American Women — Health

  • Women’s legal clinic: February 3, 1980

    Everywomanspace: Women’s legal clinic. Reproductive Hazards in the Workplace. February 3, 1980 with attorney Judy Levin, law student Paula Smith, and WBAI’s Judy Pasternak, discussing forced sterilization of women who work in hazardous workplaces including the Dupont plant. Needs editing before broadcast.

  • Interview with Gerda Lerner on her book A Death of One’s Own

    Tricia Del Longo interviews Dr. Gerda Lerner (1920 – 2013), an historian and pioneer in the field of women’s history. She recently published the book “A Death of One’s Own,” about her experiences with death, particularly that of her husband Carl Lerner. She discusses the right to die, the institutional neglect of the dying, her…

  • Radiation victim advocate Janet Gordon and victim Gloria Gregerson interviewed by Eileen Zalisk

    Production reel for a program produced by Eileen Zalisk, possibly Velvet Sledgehammer. Includes a speech by Joan Ruddock of the British Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, and an interview by Zalisk with Janet Gordon, Director of Citizen’s Call, a radiation victims organization in Utah, and Gloria Gregerson (1941-1983), a radiation victim.

  • The Velvet Sledgehammer: December 20, 1978

    The Velvet Sledgehammer for December 20, 1978, produced by Adrienne Gantt. Contents: Interview with Marie-Therese Brincard of the Brooklyn Museum of Art on its exhibition of Nubia,”African and Antiquity”; a report on HEW hearings on government funding to research in vitro fertilization, including an interview with Barbara Mishkin and excerpts from the hearings; Merlin Stone…

  • Science reporter Laurie Garrett speaks about the AIDS epidemic

    Interview with science reporter for National Public Radio, Laurie Garrett, about the political and scientific history of the AIDS epidemic. This recording is likely from the late 1980s. Only the answers in this interview are audible.

  • Menstruation, puberty through menopause (Part One only)

    Know your body: Menstruation, puberty through menopause. This lecture was part of the “Know Your Body” series of lectures which comprised an eight-week course given at the Women’s Medical Center in New York City in spring 1972. This lecture deals with menstruation from puberty through menopause. The speakers are Diana Parness and Paula Weideger. They’re…

  • Pregnancy

    Know your body: Pregnancy. This is lecture is part of a course on women’s health given at the Women’s Medical Center in New York City in spring 1972. In this program on pregnancy, Judy Graham of the Women’s Medical Center introduces speakers Joan Haggerty and Carol Gingold. This lecture was recorded May 25, 1972 and…

  • Women and doctors

    Know your body: Women and doctors. This lecture, part of the series “Know Your Body” recorded at and by the Women’s Medical Center in New York City on June 15, 1972, deals with the gynecological exam, doctors’ attitudes, and what medical services to expect. Speakers include Judy Graham, Diana Parness, Paula Weideger, Rachel Fruchter, and…

  • Karen Cosden interviewed by Eileen Zalisk: March 21, 1979

    Eileen Zalisk interviews Karen Cosden[sp?] about women and sex hormones. “Fighting the Crisis of Sex Hormones” will be the theme of an upcoming conference covering the drug DES (banned in 1973), which was prescribed to pregnant women to prevent complications during pregnancy but was shown to have numerous debilitating side effects, including cancer and birth…

  • Majority report, August 20, 1987: Temporary workers and South African women’s day

    Production reel from Majority Report, August 20, 1987. Segments: 1. Jane Walsh, co-producer of Australia Public Radio’s “Women on the Line,” interviews three members of Orange Action, a group to help Vietnamese women cope with the effects of war — 2. Filipina feminists Nelia Sancho from the GABRIELA Women’s Party and Aurora “Oyie” de Dios…