American Women — Authors and journalists

  • Betty Pilkington interviews U.N. Ambassador Medhi Vakil about Iran

    U.N. Correspondent Betty Pilkington interviews United Nations Ambassador to Iran, Mehdi Vakil, on Iran’s National Day, the birthday of the reigning Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, October 26, 1967.

  • Women reporting on women

    Three feminist journalists who were all involved in coverage of the Houston Women’s Conference discuss the question of whether women journalists can objectively cover women’s issues. The journalists are Anna Quindlen of the New York Times; Ronnie Eldridge, former executive producer for Woman Alive on Channel 13 and candidate for Manhattan Borough President; and Ellen…

  • Racism in the Women’s movement (Part 1 only)

    In this program, guests talk about the racism forum “Racism in the Women’s movement: how to fight it,” sponsored by the Women Writers Union and Radical Women, and held at the Women’s Building in San Francisco. They are: Suki Durham, member of both organizations, Max Regal, member of the Seattle Radical Women; Ann Finger, organizer…

  • Interview with Brett Harvey of The Feminist Press

    Eileen Zalisk interviews Brett Harvey of the Feminist Press, founded in 1970 in Baltimore, MD and now located in Old Westbury, NY. They discuss the founding and history of the press and what books the press has and is publishing.

  • Aphra speaks – December 8, 1972

    Aphra Speaks was a series on WBAI wherein the editors of Aphra: The Feminist Literary Magazine discuss authors and literature. On the previous episode, broadcast in November 1972, the Aphra editors discussed Kate Chopin’s The Awakening and Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth, asking why feminists have been attracted to these novels. In this program,…

  • Sally George reads four short stories

    Sally George reads four short stories: Dreaming; Hard Winter; Church Music; and Peter, Peter. Also includes an interview with Allen Wolovsky. George is a writer who has been published in Ms. Magazine and Christopher Street, among other publications, and is the recipient of a CAPS Grant. Produced by Allen Wolovsky.

  • Janet Sternburg: Journal from a semi-private room

    Janet Sternburg reads her autobiographical fiction, titled “Journal from a semi-private room.” Sternburg relates her experiences as an adult spending time in hospital with an injury to her arm. Her mother also goes to hospital and is operated on for cancer. She returns for a visit to her family home.

  • Gloria Naylor interviewed about her novel The Women of Brewster Place

    Raw tape of Gloria Naylor, Black woman author, interviewed by Doris Austin[?] about her novel “The Women of Brewster Place.” She reads a passage from the book and then talks with Doris about the book, how Naylor’s visions of the women who populate the book came into being, and more specifically about some of the…

  • Interview with Jean Stein, author of Edie: An American biography

    David Rothenberg talks to Jean Stein (b. 1934), author of “Edie: An American Biography” about the life of actress/socialite Edie Sedgwick, and Stein’s daughter Wendy vanden Heuvel.

  • The Klan (Episode 2 of 5, Part 2 of 2)

    The second in a series of five tapes produced in 1965 by then-folio editor of WBAI, Marcia Tompkins, about her hometown of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. This program concerns the Ku Klux Klan and features actuality of a KKK rally that was taped with a hidden recorder. |This program is likely identical to BB0685B, which is titled…