American Women — Parenting and children

  • I remember Mama

    Collage of interviews with women talking about mothering. Recorded and broadcast: May 9, 1982. Produced by Marsha Steinberg and Suzi Weissman.

  • What’s happening to the family?

    WHAT’S HAPPENING TO THE FAMILY : Produced by WBAI and Dave Metzger. Recorded on January 30 1978. CONTENT: Dave Metzger hosts Rosalind P. Petchesky (b. 1942), a Women’s Studies and Political Science professor at Ramapo College, Ellen Ross, a professor of European History and Women’s Studies at Ramapo College, and Ruth Meyerowitz, a professor of…

  • Street Walking Blues

    Iris De La Cruz (1954?-1991), former prostitute and organizer for PONY – Prostitutes of New York, interviews her 10-year old daughter Melissa about her feelings around Iris’s work. Iris describes being a girl scout leader and Melissa takes questions from callers. STREET WALKIN BLUES : Produced by WBAI. Recorded on July 2, 1980. Broadcast on…

  • Consciousness raising-WBAI (Episode 3 of 4): Friendship and loneliness

    Consciousness-raising: An examination of women’s issues. This discussion focuses on the lack of friendships and loneliness the participants experienced when in their unhappy marriages. The participants were all ex-wives or separated wives. The program was broadcast ca. October 1971 through April 1972. Recording ends abruptly.

  • The true believers

    Discussion of the parallel experiences of women who grew up in various ideologies. Guests are Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, who grew up a Jehovah’s Witness; Brett Harvey Vuolo, a Catholic who spent a period of time in a convent; Vivian Gornik, who grew up in a leftist, progressive home; and Laura Scanlon, who grew up Italian…

  • Freedom of choice: a woman’s world – marriage revisited / Dr. Gail Fullerton

    Dr. Gail Putney Fullerton, author and Professor of Sociology at San Jose State College, delivered this talk to an audience at the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco on October 9, 1969. Fullerton says she was asked to speak on “marriage revisited”, including the economic and domestic functions of marriage from frontier time…

  • Mother and motherhood

    In this program, Carlos Hagen presents a brief survey of the concept of mother and motherhood throughout many periods, styles and cultures. Included are a number of songs and poems that, although originating in many varied cultures and periods, convey the universality of the feelings inspired by mother and motherhood. Produced by Carlos Hagen.

  • Post Civil War girls and the American nightmare / Cynthia Wolff (Program 6 of 6)

    Cynthia Wolff, Associate Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, takes a look at the female child as a literary figure in Post Civil War America. She focuses on the portraits of female children in early American literature, the wide appeal and popularity of these noted literary heroines, and the national need they fulfilled.…

  • Midwives / interviews by Viv Sutherland.

    Viv Sutherland interviews three midwives on their work and its benefits to women. The guests are Judy Carison, Jacobi Hospital, Bronx and Washington Heights Family Planning Clinic; Mary Dowd, Roosevelt Hospital; and Naomi Meyer, Martland Hospital, Newark, NJ.

  • Texas texts / produced by Patricia Meredith

    Documentary examining hearings in Austin at the State Board of Education concerning sexism in children’s textbooks. Program is comprised of interviews, music, and tapes on the hearings. The purposes of the hearing were to draw attention to the fact that sexism is in textbooks, and that the state of Texas is the largest buyer of…