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Finding Aid to the Nancy Stoller Papers, 1981-1995
MSS 2000-6  
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    Collection Title: Nancy Stoller papers
    Date (inclusive): 1981-1995
    Collection Number: MSS 2000-6
    Creator : Stoller, Nancy E.
    Extent: Number of containers: 9 cartons, 1 oversize box, 1 oversize folder Linear feet: 14
    Repository: The UCSF Library and Center for Knowledge Management, Archives and Special Collections
    University of California, San Francisco
    530 Parnassus Avenue
    San Francisco, CA 94143-0840
    Phone: (415) 476-8112
    Fax: (415) 476-4653
    Email: http://www.library.ucsf.edu/collres/archives/contactform.html
    URL: http://www.library.ucsf.edu/collres/archives/
    Abstract: This collection contains the research and writing files Nancy Stoller [who also worked under the name Nancy Shaw], as well as posters, a large pamphlet file, and other ephemera. The bulk of the collection focuses on Stoller's AIDS next hit research for the book, Lessons from the Damned: Queers, Whores and Junkies Respond to previous hit AIDS next hit . There is also material connected to, Women Resisting previous hit AIDS next hit : Feminist Strategies of Empowerment , the book she co-edited with Beth E. Schneider. There are also some examples of her work on healthcare for prisoners and Latinas and breast cancer.
    Languages Represented: Collection materials are in English
    Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the library's online catalog: http://www.library.ucsf.edu/ .

    Information for Researchers

    Access

    Collection is open for research.

    Publication Rights

    Copyright has not been assigned to the UCSF Library and Center for Knowledge Management. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Manager of Archives and Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the UCSF Library and Center for Knowledge Management 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 representations of the original materials.

    Preferred Citation

    [Identification of item], Nancy Stoller Papers, MSS 2000-6, The UCSF Library and Center for Knowledge Management, Archives and Special Collections, University of California, San Francisco.

    Alternate Forms Available

    There are no alternate forms of this collection.

    Indexing Terms

    The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
    previous hit AIDS next hit (Disease)--Political aspects--United States
    previous hit AIDS next hit (Disease)--Social aspects--United States
    previous hit AIDS next hit (Disease)--Psychological aspects
    previous hit AIDS next hit (Disease) in women
    previous hit AIDS next hit (Disease)--Prevention
    ACT UP New York (Organization)
    Intravenous drug abuse--Prevention
    San Francisco previous hit AIDS next hit Foundation
    Cal-Pep (Organization)
    Stoller, Nancy E

    Administrative Information

    Acquisition Information

    The collection was given to the Library in two parts - The bulk of the material in October 1999, and the rest given in July of 2002. Carton 9 and the oversize box were received in 2013. They are unprocessed.

    System of Arrangement

    Arranged to the folder level. Carton 9 and the oversize box were received as an addition in 2013 and are unprocessed and not included in the finding previous hit aid next hit .

    Processing Information

    Processed by Julia Bazar in January 2005

    Biographical Information

    Nancy Elaine Stoller was born in 1942 in Newport News, Virginia. In 1960 she left Virginia to attend Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, where she earned an A.B. in Philosophy in 1963. She went on to earn her M.A. (1965) and Ph.D. (1972) in Sociology from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. From 1978-1980 she was a Post-doctoral fellow at Yale University. Stoller started her job at University of California (UC) Santa Cruz in 1973 and received tenure in 1987 after having filed a gender discrimination suit against the University. Stoller worked and published under her married name, Nancy Shaw, for many years before reclaiming Stoller in the 1990s. Along with her work on previous hit AIDS next hit , Stoller's research has focused on women, prisoners, and health care.
    Stoller became involved with the civil rights movement during her first year of college. She was involved in local actions in Wellesley and Boston during the school year and worked with the Washington D.CIRCA area Non-violent Action Group (DC-NAG) during the summer. Later she became involved with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and did organizing work in Maryland and Arkansas. Her activism continued throughout her life. In a recent, short, online biography she states:
    I have been involved in various social change movements: anti-racism, feminism, anti-apartheid work, queer organizing, women's health activism, working on changing prison conditions, prison abolition, and so on.
    After a brief marriage to Kevin (Kwame) Shaw (1966-1972) and the birth of her daughter, Gwendolyn, in 1968, Stoller came out as a lesbian. She was one of the first openly lesbian professors at UC Santa Cruz (UCSC) and was outed internationally during her tenure fight.
    Between her dismissal from UC Santa Cruz in 1984 and her reinstatement in 1987, Stoller worked as the Women's Program Development Director within the Education Department of the San Francisco previous hit AIDS next hit Foundation (SFAF) from 1984 to 1987. While there she was involved with a number of projects including heterosexual focus groups, the drafting of a number of pamphlets, and the organization of women's support groups. This work led to further interactions with a variety of community based previous hit AIDS next hit organizations. She did a formal participant/observer study of the New York City ACT-UP chapter in the fall/winter of 1989. She went to meetings and demonstrations, including the St. Patrick's Cathedral demonstration held in the December of that year.
    Stoller also spent significant time working with Cal-PEP, the California Prostitutes Education Project, an previous hit AIDS next hit prevention and education organization founded and run by prostitutes and former prostitutes to prevent the spread of previous hit AIDS next hit within that community. Stoller served as an advisor to the Executive Director of the organization, as well as doing a stint on the Board of Directors. Other groups that she had contact with during this period include: Prevention Point, a Needle Exchange program working with Intravenous (IV) Drug Users; the Women's previous hit AIDS next hit Network (WAN), and Women's previous hit AIDS next hit Risk Network (WARN).
    Stoller translated her experience working for SFAF and her interest in other previous hit AIDS next hit related community organizations into two books on previous hit AIDS next hit - Lessons from the Damned: Queers, Whores and Junkies Respond to previous hit AIDS next hit published in 1998 and Women Resisting previous hit AIDS next hit : Feminist Strategies of Empowerment (1995) co-edited by Stoller with Beth E. Schneider of UC Santa Barbara. Stoller wrote the chapter on "Lesbian Involvement in the previous hit AIDS next hit Epidemic: Changing Roles and Generational Differences" in Women Resisting previous hit AIDS next hit After returning to the UCSC campus she has taught classes in Transgressive Sexualities and Genders, Health and Human Rights in Prison, and Theory and Practice of Sexual Politics. The majority of Stoller's ongoing research has been into the treatment of women prisoners, especially in relation to medical care. She was also involved in an outreach study on breast cancer in the Latina community. As of 2005 Stoller is still teaching at UCSC and living in San Francisco.

