Letters to Ms., 1970-1998 (inclusive).

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Letters to Ms., 1970-1998 (inclusive).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/424528862

This collection contains letters to the editor of Ms. magazine and related documents. Although most of the materials are more recent than those found in the Ms. Letters, 1972-1980 (MC 331), letters through 1980 fill in gaps in that collection. These letters were written by women, men, and young persons from all over the United States and the world. Writers represent numerous ethnicities, religions, and backgrounds, including homemakers, single mothers, Congresspersons, authors, stay-at-home dads, lesbians, transsexuals, veterans, pornographers, and the mentally ill, among many others. The collection does not include the more than 20,000 letters written in response to the preview issue. Letters may describe personal experiences and problems or praise or criticize specific issues or the magazine in general. Many express feminist or anti-feminist points of view or make rhetorical or political statements about specific issues such as sexuality, women's health, human and family relationships, motherhood, life choices, credit, job discrimination, careers, the Equal Rights Amendment, and portrayals of women in the media. The collection also includes photographs, manuscripts, one audiotape, newsletters, clippings, and ephemera.

27.1 linear ft. (65 file boxes, 1 folio+ folder, 6 photograph folders, 1 audiotape)

Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏

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Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏

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Gillespie, Marcia

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Magazine editor Marcia Ann Gillespie was born on July 10, 1944 in Rockville Centre, New York. Her father, Charles M. Gillespie, was a church sexton and ran a floor waxing business; her mother, Ethel Young Gillespie, a domestic worker who operated a catering business on the side. Gillespie and her sister, Charlene Gillespie, grew up- in Long Island, New York. She graduated from a mostly white and Jewish high school and then enrolled in Lake Forest College where she graduated with honors with her ...

Steinem, Gloria

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Pogrebin, Letty Cottin 1939-

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