Records, 1962-1989

World Conference of the United Nations Decade for Women: Equality, Development, and Peace (1980 : Copenhagen, Denmark)

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The World Conference on Women, 1980, took place between July 14 and July 30, 1980 in Copenhagen, Denmark, as the mid-decade assessment of progress and failure in implementing the goals established by the World Plan of Action at the 1975 inaugural conference on women. The most significant event to come out of the conference was the formal signing of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, which took place during the opening ceremony of the conference. Marre...

PASSION (Organization)

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Victoria C. Woodhull Memorial Foundation.

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Women Against Pornography

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Founded in 1979 by Susan Brownmiller and others, Women Against Pornography sought to educate men and women about what it saw as the essence of pornography: the degradation, objectification, and brutalization of women. To this end it offered slide shows and lectures, maintained a referral service for victims of sexual exploitation, compiled statistics, organized protests, and sponsored tours of New York City's Times Square area. WAP was disbanded in 1990. From the description of Recor...

Krasner, Paul

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National Women's Conference 1st 1977 Houston, Tex.

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National Conference on Women and the Law 1982 : Detroit, Mich.)

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HUM (Organization)

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Alexander, Priscilla.

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Lebel, Jean-Jacques

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St. James, Margo

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ASP (Organization)

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COYOTE (CALL OFF YOUR OLD TIRED ETHICS), 1973-

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Margaret Jean (Margo) St. James (MStJ) was born in 1937 in Bellingham, Washington, and graduated from Mount Baker High School in Deming, Washington, in 1955. She worked on her father's dairy farm, married, and had one son. She was later divorced and in 1959 moved to San Francisco, where she worked as a waitress, process server, gardener, carpenter's assistant, and dance instructor, and was founder of Margo's Miracle Maids, a domestic service. Following her conviction for prostitutio...

California Prostitutes Education Project

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James, Jennifer, 1943-

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Coyote of Florida (Organization)

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U.S. PROStitutes Collective

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PONY (Prostitutes' association)

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Bunch, Charlotte, 1944-....

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A participant in poverty programs and civil rights organizations while a student of history at Duke University (1962-1966), Bunch became active in the women's liberation movement of the 1960s. She has subsequently taught courses on feminism at colleges and universities, participated in international conferences concerning women, peace, or Christianity, edited feminist books and journals, and worked to develop a lesbian/feminist ideology. Her many organizational affiliations have included the Met...

PUMA (Organization)

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Kennedy, Florynce, 1916-

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National Conference on Women and the Law (1980 : San Francisco, Calif.)

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Coyote (Organization)

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COYOTE (Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics) is a prostitutes' rights organization that was founded by Margo St. James on Mother's Day in 1973. From the description of [Videotape collection] [videorecording]. 1980-1983. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122408113 Coyote (Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics) is an organization founded by Margo St. James, based in California, and concerned with the rights of prostitutes and others. Calling for the decriminalization ...

National Task Force on Prostitution (U.S.)

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Capitol City Coyote (Organization)

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Democratic National Convention 1984 San Francisco, Calif.

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English Collective of Prostitutes

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National Conference on Women and the Law (1979 : San Antonio, Tex.)

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International Committee for Prostitute's Rights

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National Conference on Women and the Law (1975 : Stanford, Calif.)

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CUPIDS (Organization)

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WHISPER (Organization)

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Unitarian Universalist Service Committee

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The Unitarian Service Committee was formed as a standing committee of the American Unitarian Association in May 1940. Its purpose was to investigate opportunities in America and abroad for humanitarian service. In 1945, the Universalist Service Committee was formed. During and after World War II, these two Committees aided hundreds of displaced persons in occupied countries, allowing many of them to find passage to the United States. In 1961, these two committees joined, and the present-day Unit...

Seattle Coyote (Organization)

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Robbins, Tom.

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Born in 1936 in Blowing Rock, North Carolina, Robbins attended Washington and Lee before spending 3 years in the Air Force in Korea. He returned and graduated in 1961 from Richmond Professional Institute (now Virginia Commonwealth University). He held several positions at the Richmond Times-Dispatch, then became part of the counter-culture scene and worked at newspapers in New York and San Francisco before settling in Seattle. His first book, Another Roadside Attraction, was published in 1971 fo...