Women’s rights

  • Assault on abortion rights.

    Pro-abortion panelists discuss plans to fight the campaign against abortion rights, provide background information for the current legal battle for the right to an abortion, and what each of their organizations is doing to contribute to this fight. Gloria Allred, attorney and coordinator for Los Angeles chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW); Mary…

  • Sheila Tobias speaks at the NOW conference, 1972; recorded by Lynne Robbins.

    Sheila Tobias, Associate Provost of Wesleyan University, speaks on the programs for and problems with women achieving political power. Intro: The following program was recorded at the Connecticut State Conference of the National Organization for Women, held at Connecticut College in New London on August 26, 1972. This speech was recorded for WBAI by Lynne…

  • The Equal Rights Amendment : will it pass? / Brenda Feigen Fasteau ; interviewed by Jan Legnitto.

    An interview with Brenda Feigen Fasteau, a coordinator of the Women’s Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union, about the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment and its possibility for passage by various states. Fasteau argues that “fringe” elements, particularly far-right conservatives, are driving the backlash against the amendment’s passage and outlines how the…

  • Sexism and racism / Gloria Steinem and Margaret Sloan.

    Gloria Steinem and Margaret Sloan-Hunter, in a joint appearance at the Brooklyn Montessori School on May 15, 1973, address themselves to the relationship between sexism and racism. They discuss the white male-dominated media’s representation of the women’s liberation movement and black women’s position in feminist activism. They are introduced by State Senator Carol Bellamy. Technical…

  • To Women / Leo Tolstoy ; read by Larry Josephson.

    Essay on the issue of women’s rights and place in society.

  • Abortion : is it murder or a woman’s right?

    Panel discussion with: Walter Trinkaus, professor at Loyola University, and President of the Right to Life League; Lana Clarke Phelan, co-author of the Abortion Handbook, and Western Regional Director of Women’s National Organization (NOW); and Rev. J. Hugh Anwyl, minister of the United Church of Christ, and director of Clergy Counseling Service for Problem Pregnancies.…

  • Abortion and the law.

    A panel discussion sponsored by the Citizens’ Committee for Humane Abortion Laws in San Jose in September 1962. Participants include David Newman, clinical psychologist and associate professor of psychology at San Jose State College; Emmanuel Silver, psychiatrist and neurologist in Palo Alto; the Reverend Sidney Peterman, minister of the First Unitarian Church in San Jose;…

  • Rosie, the red riveter / William Mandel.

    Inspired by viewing the documentary The Life And Times Of Rosie The Riveter, Mandel explores the topics of women in the workforce, women in typically male-filled jobs, and unions, contrasting the status of women in the United States with that of women in the Soviet Union. Linking of fight for women’s rights in the work…