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MS-0484
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Collection Title: Women's Resource Center Records
Dates: 1974-1990
Identification: MS-0484
Creator:
Women's Resource Center
Physical Description: 0.63 linear ft
Repository:
Special Collections & University Archives
5500 Campanile Dr. MC 8050
San Diego, CA, 92182-8050
URL: http://library.sdsu.edu/scua
Email: scref@rohan.sdsu.edu
Phone: 619-594-6791
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.
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the creators of materials contained in the collection or their heirs. The nature of historical archival and manuscript collections
is such that copyright status may be difficult or even impossible to determine. Requests for permission to publish must be
submitted to the Head of Special Collections, San Diego State University, Library and Information Access. When granted, permission
is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical item and is not intended to include or imply permission
of the copyright holder(s), which must also be obtained in order to publish. Materials from our collections are made available
for use in research, teaching, and private study. The user must assume full responsibility for any use of the materials, including
but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials.
This collection is open for research.
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.
I. Office Files
II. Program Files
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.