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Women's Rights Button Collection
MSS-2013-07-22
MSS-2013-07-22
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Title: Women's Rights Button Collection
Identifier/Call Number: MSS-2013-07-22
Contributing Institution:
SJSU Special Collections & Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
0.5 Linear feet
1 Box
Date (inclusive): 1952-2008
Abstract: This collection consists of women’s rights buttons (1952-2000) and political buttons collected by feminist activist and historian,
Karen Offen. The collection includes buttons that support women’s political campaigns, including Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential
campaign and Barbara Boxer's senate campaign in the 1990s. Other themes include the commemoration of Women’s History Month,
feminism, union activism, the Equal Rights Amendment, and a 1952 button supporting Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidential campaign.
The collection is open for research.
Copyright has not been assigned to the San José State University Library Special Collections & Archives. All requests for
permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Director of Special Collections. Permission
for publication is given on behalf of the SJSU Special Collections & Archives as the owner of the physical items and is not
intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader. Copyright restrictions
also apply to digital reproductions of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research and educational
purposes.
Women's Rights Button Collection, San José State University Library Special Collections & Archives.
Collection processed by Molly Freed. Finding Aid created in the Archivist Toolkit d by Molly Freed. Reviewed and edited by
Danelle Moon.
Women's Heritage Museum/International Museum of Women Records, MSS-2010-02-18, San José State University Library Special Collections
& Archives. http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt4m3nf2sh/entire_text/
Karen Offen received her Ph.D. from Stanford University and she is an independent historian and scholar, affiliated with thee
Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University. Her area of expertise is on the history of Modern
Europe and specifically France and its global influences; Western thought and politics in relationship to family, gender,
the status of women, historiography, women’s history, national, regional, global histories of feminism, and comparative history.
She has published extensively in these areas and is editor of “Globalizing Feminisms, 1789-1945 (Routledge, 2010).
In addition, she is the founder and past secretary treasurer of the International Federation for Research for Women’s History,
a past president of the Western Association of women Historians, and she has held fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim
Memorial Fellowship (1995-1996), the Rockefeller Foundation (1985-1986), and the National Endowment for the Humanities (1980-1981).
She currently serves on the Board of Directors for the International Museum of Women in San Francisco.
This collection consists of women’s rights buttons (1952-2000) and political buttons collected by feminist activist and historian,
Karen Offen. The collection includes buttons that support women’s political campaigns, including Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential
campaign and Barbara Boxer's senate campaign in the 1990s. Other themes include the commemoration of Women’s History Month,
feminism, union activism, the Equal Rights Amendment, and a 1952 button supporting Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidential campaign.
The collection is arranged into one series: Series I: Political and Women’s Right’s Buttons, 1952-2008.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Offen, Karen
California -- Politics and government
Equal rights amendments -- United States
Women's rights -- United States -- History -- 20th century