Herstory
Series: Women's Studies Archive: Women's Issues and Identities; Women's Studies Archive: Women's Issues and Identities
Publisher: [publisher not identified]
Published: 1956
Place of publication: [Place of publication not identified]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 49383
Subjects: Women; Periodicals; Feminism
Description: The Herstory Collection comprises full texts of journals, newspapers, and newsletters tracing the evolution of women's rights movements in the United States and abroad from 1956 to 1974. Compiled by the Women's History Library from materials donated by the organizations that published them, the collection includes documents from the National Organization of Women (NOW), Daughters of Bilitis (DOB), Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), Women Strike for Peace (WSP), and many other groups. Among the longest-running periodicals in the collection is The Ladder, the journal of the Daughters of Bilitis, the first organization in the United States specifically dedicated to lesbian civil and political rights. Issues include those from October 1956 to August 1971--nearly a complete run. The newsletter Skirting the Capitol, published by women's rights pioneer Marian Ash, is also present in its complete run, with issues from 1967 to 1974. Featured here are the newsletters of many local and regional chapters of the National Organization for Women, from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to Portland, Oregon, and many larger and smaller cities in between. In addition, a vast array of other lesser-known organizations are represented by publications such as Give a Sister a Lift, published by the Planted Breast Collective of Santa Cruz, California, and On Our Way, a newsletter of the Waterbury Area Women's Center in Connecticut. Several newsletters are devoted to efforts to legalize abortion. Among these are the newsletters of the Women's Ad-Hoc Abortion Coalition, the Association to Repeal Abortion Laws, and the Indiana Abortion Coalition. These texts date from 1969 to 1971 and provide unique insight into the activism leading to the 1973 Supreme Court decision in the case of Roe v. Wade. The collection includes a selection of international newsletters and journals, among them several issues of Czechoslovak Woman, the journal of the Czechoslovak Women's Council and Enough, the journal of Bristol Women's Liberation in Bristol, England. German, Canadian, and Australian publications can be found here as well. Researchers interested the evolution of women's rights in the late twentieth century will find this collection indispensable for its primary source materials on a wide range topics, from equal pay and reproductive rights to the role of women in the peace movement.
Notes: Date range of documents: 1956-1974.

Reproduction of the originals from The National Women's History Project.

Images from the source libraries are selected contents of the original collection materials as representative of their value and pertinence to the digital product.

Includes the following publications: 51% : a paper of joyful noise; 9 to 5 : newsletter for Boston Area office workers; ACDS; Advocates for women newsletter; Ain't I a woman?; Akamai sister; ALA/SRRT task force on the status of women in librarianship; Alert : Federation of Organizations for Professional Women; Alert : women's legislative review; Amazon : a feminist journal; Amazon-Nation newsletter; American Association of Women in Community and Junior Colleges Newsletter; American Educational Research Association Women's Caucus Newsletter; American Friends Service Committee Women's Newsletter; American Negro Woman; American Society for Public Administration Task Force on the Status of Women and Minorities, Bay Area; And Ain't I A Woman?; Another Mother for Peace; Antioch College Newsletter; Aphra; Aradia; Asian Women; Asian Women's Center Newsletter; ASPO News; Assocation of Faculty Women Newsletter; Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter; Association for Women in Psychology Newsletter; Association of American Colleges, Project on the Status and Education of Women; Association of American Law Schools; Association of Married Women; Association to Repeal Abortion Laws Newsletter; Atlanta Women's Club Bulletin; Aurora; Awake & Move; AWIS Newsletter; AWP Newsletter; Baldwin Street Gallery Newsletter; Battle Acts; Bay Area Women's Liberation Newsletter; Bella Abzug Reports; Berkeley-Oakland Women's Union: A Socialist-Feminist Organization; Berkeley Women's Liberation Newsletter; Best Friends; Big Mama Rag; Birthright; Bitch; Black Maria; Bloomington Women's Liberation Newsletter; Born A Woman; Branching Out, A Canadian Magazine for Women; Bread and Roses, Boston; Bread and Roses, Sydney; Breakthrough; Bridge; Bristol Women's Liberation Group Newsletter; Broadsheet; Broadside; Calafia Clarion; California Division, American Association of University Women; California Personnel and Guidance Association Women's Caucus Newsletter; California Service Worker; Call to Women; Canadian Newsletter of Research on Women; Cape Cod Women's Liberation Newsletter; Capitol: Woman.