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Alice Walker, Black woman poet and novelist, reads from her new book of poetry "Good night, Willie Lee, I'll see you in the morning" at Cody's Bookstore in Berkeley on September 26th, 1979. Walker reads some poems that are not featured in the book. Poems read include I said to poetry, On sight, Overnights, If "those people" like you, I'm really very fond, Gray, When Golda Meir was in Africa, Representing the universe, My daughter is coming!, Did this happen to your mother?...

Topics: American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Walker, Alice, 1944-, Soldofsky, Alan.,...

Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982



Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker (1944 - ) reads her short story "Roselily" (written ca. 1967). Walker then talks with KPFA's Ginny Z. Berson about the story, how she wrote it about her first marriage to a civil rights attorney and how it questions the dominance of Christianity over all religions in the US. The story was dropped from a 10th grade English test by California state educators based on complaints from Christian conservatives in early 1994. The Traditional Values...

Topics: American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Walker, Alice, 1944-, African American women...

Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982



The writer Audre Lorde (1934 - 1992) describes her experiences growing up as a Black lesbian in New York City in the 1950s, touching on subjects such as frequenting gay and lesbian bars in the Greenwich Village and communal-style living experiments. She reads excerpts from her book, Zami: A new spelling of my name: a biomythography (Persephone Press, 1982). Recorded at Hunter College in New York. Produced by Helene Rosenbluth.

Topics: Rosenbluth, Helene, African American women authors, Women, Black -- Personal narratives., Lesbians...

Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982



Aircheck of a live performance of MacBird!, by playwright Barbara Garson (1941 - ), directed by KPFK' Phil Austin (1941 - ), which opened that month (January 1967?) at the Village Gate in New York City. MacBird! is a 1967 satire by Barbara Garson that superimposed the transferral of power following the Kennedy assassination onto the plot of Shakespeare's Macbeth (from Wikipedia). Actors include Ken Greenwald, Richard Paul, Philip Proctor, Carol Samuels, Dianne Turley[sp?]. Music by Leon Levitt,...

Topics: Garson, Barbara., Austin, Phil., Radio plays., American drama--Women authors, American Women Making...

Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982



Simone de Beauvoir (b.1908- d.1986) French writer, intellectual, political activist, and feminist is interviewed by Studs Terkel in 1960. For 1977 broadcast, narrator Janet Dodson reads excerpts from de Beauvoir's books, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter, Prime of Life, All Said and Done and The Second Sex. Recording ends abruptly (perhaps part 1 of 2?) RECORDED: May 4, 1960. BROADCAST: KPFK, March 8, 1977.

Topics: Terkel, Studs, 1912-2008, Feminism, Women authors, Bilingual materials -- English / French.,...

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French-Cuban Author Anais Nin (1903-1977) and Rupert Pole read excerpts from her memoirs "The Diary of Anais Nin" which she began writing at the age of 11. She is also the author of "Cities of the Interior." The reading is introduced by KPFK's Frank Roberts. Roberts announces that "The Diary of Anais Nin" has recently been published by the Swallow Press in cooperation with Harcourt, Brace, and World, and the book is already in it's second edition. Based on this...

Topics: Nin, Anaïs, 1903-1977, Autobiography--Women authors, Roberts, Francis., American Women Making...

Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982



Alice Toklas reading from The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein and The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook. From the folio "It isn't really an autobiography, of course, because it was written by Gertrude Stein, which is known as too many ironies in the fire. This selection is taken from the Verve record (MGV-15017), and was loaned to KPFA by Campus Records, Berkeley." Contents include: The Garden at Bilignin, Haschich Fudge, Before I came to Paris, AND On first meeting with...

Topics: Toklas, Alice B., Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946, Literature -- Women authors., Women authors, American...

Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982



Author Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) talks with David Watmough, discussing her writings and opinions. Bowen was born in Dublin in 1899, and her first short stories were written when she was 20. Her publications include The Hotel (1927); Friends And Relations (1931); To The North (1932); The House In Paris (1935); The Heat Of The Day (1949); A World Of Love (1955).

