Class lecture on the status of women in Ireland, past and present, by Jean Wertheimer. Program hosted by Diane Feeley, National Organization for Women, New York (NOW-NY) coordinator of the Women in the Arts Committee. Produced by Viv Sutherland.
Topics: Feeley, Diane, Women -- Ireland., Women in Ireland / Diane Feeley, produced by Viv Sutherland.,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Susan Bertram, Rose Kolmetz and Joan Rabenau, employees at the Museum of Modern Art, talk with Clare Spark from KPFK about their union, Professional and Administrative Staff Assocation of the Museum of Modern Art (PASTA-MoMA) in New York City. Produced for Pacifica Radio with the partial support of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Topics: Labor unions, Museums., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Leo Kanowitz, professor of law at University of New Mexico and author of "Women and the Law: The Unfinished Revolution" (University of New Mexico Press, 1969) about women's legal situation, talks with Carol Amyx, KPFA news volunteer. Kanowitz says he wrote the book as a course of general human rights, seeing that women were struggling for equality in status in the U.S. and in the world. Cites similarities between the Black struggle and the women's struggle against oppression, and adds...
Topics: Amyx, Carol., Law and society -- United States., Kanowitz, Leo, Sex discrimination against women --...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Nancy Kramer speaks with Denise Fuchs, president of the National Organization for Women (NOW)-New York and Gail Gabler, organizer, on the recent defeat of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) and on what comes next for the movement. Includes listener phone calls.
Topics: American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Equal Rights Amendment (Proposed)., Fuchs,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
This episode contains two segments: 1. Former Federal Communications Commissioner Nicholas Johnson on television, violence and the recent attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan. Speech recorded at the 100th anniversary program of the New Jersey Institute of Technology; 2. Christie Hefner from Playboy Magazine is interviewed by Brennan Jones. She discusses the Playboy philosophy and the First Amendment in the age of the Moral Majority. Self contained. Master by (Dave?) Metzger.
Topics: Johnson, Nicholas, 1934-, Hefner, Christie, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Women's Legal Clinic aircheck. Judy Levin and Betty Levinson discuss child custody and take listener phone calls.
Topics: American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, CHILD CUSTODY & SUPPORT, Women's rights...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
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."
Topics: Lazarre, Jane., Reiter, Rayna R., Women's movement, Pregnancy., Motherhood, American Women Making...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Josephine Hendin, teacher of American fiction at the New School for Social Research, interviews Lois Gould (1931-2002), the author of "Such good friends" and "Necessary objects." Program was produced by Mimi Anderson.
Topics: American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Women authors, Gould, Lois., Feminist...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Judy Sackoff speaks with Helen Rogan, author of "Mixed Company: Women in the Modern Army."
Topics: American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Rogan, Helen, Sex discrimination against...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Eloise Klein Healy reads from her newly published book of poetry "A Packet Beating Like A Heart." Healy, a Los Angeles-based poet, gives a moving, energetic reading which was recorded live at the Woman's Building in Los Angeles, December 1980. Poems read: Going away -- You won't love me and I learn death -- She was my friend, too -- It could have all happened and part of it did -- Dark -- A mile out of town -- Poem for my youth/poem for young women -- Edging -- Like a woman in a short...
Topics: Healy, Eloise Klein., Poetry, Modern., Women poets, American Women Making History and Culture:...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
One of a series of programs on the myths and realities of cancer hosted by Viv Sutherland. Guests are Dr. Philip Strax, director of the Guttman Breast Diagnostic Institute; Mary Overton, assistant executive director of Cancer Care; Richard Klarberg,director of the Public Health Center, the American Health Foundation; Pam Booth, co-director of Women's Health Forum; and Denise Dillon Fuge, member of the Committee on Women and Health, National Organization for Women, New York (NOW-NY). Note on...
Topics: Overton, Mary, Strax, Philip., Klarberg, Richard., Fuge, Denise., Booth, Pam., Cancer, Women --...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Marge Albert worked as an office worker for twenty-five years. After organizing her own office, she left her job to become a full time organizer for the Distributive Workers of America, helping office workers to organize unions in their own offices. She talks with Bonnie Bellow about her experiences organizing women workers and about the new upsurge in women's trade union activity.
Topics: American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Distributive Workers Union, Labor...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
One of a series of programs on the myths and realities of cancer hosted by Viv Sutherland. Guests are Dr. Philip Strax, director of the Guttman Breast Diagnostic Institute; Mary Overton, assistant executive director of Cancer Care; Richard Klarberg,director of the Public Health Center, the American Health Foundation; Pam Booth, co-director of Women's Health Forum; and Denise Dillon Fuge, member of the Committee on Women and Health, National Organization for Women, New York (NOW-NY). Note on...
