Feminist Publications Collection
Sean Stanley
Special Collections, Honnold/Mudd Library
800 North Dartmouth Avenue
Claremont, CA 91711
Phone: (909) 607-3977
Email: specialcollections@claremont.edu
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Descriptive Summary
Title: Feminist Publications Collection
Dates: 1961-1978 and
undated
Collection number: H.Mss.1094
Extent:
2.75 Linear Feet
(2 document boxes, 1 slim document box, 1 flat box)
Repository:
Claremont Colleges. Library. Special Collections, The Claremont
Colleges Library, Claremont, CA 91711.
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.
Physical Location: Please consult repository.
Language of Material: Languages represented in the
collection: English.
Administrative Information
Access
Collection open for research.
Publications Rights
All requests for permission to reproduce or to publish must be submitted in writing to
Special Collections.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Feminist Publications Collection (H.Mss.1094). Special
Collections and Archives, The Claremont Colleges Library, The Claremont Colleges Services,
Claremont, CA.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Items acquired through various gifts and purchases.
Accruals
Additions to the collection are anticipated.
Processing Information
Collection is processed at the item level. Materials were placed in archival acid-free
folders and boxes. Staples have been removed from some of the items and placed into
acid-free paper slings.
Biography / Administrative History
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. A
large portion of the materials come from the personal collection of Elizabeth Robson, a
feminist therapist and co-author of "Getting Help: A Woman's Guide to Therapy." Robson
graduated from the University of Chicago and received a master's degree in social work from
Columbia University. She was involved with the Chicago Women's Liberation Union during its
formation and was a strong supporter of feminist theory as it pertained to her work as a
therapist in Brookline, Massachusetts.
Additional materials have been acquired and added to the collection through various
purchases and donations. This is a growing collection and new materials will be added as
they are acquired.
Scope and Contents of 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.
Organization and Arrangement
This collection has been organized into the following series:
- Series 1: Articles, 1968-1973 and undated
- Series 2: Booklets, 1973-1976
- Series 3: Comics, 1970-1973
- Series 4: Magazines, 1973-1975
- Series 5: Newspapers, 1970-1978 and undated
- Series 6: Pamphlets, 1961-1978 and undated
- Series 7: Reference Materials, 1966-1977 and undated
Folders and items are arranged alphabetically by title within each series.
Separated Materials
Part of the Solution: Portrait of a Revolutionary by Margaret Randall. Bound
book removed and shelved separately in Special Collections. OCLC: 664713.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the
library’s online public access catalog.
Subject Terms
Abortion
Feminism
Gender
Kominsky-Crumb, Aline, 1948-2022
Lyvely, Chin
Marrs, Lee
Pro-choice movement
Robbins, Trina
Sex role
Sexual harassment of women
Wages--Women
Women -- Employment
Women -- Organizations
Women--Sexual behavior
Women artists
Women writers
Women's rights
Women's rights in comics
Genre and Form of Materials
Articles
Booklets
Comic books, strips, etc.
Newspapers
Periodicals
Series 1:
Articles
1968-1973 and undated
Box 1, Folder 1, Item 1
Counter Culture Law
circa 1970
Note
From personal collection of Elizabeth Robson. Chicago: Counter Culture Law Project.
Quarto sheets. 14pp.
Box 1, Folder 1, Item 2
Females and Welfare
circa 1969
Note
From personal collection of Elizabeth Robson. By Betsy Warrior. Boston: New England
Free Press. Single quarto sheet, printed both sides.
Box 1, Folder 1, Item 3
Gentile vs Jewish Marriage
circa 1972
Box 1, Folder 1, Item 4
Hanging Out
circa 1973
Note
Includes in July issue of
Esquire magazine.
Box 1, Folder 1, Item 5
It's Still a Man's World: But you can change it
circa 1970
Box 1, Folder 1, Item 6
Julia
circa 1973
Note
Included in July issue of
Esquire magazine.