Topics: Bowen, Elizabeth, 1899-1973, Women authors, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982

Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982



Ursule Molinaro (1916 - 2000), Paris-born social-satirist, novelist, playwright, and artist reads "Eating Melons in Marseille," from her new collection of short stories "Night School For Saints." Later she is interviewed by host Tom Vitale.

Topics: American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Ursule Molinaro., Women authors, Authors,...

Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982



Live readings by poet, activist and essayist Audre Lorde (1934 - 1992) from her non-fiction work, The Cancer Journals (Aunt Lute Books, 1980). She starts with personal readings in which she shares her experiences with breast cancer. She warns of the dangers of silence and denial, and how to take action by becoming visible to one another about the issue. She goes on to discuss how the established cancer industry is motivated by profit, and that prevention and alternative therapies are not...

Topics: Women authors -- Personal narratives., Lorde, Audre, Breast -- Cancer -- Patients -- Biography.,...

Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982



This is a recording of members of the Unlearning To Not Speak Collective reading excerpts from the book "Sister of the Road," by Bertha Thompson, published in 1937 and out of print at the time the program was created. Bertha told her story to Dr. Ben L. Reitman, who wrote the introduction. The book describes socialist camps, boarding houses, prostitution, and social change. Program was produced by the following members of the Unlearning To Not Speak Collective: Ellen Dubrowin, Robin...

Topics: Unlearning to Not Speak collective., Box-Car Bertha, Women authors, Tramps., Feminism and...

Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982



Grace Paley (December 11, 1922 – August 22, 2007), feminist writer, reads poetry at the San Francisco Women's Building on June 22, 1980 in a benefit for the War Resisters League. In Part 1, Paley reads the poems Two villages, Connections: Vermont Vietnam, and That country, and a short story, The story hearer. Also performing that night was Judy Grahn (see AZ0456). Part 2 of the recording also contains Grace Paley reading at U.C. Extension, Berkeley on June 19, 1980. Paley reads the stories...

Topics: Women authors, Poetry, Modern -- 20th century., Feminism, Feminist poetry reading / Grace Paley.,...

Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982



Mary Daly (October 16, 1928 – January 3, 2010), one of the most important figures in contemporary feminist theory and author of "Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism" published in 1978; "Beyond God The Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation," 1973; and "The Church and The Second Sex," 1968-- all published by Beacon Press. This lecture, delivered at the University of California, Berkeley on May 15, 1980, is based on "Gyn/Ecology"...

Topics: Feminism, Women authors, Fire of female fury / Mary Daly.**The, American Women Making History and...

Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982



This program contains an interview, a speech, and readings from Alice Walker's book, "The Color Purple." In the interview, Walker talks about God, faith, lesbians, publishers and writing as healing. Walker also talks about writing in dialect. The readings are intermixed with music. Walker's talks were recorded at Old Wives' Tales in San Francisco and at Walker's home in San Francisco in July, 1982. Produced by Laurie Udesky and Corless Smith. The sound quality varies in this program...

Topics: Smith, Corless., Walker, Alice, 1944-, Women authors, Literature., African Americans, Women,...

Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982



The Lesbian Show, produced by Donna Allegra, features readings from the 2nd Annual Third World Lesbian Writers Conference in April 1980, sponsored by the Azalea collective and Salsa Soul. Audre Lorde opened the night reading "Need." The following readers are Imani, Joan Gibbs, Anita Cornwell, Isis, Arisa Reed, Candice Boyce, Chirlane McCray, and Jabu reading Ntozake Shange. This program does not include all of the women who read at the conference.

Topics: Lorde, Audre, Lesbian authors, Black women -- Social conditions., African American women authors,...

Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982



Author Susan Sontag (1933 - 2004) is interviewed by WBAI's Nanette Rainone in October 1973. They discuss the resignation of Spiro Agnew, the Watergate scandal and the Irving Committee, the false rhetoric of the "drug war", the ties between patriarchy and fascism, and the ideology behind sexual liberation. Produced by Nanette Rainone and Paul McIsaac.

Topics: Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Watergate Affair,...

Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982



Acclaimed writers Anais Nin (1903-1977) author of "The Diary of Anais Nin," Joan Didion, author of "Play It As It Lays," and Dory Previn, author of "Midnight Baby" are interviewed by Sally Davis, and give insightful interviews that shed light on their personalities. The three women are interviewed individually and discuss general themes of women's angst, loneliness and frustration as they relate to their work. Nin and Didion are interviewed on Reel 1 of this...

Topics: Feminism, Women's movement, Women authors, Literature -- Women authors., Nin, Anaïs, 1903-1977,...

Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982



The poet reads from her books, The Love Poems of Elizabeth Sargent, and The African Boy. Miss Sargent has trained herself in the art of reading aloud and performs with great elan. She is accompanied in some of the poems by John Dill with guitar and drum. Tape box lists the WBAI broadcast date as July 23, 1969; WBAI Folio lists first broadcast date as June 22, 1968. KPFA and KPFK also list this program in their 1968 Folios.

Topics: Poetry -- Women authors., Sargent, Elizabeth, 1930-, American Women Making History and Culture:...

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Contents: 1. Kate Millett reads from a new book (to be published in about a year) entitled The Basement: Meditations on a Case of Human Sacrifice, at the San Francisco International Poetry Festival, about a young woman tortured and killed for sex (November 5, 1978). 2. Exhortation to march at the Feminist Perspectives on Pornography Conference, held in San Francisco, November 17-19, 1978 (Same conference as AZ1072). Andrea Dworkin is introduced by moderator for the day Lilia Medina. Dworkin is...

Topics: American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Millett, Kate., Dworkin, Andrea., Near,...

Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982



Shere Hite participates with a panel of women on women's relationships to sex and work. Hite introduces herself as the author of "The Hite report," a study of 3,000 women and discusses the findings of her research on women and sex. Other women on her panel are: Kay Whitlock from N.O.W. the National Sexuality Task Force on Lesbianism and Sexuality; Mary Calderone, president of SIECUS, Sex Information and Education Council of the United States; Leah Schaefer, on the board of the Society...

Topics: Orgasm., Women -- Sexuality., Sex -- Research, Women authors, Hite, Shere, Whitlock, Kay,...

Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982



This program from the "Negro Writer's Vision of America" conference held April 23-25, 1965 at New York's New School is a discussion of the Negro woman in America and in American literature. Participants are poet Sarah Wright, playwright Alice Childress, singer and actress Abbey Lincoln, novelist Paule Marshall and poet Sterling A. Brown. This is the second episode of a twelve-part series of recordings from the Negro Writer's Vision of America Conference; the remaining episodes are not...

Topics: African Americans--Civil rights--History, African American women authors, African American women in...

Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982



Author Ntozake Shange reads from her novel, Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo (St. Martin's Press, 1982) at Cody's bookstore in Berkeley, CA in September 1982. Shange describes the book before reading excerpts from it and is then interviewed by KPFA's Ginny Z. Berson. Reading at Cody's recorded by Pam Scola. This recording is identical to AZ0675.

Topics: American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Shange, Ntozake., African American women...

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Marshall Windmiller interviews Dr. Han Suyin, noted writer and lecturer and author of "A Many-Splendored Thing." She discusses her life and work, her publications on the Chinese revolution, the Vietnam war, Communism, and the new Western colonialism and imperialism which causes her to recall China in the 1920s. Marshall Windmiller was Associate Professor of International Relations at SF State. Recorded in KPFA studios Jan. 8, 1967. Originally aired during the open hour on January 9,...

Topics: Han, Suyin, 1917-2012, Women authors, Authors -- Personal narratives., American Women Making...

Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982



Francis (Frank) Roberts interviews author Anais Nin (1903-1977) on the occasion of the publication of "The Diary of Anais Nin". Description from the folio: "The first volume of Miss Nin's "Diary" will be published in May by Harcourt Brace in cooperation with Alan Swallow. Miss Nin is a frequent visitor to our wavelength. Here she is interviewed by Francis Roberts, producer of the show, and goes into great detail about Henry Miller, his wife June, Antonin Artaud,...

Topics: Nin, Anaïs, 1903-1977, Literature -- History and criticism., Women authors, American Women Making...

Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982



Episode from August 20, 1982. Blanche Cook interviews poet, essayist and civil rights activist Audre Lorde (1934-1992). Lorde reads some selections from her new book Chosen Poems: Old and New (W.W. Norton, 1982).

Topics: American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Lorde, Audre, African American women authors,...

Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982



Author Grace Paley (1922-2007) reads two selections from her book "The Little Disturbances of Man: Stories of Men and Women at Love" (1959); 1. Good-bye and good luck (26 min.) 2. The Used boy raisers (29 min.). No intro nor production credits.

Topics: Radio programs -- Fiction., Paley, Grace., Women authors, Jews -- Social life and customs.,...

Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982



Actresses Sondra Lowell, Jay MacIntosh, Juliana McCarthy, Constance Pfeiffer, Judith Roberts, Joanne Strauss, and Sherry Tyler read examples of the work of writer and poet Sylvia Plath (1932 - 1963), who committed suicide at age 30. Actress Dorothy Dells reads the profile by Elizabeth Hardwick from the New York Review of Books which includes an analysis of the prose and poetry of Plath. Produced and directed by Constance Pfeiffer.

Topics: Poetry., Women authors, Hardwick, Elizabeth., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982,...

Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982



Ntozake Shange, the black feminist poet, author of "For colored girls who have considered suicide, when the rainbow is enuf," is interviewed by Clare Spark on The Sour Apple Tree. Shange discusses reactions to her work and emphasizes how the poems are misperceived by many critics. Ends with a one-minute cut from the album of the 1977 Broadway production of "For colored girls who have considered suicide, when the rainbow is enuf." The piece is performed by Trazana Beverley....

Topics: Shange, Ntozake., Poets, Black., Poetry, Modern., Women authors, Feminism, African American women...

Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982



Mary Daly (October 16, 1928 – January 3, 2010), one of the most important figures in contemporary feminist theory and author of "Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism" published in 1978; "Beyond God The Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation," 1973; and "The Church and The Second Sex," 1968-- all published by Beacon Press. This lecture, delivered at the University of California, Berkeley on May 15, 1980, is based on "Gyn/Ecology"...

Topics: Feminism, Women authors, Fire of female fury / Mary Daly.**The, American Women Making History and...

Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982



Adrienne Rich (1928 - 2012), poet and author, reads excerpts from Susan Griffin's Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her (New York: Harper & Row, 1978), a book she introduces as being "essential reading." She reads first from the book's introduction, which speaks on the subject of challenging the prevailing androcentric world view. In the book, Griffin explains that the feminist revolution removes men from the center of all things, that is masculine values are dislodged. The...

Topics: American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Rich, Adrienne, 1929-2012, Griffin, Susan.,...

Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982



Susan Griffin, noted feminist author, discusses the thesis of her book "Pornography and silence." She discusses the difficulties and conditions under which she wrote the book and analyzes pornography in terms of the ideology of patriarchy, drawing parallels between sexism, racism and anti-semitism. Recorded at Pacific Oaks College, August 1981. Produced by Molly Bosted.

Topics: Patriarchy., Sexism, Racism., Women authors, Pornography -- Social aspects., Feminism,...

Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982



Author Anaïs Nin (1903-1977) talks with KPFK's Frank Roberts and reads excerpts from the book of letters to her from Henry Miller, recently published by Putnam, and from her diaries, now being readied for publication.

Topics: Nin, Anaïs, 1903-1977, Women authors, Authorship., Roberts, Francis., American Women Making...

Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982



Alice Walker (1944 - ) is primarily known as a novelist and short story writer, and is a major figure in both Black American and Feminist literature. In the first part of this program Walker reads a story from her new book "You Can't Keep A Good Woman Down" at the Woman's Building in San Francisco -- "Fame," a humorous story about a cantakerous older Black woman writer who is about to receive her 111th major award. Karla Tonella, who conducted the interview with Walker woven...

Topics: Walker, Alice, 1944-, African American women authors, Women authors, You can't keep a good woman...

Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982



The focus of Virginia Woolf's life was writing, and as she developed her art and gained recognition, she began to speak more and more directly to the issues of feminism. She turned to the problem of creative achievement in a society where any such efforts were looked down on by men. She recognized an inherent problem in culture which made it impossible for women to achieve artistic recognition was the economic dependency of women on men due to job discrimination, insufficient salaries and lack...

