American Women — Men’s commentary and experiences

  • Women in Nazi Germany

    Carlos Hagen has dedicated this program to the subject of the concept and role of woman in Nazi Germany. Through a number of articles, statements, and musical and sound illustrations — some of them very rare — Carlos Hagen presents a fascinating picture of how woman and her role and duties were regarded in the…

  • Gay Liberation’s Natural Ally : Of Course, Women’s Lib / Jim Rankin ; interviewed by Cy Schoenfeld.

    KPFA commentator Cy Schoenfeld interviews Jim “Elijah” Rankin, San Francisco Gay Liberation activist, who analyzes the gradual developments in the gay movement to its newest level of involvement with the Women’s movement. Contains sensitive language.

  • How to do your own divorce / Charles E. Sherman ; interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson.

    Attorney Charles E. Sherman, better known as Ed Sherman, author of the book “How to do your own divorce in California” (Occidental, CA: Nolo Press, 1972), talks to Elsa Knight Thompson. Sherman advises not representing yourself in a divorce case, and discusses legal fees, divorce rates, and religious versus legal interpretations of divorce law. Also…

  • Impotence and frigidity : is there a cure? / Earle Marsh and Alex Finkle.

    A rebroadcast of the Medical Radio Conference which was broadcast live on KPFA on March 5, 1968 from the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco (UCMCSF) and re-aired due to popular demand. The topic is sexual dysfunction as it affects men and women. The speakers are Dr. Earle M. Marsh, assistant clinical professor…

  • The call girl / Dr. Harold Greenwald

    Dr. Harold Greenwald, author of The Call Girl: A Social and Psychoanalytic Study (Ballantine), discusses the modern form prostitution takes in the United States, and its relation to the general moral aspect of the nation. Recorded in the studios of WBAI in 1960. Broadcast on WBAI and KPFA in 1961 and 1962.

  • A new look at abortion / W.J. Bryan Henrie.

    Dr. William Jennings Bryan Henrie (1896-1972), a country doctor turned abortion rights activist after being convicted in 1962 for performing abortions, speaks at the Conference on Abortion and Human Rights on January 9, 1966 in San Francisco under the auspices of the Society for Humane Abortion. Henrie calls for a more liberal view toward abortions,…

  • A condemnation of sociobiology / Dr. Seymour Washburn ; interviewed by Laurie Garrett.

    Dr. Seymour Washburn, professor of anthropology at University of California, Berkeley, attacks the field of sociobiology. Much of the speech focuses on a critique of E.O. Wilson of Harvard University, the chief proponent of the field of sociobiology, who wields evolutionary arguments to support the ascription of genetic bases to human behaviors. This approach has…