American Women — International women

  • Museum of Azerbaijani Literature and Arts / produced by William Mandel

    Interview, done in Baku, Azerbaijan, on shore of Caspian Sea, September 1977, with two women: first the director of block-square Museum of Azerbaijani Literature and Arts, second a museum tour guide and director of a TV show on the arts. The former is the daughter of school teachers who were the first generation of educated…

  • Women in early Ireland : an interview / with Sharon Devlin ; produced by Padraigin McGillicuddy

    This recording is an interview Padraigin McGillicuddy conducted with Sharon Devlin concerning the role of women in early Celtic societies. Includes discussions of relative equality, marriage customs, fosterage, taboos as mind control, culture in general, the tribal systems, similarities to native American Indian structures, and religions. RECORDED: at Devlin’s home. BROADCAST: KPFA, 17 March 1977.…

  • Women in the colonies. (Episode 2 of 3)

    “Pa’lante” is a radio series by the Young Lords organization, an organization of activists dedicated to human liberation and the independence of Puerto Rico. This episode features women members of the Young Lords organization–Myrna Martinez, Iris Benitez, Iris Morales-Luciano, and Denise Oliver, discussing the social problems they face living in New York City.

  • Women dissidents and Ms. magazine / Tanya and William Mandel

    On Ms. magazine and womens’ conditions in the Soviet Union. Mandel begins the program by introducing controversy over the book Women In Soviet Society by Professor Gail Lapidus of University of California Berkeley and the articles by dissenter women who had been expelled by the Soviet Union, which appeared in the November issue of Ms.…

  • Open every eye / produced by Padraigin McGillicuddy

    This is a documentary/collage on Ireland, quick scan past and present, from 1169 to the Easter Uprising of 1916, with music, poetry, actualities from the Irish Republican Army, the Civil Rights Association, and the women’s movement, an analysis of the present society in the ‘free’ South, then a look at the situation in the North.…

  • Cuba and gays in Cuba : part two, 1977 / produced by the Fruit Punch Collective

    Interview with Ricardo Galvon and Kathleen O’Connell, two members of the Venceremos Brigade to Cuba who relate their experiences and the role of gays in Cuban society, based on their six-week stay in Cuba in Sprint 1977. The Vanceremos Brigade was begun in 1969, in which people from all over the world go in groups…

  • Cuba and gays in Cuba : part one, 1976 / produced by the Fruit Punch Collective

    Andy interviews Rebecca and Carlos, who have just returned from Cuba where they worked with Cubans and other North Americans with the Venceremos Brigade, about their experiences in Cuba’s three larges cities, the oppression of gays in Cuba, and on the changing roles of men and women in Cuba. This is part one of the…

  • International women, past and present / produced by Pearl Skotnes.

    A documentary celebrating the history of women in political struggle: Clara Zetkin, Rosa Luxemburg, Alexandra Kollontai, La Pasionara (Dolores Ibárruri), women in the French Revolution, and South African women under apartheid. Music by Miriam Makeba, Nina Simone, and Joan Baez. Includes a performance of the African National Anthem (N’Kosi Sikelel’ iAfrika) sung by African people.…

  • Exerpt from Shoulder to shoulder / Midge McKenzie interviewed by Beverly Polokoff

    Midge MacKenzie, producer of the BBC documentary on women’s sufferage in England, “Shoulder to Shoulder,” compares the women’s rights movements in Britain and America. Interviewed by Beverly Polokoff. Originally produced for “Holding up more than half the sky.” Produced by the KPFK Women’s Coalition. This recording is just an excerpt from the complete 1 hour…

  • Older men, older women / Lucy Forrest (April 22, 1980)

    This program, part of KPFA’s regular series for and about the elderly, is an interview by Harry Sheer and Teddy Lewis with Lucy Forrest. Forrest recently returned from a visit to Vietnam and Cambodia (Kampuchea). She went to those two countries as a representative of both the International League for Peace and Freedom, and the…