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Women's health movement and the WATCH arrests

Eileen Zalisk speaks with Debbie Stuart-Smalley from Womancare, a feminist healthcare center in San Diego, CA; Mary Ann Bennett, with the Abortion Rights Movement of Women's Liberation in Washington, D.C.; and Peggy Roberts, a family physician who also volunteers at a women's healthcare center in Albuquerque, NM.

Women and the world in the 1980s: Cora Weiss and Annette Rubenstein

Blanche Wiesen Cook interviews Cora Weiss, activist with Women Strike for Peace and director of the disarmament program at Riverside Church, and Annette Rubinstein, editor of Science and Society, an editor of Jewish Currents, and author of the two-volume work The Great Tradition in English Literature: From Shakespeare to Shaw (Monthly Review Press Classics, 1983).

Women and the world in the 1980s: Grenada in 1983

Blanche Wiesen Cook speaks with poet and novelist Audre Lorde (1934-1992) and Zala Chandler from the Coalition of Concerned Black Women on the recent US-led invasion of Grenada. Lorde reads an excerpt from Zami: A New Spelling of My Name - A Biomythography (Crossing Press, 1983, repress).

Women and the world in the 1980s: November 26, 1982

Blanche Wiesen Cook interviews Lucy Gilbert, psychotherapist in private practice specializing in work with women who have experienced violence in their lives and Paula Webster, co-director of the Institute for the Study of Sex in Society and History, about their book Bound by Love: The Sweet Trap of Daughterhood (Beacon Press, 1982).

Women and the world in the 1980s: October 22, 1982-Author Elizabeth Wilson

Episode from October 22, 1982. Blanche Wiesen Cook interviews Elizabeth Wilson, feminist theorist and lecturer on social policy in London and author of Women and the Welfare State (Tavistock, 1977) and Only Halfway to Paradise: Women in Postwar Britain, 1945-1968 (Tavistock, 1980) and Mirror Writing: An Autobiography (Virago Press, 1982).

Women and the world in the 1980s: July 2, 1982

Blanche Cook interviews Marilyn Young, professor of history at New York University and co-author of Transforming Russia and China: Revolutionary Struggle in the 20th Century (Oxford University Press, 1980), about women in China.

Women and the world in the 1980s: April 2, 1982

Episode from April 2, 1982. Danielle Paul interviews Professor Donald Keene about Japanese poet and novelist Murasaki Shikibu (c. 973 or 978 – c. 1014 or 1031) , a.k.a. Lady Murasaki. Program includes readings of her work. Produced by Eileen Zalisk.
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