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  • Studs Terkel discusses songs about domestic violence against women

    Aug. 5, 1981

    Terkel presents songs that discuss the subject of domestic violence against women. Songs range from ballads in musicals, to jazz torch songs, to popular music at the time.

  • Ntozake Shange discusses her successful play and recent poetry

    Oct. 26, 1978

    Ntozake Shange discusses her play, "for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf." She goes on to discuss her advocacy for more Black authors and poets, especially in experimental artistic endeavors.*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations 

  • Meg Christian discusses feminism and the women's music industry

    Sep. 16, 1981

    Meg Christian discusses songwriting and the music industry, especially her work in the feminist movement.

  • Marya Mannes discusses book "But Will It Sell?" ; part 1

    Dec. 1, 1964

    Marya Mannes talks about her book But Will It Sell?, published in 1964. Mannes talks about American life and consumerism.

  • Jonathan Katz

    Jonathan Katz discusses his book "Gay American History"

    Feb. 4, 1977

    Discussing the book, "Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A.: A Documentary," and interviewing its author, Jonathan Katz.

  • Jo Freeman, Mary Jean Collins-Robson, and Naomi Weisstein discuss women's rights and liberation ; part 2

    Mar. 25, 1970

    Jo Freeman, Mary Jean Collins-Robson, and Naomi Weisstein discuss women's rights and the struggle for equal rights and liberation, resistance through art, and the fight for free childcare. Discussion continues with criticism on the male gaze and females as sexual objects.

  • Jo Freeman, Mary Jean Collins-Robson, and Naomi Weisstein discuss women's rights and liberation ; part 1

    Mar. 25, 1970

    Jo Freeman, Mary Jean Collins-Robson, and Naomi Weisstein discuss women's rights and the struggle for equal rights and liberation, Title VII, their support for NOW, the National Organization of Women, as well as the upcoming Women's Strike for Equality.

  • Jill Johnston

    Jill Johnston discusses her book "Lesbian Nation: The Feminist Solution"

    Jun. 29, 1973

    Jill Johnston speaks about her book 'Lesbian Nation: The Feminist Solution', published in 1973. Johnston describes her political definition of lesbianism as self-commitment, and how her writings fits into the feminism on the whole.

  • Ellen Goodman and Betty Friedan discuss the women's movement and feminism

    Oct. 15, 1981

    Discussing the women's movement, feminism, and the books, "At Large," with its author, journalist Ellen Goodman, and "The Second Stage" with its author, feminist Betty Friedan.

  • Ellen Afterman, Clinton Sanders and Spellman Young discuss the exclusionary power of language

    1970

    Ellen Afterman, Clinton Sanders and Spellman Young discuss the exclusionary power of language; i.e. white, middle-class language as the standard by which people are intellectually and socially judged, and how groups are using language to define identity.

  • Elizabeth Janeway discusses her book "Man's World, Woman's Place"

    1970

    Elizabeth Janeway discusses her book "Man's World, Woman's Place" and the gender role women are taught since birth; reads passage from book; includes interview at 16:01 with a woman speaking against the Women's Movement during an outdoor protest.

  • Elizabeth Janeway discusses her book "Between Myth and Morning"

    Nov. 12, 1974

    Elizabeth Janeway discusses the women’s movement and her book, “Between Myth and Morning: Women Awakening.” Topics include dominance and equality, women’s history, the power balance between men and women, and relationships and autonomy. Includes a recorded reading of William Butler Yeat’s Crazy Jane poem, “The Solid Man and the Cockscomb” and an excerpt from a previously recorded interview with Maggie Kuhn, founder of the Gray Panthers.

  • Christine Fox, Annie Merrill, Jennie Wilkes of the BBC

    1975

    This interview is a follow up, four years later, to the first interview with these women (1965115-3-1)

  • Christine Fox, Annie Merrill and Jennie Wilkes discuss their work and upbringing in England

    1970

    Christine Fox, Annie Merrill and Jennie Wilkes discuss sexism in the television industry, their upbringings, and what life is like in England for young women. This is the first of two interviews, four years apart, with these women. 1965631-3-1 is the follow up.

  • Caroline Bird discusses her book, 'Born Female: The High Cost of Keeping Women Down'

    Caroline Bird discusses her book, 'Born Female: The High Cost of Keeping Women Down', published in 1968. Studs plays interviews from dissenters of the Women's Liberation Day and Caroline Bird responds. The discussion continues on issues of sexism and the future of the women in the workforce.

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