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  • The Klan (Episode 2 of 5, Part 2 of 2)

    The second in a series of five tapes produced in 1965 by then-folio editor of WBAI, Marcia Tompkins, about her hometown of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. This program concerns the Ku Klux Klan and features actuality of a KKK rally that was taped with a hidden recorder. |This program is likely identical to BB0685B, which is titled…

  • The young people (Episode 5 of 5, Part 2 of 2)

    The fifth in a series of five tapes produced in 1965 by then-folio editor of WBAI, Marcia Tompkins, about her hometown of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. This program features interviews with young people in Tuscaloosa. |This recording was previously numbered as BB3864.09B.

  • Meg Christian and Holly Near in concert (Part 5?)

    Meg Christian and Holly Near in concert, venue unknown, November 6, 1976. Two songs are performed: 1. Sister Woman Sister – Holly vocal solo; 2. Sweet Darlin’ Woman (Diane Lindsay) – Meg on guitar and backing vocal, Holly vocal. Much of this tape is stage banter. First few minutes of recording suffers from poor audio…

  • Judy Grahn: Poetry and interview

    Laura Knowles interviews poet, writer and author Judy Grahn (1940 – ). Grahn talks about her youth in Las Cruces, New Mexico, her impetus for writing The Common Woman Poems, and her recent interest in exploring women’s history. The interview is interspersed with Grahn reading from her own books of poetry, such as She Who,…

  • About Men / Phyllis Chesler

    Phyllis Chesler (1940 – ), author and psychotherapist, is interviewed by Viv Sutherland of WBAI about her book “About Men” (1978). Chesler discusses men’s reactions to her book, explains more about the structure of her book and provides a psychoanalytic account for male hatred of women. Produced for KPFA by Karla Tonella

  • Pauline Bart interviewed by Paula Darte

    Dr. Pauline Bart, feminist sociologist at Abraham Lincoln School of Medicine in Chicago, is interviewed by Paula Darte about her NIH-funded research on rape in November 1978. In her research, Bart interviewed 94 women who had either been raped or had avoided being raped to determine the best combination of variables that would lead to…

  • The Berkeley Women’s Music Collective, June 10, 1976

    The Berkeley Women’s Music Collective perform in San Francisco, June 10, 1976, venue unknown. Songs performed (Reel 1): The Bloods; 2. The Fury (with Nancy Henderson on piano); 3. Mercy Me, I’m Lonely Tonight; 4. Take the Time. Songs performed (Reel 2): 1. Announcement by one of the band members; 2. The Commune Croon; 3.…

  • The Berkeley Women’s Music Collective, June 10 (Part 2 of 2)

    The Berkeley Women’s Music Collective, June 10. Part 2 of 2. Year unknown.

  • Nawal El Saadawi, Egyptian feminist

    An interview with Egyptian feminist Dr. Nawal El Saadawi, conducted by Ines Rieder at the United Nations Conference on Women, held in Copenhagen in July of 1980. Dr. Saadawi discusses the woman’s body under colonialism and patriarchy and about women in the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). Dr. Saadawi is well known in the Middle East…

  • The Berkeley Women’s Music Collective

    The Berkeley Women’s Music Collective in concert, recorded Winter 1975. Members of the group include: Susan Shanbaum, Nancy Vogel, Debbie Lempke, Nancy Henderson, and Bonnie Lockhart. Songs performed (Reel 1): 1. SF Bank Song — Shanbaum (4:00); 2. Back to Boston — Vogel (2:00); 3. Work Song — Lockhart (3:30); 4. Harp Solo — Shanbaum…