Macpherson Second-Wave Feminist Collection
Scope and Contents
The Macpherson Second-Wave Feminist Collection includes feminist publications, newlsetters, newspaper clippings, newspaper/magazine articles, political writings, scholarly writings, addresses, reports, programs, directories, bibliographies, posters, and oversized materials related to the second-wave feminist movement.
A few materials in the collection pre-date the second-wave feminist movement. The earliest item is a 1911 booklet describing the legal status of women in the state of New York, from the New York State Woman Suffrage Association. This item has been included in a folder about women’s civil and legal rights as it is useful to track these advances over time. Other early materials include those from the late 1940s through the 1950s which provide context for the time leading up to the second-wave feminist and women’s liberation movements. Efforts have been made to assemble a folder of more intersectional materials relating to Black feminists, lesbian feminists, Indigenous women, anti-war protests, and the intersection between gender and class.
Dates
- Creation: circa 1942-1999
- Creation: Majority of material found in 1950-1985
Language of Material
Languages represented in the collection: English and French.
Access
Collection open for research.
Publication Rights
All requests for permission to reproduce or to publish must be submitted in writing to Ella Strong Denison Library.
Biographical / Historical
The second-wave feminist movement began in the early 1960s and lasted through the 1980s. Second-wave feminists built on the victory of women’s suffrage in 1920 in the United States to tackle issues such as reproductive rights, workplace equality, domestic labor, sexual violence, and fight for the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). Some second-wave feminist groups were more intersectional, taking race and sexuality into account, but the mainstream movement was dominated by middle class, white women.
Extent
4.9 Linear Feet (8 document boxes, 1 oversize box)
Abstract
The Macpherson Second-Wave Feminist Collection includes feminist publications, newletters, newspaper clippings, newspaper/magazine articles, political writings, scholarly writings, addresses, reports, programs, directories, bibliographies, posters, and oversized materials related to the second-wave feminist movement, with a few excpetions of earlier materials. The Macpherson Second Wave Feminist Collection is an artificially assembled collection that has been added to the Ida Rust Macpherson Collection–-a collection established in 1936 with materials by or about women. Ella Strong Denison Library’s Ida Rust Macpherson Collection is the earliest archival collection centering feminist histories to be held at a historically women’s college.
Physical Location
Please consult repository.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
The Macpherson Second Wave Feminist Collection was assembled by Ella Strong Denison library staff and added to the Ida Rust Macpherson Collection-–a collection established in 1936 with materials by or about women.
Accruals
No additions to the collection are anticipated.
Processing History
Preliminary arrangement by library staff. Processed by Corey Solorio LoDuca, 2022.
Cultural context
- Black Americans
- Labor movement.
- Periodicals
- Press releases
- Sexual orientation
- Women's history.
- Women--Employment.
Genre / Form
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
- Directories
- Fliers (Ephemera)
- Magazines
- Microfilms
- Newsletters
- Posters
- Prints
- Programs
- Publications
- Speeches, addresses, etc.
Geographic
Topical
- Abortion
- Asian Women's Institute
- Bibliographical citations
- Campus violence
- Childbirth.
- Childcare issues
- Christianity and politics
- Civil rights -- United States
- Class consciousness.
- Discrimination.
- Education
- Equal rights amendments.
- Feminism
- Gender
- Indigenous peoples
- International Alliance of Women
- International law
- Lesbians.
- Marriage.
- Mothers -- United States
- Muslim women.
- Patriarchy.
- Poetry
- Professional Women of Color
- Rape.
- Religion
- Reproductive health.
- Reproductive rights.
- Second-wave feminism.
- Sexual health.
- Women and religion.
- Women in art
- Women in development.
- Women in politics.
- Women in popular culture.
- Women's rights
- Women's studies
- Women's writings
- Working mothers.
- Title
- Macpherson Second-Wave Feminist Collection
- Status
- Completed
- Date
- 2022
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the 02 - Ella Strong Denison Library Repository