American Women — Anthropology and societal role
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Coming of age in America / Margaret Mead.
Anthropologist Margaret Mead (1901 – 1978) delivers a talk at Diablo Valley College on the pressures of adolescence in America from an anthropological perspective. She addresses some of the problems teenagers face in the current day, the genesis of these problems, and what one can do about them. This recording is different from BC1042.06 though…
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Myths of femininity and motherhood / moderated by Eve Merriam (Episode 8 of 15)
Panel discussion about myths of femininity and masculinity in motherhood and fatherhood at the Challenge to Women: The Biological Avalanche conference held in San Francisco on January 23, 1965. The father-daughter relationship, the development of new roles for women, and the meaning of love are discussed by the panelists. The panelists are Mirra Komarovsky, professor…
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Suburban sadness / produced by Lili Francklyn and Robin Steinhardt.
“Suburban Sadness” was produced for the year 1952 in KPFA’s thirty-year retrospective. Suburbia’s housing developments and housewives, cars, televisions, drive-ins and Cold War anxieties are all discussed in the context of music from the early fifties. There is the story of a typical American family according to one journalist, and an analysis of suburbia by…
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Boys are boys and girls are girls / produced by Sebern Fisher