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New Collections and Online Resources

New Acquisitions

Here are a few of the many exciting new collections we've received within the past year:

Women On the Rise Telling HerStory (WORTH) Records, Women prisoners' advocacy organization

Records: 1.25 linear ft., 2004-2010. WORTH is an advocacy group comprised of currently and formerly incarcerated women. Based in New York City, the group offers support and training, does education and outreach to challenge "policy and public perception concerning incarcerated women. WORTH has organized direct actions leading to changes in laws and practices in NY State correctional facilities, including the former practice of shackling incarcerated women in labor and during birth.

Image from WORTH brochure

Suzanne Braun Levine Papers, Journalist, Author, Editor, and Professor

Records: 7.5 linear ft., 1972- 1997. The collection documents Levine's work as as managing editor, then vice-president of Ms. magazine, her work as editor of the Columbia Journalism Review, and as a freelance writer and adjunct professor in Columbia University's School of Journalism.

Survivors, Inc. Records,Welfare rights activist organization

Records: 6.75 linear ft., 1982- 2011. Founded in 1987 as "a group of low-income women and their allies who organize and educate around poverty, welfare and low-income survival issues. The records document the work of Survivors, Inc., based in the Boston area, as well as work done by the grassroots organization Advocacy for Resources for Modern Survival (ARMS). Major topics include welfare reform, economic justice, poverty, homelessness, grassroots organizing, and cross-class and bi-racial women's organizations.

National Latina Health Organization Records, women's health and youth advocacy organization

Records: 10.5 linear ft., circa 1986-2003. Based in San Francisco, the organization was especially committed to providing young Latinas safe spaces in which to discuss health concerns and also ran workshops for teenagers on building self-esteem. Records include health education and workshop curricula, surveys, conference materials, and newsletters. The NLHO's programming for Latina health issues and their teen programs are also well documented.

Note: although these collections are open to research, they have not been fully processed and therefore may be difficult to use. Also, access to some materials may not be immediate. For collections housed in remote storage we require 48 hours advance notice of your visit. For more information see Access to Collections

 

Newly processed collections, now open for research

Harriet Curtis

1840s New England mill worker

Flyer "American Foot Binding - Stamp Out High Heels,"
Rochester Women Against Violence Against Women, n.d."

Homosexuality/LBGT

Subject collection documenting attitudes towards gay people from 1932-1995, with emphasis on political struggles

Charlotte Seitlin

Editor, correspondence with themes of gay and lesbian lifestyles in the 1906s

National Women's Health Network

Non-profit women's health advocacy organization

Witchcraft

Subject collection of printed materials about the history of witches and witchcraft in the United States

New Online Resources

The following Subject Guides have recently been added to our website:

  Violence Against Women

  Environmental, Anti-Nuclear and Animal Rights Activists

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