Collection Contents

History & Business

History of HerBooks.

General business & promotional materials (letterhead, bookmarks, business cards).

Herbooks catalogs.

Correspondence.

Financial records.

Irene Reti, 3/1/90 interview

Distribution

Herbooks distribution.

Diaspora Distribution Company.

Alamo Square Distributors.

Community Printers of Santa Cruz

The Women in Print Movement.

Feminist publisher catalogs.

Feminist publishers correspondence.

The Lesbians and Gays in Print Movement.

Outwrite! Conferences

Skills of Self-Publishing - proposed workshop.

Press ephemera

Sinister Wisdom, misc. issues

Common Lives/Lesbian Lives, misc. issues

Gossip, misc. issues

Lesbian Ethics, misc. issues

Conditions, misc. issues

HerBooks banner.

HerBooks T-shirt

"So Precious a Place" on women-only space - video tape

Audio Cassettes - a collection of interviews and business related tapes.

Lesbian Words: A Santa Cruz Anthology, edited by Irene Reti and Sue McCabe

Lesbian Words II: Photographs and Writings, edited by Irene Reti, Sue McCabe, and Terese Armstrong

The Lesbian in Front of the Classroom: Writings by Lesbian Teachers, edited by Irene Reti and Sarah-Hope Parmeter

Contributor Correspondence

Lesbian Teachers

Unpublished sequel

Camera-ready copy

Reviews

To Live with the Weeds, by D.A. Clarke

Correspondence

Camera-ready copy

Printed sheets - complete copy

Publicity

Reviews

1st ed. & 2nd ed. archive copies

Messages: Music for Lesbians, by D.A. Clarke

Lyrics and notes, and production notes.

Correspondence

Additional writing by D. A. Clarke.

Articles, stories, etc.

Clippings

Sinister Wisdom no.35, 38; Lesbian Ethics, v.2:2

Poetry

Distribution - Ladyslipper.

Reviews

Messages: Music for Lesbians, archive copy of audio cassette.

The World Between Women: An Anthology, edited by Irene Reti, Sarah-Hope Parmeter and Abby Bogomolny

Cultural Council of Santa Cruz County grant

Correspondence

Publicity

Archive copy

Nauseous in Paradise by Abby Bogomolny

HerBooks distribution and archive copy

Abby Lynn Bogomolny Collected Writing

Abby Bogomolny - misc. publications

Prepositions, by Linda Hooper, distributed by HerBooks

Research, distribution, and archive copy

Between the Lines: An Anthology of Pacific/Asian Lesbians of Santa Cruz, California, edited by Alison Kim, Christy Chung and A.K. Lemeshwsky, distributed by HerBooks.

Reviews

Alison Kim - other writings

Lizards/Los Padres, by Bettianne Shoney Sien

Camera-ready copy

Reviews

Archive copy

Love, Politics and "Rescue" in Lesbian Relationships, by Diana Rabenold

Past, Present and Future Passions: Poetry by Barbara Ruth, distributed by HerBooks

Distribution & archive copy

Bubbe Meisehs by Shayneh Maidelehs: An Anthology of Poetry by Jewish Granddaughters about our Grandmothers, edited by Lesléa Newman

Correspondence

Production

Camera-ready copy

Publicity

Reviews & archive copy

Love Me Like You Mean It: Poems by Lesléa Newman

Correspondence

Reviews & archive copy

Sweet Dark Places: Poems by Lesléa Newman

Correspondence

Manuscript

Camera-ready copy

Publicity, Reviews, archive copy

Lesléa Newman

Correspondence

Biographical Information

Remember the Fire: Lesbian Sadomasochism in a Post-Nazi Holocaust World, an essay by Irene Reti

Response Letters

Manuscript, comments by D. A. Clarke

Production

Reviews & archive copy

Unleashing Feminism: Critiquing Lesbian Sadomasochism in the Gay Nineties, edited by Irene Reti

Correspondence

Response letters

Camera-ready copy

Publicity material

Reviews

Archive copy

Cats (And Their Dykes): An Anthology, edited by Irene Reti and Bettianne Shoney Sien

Contributor Correspondence

Response Letters

Production

Camera-ready copy

Pgs. 1-80/81

Pgs. 82/83 - 158/159

"Toward a Feminist History of the Cat" by Irene Reti - handwritten draft

Reviews & archive copy

Childless by Choice: A Feminist Anthology, edited by Irene Reti

Contributor Correspondence

Correspondence

Outreach

Research

Camera-ready copy

Reviews & archive copy

Garden Variety Dykes: Lesbian Traditions in Gardening, edited by Irene Reti and Valerie Chase

Correspondence

Manuscripts w/corrections

Camera-ready copy

Publicity

Reviews & archive copy

The Second Coming of Joan of Arc and Other Plays by Carolyn Gage

Corrected galleys

Production

Correspondence

Publicity

Reviews & archive copy

The Second Coming of Joan of Arc, archive copy of audio cassette

Carolyn Gage

Miscellaneous writing

Theatre Productions

"Radical Propositions" - draft

Other plays - not published in HerBooks collection

A Transported Life: Memories of Kindertransport: The Oral History of Thea Eden, edited by Irene Reti and Valerie Jean Chase

Correspondence

Oral history - transcript

Research

Production

Galley proofs

Photographs

Publicity

Donation letters

Archive copy

Kindertransport

Research

Kindertransport Association of America (KTA)- information & newsletter "Kinderlink", 1995-2001

Reunion of Kindertransport (ROK) -- Great Britain

Jewish Lesbian Daughters of Holocaust Survivors

Organization information

Chosen of the Chosen

Correspondence with women who didn't know they were Jewish until adulthood.

A Holocaust Family Album (videotape)

Shards of Memory & other writing by Irene Reti

The Keeper of Memory: A Memoir, by Irene Reti

Background research notes

Draft, with comments by Gloria Anzaldua

Draft, with comments by Lori Klein

Draft, with comments by Barbara Wilson

Draft, with comments by Jeanne Freebody

Reviews & Archive copy

Women runners : stories of transformation, edited by Irene Reti and Bettianne Shoney Sien

Manuscript, pt.1

Manuscript, pt.2

Promotion

Writers

Gloris Anzaldua

Ellen Bass

Roz Spafford

Lesbian community of Santa Cruz

Celeste West

Irene Zahava

Irene Reti

Cottages at Hedgebrook Residency

Norcroft Residency