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  • Three women painters

    Lucia Vernarelli, painter and editer of the feminist artist publication “Women and Art,” speaks about three women artists. They are Marie Laurencin (1883 – 1956), Leonor Fini (1907 – 1996), and Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876 – 1907). She uses the personal papers of the artists to aid in understanding them.  From the series “Women’s diaries and…

  • Author Marysa Navarro on Eva Peron

    Judith Murray speaks with Marysa Navarro, the biographer of Eva Peron. Note on box: Opens and back announce with “Don’t Cry For Me Argentina” from Evita the musical (Tim Rice / Andrew Lloyd Weber)- Top 10 Underground recording. Is it pro or anti-Eva Peron? Controversial world wide. Murray does this introduction then plays old recording…

  • Battered women

    Recordings from a conference on battered women sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee in February 1977. The recording includes testimony from battered women as well as historical information on the oppression of women, legal aspects, and ways of overcoming this problem. Produced by Kimberly Willis for WBAI.

  • Racism in the Women’s movement (Part 1 only)

    In this program, guests talk about the racism forum “Racism in the Women’s movement: how to fight it,” sponsored by the Women Writers Union and Radical Women, and held at the Women’s Building in San Francisco. They are: Suki Durham, member of both organizations, Max Regal, member of the Seattle Radical Women; Ann Finger, organizer…

  • Sojourner’s Journal: November 19, 1981-Black women writers and artists

    Sojourner’s Journal, a series about Black women. Yasmin Pierre speaks with four Black women writers/artists about their careers and their family lives. The guests are artist, poet and member of Black Writer’s Union Akua Lezli Hope, writer, poet and memeber of the Black Writer’s Union Rashidah Ismaili (b. 1941), member of the Black New York…

  • Menstruation, puberty through menopause (Part One only)

    Know your body: Menstruation, puberty through menopause. This lecture was part of the “Know Your Body” series of lectures which comprised an eight-week course given at the Women’s Medical Center in New York City in spring 1972. This lecture deals with menstruation from puberty through menopause. The speakers are Diana Parness and Paula Weideger. They’re…

  • Women in Spain

    In this program, panelists Linda Gould Levine, professor at Montclair State College, Gloria Feiman Waldman, professor at York College, and Elizabeth Starčević, professor at City College of New York discuss the women’s movement in Spain. The program was produced by Dave Metzger and Judith Murray, who was also the moderator of the panel. This program…

  • Local chamber music / featuring soprano Lucy Shelton (Part One only)

    A program of local Chamber music, organized by and featuring vocalist Lucy Shelton, performed at WBAI’s Free Music Store on November 7, 1973. Performers include Elizabeth Wright, piano; Joanna Jenner, violin; Carol Buck and Fred Goldstein, cello; John Austin, viola; Crick Bergfeld[sp?], flute; Randy Haviland, bassoon; John Weaver, organ; and Jane Bryden, soprano. Pieces on…

  • Sojourner’s Journal: Battered women

    Sojourner’s Journal hosted Yasmine Pierre. Today’s episode is about battered women, and the guest is Carolyn Rice of the Brooklyn Legal Services.

  • Women’s Antinuclear Rally (incomplete)

    Recording of speeches from an anti-nuclear rally. No date or location is given but it may be Mother’s Day, 1979? in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY (Medgar Evers College is mentioned). First speaker on this is named Susan (last name not given), and she speaks about being a mother with the risk of nuclear pollution. Second…