American Women — Law

  • Interview with attorney Susan McGreivy on the Norton Sound lesbian purges from the Navy

    Susan McGreivy, attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union, discusses the present state of the Norton Sound 8 case, where eight women were purged from the United States Navy for homosexuality. McGreivy talks about the evidence being presented against the women in the case as insubstantial and the result of jealousy, as well as the…

  • Majority report, December 2, 1982: Tina Fishman, Bay Area women in music

    Reyna Cowan and Pam Scola host Majority Report, December 2, 1982. Segments: 1. News wrap-up — 2. Marci Lockwood reports on the case of Tina Fishman, member of the Revolutionary Communist Party who lost custody of her daughter to her ex-husband for what she maintains are her political beliefs; features interviews with Fishman and Paul…

  • Women and power : a look at legal issues and legislation affecting women / Carol Burris.

    The speaker this week on Five-College Forum, Carol Burris, a prominent lobbyist for women’s rights and a legislative expert in the field, president of the Women’s Lobby, a Washington, D.C. lobbying group, she’s also coordinator of the NOW task force on the Equal Rights Amendment, and a member of the national and the D.C. women’s…

  • Voices from within: interviews with women serving long-term sentences in prison

    Interviews with women serving long-term sentences at the New York State Correctional Facility at Bedford Hills, and are part of the group Long-termers Committee of the New York State Correctional Facility at Bedford Hills. They are fighting for Assembly Bill A 7017A and Senate Bill S5036A, legislation which would make it possible for prisoners serving…

  • Women’s abortion coalition.

    A panel discussion on abortion with members of the Women’s Abortion Coalition (WAC), a Bay Area group composed of women from various women’s groups. The group discusses their efforts to liberalize abortion laws, the implications of the People v. Barksdale decision, the putative effects of abortion law repeal, abortion techniques, contraception, sterilization, and the WAC’s…

  • Title IX / produced by Carolyn Berger.

    Carolyn Berger reports on the content and meaning of federal legislation prohibiting discrimination against people because of sex in federally funded education programs. The first reel of the program is a documentary about Title IX; interviewed for the documentary are Walter Norwood, Fair Employment Coordinator for LA City Schools; Jean Tavlin, first-grade teacher in Los…

  • Street politics / produced by Bette Fried.

    Examination of a lawsuit brought by Sydney Pendleton, a member of Columbia Women’s Liberation, against Edouard Salnave for harassing her with obscene and threatening language. Fried interviews both Pendleton and Salnave for their points of view. Pendleton is joined by Harriet Zellner, also a member of Columbia Women’s Liberation, during her interview.

  • Women in chains

    Debra Smith, Tousha Wiley, Dolores Scott and Johnny Morris from the Harriet Tubman Prison Movement discuss the situation of women in prison. The Harriet Tubman Prison Movement is a national movement of Blacks, Chicanos, Puerto Ricans, Asians and Native Americans who are mobilizing support on the outside to aid Blacks and all minority prisoners on…

  • Law : the laggard (Episode 12 of 12)

    Talk on the failure of the legal system to keep pace with social change in America by Nancy Reeves, attorney and writer-lecturer on the status of women. Reeves argues that mummified legal systems that preserve antiquated laws distort women’s lives and that women’s liberation should aim to sweep these laws away, and that the erosion…

  • Pornography and the law / produced by Catherine Stifter.

    A panel concerning pornography and the law from the ACLU conference Should Government Interfere With Your Sex Life?, Los Angeles, October 17, 1981 (venue unknown). Panelists are David M. Brown, attorney in private practice with the firm Brown, Weston & Sarno; Ron Smith of Hustler; Lynn Magnandonovan of the Women’s Equal Rights Legal Defense and…