On promiscuity and monogamy among gays: Kathy Maerisi and Jean O'Leary of Lesbian Feminist Liberation; Rich Wandel of Mattachine Society; and David Tesdell of Ninth St. Center.
John C. Lilly (1915 - 2001), author, physicist, neuroscientist and psychonaut, and Antonietta "Toni" Lilly, author and artist, deliver a talk on communication between terrestrial animals and sea animals (particularly man and dolphin). The lecture features a live dolphin with whom the Lillys demonstrate some of their theories about animal consciousness.
Charles Ruas discusses Gertrude Stein with Janet Hobhouse, author of a 1976 biography of Stein entitled "Everybody Who Was Anybody", recorded May 11, 1976. Hobhouse discusses the influence of automatic writing on Gertrude Stein's work and about the origins of her novel The Making of Americans.
Dramatic readings from the memoirs of five anti-Tsarist anarchist women from the populist revolutionary movement of 1870's and 1880's in TSarist Russia. Includes interviews with Barbara Engel and Clifford Rosenthal, translators and editors of the book "Five sisters: women against the Tsar" (Alfred A. Knopf, 1975).
Nanette Rainone interviews two women authors about their experiences, women's roles and the Women's movement. They are Jane Lazarre, author of "The Mother Knot" (McGraw Hill), a personal account of pregnancy and childrearing; and Rayna Reiter, editor of "Toward an Anthropology of Women."
Jena Blumenfield speaks with feminist film critic Marjorie Rosen, author of "Popcorn Venus: women, movies and the American Dream" (New York: McCann and Geoghegan, 1973).
Viv Sutherland talks with Professor Sarah B. Pomeroy, associate professor in the Department of Classics at Hunter College in New York and author of "Goddesses, Whores, Wives and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity" (Schocken Books), on the status of women in ancient Greece and Rome.
Poet Siv Cedering (Fox) reads selections of her poetry. Siv Cedering Fox was born in Sweden, has lived in the United States for many years, and writes in English and Swedish. She is the author of three books of poetry: Cup of cold water, 1973; Letters from the island, 1973; Mother is, published by Stein and Day, 1975.
Anne Fremantle interviews Penelope Gilliatt (1932 - 1993) -- film critic for the New Yorker, fiction writer, and screenwriter about her work and career. She talks about her recently published book on Jean Renoir, and how she manages to be both creative and a critic.
Anne Fremantle speaks to Dr. Lewis Thomas about biological death. Thomas was the president of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and author of Lives Of A Cell.