Topics: Women authors, A Room Of One's Own, Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941., American Women Making History and...

Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982



Dying to be heard: the work of Ann Sexton read by Karen Ludwig. Opens with a reading of the New York Times obituary for Jo Roman, an artist who chose voluntary suicide. This program is listed in the WBAI August 1979 Folio under the title "To die in order to be heard: women whose works are heard posthumously." Produced for WBAI by Linda Perry.

Topics: American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Sexton, Anne, 1928-1974, Women poets,...

Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982



Author Susan Sontag (1933 - 2004) is interviewed by WBAI's Nanette Rainone in October 1973. They discuss the resignation of Spiro Agnew, the Watergate scandal and the Irving Committee, the false rhetoric of the "drug war", the ties between patriarchy and fascism, and the ideology behind sexual liberation. Produced by Nanette Rainone and Paul McIsaac.

Topics: Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Watergate Affair,...

Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982



Dramatic documentary on the life and views of Colette and her feminist writings. An original documentary by Maureen McIlroy. The script was taken from the works and letters of Colette and the autobiography of Maurice Goudeket. Colette was played by Maureen McIlroy; her mother Sido was portrayed by Eve Brenner; Henri de Jouvenel by George Murdoch; Maurice Goudeket by Bill Cort; Georges Wague by Harry Lessen. Others in the cast included Karen Bekar, Bill Myers, Carol Kanarsky, Jim Rosen, Craig...

Topics: Women authors -- Biography., Feminism and literature., Colette, 1873-1954, American Women Making...

Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982



Writer and diarist Anais Nin answers questions from audience members at UC Berkeley, touching on topics such as art, liberation, her diaries and other writings, acceptance from the establishment, and feminism. Includes musical performance by Richard Stoltzman of a solo clarinet movement from Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time.

Topics: Nin, Anaïs, 1903-1977, Women authors, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982

Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982



Reading of short story "Changes" by author Denise Oliver / Produced by WPFW, Broadcast on KPFA. This program features a reading of the short story "Changes" by author Denise Oliver, former program director for WPFW in Washington, DC. The story is about a young black woman who lived in a black neighborhood in Queens as a teenager and would hang out and later work in the Puerto Rican neighborhood of East Harlem (El Barrio) New York. She finds herself in her early twenties...

Topics: Oliver, Denise, African American women authors, Puerto Rican-Americans -- New York (City).,...

Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982



Anais Nin discusses her life and work with KPFK's Clare Spark (nee Loeb). This is a shorter, edited version of BB5233.

Topics: Nin, Anaïs, 1903-1977, Women authors, Anais Nin / interviewed by Clare Spark., American Women...

Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982



KPFA's Sidney Roger interviews political activist Jessica Mitford (1917 - 1996) about her autobiography "Daughters and rebels" (Houghton & Mifflin Co., 1960, first published under the title "Hons and rebels" in the UK). She is introduced as Decca Treuhaft (Decca being her nickname, Treuhaft her husband's surname). She discusses her unusual family upbringing, including her turn toward Communism while two of her sisters embraced fascism and her parents' standing in the...

Topics: Mitford, Jessica, 1917-1996, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982,...

Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982



Author Toni Morrison (1931 - ) discusses her latest book, Tar Baby (Alfred A. Knopf, 1981) with KPFK's Barbara Cady. Morrison discusses class conflicts between Black people as one of the book's themes, her feelings about authors' personalities showing in their books, and about other Black women writers.

Topics: Morrison, Toni, Women authors, Authors, Black., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982

Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982



Author Colette Dowling discusses her book "Cinderella complex" (Summit Books) with Barbara Cady.

Topics: Dowling, Colette, Authors., Women authors, Women -- Psychology., Gender roles, American Women...

Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982



Recording contains Susan Anderson's 1976 interview with Maya Angelou, talking about her new book "Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas," her first friendship with a white woman, her sense of religion, her career, and her never ending sense of frustration with her writing. Recording also includes excerpts from Angelou's 1982 speech given at Los Angeles Community College talking about the differences between white women and Black women and the women's movement. During...

