Women's School records, 1971-1992 1973-1985.

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Women's School records, 1971-1992 1973-1985.

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The records of the Women's School document its development from the early planning stages through closure. Series 1. Administration documents concerning the school's formation, day-to-day operations, and governance. Records include annual fiscal reports, information about funding sources, correspondence, articles about the School, press releases on classes and workshops, and registration materials. In addition, minutes from the collective, general, and teacher's meetings provide information on the operation of the school and its educational programs. Series 2. Term Files contain extensive material on each academic term, including bibliographies, class descriptions, course outlines, instructor's notes, class lists, reading lists, registration for child care and classes, schedules of classes, syllabi, and worksheets. Series 3. Related materials offers a glimpse into the intellectual and political thinking of feminists during the 1970s and early 1980s. Included are articles, brochures, newsletters and speeches relating to African-American women, alternative education programs, the Boston Women's Union, feminist humor, population control in Latin America, socialist feminism, tenant rights, women in China, and the Women's Educational Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Also included are early published and unpublished works by Angela Davis, Barbara Ehrenreich, and Linda Gordon.

5.25 cubic ft. (6 boxes)

Northeastern University, Snell Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7630881

Northeastern University, Snell Library

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Women's School (Cambridge, Mass.)

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Created in 1971 to offer classes and workshops to women on a variety of subjects; also known as Cambridge Women's School. From the description of Records, 1971-1992. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70940009 The Women's School was established in 1971 by 20 women who were involved with the Women's Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The school was founded as an alternative source of feminist education, and its ideologies were based on socialist feminism. The school was operated...

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 ...

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Gordon, Linda M.

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Linda Gordon was an associate professor of history at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. From the description of Student papers, 1976. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122336389 ...