American Women — International women

  • Madame Nhu at the University of California

    MADAME NHU AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA. Trần Lệ Xuân (22 August 1924 – 24 April 2011), popularly known as Madame Nhu, wife of South Vietnamese Premier and de facto First Lady of South Vietnam from 1955 to 1963, speaks to students at U.C. Berkeley. In this recording, we hear an introduction from Professor Robert…

  • Women for peace at Geneva / produced by Elsa Knight Thompson

    Elsa Knight Thompson interviews three Bay Area women who have just returned from the disarmament conference in Geneva. They were part of a group of 50 American women who went to the disarmament conference under the auspices of Women For Peace to urge the 17 nations assembled to take positive steps toward world peace. 1.…

  • Young Soviet woman interviewed by William Mandel

    Unstructured interview with a 16 year-old Soviet Central Asian (Goolia Mirzaharova or possibly Gulia Muzafarova) who talks of her life, her wishes for children elsewhere in the world, and her attitude toward American Blacks. Produced by William Mandel. The Russian-language interview plays in the right channel, while Mandel does a real-time English translation in the…

  • Kyrgyz woman interviewed by William Mandel

    Rosa, a Kyrgyz woman in her thirties, describes how her schoolteacher mother managed to raise 12 children, details the government’s assistance, the fact that several brothers and sisters, including herself, are college graduates, and answers the typically American question of William Mandel and his wife Tania about whether so many kids don’t make a woman…

  • Woman’s magazine editor interviewed by William Mandel

    1. Mandel bawls out audience for its behavior the previous week* (Duration 17 minutes) 2. Translated interview with editor of Ukrainian women’s magazine Radianska Zhinka (which means Soviet Woman in Ukrainian) in USSR, who holds a PhD. This portion has the Russian playing in the right channel, while Mandel translates into English in the left…

  • Income trend in the Soviet Union ; Women in the Soviet Union / William Mandel

    Soviet Press and Periodicals. Regular weekly show on KPFA, hosted by top Soviet Analyst William Mandel. Position of women in medical science is highlighted. Contains phone-ins. Mandel states it is his 20th annual program for International Woman’s Day. Program begins with an answer to the last week’s question regarding the Soviet income spread. (From label)…

  • Moldavia minority / produced by William Mandel

    Interview done in U.S.S.R. in September 1977, with Maria Vasilievna Marievich, a female anthropologist of a Turkic-speaking tribal minority the Gagauz, living in Soviet republic, Moldavia, bordering Romania. She is the assistant head of the anthropology sector of the Academy of Sciences of Moldavia, which at the time, was in the Republic of the Soviet…

  • Shigeko Sasamori addresses Physicians for Social Responsibility.

    Shigeko Sasamori, a “Hiroshima Maiden” who survived the dropping of the atomic bomb during WWII, discusses her disfigurement, how Mr. Norman Cousins brought her and twenty five other young women to the U.S. in 1955 for plastic surgery, and on her current life as a nurse and an ambassador. Talk delivered at the Physicians for…

  • Women unbound

    Helene Rosenbluth and Eloise Klein Healy visited the People’s Republic of China in April 1982. This program is produced from interviews they did with women in Shanghai, Nanjing, Xi’an and Beijing (Peking) about the changing lives of women in modern China. The interviews are bilingual and translated through an interpreter. The first reel of this…

  • Nicaragua / Mona Field interviewed by Dorothy Healey

    Mona Field shares her observations from a visit to Nicaragua from July through August, 1980 for the first anniversary of the Sandinist (FSLN) overthrow of the Somoza government. Field describes the brutality of Somoza’s National Guard, the optimism of the Nicaraguan people after the revolution, and the impact of Reagan’s election on the Caribbean and…