Topics: American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Angelou, Maya, Anderson, Susan., African...

Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982



Interview with Vicky Starr (1916-2009), featured as "Stella Nowicki" in the documentary film "Union Maids" (1976) about three Chicago women labor union activists from the 1930s. The film was based on the three women from Chicago (Stella Nowicki, Kate Hyndman, and Sylvia Woods) in the labor history book Rank and File by Staughton and Alice Lynd. The documentary featured interviews with the three women, and was produced by Julia Reichert, James Klein, and Miles Mogulescu. It...

Topics: Women labor unionists., Women authors, Labor unions -- Illinois -- Chicago, American Women Making...

Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982



Poet Karen Swenson reads selections from her own work. This recording is Part 1 of a two part reading. Pacifica does not currently have Part 2. This program was produced by Paul Oppenheimer for the Drama and Literature Department of WBAI

Topics: Poetry -- Women authors., Karen Swenson., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982

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Poet Mary Jane Menuez reads selections from her work. Menuez was born in Chicago. She began writing poetry as a student of Ellen Bryant Voigt at Goddard College. Her poetry has appeared in such places as Orion's Dolphin, Countermeasures, Xanadu, and the Grolier Press Annual Anthology of Children's Poetry. She has taught poetry workshops at Suffolk Community College on Long Island, and, under the sponsorship of the Poetry Therapy Association, run a poetry therapy program for over a year at a...

Topics: Poetry -- Women authors., Mary Jane Menuez., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982

Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982



Raw tape of Gloria Naylor, Black woman author, interviewed by Doris Austin[?] about her novel "The Women of Brewster Place." She reads a passage from the book and then talks with Doris about the book, how Naylor's visions of the women who populate the book came into being, and more specifically about some of the female characters.

Topics: American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Naylor, Gloria, African American women authors

Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982



Acclaimed writers Anais Nin (1903-1977) author of "The Diary of Anais Nin," Joan Didion, author of "Play It As It Lays," and Dory Previn, author of "Midnight Baby" are interviewed by Sally Davis, and give insightful interviews that shed light on their personalities. The three women are interviewed individually and discuss general themes of women's angst, loneliness and frustration as they relate to their work. Nin and Didion are interviewed on Reel 1 of this...

Topics: Feminism, Women's movement, Women authors, Literature -- Women authors., Nin, Anaïs, 1903-1977,...

Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982



Anais Nin discusses her life and work with KPFK's Clare Spark (nee Loeb). This is a shorter, edited version of BB5233.

Topics: Nin, Anaïs, 1903-1977, Women authors, Anais Nin / interviewed by Clare Spark., American Women...

Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982



Reading of "Sing a Battle Song"; a clandestine publication of the Red Dragon Print Collective, March 8, 1975. Poems by women in the Weather Underground organization read by KPFK staff and volunteers. Directed by Ruth Hirschman, produced by Peter Sutheim, and engineered by Phil Mendelson.

Topics: Poetry -- Women authors., Women radicals -- United States., Weather Underground., American Women...

Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982



Blanche Wiesen Cook interviews poet, essayist and civil rights activist Audre Lorde (1934-1992) about her new book, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name - A Biomythography (Persephone, 1982), from which she reads excerpts. Lorde and Cook discuss various scenes in the book, including Lorde's relationship with her mother, her process of becoming a reader, writer and poet, and her experiences with racism as a child and as an adult. Contains listener phone calls. (This program is different from...

Topics: American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Lorde, Audre, African American women poets,...

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Anais Nin [1903-1977] speech to students at College of Marin, California, 1973. She discusses the necessity of a second birth--the search for inner strength and the initiation of indidvidual growth. She believes the only way we as people can face the despairs and horrors of history is to conquer our own prejudices, become more sensitive and develop empathy for others. Audience questions are repeated by program announcer. Recorded 1973.

Topics: Nin, Anaïs, 1903-1977, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Women authors

Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982



Sandra Porter interviews Mary Bailey, co-founder of the feminist publication "Heliotrope." Davita Maron was her co-founder. Host, Sandra Porter is also a contributor, and the two women discuss their work with the publication and the writing of women in general. (Label spells the journal "heileatroupe" which was likely incorrect)

Topics: Periodicals, Publishing of., Women's writings., Women authors, Women's publishers and publishing.,...

