American Women — Violence against women

  • Sojourn Shelter for Battered Women

    This program was produced to be broadcast during Domestic Violence Awareness Week. This interview with Dorothy Hudson of the Sojourn Shelter for battered women, in Los Angeles, takes up some of the issues. Interview conducted and program produced by Jeannie Pool.

  • Take Back the Night march featuring a speech by Andrea Dworkin

    Actuality of the Women Take Back the Night march held in Los Angeles on April 19, 1980. Contains a speech by feminist activist Andrea Dworkin (1946-1995), a performance by the Los Angeles Women’s Chorus and the Great American Yankee Freedom Band of Los Angeles perform, interviews with participants and actualities from the crowd.

  • Sexual assault / produced by Sophie’s Parlor Media Collective.

    On sexism, racism and rape; focus on the cases of Inez Garcia and Joan Little. Host Del Dobbins interviews two black women participants from the Washington Conference on Sexual Assault, held in D.C. in 1977. They are Nkenge Toure, Director, and Michelle Plate, Counselor at the D.C. Rape Crisis Center. They discuss the unique issues…

  • The new rape treatment

    An examination of the effect of changes in the rape law and changes in the policies of prosecutors and police in the treatment of rape victims. Includes interviews with police and a rape victim. Produced by Chris Lauterbach. Needs outro and production credits.

  • Against our will / Susan Brownmiller.

    A talk by Susan Brownmiller, journalist and author of “Against Our Will,” on the historical and political implications of rape. Rape is sanctioned by foundations of modern law, and has been a feature of warfare from ancient times through Vietnam, and Brownmiller argues that rape is not an aberration, but a logical outcome of attitudes…

  • Susan Brownmiller on writing and promoting.

    An interview with Susan Brownmiller, who spent four years writing her book Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape. She felt her mission in the feminist movement, after hearing women speaking openly about their rapes, was to compile the history of rape in a sound and rational analysis. She feels “the threat of rape is…

  • Testimony of a mother of a desaparecido / produced and read by Paz Cohen.

    Reading of the deposition of Oriana Sánchez Romero, mother of university student Maria Isabel Beltrán Sánchez, who was arrested in Chile on December 18, 1973, tortured and killed by military police, and whom the junta said had fled to Argentina with other extremists. The first three minutes provide historical background and context of missing persons…

  • House Select Committee on Crime : testimony of Lt. Julia Tucker of New York Police Dept.

    On April 9th, 1973, the House Select Committee on Crime, chaired by Congressman Claude Pepper, began a series of hearings on street crime and the street level response. In its first day of hearings, the Committee heard testimony from officials from the New York City police department, including Lieutenant Julia Tucker, who has a seven-woman…

  • The People vs. Alma Andrews / produced by Sheila McAleenan.

    This program examines the case of Alma Andrews, a Black woman and a nurse, charged with first-degree murder in San Francisco after defending herself against a Muni driver who attacked her with a razor in an apparent rape attempt. Contains interviews with Andrews herself; James McCready, Andrews’ defense attorney; Dennis Chamberlain, the jury foreman; Pierre…

  • Germaine Greer in Berkeley.

    Germaine Greer, author of “The Female Eunuch”, speaking at the University of California, Berkeley in a consciousness-raising session about the nature of sexual oppression in Western culture. She discusses male fantasies of rape and how sexual abuse is institutionalized in our culture through the imagery of sexuality. Contains sensitive language.