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Contributing Institution:
Special Collections & Archives
Title: Bonnie Bullough Collection
Creator:
Bullough, Bonnie, 1927-1996
Identifier/Call Number: SC.BBC
Extent:
5.01 linear feet
Date (inclusive): 1954-2000
Date (bulk): 1966-1996
Abstract: Bonnie Bullough was a nursing teacher,
administrator, researcher, and author. The
Bonnie Bullough
Collection
documents her work in those fields, particularly her investigation of
job worth (attaching value to nursing jobs) and cross dressing. There is also a significant
amount of material related to the development and use of a new "improved perineometer" for
the treatment of stress incontinence.
Language of Material: English
Bonnie Bullough's childhood can appropriately be called tumultuous. Having never met her
biological father, she was shunted from relative to relative for her first few years.
Shortly before her 4
th birthday, while living with her mother,
she was badly burned. After 1935, she had access to corrective surgery and spent several
summers in the local children's hospital. The family moved to Salt Lake City as she was
entering junior high school. Shortly thereafter, her mother abandoned the family to live in
a committed relationship with another woman. Her step-father took his biological children
but he left Bonnie to be adopted by an uncle.
She and her future husband, Vern, met in debate club in high school. Soon after graduation
in 1944, Bonnie joined the Cadet Nurse Corps. In 1947, she and Vern eloped to Reno. Bonnie
worked as an operating room nurse and then as a public health nurse in the Chicago Public
Health Department. She had earned her bachelor's degree by 1955, and in 1959 the family
moved to California where Bonnie completed her education earning a master's degree in
nursing as well as a second master's and a Ph.D. in sociology.
Bonnie had a distinguished career having authored several books and articles on nursing,
sociology, and human sexuality, often with her husband. She progressed up the ladder of
academia: instructor, professor, chair, and dean. She is also responsible for the first
nurse practitioner program in California, beginning at UCLA in 1968. In 1974 while at Cal
State Long Beach she was put in charge of a consortium of colleges and universities to
coordinate nurse practitioner education. From 1979-1989 she was Dean of the School of
Nursing at SUNY Buffalo. Her husband accompanied her to Buffalo until their retirement and
return to California in 1993. Bonnie had a chronic illness which left her prone to
infections of the lungs. She had a series of these infections early in 1996 from which she
never quite recovered passing away April 12, 1996.
Dr. Bonnie Bullough was a nurse, researcher, author, and teacher. The material within the
Bonnie
Bullough
Collection focus primarily on her work as a researcher. There
are some additional materials related to her role as Dean of the School of Nursing at SUNY
Buffalo. The collection has been divided into two series:
General
Files
(1954-2000) and
Memorial Collection on
Prostitution
(1978-1999).
Series I,
General Files, includes various topics of interest to
Bullough, including job worth (attaching value to nursing jobs), education and licensing
reform measures, and cross dressing. There is also a significant amount of material related
to the development and use of a new "improved perineometer" for the treatment of stress
incontinence and are arranged alphabetically.
Series II,
The Memorial Collection on Prostitution, consists
primarily of information and research materials regarding prostitution and its effects.
Materials are arranged alphabetically.
Series I: General File, 1954-2000
Series II: Memorial Collection on Prostitution, 1978-1999
The collection is open for research use.
Copyright for unpublished materials authored or otherwise produced by the creator(s) of
this collection has not been transferred to California State University, Northridge.
Copyright status for other materials is unknown. Transmission or reproduction of materials
protected by U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.) beyond that allowed by fair use requires
the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be
commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any
use rests exclusively with the user.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Vern L. Bullough.
Materials were transferred with those belong to Bonnie Bullough's widower, Vern, sometime
following her death in 1996.
For information about citing items in this collection consult the appropriate style
manual, or see the
Citing Archival
Materials
guide.
April Feldman, 2017
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