Guide to the Stanford Workshops on Political and Social Issues (SWOPSI),
records SC1383
Jenny Johnson, Claudia Willett
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
September 2018, March 2023
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford 94305-6064
specialcollections@stanford.edu
Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: The Stanford Workshops on Political and Social Issues (SWOPSI), records
Creator:
Stanford Workshops on Political and Social
Issues.
Identifier/Call Number: SC1383
Physical Description:
.50 Linear Feet
Date (inclusive): 1977-1982
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records (SC1383). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Jane Benson, 1998.
Scope and Contents
SWOPSI course proposals regarding feminism, including reading lists, section outlines,
workshop leaders' resumes, and other miscellaneous notes; SWOPSI course description catalog,
along with dates, times, and locations of first meetings with workshop leaders for Winter
1979-1980.
Biographical / Historical
The SWOPSI workshops were first organized by two graduate students and one undergraduate at
Stanford University in fall 1969. There was a desire present among the student body to study
issues of local and national concern directly – specifically in order to consider what can
be done about them. The subjects of these courses ranged from air pollution in the San
Francisco Bay Area to international arms control and disarmament, and almost all of them
were offered for full academic credit.
Excerpted from http://dynamics.org/SWOPSI/ADVICE_AND_DISSENT/
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Feminism.
Marxism
Lesbianism.
Records Accession ARCH-1998-106
Box 1, folder 1
Marxism-Feminism: Dissolving the Hyphen
Box 1, folder 2
What Are We Fighting For? A Closer Look at Feminism
Box 1, folder 3
The Female Condition: Search for a Marxist Approach
1976 Spring
Box 1, folder 4
Workshop on Sexism
1977 Winter
Box 1, folder 5
Contemporary Women's Poetry & Politics
1978 Fall
Box 1, folder 6
Women & Science
1982 Winter
Box 1, folder 7
Two Women, Eye to Eye: Lesbian Visions in Literature
1982 Spring
Box 1, folder 8
SWOPSI Catalog
1979-1980 Winter
Box 2
SWOPSI 162: Homosexuality: an overview ARCH-2022-098
1978-1979
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Transfer from Corbin Smith
