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Title: Spring Ruth Friedlander papers
Dates: circa 1950-2010
Collection Number: 2019-22
Creator/Collector:
Extent: 1 carton
Repository:
GLBT Historical Society
San Francisco, California 94103
Abstract: Spring Ruth Friedlander (born 1943) is a bisexual Jewish woman who was active in feminist and lesbian politics and collective
living groups in the 1970s-2000s in the San Francisco Bay Area. The collection includes an autobiographical essay titled “The
Story of My Life: Spring Ruth Friedlander,” photographs, journals, calendars, ephemera, and audiocassette tapes and computer
media.
Language of Material: English
Collection is open for research.
[Identification of item]. Spring Ruth Friedlander papers. Collection Number: 2019-22. GLBT Historical Society
Gift of Spring Ruth Friedlander, February 2019.
Scope and Content of Collection
Spring Ruth Friedlander (born 1943) is a bisexual Jewish woman who was active in feminist and lesbian politics and collective
living groups in the 1970s-2000s in the San Francisco Bay Area. Friedlander was born in Chicago, Illinois. She earned a BS
in Economics with a focus on City Planning from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and earned a masters degree in Urban
Planning from Hunter College in New York. She moved to San Francisco in 1970. In the San Francisco Bay Area, she was active
in feminist consciousness raising groups, including Breakaway, a Women’s Free School, and bisexual and lesbian community groups.
She worked in urban planning and ran construction businesses. Friedlander was also active in collective living initiatives,
including Prudence Crandall House and Communal Grapevine. The collection includes an autobiographical essay titled “The Story
of My Life: Spring Ruth Friedlander,” photographs, journals, calendars, ephemera, and audiocassette tapes and computer media.
GSSO linked terms: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_001590; http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_002229; http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/D008091;
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_007696; http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_007701
Bisexual people
Feminism
Literature
Jewish people