1969 Congress to Unite Women held in New York on November 21-23, 1969. Guests are four women who were at the Congress: Shulamith Firestone (1945-2012), active in Women’s Liberation in…

  • The Velvet Sledgehammer: March 5, 1978

    The Velvet Sledgehammer, March 5, 1978, hosted by Rose Jordan. Begins with a song Cassie Culver, then Judy Pasternak presents the Women’s community bulletin board for the week of March 5, International Women’s Day week. Includes a rundown of programs to be broadcast on WBAI for International Women’s Day March 8, 1978, and the schedule…

  • Government surveillance and the control of women: Berkshire Conference on the History of Women

    This recording contains of excerpts (not complete) of the panel “Government Surveillance and the Control of Women” at the Fifth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women. The conference was held ca. June 16-18, 1981 at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY.  Speakers and talks were the following: Blanche Wiesen Cook of John Jay College on…

  • Hot flashes: women’s news from Majority Report: June 17, 1977

    Women’s news and current events from Majority Report for June 17, 1977, hosted by Nancy Boreman. Topics include: Traditional American Families / Parker: “male head of family needs the opportunity to work.”; New York Marriage Contract revealed; The SCUM Manifesto-Valerie Solanas; Upcoming NOW-NY march, Lesbian pride week events; other upcoming women’s events; women’s weight training;…

  • Hot flashes: women’s news from Majority Report: September 7, 1977

    Women’s news and current events from the Majority Report for September 7, 1977. Hosted and produced by Viv Sutherland for WBAI’s Women’s Department. Topics include: Steven Goldberg, benefits of contraceptive gels, new information from the census report, abortion rights in Connecticut, New York for Employment Action Council upcoming rally for jobs, pesticides causing infertility in…

  • Interview with members of NOW-New York Chapter

    Judy Pasternak interviews two members of the New York chapter of the National Organization of Women (NOW) about the organization and why they each joined it. The guests are Noreen Connell (1947 – ), president of New York Chapter of NOW, and Cathy Roche(Raush/Rauch/Rouch), who is running for president of NOW-NY. Date of broadcast unknown…

  • Interview with Eleanor Cooper of the Women’s Liberation Center

    Judy Pasternak interviews Eleanor Cooper of the Women’s Liberation Center of New York about the history of the center and the what takes place at the center.  Thisis an edited excerpt from More Than Half the World, Sunday, February 11, 1979.

  • New York Radical Feminists’ talk about the 1971 Rape Speakout

    This is a February 1985 rebroadcast of a 1971 episode of Womankind, hosted by Nanette Rainone. Rainone interviews four members of the New York Radical Feminists (not introduced) about the Rape Speakout they are organizing for January 24, 1971 at St. Clements Episcopal Church in Manhattan. The speakout will consist of testimony by women on…

  • The Velvet Sledgehammer: January 17, 1979

    Author Esther Newton reads selections from her unpublished novel “Alice-Hunting,” about a character who idolizes Gertrude Stein. Judy Pasternak interviews Noreen Connell, outgoing president of the National Organization for Women, New York chapter (NOW-NY) and Kathy Rauch[sp?], candidate in the upcoming elections for NOW-NY, in the first in an ongoing series on women’s organizations. Program…

  • The Velvet Sledgehammer: June 4, 1980

    Production reel for June 4, 1980 episode of The Velvet Sledgehammer. Includes recording of Florynce “Flo” Kennedy (1916-2000) speaking on ways women can use boycotting as a way of protest; activist Freda Rosen (1945– 2007) is interviewed about the Coalition of Grassroots Women and the upcoming Women’s Convention (June 22, 1980); 3. Judith Loren[sp?] and…