Women's Rights Button Collection
MSS-2013-07-22
SJSU Special Collections & Archives
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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.
Access
The collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
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.
Preferred Citation
Women's Rights Button Collection, San José State University Library Special Collections & Archives.
Processing Information
Collection processed by Molly Freed. Finding Aid created in the Archivist Toolkit d by Molly Freed. Reviewed and edited by
Danelle Moon.
Related Collections
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/
Biographical History
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.
Scope and Content
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.
Arrangement
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
Series I: Political and Women's Rights Buttons,
1952-2008
Physical Description
1 Box
Scope and Content Summary
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.
Arrangement
This collection is arranged in alphabetical order.
Box 1: Political and Women's Rights Buttons
1952-2008
Folder 2, Barbara Boxer for Senate
Folder 5, Expanding Your Horizons
Folder 6, Hillary for President
Folder 7, Histoire North Carolina Press
Folder 9, Lead, Follow or Get Out of the Way. Iron Jawed Angels
Folder 10, Mary Mary Quite Contrary
Folder 11, Mary Wollstronecraft 200 Years of Feminism
Folder 12, National Women's History Month March, 1994
Folder 13, National Women's History Week, March 7th-13th 1982
Folder 14, Never Another Season of Silence 1966 Failure is Impossible
Folder 15, Reclaim CLIO Join CCWHP
Physical Description:
2.0 items
Folder 16, Rigoberta Menchu para Presidenta
Folder 17, Well Behaved Women Rarely Make History
Folder 18, When Women Vote, Women Win. Emily's List
Physical Description:
3.0 items
Folder 19, Women Change America National Women's History Month March 2005
Folder 20, Women Who Think They Are Equal to Men Lack Ambition
