Andrea Olsen interview, 2002, July 24.

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Andrea Olsen interview, 2002, July 24.

Olsen describes her involvement with the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, MontPIRG; she describes lesbianism versus feminism and the illegality of consensual homosexual sex in the Montana constitution and its effects; she mentions the Bowers v. Hardwick case that repealed the above law; gay and lesbian rights and activism.

1 sound cassette : analog + 1 transcript.

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Montana Feminist History Project.

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Olsen, Andrea,

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Women's International League for Peace and Freedom

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WILPF developed out of the International Women's Congress against World War I that took place in The Hague, Netherlands, in 1915 and the formation of the International Women's Committee of Permanent Peace; the name WILPF was not chosen until 1919. The first WILPF president, Jane Addams, had previously founded the Woman's Peace Party in the United States, in January 1915, this group later became the US section of WILPF. Along with Jane Addams, Marian Cripps and Margaret E. Dungan were also foundi...