Scope and Contents
Arrangement Note
Conditions Governing Access
Conditions Governing Use
Source of Acquisition
Related Materials
Preferred Citation
Biographical Note
Accruals
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections & University Archives
Title: Kathleen B. Jones Papers
Creator:
Jones, Kathleen B.
Identifier/Call Number: MS-0365
Physical Description:
8.59 Linear Feet
Date (inclusive): 1977-2003
Date (bulk): 1980-1999
Language of Material:
English
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Scope and Contents
The
Kathleen B. Jones Papers document Jones' professional career as a Professor, Associate Dean at San Diego State University and as activist-scholar
within the greater community. This collection provides researchers with documentation of some of the activities and the contributions
Jones made to the area of feminist scholarship. The papers date from 1977 to 2003, with the bulk of the documents created
in the 1980s and 1990s. The collection consists of academic papers related to courses Jones instructed; materials from community-based
projects, including video records; and papers documenting Jones' international work in South Africa and at the University
of Örebro, Sweden. The collection has been divided into two series,
Academic Papers and
Professional Papers. The Professional series contains three sub-series:
Community Projects,
Homicide Research, and
Conference/Outreach. The collection contains a number of video recordings, photographs, and posters.
The
Academic series dates from 1977-2003, with the bulk of records created between 1981 and 1995, and includes materials from courses instructed
by Jones. These materials include course syllabi, class notes and handouts, and course readers from classes at SDSU and University
California, Berkeley (UCB). The majority of the courses are Women's Studies classes, from both SDSU and UCB. There are also
significant records of Political Science classes taught by Jones at SDSU. The series documents Jones' involvement with the
STINT Fellowship (Swedish Foundation for International Research and Higher Education,) when she was a visiting scholar at
the University of Örebro, Sweden, from 1997-2000. The series also includes 72 video cassettes consisting of class lectures
(from visiting professors), and educational material. The series is filed alphabetically by department, numerically by course
number, and chronologically within each course.
The
Professional series dates from 1984-2000, and includes material documenting Jones' professional involvement in the national and international
community. The series includes three sub-series:
Community Projects (1984-1998),
Homicide Research (1980-1989), and
Conference/Outreach (1997-2000). The
Community Projects files contain materials documenting Jones' involvement with the Eleanor Roosevelt Centennial Celebration held at SDSU in
1984, interviews she conducted with the San Diego City Council in 1987, and notes from her
Around the World in a Single Day (AWISD) project, when Jones' was Director of University Resources for the City Heights Pilot from 1997-1999. The
Homicide Research sub-series includes research Jones did into homicides in San Diego in the late 19th century. It includes newspaper accounts
of murders from the
San Diego Union, 1870-1900, and a number of data-information sheets pertaining to each of the published homicides. Jones compiled the files
in the 1980s. The
Conferences/Outreach subseries documents Jones' involvement in a conference titled
Women Transforming the Public, held in Santa Barbara in 1999, and her involvement in South Africa in 1997-2000, including some material from the People
to People Ambassador program (a citizen-to-citizen exchange program), the news journal
Lola Press, the South African newspaper
The Star, and numerous brochures and pamphlets regarding the abuse and rape of South African women. The materials are not particularly
extensive, but do provide some insight into the plight of women in South Africa at the turn of the twenty-first century. Records
in this series are filed by subject.
The
Posters and Broadsides series, which dates from 1976-1999, comprises broadsides and fliers for political, activist and academic events and conferences,
most but not all related to the women's movement. The series includes three subseries:
Local (1980-1996),
National (1976-1984) and
International (1980-1999).
Arrangement Note
I. Academic, 1977-2003
II. Professional, 1984-2000
1. Community Projects, 1997-1999
2. Homicide Research, 1980-1989
3. Conferences/Outreach, 1997-2000
4. Posters and Broadsides, 1976-1999
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
The copyright interests in some of these materials have been transferred to or belong to San Diego State University. The nature
of historical archival and manuscript collections means that copyright status may be difficult or even impossible to determine.
Copyright resides with the creators of materials contained in the collection or their heirs. Requests for permission to publish
must be submitted to the Head of Special Collections, San Diego State University, Library and Information Access. Permissions
is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical item and is not intended to include or imply permission
of the copyright holder(s), which must also be obtained in order to publish. Materials from our collections are made available
for use in research, teaching, and private study. The user must assume full responsibility for any use of the materials, including
but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials.