Topics: Overton, Mary, Strax, Philip., Klarberg, Richard., Fuge, Denise., Booth, Pam., Cancer, Women --...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Bernadette Devlin [McAliskey] speaks at Barnard College on November 20, 1976. This is Part 1 of 2. Tape of Part 2 is missing. Devlin was on tour in the U.S. to educate and state her point of view on "the Irish problem". She outlines the history (from 1920) of the struggle of Ireland to separate from British domination. Devlin notes that the Catholics in Northern Ireland never voted to be part of the North, that the 60's Civil Rights Movement in the U.S. inspired them to rebel, and...
Topics: American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, McAliskey, Bernadette Devlin, 1947-, Northern...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
An interview with Susan Brownmiller, who spent four years writing her book Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape. She felt her mission in the feminist movement, after hearing women speaking openly about their rapes, was to compile the history of rape in a sound and rational analysis. She feels "the threat of rape is a very real dynamic in the interaction between men and women, and had to be exposed for what it is." She describes tremendous anxiety she felt in writing the book, her...
Topics: Women authors -- Personal narratives., Rape., Brownmiller, Susan, American Women Making History and...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Vanessa Redgrave, campaigning for a seat in Parliament for the Worker's Revolutionary Party (Redgrave is a Marxist and a famous actress), canvasses council housing, or low income houses, in Great Britain and is recorded doing so and defending her politics to a reporter in this program by Paul McIsaac (WBAI reporter) during his visit to the United Kingdom in 1974. This reel is marked one of three parts to a series entitled "Crisis in Great Britain" and was a Public Affairs Magazine...
Topics: American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Redgrave, Vanessa, 1937-, Actors and...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Cynthia Secor and Janet Cooper discuss the lesbian in literature at the 2nd Gay Academic Union Conference in New York City, 1974. Janet Cooper of the American Library Association (ALA)'s Task Force on Gay Liberation (TFGL) speaks on female crushes, friendships, and affections in children's literature prior to the 1920's. Author Cynthia Secor, PhD, Chairperson of the Modern Language Association (MLA)'s Commission on the Status of Women in the Profession, compares sensuous women the writings of...
Topics: Apuzzo, Virginia., Secor, Cynthia, Cooper, Janet., Gays in literature., Lesbian literature, JOYCE,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
The half-hour serial reading program "Continued tomorrow" featured "Other people's houses" by Lore Segal in December 1972 and January 1973. It was an autobiographical novel, written and read by Lore Segal, about her childhood in Hitler's Vienna, growing up in English foster homes, three years in the Dominican Republic, and her first years as a young woman in New York. The first installment was broadcast on December 14, 1972, and weekdays thereafter until it was complete....
Topics: Segal, Lore Groszmann, Autobiography--Women authors, United States -- History -- 1933-1945, Vienna...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
The half-hour serial reading program "Continued tomorrow" featured "Other people's houses" by Lore Segal in December 1972 and January 1973. It was an autobiographical novel, written and read by Lore Segal, about her childhood in Hitler's Vienna, growing up in English foster homes, three years in the Dominican Republic, and her first years as a young woman in New York. The first installment was broadcast on December 14, 1972, and weekdays thereafter until it was complete....
Topics: Segal, Lore Groszmann, Autobiography--Women authors, United States -- History -- 1933-1945, Vienna...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Paul Wunder (not identified on tape) of WBAI's Soundtrack program interviews Australian actress, Liz Alexander, about the starring role in the film, The Killing of Angel Street. The story is about the daughter of a man who fights for the right of land holders (resident action groups) against corporate takeovers in Sydney, Australian. Anthony Buckley, the film's producer, is also interviewed. The story is based on the true story of a newspaper woman, Juanita Nielsen, who disappeared and was...
Topics: American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Alexander, Elizabeth, 1952-, Buckley,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
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. conference reinforced or destroyed that notion, how to sustain international momentum, and whether American feminists can or should try to help women in the Third...
Topics: Tabatabai, Zohreh, Friedan, Betty, King, Angela., International relations., Women -- Social...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Clare Loeb interviews Mary Holmes, art educator at University of California, Santa Cruz. The teacher discusses both the needs and objectives of art education. Holmes discusses her experiences as an artist growing up during the Depression, the hostility between between artists and art historians, her experiences with her students, what "success" means as an artist, artists as social critics, and the importance of a liberal arts education.
