American Women — Feminism

  • It changed my life / Betty Friedan ; interviewed by Barbara Cady.

    Barbara Cady interviews Betty Friedan, feminist and author, about her new book, It Changed My Life: Writings on the Women’s Movement (New York: Random House, 1976). In the interview, she discusses her hopes and fears concerning the women’s movement in America, and her feeling that ideological clashes within the movement and the belief that the…

  • Pamela Allen / interviewed by Julius Lester

    Feminist activist Pamela Allen speaks with host Julius Lester about the difficulty in organizing various womens’ groups into a united front. She discusses how women are often hesitant to accept leadership roles in social movements because of male chauvinism, why some women won’t enter into all-women group dynamics, and the importance of transcending race and…

  • 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…

  • History of the women’s suffrage movement : racism and middle class bias against women / Pam Allen.

    Pam Allen focuses on racism and the middle class bias in this talk which, was the first of two presentations on the Suffrage Movement she made for the Bay Area School last January. It was recorded in an extremely crowded classroom, so there are a lot of clunks and bangs which we hope won’t bother…

  • Women’s liberation : deja vu / produced by Ruth Kamen.

    Ruth Kamen recorded and produced this sound portrait of a three day conference on women in Detroit at Wayne State University in 1970. Here, assembled in montage form is the music of Dona, a feminist singer; the voices of United Nations worker Ruth Gage Colby, author Betty Friedan, sociologist Marlene Dixon; and some people who…

  • Feminist forum : selling women short / Colette Nijhof ; interviewed by Nancy Clinch.

    An interview with Colette Nijhof of the National Organization for Women (NOW)’s National Image Committee about the image of women in the advertising media. Nijhof discusses the harmful, long-term effects that a continuous projection of a negative image has on women’s self-esteem and sense of identity. She describes the selling techniques which are responsible for…

  • Feminist art movement / interviewed by Clare Spark.

    Marcia Tucker, associate curator of the Whitney Museum in New York City, describes how women artists in New York have related to the women’s movement, museums, and political protest in general. She discusses the recent firing and subsequent strikes by Museum of Modern Art employees, as well as protests that have happened at the Whitney.…

  • Women in the revolution

    Gloria Roberts, a Black woman and mother of two children; Winki Takahashi, teacher and native Californian of Japanese and Irish ancestry; and Suad Cano, an Arabian woman married to a Chicano man and who lives in the barrio, discuss the dramatic changes in women’s social status. Moderated by Dorothy Gilden. The discussion touches on the…

  • The Battle of Britain / Joan Dame Vickers (Episode 11 of 12)

    Talk on the battle for women’s rights in Great Britain with Nancy Reeves, attorney and writer-lecturer on the status of women and Dame Joan Vickers, M.P., D.B.E., and the Conservative Government’s Representative on the Status of Women Commission at the United Nations. They discuss the Manifesto of the Status of Women Committee, whether women are…

  • Status-quo and otherwise / Ruth Miller (Episode 4 of 12)

    Nancy Reeves interviews Ruth Miller, Chairman of the California Advisory Commission on the Status of Women, and a national representative and West Coast Educational Director of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. She discusses the origins of the Advisory Commission as an outgrowth of a previous program carried out at the federal level, how each…