Papers, 1979-1989 bulk, 1975-1994.

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Papers, 1979-1989 bulk, 1975-1994.

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Collection documents the internationally acclaimed lesbian historian's professional life. Papers date from 1975-1994, with the majority spanning the period 1979-1989. Among the papers are drafts of her published papers and book reviews and manuscript drafts of three of her books; correspondence, publicity materials, background research, contracts and royalty statements, printed matter, photographs and audio materials. The Publications series includes drafts of Faderman's published papers and book reviews and manuscript drafts of three of her books: Surpassing the love of men (1981), an acclaimed study of five centuries of love between women; Odd girls and twilight lovers (1991), a history of twentieth-century lesbians in America and Chloe plus Olivia (1994), an anthology of lesbian literature since the seventeenth century. Correspondence is with individuals; agents and publishers and institutions and organizations and concerns awards and prizes. The Printed matter series includes newsletters, periodicals and newspapers of various lesbian, gay and women's organizations and groups and now defunct small presses. Finally, the Audio materials series consists of both taped materials and compact discs covering interviews by Faderman with Barbara Gittings, an early pioneer lesbian activist, and Mariana Romo-Carmona, a Latina lesbian artist from New York City, for Odd girls and twilight lovers.

18 manuscript boxes (9 linear ft.)8 oversize boxes.

University of California, Los Angeles

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University of California, Los Angeles

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June L. Mazer Lesbian Archive at UCLA.

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University of California, Los Angeles. Library

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Powell was a librarian, Strashun the curator at the music library, and Whiting the curator of rare books at the UCLA library (at the respective times of correspondence). Sproul was president of UCLA from 1930 to 1958. From the description of Correspondence with Alma Mahler and Isolde Klarmann, 1946-1947, 1978. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155864679 ...

June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives

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Faderman, Lillian.

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Faderman was born July 18, 1940 in the Bronx, New York, the daughter of a single working mother who lost most of her family in the Holocaust. Faderman's family moved to east L.A. when she was a teen and she later attended U.C. Berkeley, where she worked as a burlesque stripper to support herself. She received a B.A. in English literature from U.C. Berkeley in 1962, an M.A. in English from UCLA in 1964, and a Ph.D. in English from UCLA in 1967. In 1967, Faderman started teaching in the English de...