Source of Acquisition
Kathleen B. Jones
Related Materials
Bonnie Zimmerman Papers
Women's Studies Department Records
Preferred Citation
Identification of item, folder title, box number, Kathleen B. Jones Papers, Special Collections and University Archives, San
Diego State University Library.
Biographical Note
Kathleen B. Jones was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1949. Dr. Jones received her BA in Political Science from Brooklyn College
(1970), and her Ph.D. in Political Science from the Graduate School of the City University of New York (1978) before moving
to California in 1980. Jones has been academically and politically active in the fields of women's studies, politics and feminist
theory since 1975. She started teaching at San Diego State University (SDSU) in 1980 and became a professor of Women's Studies
at SDSU in 1991. Jones was formerly the Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Letters (1995-1998) and Chair of the Department
of Women's Studies (1993-1996). She was also a visiting Associate Professor of Women's Studies and Political Science, University
of California, Berkeley (UCB) in the Spring of 1990 and 1991. In the fall of 1997 Jones was awarded a STINT Fellowship (Swedish
Foundation for International Research and Higher Education,) as a Visiting Scholar at the University of Örebro, Sweden. She
was also awarded a STINT Grant for four-years of research and teaching collaboration with the University of Örebro from 1998
to 2002.
As an activist-scholar, Jones was a research consultant for the San Diego County Violence Against Women Project, 1995-1996
and was appointed to the City of San Diego Commission on the Status of Women as a representative on the San Diego Domestic
Violence Council from 1995-1998. She also co-chaired the San Diego Violence against Women Task Force, 1996-97. Jones scholarly
work includes extensive unpublished research on violent homicides in nineteenth century San Diego.
In 1998, as Director of University Resources for the City Heights Pilot (Director, University-Wide Programs City Heights Education
Pilot), Jones was involved in the public interview process for the annual production of the play
Around the World in a Single Day (AWISD). This was a community-based venture produced in collaboration with SDSU's Chicana/Chicano Studies Department, San
Diego Repertory Theatre, and Hoover and Crawford High Schools. Along with a significant number of recorded community interviews,
the completed projects consist of two plays recorded onto video (VHS):
Around the World in a Single Day and
Priceless.
As a scholar and public speaker, Jones has traveled nationally and internationally lecturing on such topics as women and leadership;
gender and politics; women's movement for social change; domestic violence; and related topics of contemporary political interest.
In June 1999, Jones journeyed to South Africa as leader of a delegation organized by People to People Ambassador Programs,
a U.S. based citizen-to-citizen exchange program. The delegation's purpose was to provide professionals with the opportunity
to explore women's rights and women's struggles in the new South Africa. This venture culminated in the video and lecture
"Women's Rights, Women's Struggles in the New South Africa," presented at William Paterson University, March, 2000.
Some of Jones' published academic works include
Compassionate Authority: Democracy and the Representation of Women (Routledge, 1993),
The Political Interests of Gender (Sage, 1988), edited with Anna G. Jónasdóttir and
Women Transforming Politics (New York University Press, 1997) edited with Cathy Cohen and Joan Tronto. She also co-edits the
International Feminist Journal of Politics. Her most recent book is a memoir,
Living Between Danger and Love, (Rutgers University Press, 2000) Jones was also the Co-Editor of
International Feminist Journal of Politics.
Throughout her professional career, Jones has belonged to numerous professional organizations. These include the American
Association of University Women; the American Political Science Association; the International Political Science Association;
the International Studies Association; the International Women's Writing Guild; the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Caucus, American
Political Science Association, Program Chair, 1997-1998; the National Women's Studies Association; and the Women's Caucus,
American Political Science Association.
Kathleen Jones is currently Professor Emerita of Women's Studies at SDSU. Also as an ordained non-denominational minister,
Jones provides marriage ceremonies through a service called Uncommon Ceremonies.
Accruals
1999-004
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Personal Papers
Feminists--California--San Diego--Biography--Sources
Women--California--San Diego--History--Sources
Feminism--Sources
Jones, Kathleen B., 1949--Archives
San Diego State University--Faculty--Biography--Sources
San Diego State University--Curricula