Bonnie Bullough Collection, 1954-2000, bulk 1966-1996

Summary

Creators:

Bullough, Bonnie, 1927-1996

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.

Extent:

5.01 linear feet

Language:

English

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Background

Scope and content:

Dr. Bonnie Bullough was a nurse, researcher, author, and teacher. The material within the BonnieBulloughCollection 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.

Biographical / historical:

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.

Acquisition information:

Vern L. Bullough.

Custodial history:

Materials were transferred with those belong to Bonnie Bullough's widower, Vern, sometime following her death in 1996.

Processing information:

April Feldman, 2017

Arrangement:

Series I: General File, 1954-2000

Series II: Memorial Collection on Prostitution, 1978-1999

Indexed terms

Subjects:

Documents
Photographs

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research use.

Terms of access:

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.

Preferred citation:

For information about citing items in this collection consult the appropriate style manual, or see the Citing Archival Materialsguide.

Location of this collection:

California State University, Northridge, Special Collections

18111 Nordhoff Street

Northridge, CA 91330, US

Contact:

(818) 677-4594

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