American Women — International women

  • The Pillow book / by Sei Shonagan ; read by Karen Lindsey (Part 2 of 5)

    Karen [Kay?] Lindsey reads a translation of “The Pillow Book,” a book of observations and musings recorded by Sei Shōnagon during her time as court lady to Empress Consort Teishi (定子) during the 990s and early 11th century in Heian Japan. Intro: We hear next part one of a series of readings of “The Pillow…

  • The Pillow book / by Sei Shonagan ; read by Karen Lindsey (Part 3 of 5)

    Karen [Kay?] Lindsey reads a translation of “The Pillow Book,” a book of observations and musings recorded by Sei Shōnagon during her time as court lady to Empress Consort Teishi (定子) during the 990s and early 11th century in Heian Japan. Intro: We hear next part two of a series of readings of “The Pillow…

  • The Pillow book / by Sei Shonagan ; read by Karen Lindsey (Part 4 of 5)

    Karen [Kay?] Lindsey reads a translation of “The Pillow Book,” a book of observations and musings recorded by Sei Shōnagon during her time as court lady to Empress Consort Teishi (定子) during the 990s and early 11th century in Heian Japan. Intro: We hear next part three of a series of readings of “The Pillow…

  • The Pillow book / by Sei Shonagan ; read by Karen Lindsey (Part 5 of 5)

    Karen [Kay?] Lindsey reads a translation of “The Pillow Book,” a book of observations and musings recorded by Sei Shōnagon during her time as court lady to Empress Consort Teishi (定子) during the 990s and early 11th century in Heian Japan. Intro: We hear next the final reading in a series of readings of “The…

  • Caribbean and Latin American Report: December 17, 1982-Women in Grenada

    Caribbean and Latin American Report for December 17, 1982. Hosted by Annette Walker. First is a report from the Women’s Congress of the National Women’s Organization of Grenada, held December 5-7, 1982. Walker gives a brief history of Grenada as an English colony, Eric Gary as leader, UN appearance asking for commission on UFO’s repressive…

  • Women in Spain

    In this program, panelists Linda Gould Levine, professor at Montclair State College, Gloria Feiman Waldman, professor at York College, and Elizabeth Starčević, professor at City College of New York discuss the women’s movement in Spain. The program was produced by Dave Metzger and Judith Murray, who was also the moderator of the panel. This program…

  • International Women’s Day: Algeria

    Annette Walker talks with writer Kathy Kersey about how women in Algeria have fared since the Algerian Revolution, and about the plight of women in the Islamic world in general. Kersey discusses how the West needs to find a creative approach to understanding the situation of women in the Arab world, and talks about Algerian…

  • Women in the workforce in Canada

    Kathy Ann Kersey interviews Margaret Catley-Carlson, Deputy Executive Director UNICEF about Women in the Workforce in Canada.

  • Bernadette Devlin speaking at Barnard College (Part 1 only)

    Bernadette Devlin [McAliskey] speaks at Barnard College on November 20, 1976. This is Part 1 of 2. Tape of Part 2 is missing. Devlin was on tour in the U.S. to educate and state her point of view on “the Irish problem”. She outlines the history (from 1920) of the struggle of Ireland to separate…

  • 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…