Box 1, Folder 1, Item 7
The Place of American Women: Economic Exploitation of Women
circa 1969
Note
From personal collection of Elizabeth Robson. By Joan Jordan. Detroit, Michigan:
The Radical Education Project. Quarto sheet. 10pp. Separate edition reprinted from
Revolutionary Age.
Box 1, Folder 1, Item 8
Sexual Politics
1970
Note
From personal collection of Elizabeth Robson. Magazine article which is an excerpt
from the book "Sexual Politics" by Kate Millet, 1969/70.
Box 1, Folder 1, Item 9
Sexual Politics essay
1968 November
Note
From personal collection of Elizabeth Robson. Photomechanical duplication of an
essay by Kate Millet.
Box 1, Folder 2, Item 1
Economic Reality and the Limits of Feminism
undated
Note
From personal collection of Elizabeth Robson. Quarto sheets. 20pp. Excerpt from
Houseworker's Handbook.
Box 1, Folder 2, Item 2
The Geography of Inequality
undated
Box 1, Folder 2, Item 3
Male Supremacy and the Class Struggle
undated
Note
From personal collection of Elizabeth Robson. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Some from
the Boston National Lawyers Guild. Quarto sheets. 15pp.
Box 1, Folder 2, Item 4
Wife Beating and Crimes Against Women
undated
Note
From personal collection of Elizabeth Robson. Quarto sheets. 5pp.
Series 2:
Booklets
1973-1976
Box 1, Folder 3, Item 1
All She Needs
1973
Creator: Levine, Ellen
Note
From personal collection of Elizabeth Robson. NY: Quadrangle/New Yor Times Books.
First edition. Octavo. Stapled wrappers. 5.5" x 8.5", 56 pages. Introduction by Naomi
Weisstein. Booklet of feminist cartoons.
Box 1, Folder 3, Item 2
Dick and Jane as Victims: Sex Stereotyping in Children's Readers
1975
Note
From personal collection of Elizabeth Robson. Princeton, New Jersey: Women on Words
and Images. Second edition, third printing 5.5" x 8.5". Stapled wrappers. 80 pp.
Box 3, Folder 1
Equal Names for Equal Sexes
1974
Note
By Lucia Lane. A Proposal for Male and Female Surnames: Matrilineal and Patrilineal
Equality. Carmel, CA: Lucia Lane & Associates. Original yellow staplebound card
wrappers printed in green. 14pp.
Box 3, Folder 2
A Free Woman Can Only Live in a Free Society
1976
Note
New York: League for Proletarian Revolution. Contains reprints from "Albania Today"
No. 2. First Thus. Quarto (27.75cm.); publisher's pale green pictorial staplebound
card wrappers printed in brown and black; 27pp.
Box 3, Folder 3
Organize! A Working Woman's Handbook
1975 September
Note
Published by UNION W.A.G.E. Educational Committee (Berkeley, CA).
Series 3:
Comics
1970-1973
Box 1, Folder 4
Feminist Comics
1970-1972
Box 1, Folder 4, Item 1
Girl Fight Comics
1972
Note
Trina [a.k.a. Trina Robbins]. Berkeley: Print Mint. Interracial feminist comic book
featuring Fox and Speed Queen. Robbins's first solo publication.
Box 1, Folder 4, Item 2
It Ain't Me Babe
1970 July
Note
Trina [a.k.a. Trina Robbins], Lisa Lyons, et al. Berkeley: Last Gasp Ecofunnies.
The first underground comic book edited, written, and drawn entirely by women.
Box 1, Folder 4, Item 3
Tits and Clits No. 2
1972
Note
Lyn Chevli [pseud. Chin Lyvely] and Joyce Sutton. Laguna Beach: Nanny Goat
Productions.
Box 1, Folder 4, Item 4
Wimmen's Comix No. 1
1972
Box 1, Folder 5, Item 1
Abortion Eve
1973
Note
Chin Lyvely and Joyce Sutton. Underground comic deveoted to the issue of abortion,
with a decidely pro-choice stance. Issued the same year as the
Roe v.
Wade
Supreme Court decision.
Box 1, Folder 5, Item 2
Lee Marrs' The Further Fattening Adventures of Pudge: Girl
Blimp
1973
Note
Berkeley: Last Gasp Ecofunnies.
