American Women — Radical Feminism

  • San Francisco women’s liberation media project (Episode 3)

    The third collage, produced by the San Francisco Women’s Liberation Media Project, to further the struggle for women’s liberation. Includes brief segments concerning the treatment of Black Panther Peggy Hudgins in jail; the Catholic Church’s filling of convents with peasant girls from poor countries; the mistreatment of striking women employees at Safeway during the grape…

  • San Francisco women’s liberation media project (Episode 1)

    Collage of music and sound, prepared by the Women’s Liberation Media Project, designed to present some news about, and viewpoints of, the women’s liberation movement. The program was previously broadcast over KSAN-FM. Note: obscenity-contains one “shi%” which is marked on tape.

  • A Retrospective on radical feminism / produced by Moira Rankin and Deborah George.

    A documentary that looks at the development of ideas that shaped the radical women’s movement, mainly focusing on the movement in the 1970s. Includes bits of movie soundtracks, speeches and interviews with the women who made history. Topics covered in the program are women and labor unions in the early 20th century, the return to…

  • Tribute to Barbara Nestor by her daughter Dorothy Healey

    This program is Dorothy Healey’s personal tribute to her mother Barbara Bass Nestor, who died November 23, 1979 at the age of 95 (quickly, of a heart attack). Includes the broadcast of a September 1974 aircheck of Dorothy’s interview of her mother when she was 90 (33 min.) The songs heard at end of interview…

  • Socialist feminist theory : third world panel / produced by Bonnie Bellow (Episode 2)

    The Third World Panel from a series on Socialist Feminist Theory recorded at the first national Socialist Feminist Conference at Antioch College, July 4, 1975. The speakers are Marietta(sp?) of the Latin Women’s Collective of New York City who issues a statement collectively prepared by the Puerto Rican community; Bayyinah Shabazz, from the Youth Against…

  • New York Radical Feminists’ Marriage speak-out

    In February 1973, the New York Radical Feminists held a marriage conference which they called “the Marriage Speak Out.” This program is excerpts from that conference, with talks by women on their changing consciousness about their marriages – many of which ended in divorce. From the folio: “Very personal, non- judgmental style of speaking by…

  • Les Guérillères / by Monique Wittig.

    A radio adaptation of Monique Wittig’s surrealistic drama about militant feminist consciousness transformed into action. The play imagines a literal battle of the sexes in which women, having taken up arms, triumph against an army of men. Contains recorded music. Adapted from an English translation of “Les Guérillères”, trans. David Le Vay (Boston, MA: Beacon…

  • Political positions on sex / moderated by Kay Lindsey.

    Anne Koedt, Lila Karp, Kate Millett, and Roxanne Dunbar (Ortiz) discuss sexuality and possible alternatives for women with moderator Kate Lindsey. Topics include the sexual revolution, the historical denial of the female orgasm, and how women are expected to submit to male desires.

  • The Fire of female fury / Mary Daly.

    Mary Daly (October 16, 1928 – January 3, 2010), one of the most important figures in contemporary feminist theory and author of “Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism” published in 1978; “Beyond God The Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women’s Liberation,” 1973; and “The Church and The Second Sex,” 1968– all published by Beacon Press.…

  • Violent use of female images in the media / Andrea Dworkin

    Women Against Violence in Pornography & Media (WAVPM), a feminist group formed in 1977, organized the Feminist Perspective on Pornography Conference in San Francisco in November 1978. At the conclusion of this conference, organizers and attendees staged the first Take Back The Night march, protesting rape and the violent use of female images in the…