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Human experimentation / Marcia Greenberg ; interviewed by David Selvin.

Marcia Greenberg, a Washington, D.C. lawyer, testified recently before a Senate sub-committee that she had interviewed women in Tennessee who were being given an experimental contraceptive injection, without being told that the drug might cause dangerous side-effects. The drug in question is Depo-Provera.

Portrait of a woman / interviewed by Louisa Sellers.

The subject of the following interview chose to remain anonymous. She is a 24 year old Puerto Rican woman. She is married, has a four year old son, and works as a clerk-typist for Columbia Presbyterian Hospital. She has lived near 168th Street all her life and recently helped start a day care center. The interviewer is Louisa Sellers.

Household workers / produced by Nanette Rainone and Bonnie Bellow.

This report is on the recent and unprecedented organization of household workers, and includes interviews recorded during the 2nd National Committee on Household Employment (NCHE) conference held in New York (ca. October 1972). At the conference, six hundred household workers met to hear speeches from the likes of Gloria Steinem and Shirley Chisholm.

Freedom is an inside job / Mercedes McCambridge.

Actor Mercedes McCambridge (1916 - 2004) speaking before the Women's National Democratic Club in Washington, D.C. on the subject "Freedom is an inside job," and the ways to maintain freedoms in America. She is introduced by Senator Harold Hughes (D-IA).

Growing up female in the 50s / produced by Brett Vuolo.

Documentary on sex stereotyping in American during the 1950s. Producer Brett Vuolo introduces it this way: "I'm here with Ronnie, Sheila, and Barbara, and we're going to be rapping about what it was like to grow up female in the '50s.

Doris Lessing interview / interviewed by Josephine Hendin.

Josephine Hendin, Current Fiction teacher at the New School for Social Research and author of "The World of Flannery O'Connor," interviews writer Doris Lessing (1919 - 2013), who discusses her work and the life of a woman author. The discussion mostly focuses on her forthcoming collection of short stories, The Temptation of Jack Orkney. She also discusses a forthcoming novel.

The Lawrence strike / Meredith Tax ; produced by Ann Snitow.

This program is a history of the Lawrence Strike, a poetic adaptation of "The Rising of the Women: a history of women in the labor movement 1890-1920" by Meredith Tax, to be published later this year (1972?) by McGraw Hill. The chapter on Lawrence was adapted for radio by Ann Snitow.

Women poets reading; produced by Mimi Anderson

Series record for a series of programs featuring women poets reading selections of their own work. All recordings produced by Mimi Weisbord Anderson for WBAI. r.1. Robin Morgan (37 min.) -- r.2. Adrienne Rich reads from Snapshots of a Daughter-in-law and Necessities of Life (20 min.) -- r.3. Verandah Porche (36 min.) -- r.4. Audre Lorde (23 min.).
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