Program

The Book of hags / by Deena Metzger ; adapted and directed by Everett Frost.

A novel-in-progress by Deena Metzger dramatized for radio by Everett Frost. The work is a feminist testament to the attempt by women to join inner to outer experience so as to overcome a world conditioned by murder, rape, death, cancer and madness.

Hearings on discrimination in the military / Ron Dellums and Shirley Chisholm ; introduced by Danice Bordett.

Press conference given by California Congressman Ron Dellums and New York Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm about the facts uncovered by the Congressional Committee exploring racism in the U.S. military. Same recording as BC0020.11.

The Equal Rights Amendment : will it pass? / Brenda Feigen Fasteau ; interviewed by Jan Legnitto.

An interview with Brenda Feigen Fasteau, a coordinator of the Women's Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union, about the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment and its possibility for passage by various states.

Women as internationalists : sharing the future.

A discussion of women as internationalists and the 1975 United Nations conference in Mexico City, part of a conference on Sharing the Future, held at the New School for Social Research and sponsored by the Human Relations Work Study Center. The panel questions whether the feminist movement is truly international and whether the U.N.

The Israeli women's movement / Naomi Sharron ; interviewed 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.

Sexism and racism / Gloria Steinem and Margaret Sloan.

Gloria Steinem and Margaret Sloan-Hunter, in a joint appearance at the Brooklyn Montessori School on May 15, 1973, address themselves to the relationship between sexism and racism. They discuss the white male-dominated media's representation of the women's liberation movement and black women's position in feminist activism. They are introduced by State Senator Carol Bellamy.

The female prisoner / Joyce Pleasha and Isetta Haight ; produced by Elaine Douglass.

A talk and discussion by two former women prisoners, Joyce Pleasha and Isetta Haight. The talk was recorded at a conference sponsored by the National Organization for Women on July 26, 1973. The program was produced by Elaine Douglass. Note: Contains sensitive language.

Women and credit and other reports / produced by Robert Krulwich.

Reports on women and credit; a history of how the CIA hired or paid or gathered information from foreign correspondents in Europe during the 50's and 60's, how it bought a paper in Italy and helped create a news service in England; a tribute to Congressman Michael Harrington, who has been at the center of controversy surrounding House investigation of the CIA; and a report on economic

To have? Or not to have?...a child / Elaine Douglass and Bonnie Bellow.

Bonnie Bellow and Elaine Douglass discuss the decision to have children or not, including Ms. Douglass's recent decision to undergo voluntary sterilization. Included is an interview with Dr. Robert Neuwirth, head of gynecological endoscopy at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, who, along with Dr.

Ruth Gage-Colby interviewed by Dorothy Eletz

Dorothy Eletz attended the U.N. International Women's Year Conference in Mexico City [June 19-July 2, 1975], and this recording is an interview she conducted with Ruth Gage-Colby (1899-1984), a leader in the peace, disarmament, and human rights movements, at the conference on July 2. They discuss the International Women's Conference and women's rights.

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