American Women — Feminism

  • Hot flashes: women’s news from Majority Report: October 25, 1977

    Women’s news and current events from Majority Report for October 25, 1977. Hosted by Diane Torr for WBAI’s Women’s Department. Topics include an analysis of the congressional voting records on abortion, personality differences between men and women at work, AFL-CIO president calls himself “a closet feminist,” Karen Silkwood case, men in computer language are represented…

  • Hot flashes: women’s news from Majority Report: January 17, 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 ERA ratification in Virginia and other unratified states, New York City funding for abortion, women apple pickers in New York State, arguments against the Hyde Amendment, women’s rights in Texas, Canadian gay rights,…

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • Interview with Eleanor Cooper of the Women’s Liberation Center

    Judy Pasternak interviews Eleanor Cooper of the Women’s Liberation Center of New York about the history of the center and the what takes place at the center.  Thisis an edited excerpt from More Than Half the World, Sunday, February 11, 1979.

  • Nawal El Saadawi, Egyptian feminist

    An interview with Egyptian feminist Dr. Nawal El Saadawi, conducted by Ines Rieder at the United Nations Conference on Women, held in Copenhagen in July of 1980. Dr. Saadawi discusses the woman’s body under colonialism and patriarchy and about women in the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). Dr. Saadawi is well known in the Middle East…

  • Post ERA: Denise Fuge and Gail Gabler

    Nancy Kramer speaks with Denise Fuge, president of the National Organization for Women (NOW)-New York and Gail Gabler, organizer, on the recent defeat of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) and on what comes next for the movement. Includes listener phone calls.

  • Interview with the Redstockings (Part 2 of 2)

    Local women discuss the Redstockings journal, “Feminist Revolution.” Judith Van Allen-socialist, Nicki Sacks-lesbian, and Martha Shelle-poet and lesbian. Recording self-contained except for the musical inserts. Five inserts, music between and around. Sixth insert: voice-over instrumental part of last music (40 sec. insert) about a 3-second leeway. Ain’t I A Woman!

  • Women’s News: October 13, 1980

    Women’s News for KPFA, October 13, 1980. The anchors are Julia Randall and Helen Mickiewicz. Segments: 1. Abortion fund limits: State control of Medicaid; 2. Sterilization laws in California, mandatory consent; 3. San Francisco Women’s Building struck by pipe bomb – features interviews with Women’s Building staff members; 4. Resignation of Mary Cunningham as Senior…