Coming to Cal, 1950 : oral history transcript / Mildred Dickemann; an interview conducted by William Benemann in 1996. The University Archives, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1997.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Coming to Cal, 1950 : oral history transcript / Mildred Dickemann; an interview conducted by William Benemann in 1996. The University Archives, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1997.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82843111

Dickemann discusses her childhood as a Navy dependent, particularly in Samoa in the 1930's, an adolescent lesbian experience while volunteering in the Woman's Land Army, her experiences as a graduate student in the Anthropology Dept. during the 1950s, lesbian life in the San Francisco Bay Area, and her teaching career, including her appointment as Chair of the Academic Senate at California State University, Sonoma. At the end of her autobiographical statement she reveals that, at the age of 67, she had just begun sex reassignment from female to male.

Transcript: 1 v. (vi, 38 leaves) : port. ; 28 cm.Phonotapes: 2 sound cassettes.

UC Berkeley Libraries

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 8290470

UC Berkeley Libraries

Related Entities

There are 5 Entities related to this resource.

Bancroft Library. University Archives

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6v16gwn (corporateBody)

Dickemann, Mildred.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qr5rx1 (person)

University of California, Berkeley. Dept. of Anthropology

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rg2xk1 (corporateBody)

Benemann, William, 1949-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rf66s6 (person)

University of California (1868-1952)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6m940p0 (corporateBody)

Administrative History During the mid-twentieth century, the American Labor Movement reached a pinnacle of power and influence within society. The Second World War required that labor be managed as a strategic resource; the high productivity of workers during the war carried over in the peace time economy, which experienced a sustained economic "boom." Unlike European labor relations, where unions play an "official" role in government, the Am...