American Women — Parenting and children

  • The professional, the mother, and the child: a history of child raising

    This is a recording of a paper delivered by Deirdre English at the Delaware Valley Mental Health Foundation on September 21, 1975. The paper was titled “The professional, the mother, and the child – a history of child raising,” and is “an attempt to look at some episodes to critique the role of the professional…

  • Women and the world in the 1980s: February 26, 1982

    Blanche Wiesen Cook hosts. Interview with Ruth Meyers, one of the founders of Women Strike for Peace and a child psychologist and Kathy Engel, poet, co-director of the Fund for Open Information and Accountability who is active in the Anti-Klan Network. The program begins with a call-in from Theresa Funicello of the Downtown Welfare Advocacy…

  • Women and the world in the 1980s: November 26, 1982

    Blanche Wiesen Cook interviews Lucy Gilbert, psychotherapist in private practice specializing in work with women who have experienced violence in their lives and Paula Webster, co-director of the Institute for the Study of Sex in Society and History, about their book Bound by Love: The Sweet Trap of Daughterhood (Beacon Press, 1982).

  • Everywomanspace: November 1, 1982

    Aircheck of Everywomanspace with Angela Gilliam from November 1, 1982. The guests are Sonja Dean Williams and Cecilia McCall from the group Women for Racial and Economic Equality (WREE). The theme for the evening’s discussion is childcare versus warfare. Includes listener phone calls.

  • Sexual abuse of children

    Viv Sutherland interviews Florence Rush, author of “Sexual abuse of children: the best kept secret.” Contains phone calls. Produced by Sutherland.

  • Women’s legal clinic: December 2, 1979-Child custody

    Women’s Legal Clinic aircheck. Judy Levin and Betty Levinson discuss child custody and take listener phone calls.

  • Women: “Childness” / produced by Kay Lindsey (Episode 5 of 5)

    Part five in a series of documentaries and discussions which focus upon issues of the Women’s movement, produced by Kay Lindsey. pt.5. The perspective of women as everybody’s children in society. Guests are Carol Goodman of the October 17th Movement; Brian Goldfarb, a 15-year-old student; Richard Cook, a 15-year-old student at Glen Rock Community; and…

  • The Velvet Sledgehammer: August 24, 1983 (Part 1 only)

    Production reel for the June 1, 1983 episode of The Velvet Sledgehammer, hosted and produced by Eileen Zalisk. Kathy Ann Kersey interviews Carole Seskin of the Avalon Nurses Registry about childcare options and day care services for working mothers. Eileen Zalisk interviews with Zora Zarubina (b. 1920), Professor of English and member of the Soviet…

  • Lesbian moms / produced by Kim Brown and Janet Cuddihy

    Kim Brown talks with three lesbian mothers, Betty, Cheryl, and Joann, and Gardener, her five-week-old baby. The panel have children from artificial insemination, and they talk about how they found donors, getting pregnant, what it was like being pregnant within and outside of the lesbian community, alternatives they have found to the nuclear family, the…

  • Lesbian non-mothers

    Katherine Davenport of KPFA explores the thoughts, feelings, and politics of lesbians who don’t have children. This tape is a re-broadcast from WBAI.