American Women — Feminism

  • Hot flashes: women’s news from Majority Report (Series record)

    This is the series record “Hot Flashes,” women’s news from the Majority Report, broadcast on WBAI. Pacifica Radio Archives has five episodes, broadcast in 1977 and 1978.

  • Report on the Congress to Unite Women

    This is a February 1985 rebroadcast of a November 1969 Womankind episode, hosted by Nannette Rainone. The episode is a rundown of events at the 1969 Congress to Unite Women held in New York on November 21-23, 1969. Guests are four women who were at the Congress: Shulamith Firestone (1945-2012), active in Women’s Liberation in…

  • Women’s liberation and Black civil rights / Catharine R. Stimpson (Episode 1)

    Catharine R. Stimpson speaks on ‘Women’s liberation and Black Civil Rights.” Stimpson, a Literature professor from Barnard College, speaks about the relationship between the Women’s movement and the Black Civil Rights movement and possible tensions. Contains a very passionate question and answer period with well-known feminist theorists (although their identities are not obvious). Recorded in…

  • The Velvet Sledgehammer: June 19, 1977 (Part 1 and 3 only)

    A Women’s Magazine of the Air, produced by the WBAI Women’s Department, featuring: Part one: Hot Flashes, women’s news from the Majority Report; Part three: Kate Millett interviewed by Judy Pasternak and Viv Sutherland (recording breaks in mid-interview) about her new book “Sita” (1976, Virago); Part two is missing: “Woman’s Place,” a story by Irene…

  • The Velvet Sledgehammer: June 19, 1977 (Part 3 of 3)

    A Women’s Magazine of the Air, produced by the WBAI Women’s Department, featuring: 1. Hot Flashes, women’s news from the Majority Report; 2. “Woman’s Place,” a story by Irene Yarrow; 3. Kate Millett interviewed by Judy Pasternak and Viv Sutherland.

  • The Velvet Sledgehammer: March 5, 1978

    The Velvet Sledgehammer, March 5, 1978, hosted by Rose Jordan. Begins with a song Cassie Culver, then Judy Pasternak presents the Women’s community bulletin board for the week of March 5, International Women’s Day week. Includes a rundown of programs to be broadcast on WBAI for International Women’s Day March 8, 1978, and the schedule…

  • The Velvet Sledgehammer: September 20, 1978 (Production reel)

    Production reel containing exerpts for the September 20, 1978 episode of The Velvet Sledgehammer, produced by Eileen Zalisk and Rose Jordan. Segments are: 1. Animal studies show cancer risk of Estrogens – produced by Eileen Zalisk; 2. Women in Cuba; 3. Rose Jordan reports on the Foundation for Matriachy’s “Forum for the Future.” Contains clips…

  • KPFT Special Women’s Day program (1987)

    This tape contains several clips of readings of women’s literature or speeches to be used throughout KPFT’s 1987 Tribute to Women for International Women’s Day. The readings are of the following women: Adrienne Rich, Zora Neale Hurston, Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony, Reena Rietveld[sp?], Tillie Olsen, Gerda Lerner, Patricia Ann Rodriguez, Barbara Deming, Elizabeth Cady…

  • Hot flashes: women’s news from Majority Report: June 6, 1978

    Women’s news and current events from Majority Report for January 17, 1978. Produced by Nancy Boreman for WBAI’s Women’s Department. Topics include adultery laws in New York, bill to ticket prostitutes, Wisconsin judge seeks damages from Associated Press for publication of his comments about rape, Sudanese women’s views on female circumcision, Marlene Deitrich making a…

  • Interview with members of NOW-New York Chapter

    Judy Pasternak interviews two members of the New York chapter of the National Organization of Women (NOW) about the organization and why they each joined it. The guests are Noreen Connell (1947 – ), president of New York Chapter of NOW, and Cathy Roche(Raush/Rauch/Rouch), who is running for president of NOW-NY. Date of broadcast unknown…