Records of Persephone Press, 1975-1984

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Greenfield interviews members of the Olivia Collective (Ginny Berson, Sandy Stone, Teresa Trull, and Meg Christian). Collective members discuss how Olivia Records was started as a way to create an alternative economic structure for feminist activism.

Scope and Contents Holly Near describes being raised on a farm in northern California, and how she got involved in musical performance and in political activism. Near tells a story about being in Phillippines during the Free the Army show, and her growing awareness about United States cultural production being disseminated abroad. Near discusses how she integrates revolutionary culture of feminism into her art. Near describes receiving fan mail, being her "whole self" in public, playing with other women...

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Amy Horowitz describes her role developing and producing concerts with women musicians or in conjunction with women's groups. Discusses "frenzy" possible in such events and how to move political energy out from one event into a larger woman's movement.

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Feldman describes how she initially wanted to be an actor; folk music scene in Greenwich Village in late 1950s, and in Boston in the early 1960s; move to California and writing song "Angry Athis"; developing a stage persona; performing for lesbian audiences.

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Dobkin and Cowan discuss their relationship, identity as lesbians, political work, women's music, Cowan's work with DYKE, experience as "public lesbians."

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The event was taped onto three audiotapes, and the sequence of the event follows side A of each tape, and then returns to Side B of the first tape.

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Gloria Z. Greenfield introduction describes process of publishing Bloch's Lifetime Guarantee. Bloch discusses journal writing as a public art form as well as a private practice. Bloch reads from one of her teenage diaries.

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Greenfield interviews Kleptisz at time of publication of Keeper of Accounts. Greenfield's asks questions about Kleptisz's use of/understanding of memory in her poetry, specifically in relation to the Holocaust.

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Gloria Greenfield interviewed a group of five women at the Tel Aviv Women's Center. Women define feminism, discuss the state of feminism in Israel, feminist child raising, child care, lesbians in Israel.

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Gloria Greenfield interviewed a group of five women at the Tel Aviv Women's Center. Women discuss what is considered to be a "woman's issue," general critique of women's status in Israeli society, answer question "what's good about living here?"