Collectivism -- United States
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Joan E. Biren papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00587
Abstract
Joan E. Biren, known as JEB, is a filmmaker, photographer, and lesbian activist who has been professionally known for documenting lesbian lives and communities since the 1970s. She became particularly well known in the 1980s for her slideshow and historical lecture affectionately known as The Dyke Show, with which she toured extensively. This collection includes JEB’s personal and professional records, and is rich in documentation of her photography and...
Dates of Materials:
1944-2019
Safe Passage records
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00351
Abstract
Women's shelter and community service organization. Safe Passage (formerly Necessities/Necesidades) was founded in Northampton, Massachusetts in 1978 as a women's collective to provide shelter and assistance to battered women and their children and to empower women with self-help techniques for ending abusive relationships. In addition the organization educates the community about violence against women through public programs. Records include internal documents such as executive director's...
Dates of Materials:
1971-2000 (ongoing)
Sophia West papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00621
Abstract
The collection contains diaries, other personal papers, and writings of Sophia West, a writer, lesbian feminist, pacifist, and political activist who lived in a variety of feminist collectives in New York and California.
Dates of Materials:
1976 - 2009
- Smith College Special Collections
- Neilson Library, 7 Neilson Drive
- Northampton, Massachusetts, 01063
- specialcollections@smith.edu
- 413-585-2970
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