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Penelope Dellaporta reads Jane Austen's "The history of England from the reign of Henry IV to the death of Charles I" (1791). Written when she was fifteen, Austen characterized the work as written "by a partial, prejudiced and ignorant Historian," and "N.B.: There will be very few dates in this history."

Topics: Austen, Jane, 1775-1817., Dellaporta, Penelope., England -- History -- Anecdotes, facetiae, satire,...

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Sally Gearhart reads from her book "The wanderground: stories of the hill women" (Boston: Persephone Press, 1978), a feminist fantasy fiction account of a separate woman's culture wherein the women have highly developed psychic powers, have children parthenogenetically, and live in harmony with all the rest of the Earth, except the men who control the cities. Part A features the chapters "Openings" and a portion of "The remember rooms." Part B continues the chapter...

Topics: Tonella, Karla., Feminist literature., Radio programs -- Fiction., Women authors, Gearhart, Sally...

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Alice Childress reads from her novel "A Short Walk" (Coward, McCann and Geoghegan, 1979) and talks with Wesley Brown about the political and social climate for African-American writers and playwrights in the 1940s and 1950s. Produced by Wesley Brown. This is part 2 of 2, part 1 is missing.

Topics: Childress, Alice., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, African American women...

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English author, journalist, and political activist Jessica Mitford (1917-1996) discusses her book "Hons and Rebels" (V. Gollancz, 1960) about her unusual family with KPFA's Colin D. Edwards.

Topics: Mitford, Jessica, 1917-1996, Edwards, Colin, 1924-1994, MITFORD FAMILY., Women authors -- Personal...

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Novelist and diarist Anais Nin (1903-1977) is interviewed by WBAI's Milton Hoffman about her newly published The Diary of Anais Nin: Volume Four. The two discuss her life, work, and the Women's movement.

Topics: Nin, Anaïs, 1903-1977, Women authors, Authors -- Personal narratives., American Women Making...

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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. Produced by Mimi Anderson.

Topics: Lessing, Doris, 1919-2013, Women authors, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982,...

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An interview with Andrea Dworkin, author of the book "Woman Hating" (E.P. Dutton, 1974), and several articles including "Marx and Ghandi were liberals: feminism and the radical left" and "Why Norman Mailer refuses to be the woman he is." Interview conducted by Nanette Rainone with Carol Lopate. Contains sensitive language.

Topics: Dworkin, Andrea., Women, Women authors, Interview with Andrea Dworkin / interviewed by Nanette...

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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. Originally aired as part 8 of a series on Stein's "The Making of Americans" during the WBAI Marathon of May 1976. The other episodes of this "mini-marathon" featured excerpts...

Topics: Hobhouse, Janet, 1948-1991, Ruas, Charles., Women authors, Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946, American...

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Novelist and critic Elizabeth Hardwick presents "New York, Capitol of the 20th Century" at the UCLA English Department's annual Ewing Lecture, April 21 and 22, 1981. The talk was presented in two parts on KPFK. In part one, "Pastoral memories," Hardwick discusses the images of "Old New York" in 19th century American writing. This part was scheduled to be broadcast September 30, 1981 but the transmitter dumped it. It was later broadcast on January 6, 1982. In part...

Topics: Hardwick, Elizabeth., Women authors, New York, capitol of the 20th century : pastoral memories /...

Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982



Bernardine Dohrn, Kathy Boudin, and Cathy Wilkerson read poems from "Sing a battle song: poems from the Weather Underground." The poems read are For Assata Shakur -- Riding the subways -- Venom -- Waiting.

Topics: Poetry -- Women authors., Women radicals -- United States., American Women Making History and...

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Lilia Medina opens the first session of the Feminist Perspectives on Pornography Conference, held November 17-19, 1978 at Galileo High School in San Francisco, CA. The conference was organized by Women Against Violence in Pornography and Media. Medina introduces Kathleen "Kathy" Barry who speaks on "Beyond pornography: creating a vision." Next Judith Reisman is introduced to give a slide presentation, but the presentation was not recorded. Last, poet Susan Griffin is...

