American Women — Feminism

  • Sharing feminism: empowerment or imperialism? / Mary E. Hunt

    A discuss of feminist liberation theology in Latin America by Mary E. Hunt at the Graduate Theological Union at UC Berkeley, date unknown but likely late 1981. Hunt, a lesbian feminist theologian, spent eighteen months working in Argentina. In this talk, Hunt explores what relevance feminism has to women in Latin America and how her…

  • Rita Mae Brown, Donna Eagles and Zoe Nawoe discuss class differences

    Rita Mae Brown, author of The Hand That Cradles the Rock, Songs to a Handsome Woman, Rubyfruit Jungle and other books, and Donna Eagles, Bay Area activist, discuss class differences, feminism, sexual orientation, power and lack of power, publishing, humor, how to build a successful movement, and more with KPFA’s Zoe Nawoe. Includes phone calls…

  • Group interview with Rita Mae Brown, Sally Gearhardt, Zoe Nawoe, and Ellen Dubrowin

    Group interview with Rita Mae Brown, poet and author of Songs to a Handsome Woman (Diana Press, 1973), feminist writer and activist Sally Gearhart and KPFA’s Zoe Nawoe and Ellen Dubrowin, on teaching, art, politics, humor and survival. Brown reads her poems “The New Lost Feminism,” “Deja Vu: Watching Old Movies on the Late Night…

  • Charlotte Bunch on the Women’s Liberation Movement / Karla Tonella

    Karla Tonella interviews feminist theorist and writer Charlotte Bunch, editor of Quest Magazine, a feminist quarterly. Bunch reviews the history of the Women’s Liberation movement beginning around 1968 (the birthing year); 1969-1970 (the growing years); 1970s (feminist organization). The chronology of the women’s movement presented by Bunch moves from “we exist, we are oppressed” to…

  • Majority report, May 6, 1982: Judy Chicago, San Francisco Women’s Building, Merle Woo

    Julia Randall and Ginny Z. Berson host Majority Report, May 6, 1982. Segments: 1. News wrap-up — 2. Artist Judy Chicago talks about The Birth Project, her follow-up to The Dinner Party, with KPFA’s Toni Gray; also includes interviews with some of the participants in the project — 3. A celebration of the third anniversary…

  • Majority report, November 18, 1982: Schlafly v. English, Olivia’s 10th Birthday, Update on Silkwood, Planetary conjunction

    Marci Lockwood and Ginny Z. Berson host Majority Report, November 18, 1982. Segments: 1. News wrap-up — 2. Highlights from anti-ERA activist Phyllis Schlafly and Mother Jones editor Deirdre English’s debate on the role of women in San Francisco on November 17, 1982 — 3. Julia Randall reports on the preparations for Olivia Records’ 10th…

  • International Women’s Day (1980) speakers

    Tape of the celebration of International Women’s Day 1980, sponsored by NOW-NY and the New York Chapter of the Coalition of Labor Union Women and endorsed by over 40 other feminist, labor and civil rights activist groups. Recorded March 8, 1980. Speakers include Bella Abzug, Ruby Dee, Barbara Omolade, Marge Albert, Rhonda Copelon. Includes a…

  • Everywomanspace: February 12, 1979-Speeches from a rally supporting Bella Abzug

    Speeches from a women’s rally that took place at Martin Luther King, Jr. High School, February 10, 1979 in support of Bella Abzug (1920 – 1998), social activist and U.S. Representative from New York who was fired from the National Advisory Committee for Women (NACW) for criticizing President Carter’s economic policies. The speakers on this…

  • Women in the arts I (Episode 1 of 5)

    Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro, architects of a feminist art program at the California Institute of the Arts, discuss current feminist activities in Los Angeles. Chicago and Schapiro talk about touring women artists’ studios in San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego and describe the general situation of women artists in the contemporary landscape, and…

  • Women in the arts II (Episode 2 of 5)

    Judy Chicago reviews the growth of feminism in the arts and discusses the new consciousness of women in the art community and the necessity of restructuring that community. The focus of this discussion is the Market Street Project, a show organized by male artists which opened in Venice, CA in November 1971, and how dozens…