Women's Resource Center Records, 1974-1990

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Summary

Title:
Women's Resource Center Records
Dates:
1974-1990
Creators:
Women's Resource Center
Extent:
0.63 linear ft
Preferred citation:

Identification of item, folder title, box number, Women's Resource Center Records, Special Collections and University Archives, Library and Information Access, San Diego State University.

Background

Scope and content:

The collection is comprised of two series. Series I: Office Files contains meeting minutes for the Women's Resource Center , as well the the daily transaction logs for the Center. These logs provide a clear picture of WRC daily activities, services, and referrals spanning several years. Also present are meeting minutes from the Feminist Union (a coalition of campus feminist organization), which cover the Union's involvement with issues like sexism in campus classrooms, health services on campus, and programming related to women on campus. Series II: Program Files contains flyers and planning documents for lectures, programs, and workshops organized by the WRC, as well as documents related to the Rape Awareness Task Force peer education program, including personal statements detailing incidents on campus and a petition to the Daily Aztec in 1986 regarding the publishing of certain advertisements.

Biographical / historical:

The Women's Resource Center (WRC) at San Diego State was established in 1974 by a coalition of women's organizations on campus. Intended to serve as a link between the campus and the larger San Diego community, the Center offered a variety of programs and services for women students, including lectures, films, and workshops on topics such as career building, nutrition, entrepreneurship, and family issues. It also served as a resource and referral center, connecting women students with health clinics, support organizations, help centers, bookstores, legal services, and cultural programs. Informal peer counseling and referral counseling was available for students in need on a regularly scheduled basis. The Center maintained a small library of materials written by and for women, as well as consulting files of pamphlets, brochures, and flyers from a variety of organizations for women. Funded by the Associated Students, the Center had a small paid staff in addition to interns and volunteers. In addition to a film festival for women, the Center ran an annual Women's Health Fair and Take Back the Night events, and coordinated a standing Rape Task Force on campus.

After a period of dormancy, the Women's Resource Center was reinvigorated and is now known as the Andrea O'Donnell Women's Resource Center in honor of a Women's Studies major and Resource Center student leader who was murdered by her boyfriend in 1995. The current goals of the WRC are: to provide a safe, nonsexist environment in which female students can study, relax, etc. while on campus; to provide free, accessible information, resources, and referrals regarding women's health, body image, eating disorders, sexuality, and other gender-related issues faced by students, faculty, and staff at SDSU; to raise awareness about sexism and its consequences, and work toward ending violence, abuse, and all forms of sexist oppression, and by organizing various educational and consciousness-raising events.

Arrangement:

I. Office Files

II. Program Files

About this collection guide

Date Encoded:
This finding aid was encoded in EAD by Archon 3.20 from an SQL database source on July 10th, 2012 .

Access and use

Restrictions:

This collection is open for research.

Terms of access:

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Preferred citation:

Identification of item, folder title, box number, Women's Resource Center Records, Special Collections and University Archives, Library and Information Access, San Diego State University.

Location of this collection:
Library and Information Access
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San Diego, CA 92182-8050, US
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