American Women — Women’s history

  • The Affair of Gabrielle Russier / read by Miriam Bjerre and Barbara Morris Freed.

    The story and letters of the French school teacher, Gabrielle Russier, who committed suicide after being sentenced for having an affair with one of her younger students during the turmoil of May 1968. Based on the publication by Alfred Knopf, edited from the introduction by Mavis Gallant, and read by Miriam Bjerre and Barbara Morris…

  • The diary of Mary Richardson Walker / produced by Brett Vuolo.

    Readings from “The Diary of Mary Richardson Walker.” The diary was read by Donna Dooley, and narrated and produced by Brett Vuolo. Technical production by Peter Zanger. The music was provided by the Choir of the First Presbyterian Church of Brooklyn, recorded by David Lerner. Part one covers the courtship and marriage of Mary and…

  • American women in history / Isabel Welsh ; interviewed by Judy Chicago.

    Isabel Welsh, political scientist at UC Berkeley who was involved in the lawsuit against the school for their discrimination against women, and artist Judy Chicago discuss the contribution of various women to American history and feminist political thought. Among the women discussed are Ann Hutchinson, Abigail Adams, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone,…

  • Women in Nazi Germany

    Carlos Hagen has dedicated this program to the subject of the concept and role of woman in Nazi Germany. Through a number of articles, statements, and musical and sound illustrations — some of them very rare — Carlos Hagen presents a fascinating picture of how woman and her role and duties were regarded in the…

  • Lone heart mountain

    A reading of Lone Heart Mountain (Los Angeles, 1972), an autobiographical account by American artist Estelle Peck Ishigo (1899 – 1990) of her experience in the Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Wyoming during WWII. Read by Maureen McIlroy in three parts: reel one contains the chapters Prologue, Introduction, Uprooting, Departure, and Lone Heart Mountain; reel…

  • Elizabethan poetry (Episode 10 of 10)

    The final program in the series presents the real songs of the time — readings of poetry and sonnets by Queen Elizabeth I, Sir Walter Raleigh, Edmund Spenser and others. Songs and poems heard and recited include How should I your true-love know by Alfred Deller (Ophelia’s song from Shakespeare’s Hamlet), Blame not my lute…

  • Forgotten women in American history (Series record)

    Series record for six talks on important women in American history. r.1. Frances Wright D’Arusmont (28 min.) — r.2. The Prudence Crandall Case of 1833 (Missing) — r.3. Angelina and Sarah Grimke (30 min.) — r.4. Dorothea Dix (37 min.) — r.5. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony (28 min.) — r.6. Frances Willard’s…

  • Suffrage victory (Episode 13 of 14)

    On the battle for women’s suffrage. Contains readings of excerpts from Sinclair Lewis’ Anne Vickers (1932) and a contemporary account of the Night of Terror, November 14, 1917, in which a group of suffragists, including Alice Paul, were brutalized by guards in front of the Occaquan Workhouse in Washington, D.C. This is the thirteenth episode…

  • Panel discussion on women (Episode 14 of 14)

    Discussion of the woman’s struggle for social equality. Panelists include Mark Shorer, English literature professor at the University of California; Ethel Albert (1918-1989), anthropologist; Dr. Anna Maenchen, Berkeley psychiatrist; Peter Odegard, professor of political science at the University of California; Miriam Allen DeFord, writer; and Virginia Maynard, writer and director of “The American woman” series.…

  • Liberty, equality, and fraternity (Episode 3 of 14)

    On women’s view of their role in Colonial life. Contains dramatic readings of Benjamin Franklin’s “The Speech of Polly Baker,” excerpts from the letters of Abigail Adams, and Charles Brockden Brown’s “Alcuin: a Dialogue.” Episode three of the 14-episode series produced and broadcast on KPFA by Virginia Maynard and Charles Levy from 1958 to 1959.…