American Women — Parenting and children

  • The challenge to women / John B. Saunders (Episode 2 of 15)

    Part 2 of KPFA’s presentation of the University of California’s Medical Center Conference “The Challenge to Women: the Biological Avalanche” held in San Francisco this year. In this recording John B. de C. M. Saunders (1907-1991), Chancellor, Professor of Anatomy, and Chair of Medical History and Bibliography at the UC Medical Center San Francisco, gives…

  • Social role and the search for identity / Mirra Komarovsky (Episode 3 of 15)

    Part 3 of KPFA’s presentation of the University of California’s Medical Center Conference “The Challenge to Women: the Biological Avalanche” held in San Francisco this year. This is Part 1 of “The Enduring and Ephemeral in Women’s Life.” In this recording Mirra Komarovsky, Ph.D (1906-1999), Professor of Sociology, Barnard College, New York, NY gives a…

  • The un-mothered woman / Ethel Albert (Episode 4 of 15)

    Part 4 of KPFA’s presentation of the University of California’s Medical Center Conference “The Challenge to Women: the Biological Avalanche” held in San Francisco this year. This is Part 2 of “The Enduring and Ephemeral in Women’s Life.” In this recording Ethel M. Albert, Ph.D. (1918-1989), Associate Professor of Speech at U.C. Berkeley presents “The…

  • Are the adults listening? / moderated by Abigail Van Buren. (Episode 3 of 3)

    This recording is the last of three panels recorded at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center’s conference “The Uncertain Quest: The Teenagers’ World” on March 22, 1964. The panel consists of teenager and adult conference participants introduced as Keith Martin, Nina Milling, Mike Music, Gayle Williams, Marvin Boxley, Dr. Robert Coles, Dr. Friedenberg…

  • The East Bay Activities Center / moderated by Elsa Knight Thompson

    The East Bay Activities Center was established as a non-profit organization in 1952 and held forth as its mission to serve emotionally disturbed children of normal intelligence between the ages of 5 and 12. This is a panel discussion on this unique Bay Area experiment in dealing with disturbed children. Elsa Knight Thompson moderates, and…

  • Informed consent / produced by Amanda Spake

    Amanda Spake from “Mother Jones” talks to Howard Rosenberg about his article “Informed Consent” about a child receiving radiation treatment. Between 1960 and 1975, 194 cancer patients were treated with high level whole body radiation at the Atomic Energy Commission’s Oakridge, Tennessee laboratory. Rosenberg describes what he learned about that research: a description of the…

  • Kyrgyz woman interviewed by William Mandel

    Rosa, a Kyrgyz woman in her thirties, describes how her schoolteacher mother managed to raise 12 children, details the government’s assistance, the fact that several brothers and sisters, including herself, are college graduates, and answers the typically American question of William Mandel and his wife Tania about whether so many kids don’t make a woman…

  • Gay and pregnant: interview with expectant lesbian mother / produced by Philip Maldari

    A gay lifestyle does not necessarily exclude parenthood. Many gay men and lesbians were parents before they came out, and today some have chosen to have children after coming out. Philip Maldari interviews an expectant lesbian mother about her feelings about family, parenting, and artificial insemination. Phil also shares his feelings about being a donor.…

  • Ourselves, our children / produced by Pearl Skotnes.

    February 14th, 1979 episode of “Holding up more than half the sky”. Segments include: a tribute to Susan B. Anthony, including a dramatization of her trial for “having voted knowingly, wrongfully, and unlawfully”; Janet Dodson interviews Ruth Bell and Joan Ditzion, members of the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective and co-authors of “Ourselves and our…

  • Growing up free / Letty Cottin Pobregin interviewed by Helene Rosenbluth

    Letty Cottin Pogrebin wrote a guide for non-sexist child-rearing, “Growing up free…raising your child in the ’80s.” In this interview with Helene Rosenbluth, Pogrebin talks about the research she did to write the book and what she found: the traditional sex role stereotyping, the economics of that stereotyping, the cultural misogyny, the sexism of women,…