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Thor's hammer: March 29, 1980- Marilyn Hacker

Marie Ponsot (1923 - ) interviews Marilyn Hacker (1942 - ), who reads poems from her new book, Taking Notice (Alfred A. Knopf, 1980). Program supported in part through a Creative Arts Public Service grant given to Marilyn Hacker by the New York State Council on the Arts. Produced by Wesley Brown and Marie Ponsot. Engineered by Sharon Matlin.

Women Against Pornography march in Times Square (October 1979)

This recording contains music, interviews and speeches from the October 20, 1979 march in Times Square organized by Women Against Pornography. This is an unedited tape, perhaps a production reel. Speakers are not identified, and are sometimes cut-off. This is tape 1 of 2, but only this part is currently in the archives.

Women's health movement and the WATCH arrests

Eileen Zalisk speaks with Debbie Stuart-Smalley from Womancare, a feminist healthcare center in San Diego, CA; Mary Ann Bennett, with the Abortion Rights Movement of Women's Liberation in Washington, D.C.; and Peggy Roberts, a family physician who also volunteers at a women's healthcare center in Albuquerque, NM.

Abortion and the working woman

Speakers discuss the topic of abortion and the working woman. Recorded at District 1199 (New York?). Event took place as part of Abortion Rights Action Week, which took place in October 1979.

International Women's Day (1980) music

Aircheck. The music of Malvina Reynolds, Suni Paz, and Holly Near, with commentary by Judy Pasternak for International Women's Day, 1980.

Report back from Copenhagen

Tapes edited and selected from "Report back from Copenhagen," an event for women to report back from the the mid-decade World Conference of the United Nations Decade for Women, which took place in Copenhagen in September 1980. The event was sponsored by Women for Racial and Economic Equality (WREE). Speakers include Walteen Grady, president of the Washington, D.C.

Working women / produced by Bonnie Bellow and Brett Harvey

A program about women's work in American. This program contains portions of two speak-outs held recently in New York City, one of women office workers (see BC1717) and one on women's work (possibly BC1722).

Women and the world in the 1980s: Barbara Smith and Michele Cliff (ca. 1984)

Interview with Barbara Smith, writer, co-founder of Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press and editor of Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology (Kitchen Table, 1983) and Michelle Cliff, author of the novel Abeng (1984). Cliff and Smith read from their respective publications.

Women and the world in the 1980s: Cora Weiss and Annette Rubenstein

Blanche Wiesen Cook interviews Cora Weiss, activist with Women Strike for Peace and director of the disarmament program at Riverside Church, and Annette Rubinstein, editor of Science and Society, an editor of Jewish Currents, and author of the two-volume work The Great Tradition in English Literature: From Shakespeare to Shaw (Monthly Review Press Classics, 1983).

Women and the world in the 1980s: Grenada in 1983

Blanche Wiesen Cook speaks with poet and novelist Audre Lorde (1934-1992) and Zala Chandler from the Coalition of Concerned Black Women on the recent US-led invasion of Grenada. Lorde reads an excerpt from Zami: A New Spelling of My Name - A Biomythography (Crossing Press, 1983, repress).

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