Topics: Spark, Clare., Art., Education -- Aims and objectives., Art--Study and teaching, American Women...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Judy Levin and Betty Levinson review important legal cases of the 1970s. Begins with discussion of a recent Supreme Court case concerning abortion, McRae v. Harris, which held that states participating in Medicaid were not required to provide funding for abortions, then reviews precedents of 1970s. Features a listener call-in portion. Edited and approved for broadcast by Eileen Zalisk.
Topics: American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Women's rights, Sex discrimination against...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Herbert Feinstein interviews Japanese film importer, producer and curator Kashiko Kawakita (1908-1993) in Venice, Italy during the time of the 1968 Venice Film Festival. Kawakita heads Towa Trading, which produces low-budget art films, and runs a number of art film houses in Japan as well. They discuss some of the Japanese films featured at the Festival that year, the legacy of Hiroshima, her son-in-law, Juzo Itami, who is an actor, and her businesses.
Topics: Feinstein, Herbert., Film industry -- Japan., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Reading of letters written by a woman homesteader, Elinore Pruitt Stewart (1876-1933) in Wyoming around 1910. Part 3 of 3. These three episodes of Stewart's letters were part of a continuing series on KPFA based on women’s diaries and letters. Part three: This portion begins in December 1913. Stewart describes Christmas with her neighbors; how they helped two Mormon women and their children who were all in need; and other adventures Stewart has with her friend and neighbor, Mrs....
Topics: Stewart, Elinore Pruitt, 1876-1933, Frontier and pioneer life -- Wyoming, Women's writings., Women...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Discussion of the parallel experiences of women who grew up in various ideologies. Guests are Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, who grew up a Jehovah's Witness; Brett Harvey Vuolo, a Catholic who spent a period of time in a convent; Vivian Gornik, who grew up in a leftist, progressive home; and Laura Scanlon, who grew up Italian Catholic in a small town. Moderator is Louise Bilotti, who grew up in a progressive, leftist household.
Topics: Women and religion., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
A panel discussion on the problems of being Black or Mexican-American under current jury procedures, with Fay Stender, Berkeley attorney, Carl Metoyer, president of the Alameda County Bar Association, Robert Boags, president of the Charles Houston Law Club, and Dr. Philip Good, a statistical consultant who has done research on Black registration. Topics discussed include whether voter registration affects jury demographics; the different methods of jury selection in different counties, from...
Topics: Race discrimination -- Law and legislation, Judicial system -- United States., Jury selection --...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Nanette Rainone speaks with William L. O'Neill, historian and author of "Everyone Was Brave: The Rise And Fall Of Feminism In America." They discusses his book about the rise and fall of American feminism. Previously cataloged as BB3957.
Topics: O'Neill, William L., Women's movement -- United States., Feminism, American Women Making History...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Dr. H. Curtis Wood, medical consultant of the Association for Voluntary Sterilization, and author of "Sex without babies" meets with panelists Peggy Still, executive director of Planned Parenthood, Los Angeles; Helen Colton, director of the Family Forum; and Dr. Joseph Still, physician and scientist in the area of personal preventative medicine. Dr. Wood discusses the concept of voluntary sterilization (popularly known as "getting one's tubes tied"), the themes of his book,...
Topics: Wood, H. Curtis, Colton, Helen., Still, Joseph., Still, Peggy, Sterilization (Birth control).,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Jeanne Stellman interviewed by Celeste Wesson for the Public Affairs Department. of WBAI, NY. Stellman is the author of "Women's Work, Women's Health: Myths and Realities" about women and occupational health including stress. Stellman discusses the women's changing role as child-bearers and the shift of the means of production from the home to the office. Produced by Celeste Wesson.
Topics: American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Stellman, Jeanne Mager, 1947-, Occupational...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
A documentary about the life and work of playwright and author Lillian Hellman (1905 - 1984). Includes an interview with Hellman by WBAI's Jan Albert, readings from Hellman's memoirs, Hellman speaking before a live audience (venue not identified) and snippets of dialogue from the film versions of Hellman's plays The Little Foxes and The Children's Hour and Dashiell Hammett's novel The Thin Man.
Topics: Hellman, Lillian, 1905-1984, Authors, American -- Personal narratives., Playwriting., Hammett,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
In his second lecture in the series, Dr. Al Ross explores our attitudes toward sex and sexuality. Sex is learned from birth from our parents' attitudes towards their sex and humanness which can't be understood as separate entities. The problem is that sex problems are all personality problems, not "technique" problems. We can't make a commitment to another unless we have one to ourselves, and where there is love and spirituality, there can be no sex problems. In the question-answer...
