American Women — Violence against women

  • Rape : the victim as suspect / produced by Susan Scheftel and Gail Boehm.

    A documentary examining the mythology surrounding rape and its effect upon the social, medical and legal treatment of rape victims. Includes interviews with victims, attorneys, and organizations founded to combat the problem of rape. The first part of the program deals with the problems that rape victims encounter when they report their rape and attempt…

  • Witches hex / produced by Karla Tonella

    A sound portrait, including in-studio interviews with Z. Budapest regarding the history and meaning of hexing in the United States, and actualities from the hexing ritual. Over thirty witches gathered on Mount Tamalpais to perform a ritual hexing on the man who murdered several people in this recreation area. The ritual was led by Z…

  • Feminist perspective on pornography / produced by Karla Tonella.

    A panel discussion about pornography and eroticism, its connection to the left, racial stereotypes in pornography, First Amendment rights, and pornography’s effect on women’s self-image. The panelists are Sabrina Sojourner (moderator); Kathleen Barry, sociologist and author of “Female Sexual Slavery”; Valerie Miner, journalist and lecturer at U.C. Berkeley; Margaret Sloan (aka Sloan-Hunter, b. 1947 –…