Descriptive Summary
Restrictions on Access
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Preferred Citation
UCLA Catalog Record ID
Acquisition Information
Processing Information
Biography
Scope and Content
Descriptive Summary
Title: Elizabeth Gould Davis papers
Collection number: 2169
Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
0.5 linear ft.
(1 box)
Date (inclusive): 1990-1999
Abstract: Elizabeth Gould Davis was an American lesbian librarian and author who wrote the feminist text The First Sex. Her unpublished
follow up manuscript for The Female Principle is contained within this collection.
Language of Materials: Materials are in English.
Physical location: COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Open for research. Advance notice required for access. Contact the UCLA Library Special
Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Creator:
Davis, Elizabeth Gould 1910-1974
Restrictions on Access
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Open for research. Advance notice required for access. Contact the UCLA Library Special
Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. Literary 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, UCLA.
UCLA Catalog Record ID
Acquisition Information
Provenance unknown. 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.
The June L. Mazer Lesbian Archive at UCLA is 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. These collections expand the pool of primary
source materials available to researchers and to the community at large. This partnership was initiated by CSW and is funded
by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to inventory, organize, preserve, and digitize more than eighty Mazer collections
pertaining to lesbian and feminist activism and writings.
Biography
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.
Scope and Content
The collection consists of an unpublished manuscript, The Female Principle by Elizabeth Gould Davis. The manuscript was the
follow up to her previous work The First Sex.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Davis, Elizabeth Gould, 1910-1974
Lesbian authors -- Archival resources.