Program

A minority of one

Women professors frequently number only one or two in college department. Tonight, four women Ph.D's from local colleges and universities discuss their feelings and experiences as they cope with their minority status in male-dominated college faculties.

The Affair of Gabrielle Russier / read by Miriam Bjerre and Barbara Morris Freed.

The story and letters of the French school teacher, Gabrielle Russier, who committed suicide after being sentenced for having an affair with one of her younger students during the turmoil of May 1968. Based on the publication by Alfred Knopf, edited from the introduction by Mavis Gallant, and read by Miriam Bjerre and Barbara Morris Freed.

Dear Angela: James Baldwin on Angela Davis

James Baldwin talks with Joe Walker (1934-2007), editor of the Nation of Islam's newspaper "Muhammad Speaks" and author George Cain about the Angela Davis trial and the international attitude on America and its race issues at this time.

An interview with Cesar Chavez by Raul Torres

An exclusive interview with the leader of the United Farm Workers' Organizing Committee, conducted by Raul Torres, a Chicano community organizer in the San Francisco Bay Area and producer of "Reflecciones de la Raza" on KPFA.

The blood jet is poetry : the life and work of Sylvia Plath / Mimi Weisbord Anderson and Nanette Rainone.

Biographical sketch of poet Sylvia Plath (1932-1963). Program includes interview footage with Plath by Peter Orr from the British Council, recorded in London in October 1962. During this interview she reads the following poems: Stopped Dead, Daddy, Lady Lazarus, The Applicant, Medusa, A Secret, Amnesiac, Nick and the Candlestick, and A Birthday Present.

Sadie and Maude, 1971 / Jeanette Henderson and Linda Taylor.

In this program of poetry, discussion and music dedicated to Angela Davis, two young Black women, Jeanette Henderson, wife and mother, and Linda Taylor, student, read the works of Black women poets Sojourner Truth, Jeanette MacDonald, Gwendolyn Brooks, Charlene Grant and Brown poet, Inglacia Delagente.

An Evening with Anais Nin / interviewed by Judy Chicago.

Nin reads from and discusses her book Fourth Diary. She also discusses her struggle to become an accepted author. 34 minutes in begins an interview by artist Judy Chicago. They discuss a disagreement they previously had about anger and women's liberation. Judy Chicago interview likely recorded in November 1971.

Women in film / Siew-Hwa Beh and Sharon Smith ; interviewed by Judy Chicago.

Women in Film is the title of a new magazine edited by Saunie Salyer and Siew-Hwa Beh. Editor Siew-Hwa Beh and contributor Sharon Smith, University of Southern California graduate student, are interviewed by Judy Chicago about the magazine and women in film.

From one struggle to another / Miriam Schapiro interviewed by Judy Chicago

Painter Miriam Schapiro is interviewed by Judy Chicago, about her life and struggles as a woman artist in New York during the 1950s. Schapiro discusses abstract expressionism and the dominance of male values during the period. Miriam previously erroneously cataloged as Shapiro.

A woman's cry / read by Selma Lawrence and Barbara Kraft

A montage of selected readings about women's social conditions, read by Julie Adams, Jo Raskin, Selma Lawrence and Norma Connolly. Readings by Thomas Aquinas, George Bernard Shaw, Edna St. Vincent Millay, George Sand, Joan Didion, and others. Written, produced, and directed by Barbara Kraft. Edited by Everett Frost.

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