WBAI

  • Wild Women: poetry for the Joan Little case

    Poetry reading: “Wild Women, Joan Little case”. Notes: All women’s audience, no intros, 1976. First reader unannounced, Alison Colbert? She reads two poems “Miss Rosy” by Lucille Clifton, and her own poem “How are the girls doing?” from her book of poetry “Let the Circle Be Unbroken.” Second reader unannounced, Joan Gibbs? She reads three…

  • The real Tibet

    Judith Murray speaks with Barbara Nimri Aziz, British-educated anthropologist, about the reality of her years studying and living in Tibet. Aziz spent years studying the kinship patterns, economy, and religion of the region and is the author of Tibetan Frontier Families. This program was produced by Judith Murray.

  • Sexuality and the family

    This week: Sexuality and the family with Lynne Zeavin, Howard Gatlin, and Muriel Dimen. No phone calls on this recording.

  • Report from Vietnam by Judy Coburn – August 7, 1970

    This is a special report broadcast the same day as it was recorded, from Pacifica’s Saigon correspondent Judy Coburn. Coburn reports on the military situation in “I” Corps, as seen through interviews with members of Ripcord Company. This special report was broadcast immediately following the 7:00 p.m. news on WBAI on Friday, August 1, 1970,…

  • International Women’s Day: Algeria

    Annette Walker talks with writer Kathy Kersey about how women in Algeria have fared since the Algerian Revolution, and about the plight of women in the Islamic world in general. Kersey discusses how the West needs to find a creative approach to understanding the situation of women in the Arab world, and talks about Algerian…

  • Interview with Eleanor Cooper of the Women’s Liberation Center

    Judy Pasternak interviews Eleanor Cooper of the Women’s Liberation Center of New York about the history of the center and the what takes place at the center.  Thisis an edited excerpt from More Than Half the World, Sunday, February 11, 1979.

  • The American Place Theatre women’s project

    Louise Thompson interviews Julia Miles, Kathleen Chalfant and Gayle Austin of the American Place Theatre Women’s Project. Over the last several months the Women’s Project of the American Place Theatre solicited new plays from women playwrights around the country. Of the hundreds of plays they received, they chose twenty, which were read to an invited…

  • Femininism and therapy vs. Feminist therapy

    This week: Lynne Zeavin and Muriel Dimen discuss feminism and therapy versus feminist therapy. Self-contained with phone calls edited but left in, including a call with British psychotherapist and author Susie Orbach. Program brought to you by Group For Radical Human Science.

  • Feminist psychoanalytic therapy

    The topic is psychoanalytically-informed feminist therapy, with moderators Lynne Zeavin and Adrienne Harris. Guests include therapists Susie Orbach, Luise Echenbaum, and Carol Bloom from the Women’s Therapy Center Institute, 80 11th Street, New York, 10003. Program sponsored by the Group for Radical Human Science. Note on box “competition/separation, power, woman-woman, woman to man.”

  • Radical History Radio: Feminism in the 1800s

    Interview with Ellen DuBois, Associate Professor of History and American Studies at SUNY Buffalo, on her new book entitled “Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony: correspondence, writings, speeches.” DuBois discusses the origins of feminism in England with Mary Wollstonecraft and Frances Wright. While the US feminist movement in the 1920’s fought for education for women…