American Women — International women

  • Women to women : European feminists / Bonnie Charles Bluh.

    Viv Sutherland interviews Bonnie Charles Bluh, author of “Women to Women: European Feminists,” about the Women’s movement in Europe.

  • Women’s liberation in China / Diane Feeley

    Diane Feeley, coordinator of National Organization for Women, New York (NOW-NY)’s Women in the Arts Committee, lectures on the struggle of Chinese women for liberation from their traditional subservient roles. She traces the history of women’s labor unions and self-defense groups, and the effect of the 1949 revolution on ending such barbaric practices as slavery,…

  • Women in Russia / Diane Feeley.

    Lecturing before a class at the National Organization for Women (NOW) offices in New York, Diane Feeley discusses the role of women in Russian history. She relates the early oppression of women in old Russia, when women were nothing more than chattels to their husbands. She then describes the major feminist reforms of the early…

  • The Israeli women’s movement: Naomi Sharron / produced by Bonnie Bellow.

    Bonnie Bellow talks with Naomi Sharron of the Israeli women’s group Women for a New Society (Nashim l’ma’an chevrah m’khudeshet, whose acronym, NILAK-HEM, means “We will fight”) during her visit to Israel in October 1973. They talk about the specific problems confronting Israeli women and about the feelings of Israeli women about the Arab-Israeli War.…

  • Women and childcare in China / Ruth Sidel.

    A talk by Ruth Sidel, author of “Women and Child Care in China: A Firsthand Report,” published by Hill & Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux. She discusses the dimensions, variety and philosophy of child care in China, and answers questions from the audience. Recorded in 1973 as an episode of Nanette Rainone’s…

  • The Household worker and the employment agency / produced by Bonnie Bellow.

    Part of a series entitled “The Household Worker” that investigates the problems faced by household workers (broadcast on WBAI in December 1972). This episode reports on employment agencies that are currently bringing women from the Caribbean Islands to work as domestic workers for low wages and few benefits. Includes interviews with Irene Lord, former household…

  • The Finnish woman

    Program from Radio Finland. Host Judy Carr takes a look at Finnish fashion, chats with popular Finnish singer Ritva Oksanen, and talks about the Finnish woman who was recently appointed assistant secretary general of the United Nations.

  • Dorothy Healey on Rosa Luxemburg

    Activist Dorothy Healey (1914-2006) offers an exploration of the revolutionary activities and philosophy of Rosa Luxemburg, the extraordinary German Jewish Communist leader.

  • Maud Gonne

    An original dramatic performance based on the life of Maud Gonne, actress, revolutionary and extravagant muse who haunted the poetry of William Butler Yeats. Written and produced by Barbara Kraft. Music by William Kraft, featuring a song sung by Victoria Bond. Featuring Julie Adams as Maud Gonne, Lee Bergere as William Butler Yeats, Judith Chaikin…

  • Lilian Westphal reads selections from European literature

    The distinguished Swiss actress in a program of readings in German and English. Miss Westphal presents first a selection of poems from Christian Morgenstern’s Gallows Songs, and secondly, a selection from Romulus, the Great by Friedrich Durrenmatt. This program was recorded at KPFA during Miss Westphal’s recent tour through the United States and is presented…