Topics: Sex (Psychology), Men -- Sexual behavior., Psychology., Masculinity (Psychology)., Men --...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
On August 9, 1981, musicians Linda Tillary (vocalist), June Millington of the rock band "Fanny" (guitarist and percussion), Mary Watkins (pianist), and some of their friends including Joy Julks (bassist), Arnold "Arnie" Baruch (tenor sax), Yolanda Nickell (alto sax), "Paul" (drums), Ray Obiedo (guitar) gave a great concert at the Great American Music Hall In San Francisco (Rock n'Roll Night). Note on box "This tape is the best of that concert." Not...
Topics: Tillery, Linda., Millington, June., Watkins, Mary, Women musicians., Evening with Linda Tillery,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
An informal discussion between nine lesbians, all in their early-to-mid-twenties, recorded at an apartment in New York City's Greenwich Village and moderated by Charles Hayden (later Randolfe Hayden "Randy" Wicker). The women discuss how one becomes a lesbian, their relationships with their parents, and how they relate to gay and straight men and women. They talk about how the straight world perceives them, comparing lesbian relationships to those of heterosexual and gay male couples,...
Topics: American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Lesbians -- United States, Lesbians --...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Theodora Kroeber (March 24, 1897 – July 4, 1979), author of the much-loved book Ishi in Two Worlds, talks with Eleanor Sully about her new book about her anthropologist husband, Alfred Kroeber: A Personal Configuation. Kroeber reads a section called "Religion" from the book, which was published by University of California Press, 1970.
Topics: Kroeber, Theodora, Anthropologists -- Biography., Women authors, Kroeber, A. L. (Alfred Louis),...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Barbara Garson discusses her controversial play, MacBird, with Jack Weinberg. The conversation was recorded at KPFA during Mrs. Garson's recent return to Berkeley for the opening of her play at the New Committee in San Francisco on April 4, 1967. An episode of Where It's At, March 22, 1967. Previously cataloged as BB2111.
Topics: Garson, Barbara., Dramatic criticism., Women dramatists., Playwriting., American Women Making...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Judy Sackoff interviews Louise Kapp Howe, author of "Pink Collar Workers," a book about office workers, waitresses, homemakers--jobs that are done almost exclusively by women.
Topics: American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Howe, Louise Kapp, Women workers., Sex...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Part one is "Three Women" - a verse play for radio by Sylvia Plath (self contained). Judith Binder as the wife, Ann Bernstein as the secretary, and Rachelle Towers as the girl. Part 2 is some reflections on childbirth from the Judy Knupe, Alice Abarbanel and Stephanie Mines. This program was produced by the Unlearning to Not Speak Collective.
Topics: Radio plays., Plath, Sylvia, Three women : a verse play for radio / by Sylvia Plath., American...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
The perspective of five Chicanas in today's movement, featuring Adelaida Del Castillo, linguistics major at UCLA and associate editor of the first Chicana magazine, entitled Encuentro Femenil; Francisca Flores, director of the Chicana Service Action Center, which provides employment and job training; Alicia Escalante, founder of and consultant to the Chicana Welfare Rights Organization; Evelina Alarcon, first Chicana director of the Marxist organization El Instituto del Pueblo; and Maria...
Topics: Castillo, Adeleida del., Soto, Ana., Chicanos -- Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Social conditions.,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
This program presents selected highlights from the West Coast Women's Music Festival held September 26-28, 1980 at Yosemite. Part 1 of this program features rock musician Terry Garthwaite and jazz pianist Kelly Green. Part 2 features cabaret trio Nicholas, Glover, and Wray (Julie Nicholas, Sheilah Glover and Willow Wray); and singer/songwriter Teresa Trull. Part 3 features the band Alive!, consisting of Rhiannon, Suzanne Vicenza, Janet Small, and Carolyn Brandy. The Festival was produced by...
Topics: Green, Kelly., Garthwaite, Terry., Music festivals., Women musicians., Nicholas, Glover, and Wray.,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
These twelve reels are live raw recordings taken at the West Coast Women's festival in 1980, held in Yosemite CA September 26-28th, 1980. The festival was produced by Robin Tyler and co-produced by Torie Osborn, and two to three thousand women attended. These recordings were a joint project of Pacfica radio stations KPFA and KPFK. This concert was recorded by Linda Mack with Susan Kerniss and Susan Elizabeth. An edited version of the festival can be found here: KZ1038 Part A begins with a...
