Women's newsletter and periodical collection, (inclusive), (bulk) 1923-2011 1970-1995

Association for Women Geoscientists

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The Association for Women Geoscientists was officially founded in 1977 with approxiamtely 50 members in the Bay area of San Francisco. The first chapter formed in 1979 when a group in Denver became associated with the San Francisco group. The Bay area, at first, served as national headquarters for the organization as regional groups developed into recognized chapters. The Association, now headquartered at Menlo Park, Ca., has the following goals: 1)To encourage the participation of women in the ...

Everywoman's Center (Tampa, Fla.)

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Church Women United

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Affiliated with the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. From the description of Records of Church Women United, 1968-1970 (inclusive). (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 702150544 Berkeley-Albany Church Women United traces its origin to efforts to support local mission activities in 1911, Council of Women for Home Missions. In 1941, the group joined the national organization of Church Women United (CWU). The group served as an ecum...

National Congress of Neighborhood Women

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Neighborhood scene in Brooklyn, New York, circa 1980. Photograph by Janie Eisenberg. The National Congress of Neighborhood Women (NCNW) is a support network for grassroots women's organizations and community leaders dedicated to empowering, and providing a voice for, poor and working-class women working to improve their communities and their own status in low-income urban and rural areas on local, national, and international levels. The history of NCNW begins with the r...

Santa Cruz Women's Health Center (Calif.)

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Feminist Writers' Guild (U.S.). New York Chapter

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Women's Centre (Bombay, India)

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National Network of Hispanic Women (U.S.)

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Women's Educational Center

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In 1970, Bread and Roses, a group of Socialist-Feminist women in Boston, Massachusetts, began searching for a building to house a center for women. In March 1971, Bread and Roses seized an unoccupied building, owned by Harvard University, on Memorial Drive in Cambridge. Bread and Roses held the building for ten days, offering free classes and child care before they were forced out. Sympathetic individuals donated $5,000, and in June 1971, Bread and Roses bought a house in Cambridge. The Women's ...

National Women's Employment and Education Inc. (U.S.)

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Texas Council on Family Violence

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Formed in 1978, the Texas Council on Family Violence (TCFV) was the first statewide organization to address explicitly the issue of domestic violence. According to their 1995 by-laws, the group was organized for charitable purposes as a non-profit membership organization for autonomous, community-based battered women's shelters, related organizations, and concerned others. The TCFV's purposes are to assist and empower battered women and their children and to eliminate violence again...

Women's Engineering Society

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Minnesota Women's Consortium

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Belize Committee for Women and Development

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Boston Women's Teacher's Group

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National Women's Health Network (U.S.)

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Women's health advocacy organization. Founded at the height of second wave feminism, the National Women's Health Network was an outgrowth of informal groups of women sharing their experiences. The idea for an organization that would enable women to influence health policy was hatched in the fall of 1974 by Barbara Seaman and Belita Cowan. The "Women's Health Lobby" (later called the National Women's Health Lobby Network, and finally the National Women's Health Network) w...

National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance

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National Conference of Puerto Rican Women

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Catcall Collective (London, England)

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Bay Area Revolutionary Union

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Women's City Club of New York

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National Lawyer's Guild

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International Council of Women.

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International Council of Women (ICW) founded in Washington, D.C., in 1888, as an international federation of national women's organizations. Later affiliated with the United Nations with headquarters in Paris. From the description of International Council of Women records, 1931-1957. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70981886 The International Council of Women, founded in 1888, is one of the pioneer women's international organizations. From the outset its aim was to form a Nati...

Women's Educational Equity Communications Network

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Republican National Committee (U.S.). Women's Division

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Reproductive Rights National Network

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The Reproductive Rights National Network formed in 1978 in response to the nationwide abortion debate launched by Roe v. Wade. It eventually included about 50 feminist organizations and devoted itself to making reproductive choices available for all women. R2N2 campaigned for safe abortions; for the right of gay couples to adopt and raise children; and against the sterilization of poor or "unfit" mothers. It disbanded in 1984. From the description of Reproductive Rights National Netw...

New Jewish Agenda (Organization)

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The New Jewish Agenda (N.J.A.) was a national Jewish organization (1980-1992) that had more than forty chapters. It saw itself as a "Jewish voice among progressives" and a "progressive voice among Jews." Based on its commitment to the Talmudic precept of "Tikun Olam" --the just reordering of society--the N.J.A. took positions in support of: economic and social justice; feminism, including women's reproductive rights; peace in the Middle East, including self-determination for both Israelis and th...

Women's Indian Association

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Women's National Abortion Action Coalition

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Family Violence & Sexual Assault Institute

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Women's Health America, Inc.

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Woman's Suffrage League of Japan

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Coalition of Grass Roots Women

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Florence Luscomb Women's Center (Salem, Mass.)

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