American Women — Feminism
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Panel discussion on women (Episode 14 of 14)
Discussion of the woman’s struggle for social equality. Panelists include Mark Shorer, English literature professor at the University of California; Ethel Albert (1918-1989), anthropologist; Dr. Anna Maenchen, Berkeley psychiatrist; Peter Odegard, professor of political science at the University of California; Miriam Allen DeFord, writer; and Virginia Maynard, writer and director of “The American woman” series.…
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Liberty, equality, and fraternity (Episode 3 of 14)
On women’s view of their role in Colonial life. Contains dramatic readings of Benjamin Franklin’s “The Speech of Polly Baker,” excerpts from the letters of Abigail Adams, and Charles Brockden Brown’s “Alcuin: a Dialogue.” Episode three of the 14-episode series produced and broadcast on KPFA by Virginia Maynard and Charles Levy from 1958 to 1959.…
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Lucretia Mott (Episode 4 of 14)
Biographical sketch with dramatization of the life and actions of the feminist abolitionist Lucretia Mott. Contains a dramatization of James and Lucretia Mott hiding from the anti-abolition mob that burned down Philadelphia Hall in 1838 and a dramatic reading of Wendell Phillips and William Lloyd Garrison’s motions at the World Anti-Slavery Convention of 1840 in…
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Revolution (Episode 5 of 14)
On the beginnings of feminist organizing in the mid 19th century, with a dramatization of the first women’s rights convention and Elizabeth Cady Stanton reading a new “Declaration of Independence for Women.” Also contains readings of some of the negative newspaper coverage of the Seneca Falls Convention. This is the fifth episode of fourteen in…
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Whistlin’ girls (Episode 6 of 15)
Dramatization of the Lucy Stone legend and the problems facing women who seek to be heard at public gatherings (ca. 1834). Episode six out of fourteen in the series. The series was written and directed by Virginia Maynard and produced by Maynard and Chuck Levy, narrated by Levy, and engineered by David Talcott. It was…
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The Nineteenth century Minerva (Episode 7 of 14)
Examination of Margaret Fuller and her writings which call for greater women’s rights, including a reading of an excerpt of The Blithesdale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne. This is the seventh in of the 14-episode series produced and broadcast on KPFA by Virginia Maynard and Charles Levy from 1958 to 1959. The series was written and…
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The Tree of knowledge (Episode 8 of 14)
On the gradual growth of opportunity for women to attain a secondary education during the early 1800s. Contains readings of excerpts from Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Emilius: or, a treatise on education (1774), John Gregory’s A father’s legacy to his daughters (1761), Thomas Jefferson’s letters to his daughters; Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Oldtown folks (1869), Alice Stone Blackwell’s…
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The womanly woman (Episode 9 of 14)
This recording centers on a story about a woman aboard ship with a group of men. The scene is taken from The Lady of The Aroostook written by William Dean Howells in 1879. This is the ninth episode of the fourteen-episode series produced and broadcast on KPFA by Virginia Maynard and Charles Levy from 1958…
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Sinful Eve / produced by Virginia Maynard and Charles Levy (Episode 1 of 14)
This episode is on the long-standing view of woman’s responsibility for man’s sins. Contains a dramatization of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter.” Part one of the 14-part series produced and broadcast on KPFA by Virginia Maynard and Charles Levy from 1958 to 1959. The series was written and directed by Virginia Maynard and produced by…
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Toward a worldwide women’s movement / produced by Peggy Irene Bray, Bonnie MacGregor, and Mara Keller.
A documentary from a conference of African, Asian, Latin American, Soviet, and American women who discuss the similarities of their social positions: Native American woman’s decline following Euramerican contact, the low status of women in the U.S. and USSR, the mass women’s movement in India, and the crucial role of women in the South African…