American Women — International women

  • Dialogue in Nairobi / Sylvia Borren; produced by Helene Rosenbluth.

    In July 1985, more than 14,000 women gathered in Nairobi, Kenya for the UN’s Third World Conference on Women, which marked the end of the Decade for Women. The conference marked a decided evolution from the 1975 International Women’s Conference in Mexico City, which was dominated by middle-class white women. Sylvia Borren of the International…

  • Women and the world in the 1980s: April 2, 1982

    Episode from April 2, 1982. Danielle Paul interviews Professor Donald Keene about Japanese poet and novelist Murasaki Shikibu (c. 973 or 978 – c. 1014 or 1031) , a.k.a. Lady Murasaki. Program includes readings of her work. Produced by Eileen Zalisk.

  • Women and the world in the 1980s: July 2, 1982

    Blanche Cook interviews Marilyn Young, professor of history at New York University and co-author of Transforming Russia and China: Revolutionary Struggle in the 20th Century (Oxford University Press, 1980), about women in China.

  • Women and the world in the 1980s: October 22, 1982-Author Elizabeth Wilson

    Episode from October 22, 1982. Blanche Wiesen Cook interviews Elizabeth Wilson, feminist theorist and lecturer on social policy in London and author of Women and the Welfare State (Tavistock, 1977) and Only Halfway to Paradise: Women in Postwar Britain, 1945-1968 (Tavistock, 1980) and Mirror Writing: An Autobiography (Virago Press, 1982).

  • Women and the world in the 1980s: Grenada in 1983

    Blanche Wiesen Cook speaks with poet and novelist Audre Lorde (1934-1992) and Zala Chandler from the Coalition of Concerned Black Women on the recent US-led invasion of Grenada. Lorde reads an excerpt from Zami: A New Spelling of My Name – A Biomythography (Crossing Press, 1983, repress).

  • Report back from Copenhagen

    Tapes edited and selected from “Report back from Copenhagen,” an event for women to report back from the the mid-decade World Conference of the United Nations Decade for Women, which took place in Copenhagen in September 1980. The event was sponsored by Women for Racial and Economic Equality (WREE). Speakers include Walteen Grady, president of…

  • Everywomanspace: September 6, 1982-Angela Gilliam hosts

    Aircheck of September 6, 1982 program of Everywomanspace, hosted by Angela Gilliam. The theme of the evening is Third World women and women’s work. Interview with Ona Jirira, economics student from Zimbabwe. Features listener phone calls.

  • Black feminism

    Program opens with a dialogue about the Women’s movement between Tendai Chitoza[sp?] of Zimbabwe and Donna Allegra. Next Donna Allegra talks with with Helen Toppins, one of the co-coordinators of the Black Feminist Network and Lori Sharpe, one of the co-founders of the Black Feminist Network about Tendai and feminism in the Third World. No…

  • Women in Chile / Batya Weinbaum and Mishy Lesser ; interviewed by Viv Sutherland

    Batya Wienbaum and Mishy Lesser, Chilean specialists, discuss the conditions which led to one of the most brutal overthrows in Latin American history, describing the large role upper-class Chilean women played, the economic decline, the part the United States played in collaborating directly with Chilean reactionaries and finally the broad movement to free political prisoners…

  • The causes of Francis Wright (Episode 1 of 6)

    The first in a series of six episodes on important women in American history presented by historian Gerda Lerner. Francis Wright D’Arusmont (September 6, 1795 – December 13, 1852), widely known as Fanny Wright, was an intellectual pioneer, abolitionist, lecturer, the first women traveler to write an account in the U.S., and the first women…