Topics: American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Barry, Kathleen., Griffin, Susan., Women...

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Novelist and critic Elizabeth Hardwick presents "New York, Capitol of the 20th Century" at the UCLA English Department's annual Ewing Lecture, April 21 and 22, 1981. The talk was presented in two parts on KPFK. In part one, "Pastoral memories," Hardwick discusses the images of "Old New York" in 19th century American writing. This part was scheduled to be broadcast September 30, 1981 but the transmitter dumped it. It was later broadcast on January 6, 1982. In part...

Topics: Hardwick, Elizabeth., Women authors, New York, capitol of the 20th century : pastoral memories /...

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Poet, essayist, and novelist June Jordan is interviewed by author Deborah Morris. The two discuss Jordan's work and career. Produced by Sophie's Parlor Media Collective

Topics: Jordan, June, 1936-2002, Women poets, Authors, Black., African American women authors, African...

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This program from the "Negro Writer's Vision of America" conference held April 23-25, 1965 at New York's New School is a discussion of the Negro woman in America and in American literature. Participants are poet Sarah Wright, playwright Alice Childress, singer and actress Abbey Lincoln, novelist Paule Marshall and poet Sterling A. Brown. This is the second episode of a twelve-part series of recordings from the Negro Writer's Vision of America Conference; the remaining episodes are not...

Topics: African Americans--Civil rights--History, African American women authors, African American women in...

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Julius Lester speaks with poet and activist June Jordan (introduced as June Meyer, b. July 9, 1936, d.June 14, 2002) about her writing, life, politics and she reads "Solidarity Day, 1968", "Christ Chicago, 1968", and "Uhuru in the O.R." New tape box, no info.

Topics: Jordan, June, 1936-2002, Lester, Julius., African American women poets, African American women...

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A reminiscence by Thomas Wentworth Higginson from The Atlantic Monthly for October 1891, recalling his correspondence with Miss Dickinson and her first poems. Samuel Charters reads Higginson's words. Dubbed from a Folkways recording FL-9753. Also broadcast on KPFK 1972-02-22 4PM.

Topics: Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911., Women authors -- Biography., Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886,...

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Beat poet Diane di Prima reads excerpts from her book "The Calculus of Variation" at the Festival of Underground Poetry at the UC Berkeley Art Museum on October 10, 1971. The festival was co-sponsored by the UC Berkeley Art Museum and the Berkeley Poets' Commune. Recording starts in the middle of a sentence and seems to be excerpted from a longer reading. The recordings cataloged as BB5296 and BC0628 also contain audio from this event.

Topics: American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Di Prima, Diane, Poetry -- Women authors.

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Nin reads from and discusses her book Fourth Diary. She also discusses her struggle to become an accepted author. 34 minutes in begins an interview by artist Judy Chicago. They discuss a disagreement they previously had about anger and women's liberation. Judy Chicago interview likely recorded in November 1971. Appears to be different from recording BC0453.04.1 reel is on 2 CDs A & B.

Topics: Nin, Anaïs, 1903-1977, Women authors -- Personal narratives., Evening with Anais Nin /...

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Tony Award-winning actress Marian Seldes reads the words of the poetess Elinor Wylie. In this program she is remembered, in the words of friends and associates, tracing her life story, and reflected in her own writings. Members of the cast are Risha Meledandri, Ira Weitzman, Richard Rosenblum, Manya La Bruja, and Judy Sherman. The words of Elinor Wylie were spoken by Marian Seldes, who was appearing in Equus at the Plymouth Theatre at the time of the recording. Announcer is Bruce Kenyon....

Topics: Seldes, Marian., Poetry -- Women authors., Authors, American -- Biography., Wylie, Elinor,...

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Production reel (excerpts) from a conversation between Audre Lorde and Adrienne Rich and reading from Adrienne Rich, date and location unknown. Parts of this recording (not neccesarily these excerpts) were likely used for the April 14, 1982 episode of The Velvet Sledgehammer for April 14, 1982, produced by Donna Allegra.

Topics: American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Lorde, Audre, Rich, Adrienne, 1929-2012,...

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