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Women's rights

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Feminist Publications Collection

 Collection
Identifier: H-Mss-1094
Abstract

This is an artificial collection created by Special Collections of The Claremont Colleges Library that holds various publications related to feminism and the Feminist movement. Currently, the collection contains articles, booklets, underground comic books, magazines, newspapers, pamphlets, and reference materials, spanning from the 1960s to the 1970s This is a growing collection and new materials will be added as they are acquired.

Dates: 1961-1978 and undated

Arthur Godley Baron Kilbracken letters

 Collection
Identifier: H-Mss-1066
Abstract This collection contains the letters of Arthur Godley, Baron Kilbracken to his adult daughter Helen from the years of 1898-1899, along with two photographs of Helen from 1875. An additional autograph letter signed by Catherine Gladstone (wife of Prime Minister William Gladstone) to Walter Charles James is also included. The letters were written during Godley's time as Under-Secretary of State in India and provide an intimate picture of the private, upper-class world of the time, while also...
Dates: 1875-1899 and undated; Majority of material found within 1898 - 1899

Macpherson Second-Wave Feminist Collection

 Collection
Identifier: D-Mss-0985
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...
Dates: circa 1942-1999; Majority of material found in 1950-1985

Edith Potter Papers

 Collection
Identifier: D-Mss-0984
Abstract Edith Potter (1920-1999) was a Professor of German at Scripps College from 1967 to 1990. The Edith Potter Papers include Potter's manuscripts, typed and handwritten notes, photocopies of academic literature, correspondence, photographs, awards, and microfilm. These materials document Potter’s life in Germany before and after World War II as well as her career as a professor and distinguished scholar in the United States. Potter was beloved and honored by the Scripps community for her...
Dates: 1705-2000 and undated; Majority of material found within 1949-2000

Social Movements Collection

 Collection
Identifier: H-Mss-1031
Abstract This collection is made up of materials from multiple social movements throughout the 20th century. Especially in the 1960s, a boom of social movements erupted across the globe and in the United States formed by groups of people feeling frustrated with the continued oppression and lack of recognition throughout the course of history. There are materials from the Black civil rights movement, Chicano Movement, the United Farm Workers, the Young Lords movement, and surrounding the events of the...
Dates: 1938-2018

Mrs. Humphry Ward Papers

 Collection
Identifier: H-Mss-0927
Abstract

This collection contains the papers of Mrs. Humphry Ward (1851-1920), a British writer at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. The collection consists of letters between Mrs. Ward and her publishers, family and friends, photographs, miscellaneous documents, and notebooks that hold drafts of her novels and articles. The collection spans the years 1857-1935.

Dates: 1857-1935