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Women's studies

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

Annette Kar Baxter papers

 Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00258
Abstract Professor of American Studies and Women's Studies. The papers include personal and professional correspondence; writings and notes; and teaching materials; research and organization files focusing primarily on her years as a professor at Barnard College and her administrative responsibilities there. Her papers reveal the thrills and frustrations that come with advancing new disciplines, American Studies and Women's Studies, while advocating traditional, single-sex educational programs....
Dates of Materials: 1850 - 1988

Education collection

 Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00446
Abstract

The Education Collection includes bibliographies, reports, papers, articles, biographies, textbooks, teaching materials, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, conference programs, proposals, scholarly papers, course syllabi and correspondence pertaining to women's education.

Dates of Materials: 1785 - 2005; Majority of material found within 1970s

Guida West papers

 Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00555
Abstract Political sociologist; activist; author. The papers focus primarily on West's activism, research, professional activities, speeches, and writings related to welfare rights and economic justice. Her extensive working files document individuals and organizations working for civil rights, welfare rights, and related social movements from the 1960s to the early 2000s. Organizations represented include the Montclair Welfare Rights and Friends of Welfare Rights, National Welfare Rights...
Dates of Materials: 1946 - 2006

Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion records

 Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00726
Abstract

Founded in 1985, the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion is the oldest of its kind. It publishes two issues a year which include articles from multiple disciplines and special sections on timely topics. The collection contains submitted manuscripts and evaluations, correspondence, and records of meetings, conferences, finances and other organizational papers.

Dates of Materials: 1983 - 2012

Linda Gordon papers

 Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00580
Abstract

Pioneering women's historian Linda Gordon's papers include teaching materials from her courses at the University of Wisconsin--Madison, and records of the University's graduate program in women's history; teaching materials from her other appointments, and research materials related to her numerous publications.

Dates of Materials: 1970 - 2013

Mary Aickin Rothschild papers

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Identifier: SSC-MS-00573
Abstract Mary Logan Rothschild is an Emeritus Professor of women and gender studies at Arizona State University and has taught there since 1975; she was instrumental in the founding of its women's studies program in 1977. From 2000 to 2002, Rothschild and Kathryn Kish Sklar, in cooperation with the Sophia Smith Collection, implemented the Living U.S. Women's History Oral History Project. Her papers document her career as professor and include research and oral history materials for various...
Dates of Materials: 1964 - 2006

Program for the Study of Women and Gender records

 Collection
Identifier: CA-MS-00400
Abstract

This collection contains the records generated by the Program for the Study of Women and Gender from its founding through 2015. Materials describe the history of the program as well as its publications and various classes and programs.

Dates of Materials: 1895 - 2015

Rosalind Petchesky papers

 Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00639
Abstract

The collection contains extensive documentation of Rosalind Petchesky's long involvement in reproductive rights and health, sexual rights, women's rights and gender equality, population control, global justice and economic justice, and women's studies and gender studies in academia.

Dates of Materials: 1959 - 2022

University of Massachusetts Amherst. Women's Studies Department resource files

 Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00350
Abstract

Resource files from the UMASS-Amherst Women's Studies Department containing printed material on a variety of topics relating to women including abortion, rape, lesbianism, domestic violence, reproductive rights, journalism, literature, the arts, prostitution and women's rights.

Dates of Materials: 1960-1986