Thirteen half-hour programs illustrating with dramatization the changing status of women in America from colonial times to the present day, plus a one-hour panel discussion on modern-day problems.An online collection of early educational public radio content from the National Association of Educational Broadcasters (NAEB).
https://www.unlockingtheairwaves.org/programs/american-woman-in-fact-and-fiction/
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Roundtable, part one
This program is the first of a two-part panel discussion on the modern woman. Participants include writer Mark Schorer; political scientist Peter H. Odegard; anthropologist Ethel Albert; and writer Miriam Allen deFord.
Liberty, equality, fraternity
Woman in the Revolutionary War period; The Case of Polly Baker by Benjamin Franklin; the letters of Abigail Adams; Alcuin, by Charles Brockden Brown.
The suffrage victory
The last campaigns for women's suffrage; scenes from Sinclair Lewis' Anne Vickers.
Revolution
The first Women's Rights Convention in New York, 1848; Elizabeth Cady Stanton's Declaration of Independence for Women; Sojourner Truth, the great Negro orator, speaks on women's rights.
The tree of knowledge
Views on education of women; an early co-educational school in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Oldtown Folks; scenes from The Gilded Age by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner.
The revolt of mother
A farm woman declares her independence in this radio adaptation of a short story by Mary Wilkins Freeman.
A woman speaks
Anne Hutchinson, great Puritan advocate of freedom of speech and religion, is banished for acting upon her beliefs.
The tree of knowledge
Views on education of women; an early co-educational school in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Oldtown Folks; scenes from The Gilded Age by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner.