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Family Group Therapy, 1961

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 1, Item: 2
Identifier: 6

Scope and Contents of the Collection

From the Collection:

The Feminist Publications Collection features an assortment of materials related to feminism and the Feminist movement, including articles, booklets, underground comic books, magazines, newspapers, pamphlets, and reference materials. Materials span from the 1960s to the 1970s and range from independently produced literature and pamphlets to commercially printed periodicals from various feminist and progressive organizations such as the Radical Education Project, New England Free Press, The Cambridge-Goddard School for Social Change and the Counter Culture Law Project. Materials in the collection come in a wide range of formats and cover topics such as wage inequality, sexual harassment, gender stereotyping, and the economic realities of feminism.

A collection of nine underground feminist comic books is also featured, including work by Lyn Chevli [a.k.a. Chin Lyvely], Joyce Sutton, Lee Marrs, Aline Kominsky, and Trina Robbins. Three issues of Wimmen’s Comix are included as is Trina Robbins and Lisa Lyons’ It Ain’t Me Babe: Womens Liberation, the first underground comic book edited, written, and drawn entirely by women.

Growth is anticipated for this collection.

Dates

  • Creation: 1961

Language of Materials

From the Collection:

Languages represented in the collection: English.

Access

Collection open for research.

Extent

From the Collection: 2.75 Linear Feet (2 document boxes, 1 slim document box, 1 flat box)

Note

From personal collection of Elizabeth Robson. 10" x 7.85", 52 pages, Public Health Monograph 64 by John Elderkin Bell, Ed. D. Published by the US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Laid-in pamphlet by the New York-based group The Medical Committee for Human Rights titled "Schools, Doctors, and Drugs: Should your child take prescribed drugs for school problems?," 6 pages, undated. Pamphlet discusses Ritalin and the diagnosis of MBD (minor brain damage), which was attributed to children with attention difficulties.

Repository Details

Part of the 01 - Special Collections & Archives, The Claremont Colleges Library Repository

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