American Women — International women

  • The Anglo-Irish novel / Robert Tracy and Joan Keefe (Episode 7 of 7); produced by Padraigin McGillicuddy.

    Number seven in the series Irish Contributions to English Literature. Discussion of Anglo-Irish literature, one of the two distinct trends in Irish literature (the other clumsily called Irish literature in English). The Anglo-Irish novel has a well established history. Stemming from the land-holding class, it deals with the interaction of the gentry with the peasantry.…

  • Women in Grenada / produced by Sue Supriano and Roxanne Merryfield

    Women in Grenada describe their lives since the revolution in that country in 1979. In this program, we hear about the women’s cooperatives, the National Women’s Organization, education, health care, sexism, and the role of women in the country. Includes Michelle Gibbs, an American woman living and working in Grenada; Phyllis Coard, president, National Women’s…

  • A Swedish social democrat / Birgitta Dahl interviewed by Sue Supriano

    Birgitta Dahl, a social democrat and member of the Swedish Parliament for 13 years; interviewed by Sue Supriano. On making men equal to women in Sweden; the drive for humanizing society; the experience of child rearing. Recorded at the First International Conference in Solidarity with Grenada, November 1981. Previously cataloged as AZ0642.

  • Health and women in Grenada / produced by Sue Supriano

    The 1979 revolution in Grenada brought new leadership to the country and many improvements in quality of life there. Sue Supriano, KPFA, talks with Khandi Ahlene (sp?), head of the nutrition program in the Ministry of Health in Grenada about the health care delivery system there, women’s involvement with that system, the nutrition problems in…

  • Women In Arms / Victoria Schultz interviewed by Norma Smith

    Interview with Victoria Schultz film-maker regarding her film “Women In Arms” about the Nicaraguan revolution, beginning with the general strike in June 1979 and culminating on July 17, 1979 with the overthrow of the Samosa family dictatorship. Schultz visited the KPFA studios in February 1981 to talk with Mariah Gallardon and Norma Smith about her…

  • National women’s organization of Nicaragua / Ivonne Siu interviewed by Norma Smith

    AMNLAE is the Asociación de Mujeres Nicaragüenes Luisa Amanda Espinoza, also known as the Luisa Amanda Espinoza Association of Nicaraguan Women. Ivonne Siu, a member of AMNLAE’s commission on international relations, worked with the Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional doing support work and communications, carrying messages and transporting soldiers and other Sandanists. Norma Smith interviewed…

  • Women on the global assembly line / produced by Mary Sinclair and Maggie Geddes

    This half-hour documentary focuses on a dual theme: the increasingly internationalized manufacturing strategy of multinational corporations, especially in Mexico and Hong Kong, and their equally strategic employment of women, both here and in the Third World. Explores why they often hire women, especially minority women, and what working conditions are like for women working on…

  • Rosie, the red riveter / William Mandel.

    Inspired by viewing the documentary The Life And Times Of Rosie The Riveter, Mandel explores the topics of women in the workforce, women in typically male-filled jobs, and unions, contrasting the status of women in the United States with that of women in the Soviet Union. Linking of fight for women’s rights in the work…

  • A Black Russian woman / with William Mandel

    William Mandel and his wife conduct an interview in English with Dr. Lily Golden-Hanga, a Black Russian woman, born in Soviet Central Asia of United States parentage. Dr. Golden-Hanga was married to the first premier of Zanzibar, who was later killed in a coup in his country. Dr. Golden-Hanga did her Ph.D. in Moscow on…

  • Interview with Ukranian woman manager / William Mandel

    23rd Annual International Women’s Day Broadcast in this series. Translated interview (English on one stereo track Russian on the other, balance makes English louder and clearer over Russian on sets without speaker control) with Svetlana Ivanovna, a 42-year-old female manager of clothing factory with 3800 workers in Ukraine (Slavic ethnic republic of USSR). Her father…