Elizabeth Gould Davis papers, 1990-1999

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Summary

Creators:
Davis, Elizabeth Gould
Abstract:
Elizabeth Gould Davis was an American lesbian librarian and author who wrote the feminist text The First Sex. Photocopies of her manuscript for the unpublished follow-up titled The Female Principle is contained within this collection.
Extent:
0.4 linear feet (1 document box)
Language:
Materials are in English.
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Elizabeth Gould Davis papers (Collection 2169). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Background

Scope and content:

The collection consists of photocopies (circa 1990s) of an unpublished manuscript, The Female Principle by Elizabeth Gould Davis, written in the early 1970s. The manuscript was the follow up to her previous work, The First Sex.

Biographical / historical:

Elizabeth Gould Davis was born in Kansas in 1910 and earned her master's degree in librarianship at the University of Kentucky in 1951. She worked as a librarian at Sarasota, Florida and while there wrote The First Sex. She died in 1974.

Acquisition information:

Provenance unknown (circa early 1990s).

This collection is part of an outreach and collection-building partnership between the June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives , the UCLA Center for the Study of Women (CSW) , and the UCLA Library .

Processing information:

Processed by Stacy Wood, 2013. Description enhanced and further physical processing completed by Sarah Johnson and Sabrina Ponce in 2017.

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Arrangement:

Arranged by sequence of drafts with notes at the end.

Physical location:
Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Indexed terms

Subjects:
Lesbian authors -- Archives.
Names:
Davis, Elizabeth Gould

Access and use

Restrictions:

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Terms of access:

Property rights to the objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All other rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Elizabeth Gould Davis papers (Collection 2169). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Location of this collection:
A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
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