Box 1, Folder 5, Item 3
Pandora's Box Comix
1973
Note
Chin Lyvely and Joyce Sutton. Laguna Beach: Nanny Goat Productions. No. 1, first
number of
Tits & Clits's successor.
Box 1, Folder 5, Item 4
Wimmen's Comix No. 2
1973
Box 1, Folder 5, Item 5
Wimmen's Comix No. 3
1973
Series 4:
Magazines
1973-1975
Box 1, Folder 6
The Second Wave, Women's Issues
1973-1974
Box 1, Folder 6, Item 1
The Second Wave, Vol. 2 No. 4
1973
Note
From personal collection of Elizabeth Robson. Boston: Female Liberation. Quarto.
Stapled wrappers. 24pp.
Box 1, Folder 6, Item 2
Women's Issues: A Journal of the Cambridge - Goddard Feminist
Community
1974 July
Note
From personal collection of Elizabeth Robson. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The
Cambridge-Goddard School for Social Change. Quarto. Stapled wrappers 36pp.
Box 1, Folder 7
"Women" Magazine
1974-1975
Box 1, Folder 7, Item 1
Women, Vol. 4 No. 1, "Androgyny"
1974
Note
From personal collection of Elizabeth Robson. Winter 1974 edition. Baltimore:
Maryland: Women: A Jurnal of Liberation. Stapled wrappers, 64pp.
Box 1, Folder 7, Item 2
Women, Vol. 4 No. 2, "The Cost of Living"
1975
Note
From personal collection of Elizabeth Robson. Spring 1975 edition. Baltimore:
Maryland: Women: A Jurnal of Liberation. Stapled wrappers, 64pp.
Series 5:
Newspapers
1970-1978 and
undated
Box 4, Folder 1, Item 1
Vol. 1, No. 1
1970 January
15
Box 4, Folder 1, Item 2
Vol. 1, No. 2
1970 January
29
Box 4, Folder 1, Item 3
Vol. 1, No. 3
1970 February
Box 4, Folder 2, Item 1
Vol. 1, No. 4
1970 March 15
Box 4, Folder 2, Item 2
Vol. 1, No. 5
1970 April 7
Box 4, Folder 3, Item 1
Vol. 1, No. 8
1970
June 11 - July 1
Box 4, Folder 3, Item 2
Vol. 1, No. 9
1970
July 2 - 23
Box 1, Folder 8, Item 1
Rough Times, Vol. 3 No. 3
1972 December
Note
From personal collection of Elizabeth Robson. Formerly known as The Radical
Therapist.
Box 1, Folder 8, Item 2
Rough Times, Vol. 3 No. 4
1973 February
- March
Note
From personal collection of Elizabeth Robson. Formerly known as The Radical
Therapist.
Box 1, Folder 8, Item 3
Rough Times, Vol. 3 No. 6
1973 June -
July
Note
From personal collection of Elizabeth Robson. Formerly known as The Radical
Therapist.
Box 1, Folder 8, Item 4
Rough Times, Vol. 3 No. 8
1973 November
- December
Note
From personal collection of Elizabeth Robson. Formerly known as The Radical
Therapist.
Box 1, Folder 9
Rough Times, RT: A Journey of Radical Therapy, State and Mind
1974-1978
Box 1, Folder 9, Item 1
Rough Times, Vol. 4 No. 1
1974 January -
February
Note
From personal collection of Elizabeth Robson.
Box 1, Folder 9, Item 2
Rough Times, Vol. 4 No. 2
1974 March -
May
Note
From personal collection of Elizabeth Robson.
Box 1, Folder 9, Item 3
RT: A Journey of Radical Therapy, Vol. 4 No. 5
1974 December
Note
From personal collection of Elizabeth Robson. Formerly known as The Radical
Therapist/Rough Times.
Box 1, Folder 9, Item 4
RT: A Journey of Radical Therapy, Vol. 4 No. 8
1975 November
Note
From personal collection of Elizabeth Robson. Formerly known as The Radical
Therapist/Rough Times.
