American Women — Anthropology and societal role

  • The Velvet Sledgehammer: April 7, 1980- Leith Mullings on sex roles

    Today’s program features a talk by Dr. Leith Patricia Mullings, professor of anthropology at Columbia University. Her talk discusses the relevance of biological gender to societally assigned sex roles, presented at the 1979 “Genes and Gender” conference. Produced by Eileen Zalisk.

  • Women in Washington, D.C.

    This episode of Upstream is on women and dating in Washington, D.C. Topics covered include dating as a working woman, fidelity, and prescribed gender roles. Contains listener phone calls. Hosted and produced by Marie Smith.

  • The real Tibet

    Judith Murray speaks with Barbara Nimri Aziz, British-educated anthropologist, about the reality of her years studying and living in Tibet. Aziz spent years studying the kinship patterns, economy, and religion of the region and is the author of Tibetan Frontier Families. This program was produced by Judith Murray.

  • The Velvet Sledgehammer: November 16, 1983 (Part 2 only)

    Production reel for November 16, 1983 episode of The Velvet Sledgehammer, hosted and produced by Eileen Zalisk. This is Part 2, Part 1 is missing. First, Eileen Zalisk discusses women in Ghana with Gwendolyn Mikell Ramey, professor of Anthropology at Georgetown University. Next, WBAI’s Kathy Ann Kersey interviews Dr. Mary Calderone, M.D., adjunct professor at…

  • Interview With Ruby Rohrlich-Leavitt, feminist anthropologist

    Interview with feminist anthropologist and Manhattan Community College Associate Professor, Ruby Rohrlich-Leavitt . She discusses her newly edited book, Women Cross Culturally: Change and Challenge, which is an anthology of papers written for the session on women’s status and women’s movements at the 9th International Anthropological Congress in Chicago, IL held in 1973. Dates of…

  • Women, culture, and society / Diane Feeley.

    An historical examination of the development of women’s societal role traced by Diane Feeley, Coordinator of Women in the Arts Committee of National Organization for Women (NOW), New York. Feeley gives examples of past societies in which women were more productive and played a far more active role than our own. She sees the view…

  • The incest taboo / Mariam Slater.

    Discussion of society, incest, and institutionalized marriage outside the family with Anthropology Professor Mariam Slater of Queens College.

  • The Ruth Benedict collective (Parts 1 and 2 only) / produced by Nanette Rainone.

    The Ruth Benedict Collective is a group of 25 women in the New York area including anthropologists, students of anthropology and non-academic colleagues. Here they discuss their work as affected by feminism, particularly in the areas of matriarchy, myths and sexual behavior in sub-human primates. They also discuss how their field might have been different…

  • To be a full human being / Margaret Mead.

    Margaret Mead delivers the opening keynote address at the annual conference of the National Council of Teachers of English, held in Minneapolis, Minnesota in November 1972. The theme of the conference is “To Be a Full Human Being,” which derives from a quote from Mead. In the speech she addresses the enormous number of breaks…

  • Women is losers.

    Members of the Women’s Liberation discuss the role of women in American society. The discussion touches on a wide variety of topics, including the necessity for women to break out of the roles that have been prescribed for them, the emotional and sexual lives of women, and the media’s portrayal of women. Source material for…