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  • Women poets reading at Cody’s Bookstore (Part 1 only)

    Women’s poetry reading sponsored by the Berkeley Poets Commune, at Cody’s Bookstore on April 18, 1972. The poets are: Sharon Ulrich, Lynda Koolish, Barbara Gravelle, Judith Stevens, Susan Griffin, Jeanne Lance, Maggie Cloherty, and Rachel Nahem. Note: This is the first half of the reading. The second half of the same reading was scheduled for…

  • Audioprose: Tillie Olsen

    Tillie Olsen was born in 1913 into a working class family and saw much suffering in her early years. Olsen reads from her book, “I Stood There Ironing,” her first person narrative of a working woman explaining to a visiting social worker what went wrong with her talented but emotionally restricted daughter. Kay Bonetti interviews…

  • Sharing feminism: empowerment or imperialism? / Mary E. Hunt

    A discuss of feminist liberation theology in Latin America by Mary E. Hunt at the Graduate Theological Union at UC Berkeley, date unknown but likely late 1981. Hunt, a lesbian feminist theologian, spent eighteen months working in Argentina. In this talk, Hunt explores what relevance feminism has to women in Latin America and how her…

  • Poetry from Violence (Edited) / Glide Memorial Church, San Francisco

    Poetry from Violence (edited version), a poetry reading in conjunction with the San Francisco Conference on Violence Against Women (to be held December 4 & 5, 1976). This reading was held at Glide Memorial Church, San Francisco, November 19, 1976. Contents: Intro by Ruth Hughes, who reads a poem; Kathy Barr: A Woman Is Sitting…

  • The Woman and the Carpenter (Part 2 only)

    Linda Schiffman interviews four tradeswomen, all employed in non-traditional work and enrollees in the Women in Apprenticeship Program, about sexism on the job and the kinds of problems they encountered getting used to this different kind of work. The women interviewed are Priscilla Danzig, a carpenter’s apprentice and member of Carpenters Local 305, Marin County;…

  • Focus on Women Composers: Electronic composers (Episode 19)

    A program of electronic music composed by women composers. Presented by Virginia Kosanovic, Fleur Helsingor, and Susan Sailow. Produced by Fleur Helsingor. Self-contained. Contents: 1. Evening Harmony, excerpt from Flowers of Evil, Ruth White (faded down and out); 2. continuity; 3. Breath and Sounds, Beatrice Witkin; 4. continuity; 5. Kolyossa, Pril Smiley; 6. continuity; 7.…

  • Singer Bessie Smith (Episode 21)

    A program about blues singer Bessie Smith (1894 – 1937), with many examples of her music and readings from three texts about Smith. Presented by Fleur Helsingor and Jane Ayres. Produced by Renee Roatcap. Self-contained. Contents: 1. Gulf Coast Blues; 2. Aggravatin’ Papa; 3. Program intro and first reading by Helsingor about Bessie Smith; 4.…

  • Composer Megan Roberts (Episode 22)

    Interview with Bay Area-based composer and video artist Megan Roberts. Produced and presented by Susan Sailow. Includes interview with Megan Roberts. Self-contained. Contents: 1. intro; 2. Applause for Small People, a Pygmatic Function; 3. interview; 4. Support Stockings; 5. interview; 6. I’ve Had it with that Noise, Boys; 7. interview; 8. Split Pea and Split…

  • Focus on Women Composers: Percussion music (Episode 23)

    Program highlighting the work of women percussionists. Produced and presented by Virginia Kosanovic. Contents: 1. Space model, Marta Ptaszyńska (excerpt); 2. intro/continuity; 3. Cadenza for flute and percussion, Marta Ptaszyńska; 4. continuity; 5. Solitaire for piano, vibraphone and tape, Barbara Kolb; 6. continuity; 7. Stress for percussion and tape, Marta Ptaszyńska; 8. continuity; 9. Homunculus,…

  • Focus on Women Composers: Some Women in Rock (Episode 27)

    A program highlighting women composers in the field of rock music. Produced and presented by Susan Sailow. Self-contained. Contents: 1. Rhiannon, Stevie Nicks; 2. intro; 3. Children of Darkness, Sara Ellen Dunlop; 4. You’re the One, Jean and June Millington of Fanny; 5. One Good Man, Janis Joplin; 6. continuity; 7. The Secret in This…