American Women — Men’s commentary and experiences

  • The Crippled Person / lecture and interview with Dr. Carl Faber (Episode 1 of 4)

    This is the first episode “The Crippled Person” in a four part series of lectures by Dr. Carl Faber entitled “Woman as slave.” This episode is in three parts. In part one, Dr. Faber is interviewed prior to KPFK’s presentation of the first lecture by Helene Rosenbluth, a young lesbian feminist and Roy Tuckman, male…

  • Governor Reagan’s Ladies Day address to the Commonwealth Club

    Governor Ronald Reagan’s Ladies’ Day address to the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco, delivered on June 13th, 1969. Gov. Reagan addresses the events that transpired on “Bloody Thursday” in People’s Park in Berkeley and the resulting unrest on the UC Berkeley campus, and takes questions from the press. The person who introduces him is not…

  • Viviane with the pixie face

    Story told by WBAI mail programer (who is not identified by name) about growing up in a Jewish neighborhood in Queens. He describes the response of the Jewish community to the Jewish girls who would date African American men. Viviane with the pixie face and sweet sad smile was his favorite. He believed Viviane was…

  • Lady Macbeth: moral scapegoat

    A talk by John Monteverde, associate professor of English at San Diego State College, who challenges the traditional view of Lady Macbeth as goader and prodder. This interpretation returns the focus of the play to Macbeth as tragic hero, engineer of his own downfall, and places the moral responsibility for the tragedy entirely upon Macbeth…

  • Spirituality and integrity : basis or vulnerability / by Dr. Albert E. Ross (Episode 7 of 7)

    First half of last lecture in the series. It is difficult to attain spirituality, which is not religiosity. Today ritual is substituted for experience in religion and love. Spirituality is the sum total of our inner experience. A relationship can attain such intensity that it can fill all our needs: security, love, self-esteem, and creativity.…

  • The Human connection / Ashley Montagu. (Episode 7 of 9)

    The physical anthropologist Dr. Ashley Montagu discusses his career, the importance of love in life, Hitler, women’s place, women’s intution, Jewish sensitivity, politics and muscle power, sexism, abortion, medicine, sexuality, Christianity, and destructive beliefs. Recorded at the Explorers of Humankind: First International Congress on the Bodily Arts & Sciences conference, Los Angeles, June 10, 1978.…

  • The adolescent forces that spawn masculine vulnerability / by Dr. Albert E. Ross (Episode 1 of 7)

    This is the first in a series of seven lectures by Dr. Albert E. Ross, PhD, a psychologist. In this talk, he discusses the American male’s invulnerability to his feelings and the infantile or 14 year-old model of feeling and behavior we use as a model. He compares the ways of thinking of the adolescent,…

  • Sex : the male ego / by Dr. Albert E. Ross (Episode 2 of 7, Part 1 of 2)

    In his second lecture in the series, Dr. Al Ross explores our attitudes toward sex and sexuality. Sex is learned from birth from our parents’ attitudes towards their sex and humanness which can’t be understood as separate entities. The problem is that sex problems are all personality problems, not “technique” problems. We can’t make a…

  • Marriage and fatherhood / by Dr. Albert E. Ross (Episode 3 of 7)

    In this third lecture in the series, Dr. Ross discusses the old and new concepts of the role and importance of parenthood for men and women and how they are changing; the concept of evolution in our lives and how relationships, commitment, marriage and parenthood fit into the scheme of personal evolution; the importance of…

  • Men at work / by Dr. Albert E. Ross (Episode 4 of 7)

    This is the fourth lecture in a series of seven given by Dr. Al Ross at UCLA. There is a battle between a man’s commitment to his work and to his lover. Unfortunately, most men have no conflict – the work comes first. The corporations feed on the capacity for a male to be dehumanized:…