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/
Gesamtlänge aller Episoden:
The revolt of mother
A farm woman declares her independence in this radio adaptation of a short story by Mary Wilkins Freeman.
A question of justice
The search for motive in a murder case reveals subtle aspects of men's behavior toward women, and women's reaction.
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.
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.
The yellow wallpaper
An overprotected woman retreats into insanity: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's harrowing tale.
The womanly woman
The new American girl appears in literature: dramatization from William Dean Howells' Lady of the Aroostook.
Lucretia Mott
Because she is a woman, the Quaker anti-suffragist is refused a seat as delegate to the World's Anti-Slavery Convention in London, 1840.
Roundtable, part two
Conclusion to one-hour panel discussion. See previous entry for list of participants. Also participating in this portion of the discussion are psychiatrist Anna Maenchen and series writer Virginia Maynard.
Whistlin' girls
Lucy Stone goes to college; the Bloomer Girl appears on the American scene; Susan B. Anthony speaks.