Box 1, Folder 9, Item 5
State and Mind, Vol. 6 No. 4 and Vol. 7 No. 1
1978
Note
From personal collection of Elizabeth Robson. Issue where "The Radical
Therapist/Rough Times" changed its title to "State and Mind." Format changed from
folded newspaper to stapled magazine. Summer/Fall Special Double Issue.
Box 1, Folder 10
Women in the Middle East
undated
Note
From personal collection of Elizabeth Robson. "Women in the Middle East: The
Continuing Struggle." Anthology of articles about women and revolution in the Middle
East. Created by a section of the Women's Center School in Cambridge,
Massachusetts.
Series 6:
Pamphlets
1961-1978 and undated
Box 2, Folder 1, Item 1
American Women: Their Use and Abuse
1969
Creator: Wells,
Lyn
Note
From personal collection of Elizabeth Robson. Boston: New England Free Press.
Quarto. Stapled wrappers. 16pp.
Box 2, Folder 1, Item 2
Family Group Therapy
1961
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.
Box 2, Folder 1, Item 3
Images of Woman: Past and Present, Overt and Obscured
1969
Note
From personal collection of Elizabeth Robson. 5.5" x 8.5", 21 pages, by Natalie
Shainess, M.D. Pamphlet reprints Shainess's article from the American Journal of
Psychology, Vol 23, No. 1, pages 77-97, January 1969.
Box 2, Folder 1, Item 4
The Myth of Women's Inferiority
circa 1969
Note
From personal collection of Elizabeth Robson. By Evelyn Reed. Boston: New England
Free Press. Quarto. Wrappers. 59-66pp. Article originally appeared in the spring,
1954 issue of
The Fourth International.
Box 2, Folder 1, Item 5
The Politics of Housework
circa 1969
Note
From personal collection of Elizabeth Robson. By Pat Mainardi. Boston: New England
Free Press. Octavo. Wrappers. 6pp.
Box 2, Folder 1, Item 6
Poor Black Women
circa 1969
Note
From personal collection of Elizabeth Robson. By Patricia Robinson. Boston: New
England Free Press. Folio sheet folded once to make four pages.
Box 2, Folder 1, Item 7
Toward a Female Liberation Movement
1968
Note
From personal collection of Elizabeth Robson. By Beverly Jones and Judith Brown.
Boston: New England Free Press. Quarto. 32pp.
Box 2, Folder 1, Item 8
We May Not Have Much But There's a Lot of Us!
circa 1968
Note
From personal collection of Elizabeth Robson. Detroit: Radical Education Project.
Quarto sheets stapled. 10pp. Separate edition reprinted from Leviathan of a
conversation between two Canadian women who formed a Woman's Liberation group of
two.
Box 2, Folder 1, Item 9
Women: The Longest Revolution
circa 1969
Note
From personal collection of Elizabeth Robson. By Juliet Mitchell. Boston: New
England Free Press. Octavo. Stapled wrappers. 26pp. Separate edition reprinted from
New Left Review.
Box 2, Folder 1, Item 10
Women Workers: The Forgotten Third of the Working Class
circa 1969
Note
From personal collection of Elizabeth Robson. By Ilene Winkler. New York:
International Socialists. Quarto. Wrappers. 12pp.
Box 2, Folder 2, Item 1
Mother Jones in Appalachia
circa 1970
Note
From personal collection of Elizabeth Robson. By Keith Dix. Detroit: Radical
Education Project. Quarto sheets stapled. 8pp. Separate edition reprinted from
People's Appalachia.
Box 2, Folder 2, Item 2
New School News, No. 9
1973 January -
February
Note
From personal collection of Elizabeth Robson. Chicago: American Friends Service
Committee. Quarto. Wrappers. 14pp.
Box 2, Folder 2, Item 3
Off the Couch: A Woman's Guide to Therapy
1975
Note
From personal collection of Elizabeth Robson. Cambridge: Massachusetts: The Women
and Therapy Project (Cambridge-Goddard School). Octavo. Stapled wrappers. 42pp.
