American Women — International women

  • Women in India / Laura Shapiro; interviewed by Viv Sutherland.

    Viv Sutherland interviews Laura Shapiro, feminist journalist, on the status of women in India. Recording BC2718 is a duplicate of this program.

  • Women in India (Part 2 of 2)

    Viv Sutherland interviews Laura Shapiro, feminist journalist, on the status of women in India. Part two.

  • Women in France

    Interview with French feminist Danielle Sabatier, member of the National Council of Working Women, discussing the state of the French movement after ten months of Socialist government. Interview by Kathy Ann Kersey. English translation of the interview is read by Barbara Day.

  • Phumzile Zulu interviewed by Laurie Garrett

    Laurie Garrett interviews Phumzile Zulu at the 11th Annual People’s World Banquet at Goodman’s, Jack London Hall in Oakland, California, November 15, 1980. Phumile Zulu is a 23 year old South African woman living in exile in Morogoro, Tanzania. She was part of the Soweto Movement and was a prominent student leader at Zulu University…

  • Those Who Were Prostitutes from Cuban Women Now / by Margaret Randall

    A reading from the chapter “Those Who Were Prostitutes” from the oral history collection “Cuban Women Now” by historian Margaret Randall. Voices on the recording are Ingrid Sarti, Liz Peron, Isobel Lara and Andres Alegria. Produced by Frances Emley. Other notes on the box (not sure if they apply to this recording) “Open Air, Tape…

  • Composer Grażyna Bacewicz (Episode 13)

    A program exploring the work of Polish composer and violinist Grażyna Bacewicz (1909 – 1969). Presented by Susan Sailow and Virginia Kosanovic. Produced by Susan Sailow. Self contained. Contents: 1. Piano Quintet No. 1, movement 1; 2. continuity; 3. Piano Sonata no. II; 4. continuity; 5. Musique pour cordes, trompette et percussion; 6. continuity; 7.…

  • 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…

  • Women in pre-colonial Ashanti / Dr. Shirley Strickland

    In the summer of 1978, twelve women and men, scholars from all over the U.S., met in New York to participate in a seminar on cross-cultural studies of women in society. The seminar was led by Dr. Eleanor Leacock, professor of anthropology at the City University of New York, and sponsored by the National Endowment…

  • Women in the United Kingdom

    Viv Sutherland talks with professor Helen Baehr of the Center Polyclinic of London about the status of women in the United Kingdom.

  • Statements by two Northern Irish women about the current violence in their communities

    A report on the affect of military occupation on community life in Northern Ireland. Evidence of use of plastic bullets told through testimony of two women, Kathleen Stuart and Suzanne Bunting, whose son and husband were killed by bullets. Produced by Barbara Juppe.