Topics: West coast women's music festival / produced by Linda Mack., Casselberry and Dupree, Ishatova,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Two programs that focus on American attitudes towards the Vietnam War, based on Gloria Emerson's book "Winners and losers: battles, retreats, gains, losses, and ruins from a long war" (Random House, 1976). Emerson first visited Vietnam in 1956 and returned as a NY Times correspondent in 1970, later resigning from the Times and joining the antiwar movement. Part 1 features an interview of Emerson by Lynn Samuels wherein she talks about her experiences in Vietnam and her aims in writing...
Topics: Emerson, Gloria., Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Public opinion., Women authors, Snepp, Frank., American...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Claire Clouzot talks with Lynn Carlin, the female lead of John Cassavettes film "Faces" at the San Francisco Film Festival, October 1968. She talks about Faces being her first film role, about the roles she's been offered since, and "Faces"'status as an American independent film. The recording cuts off abruptly.
Topics: Carlin, Lynn., Cassavetes, John, 1929-, Film reviews., Actresses -- Personal narratives., American...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
This is the fourth lecture in a series of seven given by Dr. Al Ross at UCLA. There is a battle between a man's commitment to his work and to his lover. Unfortunately, most men have no conflict - the work comes first. The corporations feed on the capacity for a male to be dehumanized: American men sell their souls for $1 more. The only resolution is getting into your own process. Produced by Roy E. Tuckman. Outro states that tapes can be obtained from UCLA Extension. Contains sensitive...
Topics: Men -- Psychology., Family -- United States., Work -- Psychological aspects., Psychology., Men at...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
These twelve reels are live raw recordings taken at the West Coast Women's festival in 1980, held in Yosemite CA September 26-28th, 1980. The festival was produced by Robin Tyler and co-produced by Torie Osborn, and two to three thousand women attended. These recordings were a joint project of Pacfica radio stations KPFA and KPFK. This concert was recorded by Linda Mack with Susan Kerniss and Susan Elizabeth. An edited version of the festival can be found here: KZ1038 Part A begins with a...
Topics: West coast women's music festival / produced by Linda Mack., Casselberry and Dupree, Ishatova,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Sybil Jason (1927-2011), Warner Brothers moppets star of the 1930's, talks about the films she made with Michael Curtiz, Kay Francis, and Bette Davis and why her career came to such an abrupt end. Jason was born in South Africa, then spent much time in London. Richard Lamparski visits with her in Hollywood.
Topics: Jason, Sybil., Entertainers -- Personal narratives., American Women Making History and Culture:...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Program contains excerpts from a Sweet Honey in the Rock performance at P.S. 41 in March 1978 and an interview by Donna Allegra with Bernice Johnson Reagon, Pat (Johnson?), Evelyn Maria Harris and other members (not introduced) about the group and their music.
Topics: American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Sweet Honey in the Rock (Musical group),...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
These twelve reels are live raw recordings taken at the West Coast Women's festival in 1980, held in Yosemite CA September 26-28th, 1980. The festival was produced by Robin Tyler and co-produced by Torie Osborn, and two to three thousand women attended. These recordings were a joint project of Pacfica radio stations KPFA and KPFK. This concert was recorded by Linda Mack with Susan Kerniss and Susan Elizabeth. An edited version of the festival can be found here: KZ1038 Part A begins with a...
Topics: West coast women's music festival / produced by Linda Mack., Casselberry and Dupree, Ishatova,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Hedy West presents songs by and about women, beginning with two of her own, and including many traditional pieces, which are played by West on banjo. Songs featured in the program include When I die; There's anger in the land; Poor miner's farewell; Babies in the mill; A single life; Single girl; The whore's lament; Let them wear their watches fine; Cotton mill girls; Frankie Silvers; Johnny Sands; The cruel mother; Rosanna; On the rim of the world; Die gräben (The trenches); The factory...
Topics: Medlin, Joan., Women composers., Women musicians., Folk music., American Women Making History and...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Part one of a documentary on Virginia Woolf, her work, and her life, based on the letters, diaries, and published works of Virginia and Leonard Woolf, in an original production for KPFK by Maureen McIlroy. Madness, love and death are among the themes traced through Virginia Woolf’s life into her novels. The KPFK Folio description offers this quote from Woolf, “I wrote…having reeled across the pages with some moments of such intensity and intoxication that I seemed only to stumble after my...
Topics: Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941., Women writers, Biography, American Women Making History and Culture:...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