Box 2, Folder 2, Item 4
A Political Biography of Angela Davis
1971
Note
From personal collection of Elizabeth Robson. NY: NY Committee to Free Angela
Davis. Second edition. Octavo. Wrappers. 8pp.
Box 2, Folder 2, Item 5
Sexual Harassment at the Workplace
1977
Note
From personal collection of Elizabeth Robson. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Allied
Alliance Against Sexual Coercion. Tall thin octavo. Stapled wrappers. 24pp.
Box 2, Folder 2, Item 6
They Almost Seized the Time!
circa 1970
Note
From personal collection of Elizabeth Robson. By Vickie Pollard and Donna Keck.
Detroit: Radical Education Project. Octavo. Stapled wrapers. 13pp.
Box 2, Folder 2, Item 7
Woman and Her Mind: The Story of Daily Life
1970
Note
From personal collection of Elizabeth Robson. By Meredith Tax. Boston/Cambridge:
New England Free Press / Bread and Roses Publications. Small quarto. Stapled
wrappers.
Box 2, Folder 3, Item 1
Bread and Roses
undated
Note
From personal collection of Elizabeth Robson. Pamphlet by Kathy McAfee and Myrna
Wood. Originally appeared in Leviathan vol. 1 No. 3 in June 1969. This undated
reproduction was published by the Radical Education Project of Detroit, MI.
Box 2, Folder 3, Item 2
Female Liberation as the Basis for Social Revolution
undated
Note
From personal collection of Elizabeth Robson. 10.75" x 8.5", 6 pages, by Roxanne
Dunbar. Published by the New England Free Press of Boston, MA.
Box 2, Folder 3, Item 3
How to Publish Your Very Own Underground Newspaper
undated
Note
8.5" x 11", 12 pages, no author. Published by the Underground Press Syndicate and
the Free Ranger Tribe.
Box 2, Folder 3, Item 4
I Am Furious (Female)
undated
Note
From personal collection of Elizabeth Robson. 8.5" x 5.5", 20 pages, originally
appeared in RIPSAW. Published by the Radical Education Project. Printed by Movement
Labor. Pamphlet was "an attempt to formulate perspectives for the Women's Caucus of
the New University Conference."
Box 2, Folder 3, Item 5
Kinder, Kuche, Kirche as Scientific Law: Psychology Constructs the
Female
undated
Note
From personal collection of Elizabeth Robson. By Naomi Weisstein. Boston: New
England Free Press. Quarto. 7pp.
Series 7:
Reference Materials
1966-1977 and undated
Box 2, Folder 4
Reference Materials
1966-1977 and undated
Box 2, Folder 4, Item 1
The Feminist Journal Bibliography
circa 1971
Note
From personal collection of Elizabeth Robson. Minneapolis, Minnesota: The Feminist
Journal. Stapled quarto wrappers. 36pp.
Box 2, Folder 4, Item 2
Message to Future Generations
undated
Note
Handwritten partial copy of "Message to Future Generations," which the notetaker
attributes to Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. Note dates piece at
"about 1868."
Box 2, Folder 4, Item 3
Mushroom Effect: A Directory of Women's Liberation
1970
Note
From personal collection of Elizabeth Robson. Albany, California. 20pp.
Box 2, Folder 4, Item 4
Supplement to the Directory of Humanistic Psychotherapist
1976-1977
Note
From personal collection of Elizabeth Robson. Supplement to the Directory of
Humanistic Psychotherapists in the greater Boston area. Boston: Contance Publishing.
Quarto. Stapled warppers. 58pp.
Box 2, Folder 4, Item 5
Women Members in Labor Unions
1966
Note
From personal collection of Elizabeth Robson. Photomechanically reproduced sheets,
printed both sides, with a staple at one corner. 3pp. Possibly a women's studies
handout.
Box 2, Folder 4, Item 6
"Women" syllabus
undated
Note
From personal collection of Elizabeth Robson. By Joan Laser. Mimeographs sheet
printed recto only. Likely a women's studies class syllabus.