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Women composers: Janice Giteck and Gloria Coates

Jeannie Pool interviews and plays music of Janice Giteck and Gloria Coates, two American women composers. "Portraits of women composers" was produced by Jeannie Pool for the Women's Department at WBAI.

Women composers: interviews with Ora Williams and Virginia Eskin

This series is "Portraits of women composers," produced by Jeannie Pool for the Women's Department at WBAI. In this episode we will hear an interview and performance done at KPFK in Los Angeles with with musicologist Dr.

Jane Trahey interviewed by Rebecca Tron Klinger

Jane Trahey (1923-2000), businesswoman, humorist, author, advertising pioneer, and one of the first women to own and manage an advertising agency, Trahey Advertising, discusses her new book, “Jane Trahey on Women and Power: Who's Got It. How to Get It.' with Rebecca Tron Klinger.

Women in pre-colonial Ashanti / Dr. Shirley Strickland

In the summer of 1978, twelve women and men, scholars from all over the U.S., met in New York to participate in a seminar on cross-cultural studies of women in society. The seminar was led by Dr. Eleanor Leacock, professor of anthropology at the City University of New York, and sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities. This series of programs grew out of that seminar.

Women in the United Kingdom

Viv Sutherland talks with professor Helen Baehr of the Center Polyclinic of London about the status of women in the United Kingdom.

The transsexual empire

Viv Sutherland interviews Janice Raymond, author of "The transsexual empire."

Sex discrimination: women of the C.U.N.Y. system

Mimi Rosenberg speaks with three women: Lilia Melani, Sandy Cooper, and Nancy Dean. They discuss sex discrimination in the City University of New York system.

From the Vault 434: The Great Wall of Los Angeles

On this edition of From the Vault we present a 1984 documentary titled The Writing on the Wall: The Great Wall of Los Angeles, about an ambitious beautification project conceived in 1974 that resulted in one of the world's longest murals (2700 feet and growing).

Dialogue in Nairobi / Sylvia Borren; produced by Helene Rosenbluth.

In July 1985, more than 14,000 women gathered in Nairobi, Kenya for the UN's Third World Conference on Women, which marked the end of the Decade for Women. The conference marked a decided evolution from the 1975 International Women's Conference in Mexico City, which was dominated by middle-class white women.

Conflicting interests: coalition on homeless

Ruth Messinger hosts this show on the Coalition on the Homeless and discusses the current city policy on the homeless.

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