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…

  • 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.…

  • Lucretia Mott (Episode 4 of 14)

    Biographical sketch with dramatization of the life and actions of the feminist abolitionist Lucretia Mott. Contains a dramatization of James and Lucretia Mott hiding from the anti-abolition mob that burned down Philadelphia Hall in 1838 and a dramatic reading of Wendell Phillips and William Lloyd Garrison’s motions at the World Anti-Slavery Convention of 1840 in…

  • Revolution (Episode 5 of 14)

    On the beginnings of feminist organizing in the mid 19th century, with a dramatization of the first women’s rights convention and Elizabeth Cady Stanton reading a new “Declaration of Independence for Women.” Also contains readings of some of the negative newspaper coverage of the Seneca Falls Convention. This is the fifth episode of fourteen in…