Overview
Scripts, correspondence, etc., concerning WGBH's "In Her Own Right," produced by Katharine Bancroft Schlesinger Kinderman.
Dates
- Creation: 1969-1970
Language of Materials
Materials in English.
Access Restrictions:
Access. Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright. Copyright in the papers created by Katharine S. Kinderman is held by the President and Fellows of Harvard College for the Schlesinger Library. Copyright in other papers in the collection may be held by their authors, or the authors' heirs or assigns.
Copying. Papers may be copied in accordance with the library's usual procedures.
Extent
.21 linear feet ((1/2 file box) plus 14 audiotapes)This collection contains scripts of proposed remarks by hosts from In Her Own Right; master and listening copies of audiotapes of the seven programs; correspondence; notes; and some printed material. There are no transcripts of the tapes, which are shelved as T-31.
BIOGRAPHY
Katharine Kinderman, daughter of Marian (Cannon) Schlesinger and Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr., was born and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She attended the Buckingham School (Cambridge) and Boston University, and graduated from Loretto Heights College in Denver with a degree in mass communications. After serving as an American Field Service counselor, a VISTA volunteer (in Eastern Kentucky), and an administrative assistant at Yale University, Kinderman produced programs for WGBH-TV (PBS) in Boston (1969-1970). During the first half of 1971 she was a news reporter for WCHS-TV in Charleston, West Virginia, and in the latter half, project director for Designs for Rural Action, a private consulting firm concerned with rural poverty. As program director of Continental Cablevision (1972-1974) in Concord, New Hampshire, Kinderman wrote and produced local programs, in addition to moderating a community talk show. The following year (July 1975 - June 1976), she was a video consultant for Metro State College in Denver. In August 1976 she became the public affairs producer for KRMA-TV (PBS) in Denver.
In Her Own Right, produced for WGBH-TV by Kinderman in the summer of 1970, was a series of seven programs by and about women. According to Kinderman, the show "came out of a desire in the late 60's for women to have their vehicle for expression on TV.... All different kinds of women" were represented on the program, which "previewed films by women film-makers and discussed issues of concern to women."
Physical Location
Collection stored off site: researchers must request access 36 hours before use.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Accession number: 71-30
The papers of Katharine Kinderman were deposited in the Schlesinger Library by Katharine S. Kinderman in February 1971.
SEPARATION RECORD
Newsclippings from folders labeled as follows were removed and added to Schlesinger Library's vertical file:
- Abortion
- Breaking the Sex Barrier
- Cartoons - Women's Progress
- Ellen Goodman
- Jane Hart
- History of Women
- Housewives
- International News (status of women abroad)
- Margaret Mead
- Miscellaneous
- People
- Pill Controversy
- Polls
- Sex Education
- Stereotypes and Myths - Male and Female
- Washington Newsletter for Women
- Women Alone
- Women and Medicine
- Women and Politics
- Women and Religion
- Women in the Academic World
- Women's Image/Advertising
- Women's Liberation - The Movement
- Working Mothers
Processing Information
Processed: February 1978
By: Katherine Gray Kraft
Genre / Form
Topical
Subject
- Brown, Dorothy Kirchwey (Person)
- Title
- Kinderman, Katharine S.. Papers of Katharine S. Kinderman, 1969-1970: A Finding Aid
- Author
- Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
- Language of description
- eng
- Sponsor
- The collection was processed with funds provided by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
- EAD ID
- sch00667
Repository Details
Part of the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute Repository
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