Program

Monogamy : does it work? / produced by Joan Lecky.

Examination of marriage and marriage values. Includes statements by a sociologist, a divorce lawyer, a sex counselor and some people involved in open marriages. Produced by Joan Lecky with technical production by Stan Johnston. Contains sensitive language.

Does the feminist movement equal sexual suicide? / George Gilder ; interview by Jan Legnitto.

KPFA's Jan Legnitto interviews George Gilder, author of the book Sexual Suicide (Quadrangle Press, 1973). Gilder claims that women's place is primarily in the home and that if she chooses to explore new paths in both the job market and in the sexual arena that it will lead to the destruction of American society.

The Israeli women's movement: Naomi Sharron / produced by Bonnie Bellow.

Bonnie Bellow talks with Naomi Sharron of the Israeli women's group Women for a New Society (Nashim l'ma'an chevrah m'khudeshet, whose acronym, NILAK-HEM, means "We will fight") during her visit to Israel in October 1973. They talk about the specific problems confronting Israeli women and about the feelings of Israeli women about the Arab-Israeli War.

I know my response : what's yours? / Mark Lane

A talk by Mark Lane, one of the lawyers for the Wounded Knee Defense Committee. Wounded Knee defense attorney discusses the case and its implications for Native Americans and the general American public. The speech was recorded at Boston University in November, 1973.

Texas texts / produced by Patricia Meredith

Documentary examining hearings in Austin at the State Board of Education concerning sexism in children's textbooks. Program is comprised of interviews, music, and tapes on the hearings. The purposes of the hearing were to draw attention to the fact that sexism is in textbooks, and that the state of Texas is the largest buyer of text books in the world.

The Ruth Benedict collective (Parts 1 and 2 only) / produced by Nanette Rainone.

The Ruth Benedict Collective is a group of 25 women in the New York area including anthropologists, students of anthropology and non-academic colleagues. Here they discuss their work as affected by feminism, particularly in the areas of matriarchy, myths and sexual behavior in sub-human primates.

Reverend Gary Davis documentary / produced by Joan Fenton.

Documentary on the blues and folk singer Reverend Gary Davis.

Julia Mendina (Episode 1 of 3)

Julia Mendina performs with guitar in Studio A at KPFT's Free Music Store.

Interview with Mary Kahlenberg, co-organizer of the Navajo blanket exhibition at the Rice Gallery

The Navajo Blanket, an exhibit of blankets woven between 1840 and 1900, was gathered together and is being taken on a tour by Mary Kahlenberg. This program is an interview with her and a tour of the exhibit at the Rice Museum.

Other people's houses

The half-hour serial reading program “Continued tomorrow” featured “Other people’s houses” by Lore Segal in December 1972 and January 1973. It was an autobiographical novel, written and read by Lore Segal, about her childhood in Hitler’s Vienna, growing up in English foster homes, three years in the Dominican Republic, and her first years as a young woman in New York.

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