Women’s rights

  • The Last word : Anita Hill / moderated by Jeanette Pinkney.

    Five part retrospective a year after the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas confronation during the Thomas Conformation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee. The programs are comprised of hearing actualities and highlights from the recent conference held at Georgetown University concerning changes in race, gender and power over the last year.|THE LAST WORD : ANITA HILL /…

  • The end of E.R.A. news conference / Eleanor Smeal.

    Eleanor Smeal gives a speech on the non-ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment, sex discrimination, and the continuing struggle for women’s rights at the National NOW headquarters, Washington, D.C.

  • Abortion : beyond legalization / interviews by Miriam Rosen.

    Patients at Women’s Services, a non-profit New York City abortion clinic, talk about the issue of abortion, their fears, pressures, and/or relief they encounter now that abortion is legal in New York State. Produced by Miriam Rosen. Music featured in the recording is Alice Coltrane’s “Universal Consciousness.”

  • Six experiences of unwanted pregnancy.

    Presentation of a drama, What Have You Done for Me Lately, followed by 4 women discussing their personal experiences of unwantedpregnancies.

  • Karate : women’s liberation demonstration.

    Members of Women’s Liberation, determined to impress the University of California, Berkeley officials of their seriousness, staged a demonstration at Harmon Gymnasium, the school’s men’s gym, demanding to be allowed to enter the class in Karate.  The protestors were met by the police who refused to allow them into the room where the course was…

  • Margaret Sanger and Annie Besant: a woman’s right / produced by Joanna Brouk. (Episode 7 of 7)

    Docu-drama about Annie Besant’s and Margaret Sanger’s fight to make methods of birth control available to the public. Prior to the middle of this century, methods of birth control were virtually unknown and information concerning contraception was considered obscene and kept from the large majority of the public. In this program we examine the efforts…

  • 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.…

  • How Anita Hill’s testimony has empowered women / moderated by Jeanette Pinkney ; co-chaired by Anita Hill.

    Five part retrospective a year after the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas confronation during the Thomas Conformation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee. The programs are comprised of hearing actualities and highlights from the recent conference held at Georgetown University concerning changes in race, gender and power over the last year.|HOW ANITA HILL’S TESTIMONY HAS EMPOWERED WOMEN…

  • Life and death : the issue of abortion (Episode 10 of 15)

    The tenth in the series Bill of Rights Radio Education Project, co-sponsored by the Pacifica Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union, with major funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Documentary presenting both sides of the abortion issue and a history of abortion in the United States. Includes interviews with James Moore, Peggy…

  • The effects of racism on the economic rights of women

    This is the first tape of a symposium sponsored by Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) recorded in Spring 1981. In this symposium, women from diverse ethnic backgrounds discuss racism: why it exists, who is racist, who benefits from racism, its effects both nationally and globally, and what Affirmative Action may mean to…