Program

Shoulder to shoulder / Midge McKenzie interviewed by Beverly Polokoff

Beverly Polokoff of KPFK interviews Midge MacKenzie (1938-2004), documentary film maker, feminist, and author of "Shoulder to shoulder," a documentary publication on the history of the militant suffragettes of Great Britain.

Sexual survival / Dennis Munjack ; interviewed by Richard Mahler.

KPFK's Richard Mahler talks about human sexuality with sex therapist Dennis Munjack, M.D. Among issues discussed are how to choose a sex therapist, how to deal with common sexual dysfunctions such as premature ejaculation and frigidity, and changing sexual practices. Contains phone calls but the phone numbers and local references are edited out.

The Powerful Jew : myth or reality? / Lynn Kerman and Erica Silverman

Ellen Willis wrote an article called "The myth of the powerful Jew," which was published in a September 1979 edition of New York City's free paper the Village Voice, as part of an ongoing debate on Black-Jewish relations appearing in that paper.

With child / Phyllis Chesler interviewed by Anita Frankel

Phyllis Chesler, feminist and author of "Woman and madness," "Women, money, and power," and "About men," speaks with Anita Frankel of KPFK about her new book "With child: a diary of motherhood" (Crowell, 1979), a record of pregnancy and childbirth which is as much about the birth of a mother as it is about the birth of a child.

Censorship or sensitivity? : Vanessa Redgrave and the Jewish community / Helene Rosenbluth, Claudia Fonda-Bonardi, and Becky Bailin.

KPFK producers Helene Rosenbluth and Claudia Fonda-Bonardi host Becky Bailin of the Los Angeles Jewish Feminist Coalition. The three discuss the controversy over NBC's decision to cast Vanessa Redgrave as a concentration camp survivor Fania Fénelon in the film Playing for Time.

Who's running down the property values...?

Using Inglewood, California as a case study, this documentary examines the problems of racial and economic change in an urban community. Earl Ofari of KPFK talks to city officials, real estate people, homeowners, renters and bankers about city services, red-lining, maintenance and other topics that affect property values.

Behind the violent headlines : the Zimbabwean guerrilla struggle today / Naomi Nhiwatiwa and Prosper Takawira interviewed by Anita Frankel.

Naomi Nhiwatiwa was a delegate from the U.S. branch of Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) to a ZANU women's conference in Mozambique in May 1979. Prosper Takawira is the treasurer of the U.S. section of ZANU.

Screen actors stand up for Jane Fonda : a speech by Kathleen Nolan

On July 20, 1979, the California State Senate overwhelmingly rejected the appointment of Jane Fonda to the California Arts Council. The Screen Actors Guild's Hollywood Branch was outraged and passed a resolution calling for the censure of the 28 members of the California Senate who blocked Fonda's appointment.

Gayjavu / produced by Helene Rosenbluth and Greg Gordon.

The past ten years in gay history are reviewed through popular music and news: consenting adults laws begin to be passed, gay themes in cinema, "Emily," "Sappho was a right-on woman," Olivia Records, Proposition 6 in California, "Rubyfruit jungle," gay rights bills, "Lola," "Secret lover," homosexuality declared no longer a mental illness, Dan W

If I can't sell it, I'll keep sitting on it before I'll give it away / produced by Susan Anderson.

A documentary about the image of woman in TV advertising and programming in two parts. The first part of the program deals with the happy homemaker. who is busy, cautious, satisfied, plagued by modern maladies, and an ideal consumer unit. The second part of the program considers the ideal beauty, wherein women are either portrayed as beautiful objects or gray-haired grandmothers.

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