    Scope and Content of Collection

    This collection consists predominantly of the research files used by Nancy Stoller in the writing of two books and a number of academic papers, and in teaching at the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC). A high percentage of the collection is secondary source material including: newspaper and magazine articles, scholarly papers, documents (primarily minutes, publications, and other administrative or publicity materials) from a variety of community based, previous hit AIDS next hit related organizations; a few posters; and a very extensive pamphlet collection. Primary documents include: drafts and published versions of papers written or co-written by Stoller, drafts of chapters and correspondence from Lessons from the Damned: Queers, Whores and Junkies Respond to previous hit AIDS next hit , correspondence connected to Women Resisting previous hit AIDS next hit : Feminist Strategies of Empowerment (1995), various handwritten notes, and two participant-observer notebooks from her time with ACT-UP New York. The collection also includes a small sampling of condoms and stickers, including some from Amsterdam, as well as dental dams and a leather harness for the dams. A small amount of material documenting some of her other research topics, as well as her later career at UCSC, can be found near the end of the collection. For material relating to Nancy Elaine Stoller (Nancy Stoller Shaw's) tenure battle with UCSC see the Nancy Shaw collection at the Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Historical Society.
    Stoller's interest in previous hit AIDS next hit , as shown by her subject files, ranged widely beyond the gay white male model of the early epidemicirca Stoller collected popular and academic articles, pamphlets, clippings, organizational files, and other materials on Asian Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, African Americans, multicultural, and international issues. South Africa is represented by a series of posters and some other ephemera. Australia is represented by a number of research articles from Macquarie University, and the Netherlands (Holland) is represented by stickers and condoms as well as conference materials. A significant portion of the subject files concern women's issues including children and previous hit AIDS next hit , education, heterosexual transmission, lesbians, perinatal transmission and pregnancy, prostitution, and women and previous hit AIDS next hit . Ethics, demographics and the religious response are also covered.
    The collection contains significant amounts of material on a number of agencies and organizations. The big three are the San Francisco previous hit AIDS next hit Foundation (SFAF); the California Prostitute Education Project (Cal-PEP); and ACT-UP New York. Other organizations represented by multiple folders-worth of materials include: ACHA (American College Health Association - Task Force on the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome ( previous hit AIDS next hit ); APHA (American Public Health Association); City of New York and City of San Francisco Commissions on Human Rights; NSBC (National Skills Building Conference); WARN (Women and previous hit AIDS next hit Risk Network); and University previous hit AIDS next hit Events (and papers) from UCSF, UCB, UCSC, SFSU, and Macquarie University in Australia.
    Other agencies and organizations documented to a greater or lesser extent include: AAPCHO (Association of Asian/Pacific Community Health Organization); previous hit AIDS next hit Action Pledge, San Francisco; previous hit AIDS next hit Health Project, San Francisco; California previous hit AIDS next hit Project; SAMHA (Substance Abuse and Mental Health in previous hit AIDS next hit ); Santa Cruz previous hit AIDS next hit Project; the Stop previous hit AIDS next hit Project, San Francisco; WORLD (Women Organized to Respond to Life-threatening Diseases); previous hit AIDS next hit Action Council; CARE previous hit AIDS next hit (Prevention for Substance Abuse Treatment Programs, New York); Gay Men's Health Crisis [New York]; the National Gay Task Force (NGTF); and the New York City Task Force on Women & previous hit AIDS next hit .
    The collection is divided into 5 Series, based primarily on Stoller's own division of materials, and most of Stoller's folder headings and order have been retained, with occasional renaming of folders or subseries for clarity, and order imposed within or between topics/series/subseries when the original order was absent or unclear.
    The series are: Series I: previous hit AIDS next hit Subject Files; Series II: Organizations; Series III: Writings; Series IV: Administrative, Prison and Non- previous hit AIDS next hit Files; Series V: Ephemera. Some of these series include subseries.
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    Container List
    AIDS Subject Files [75 hits]
    Organizations
    Geographical (Small) [30 hits]
    Alphabetical (Medium) [38 hits]
    San Francisco AIDS Foundation (SFAF) [35 hits]
    California Prostitutes Education Project (CAL-PEP) [6 hits]
    ACT-UP New York City [2 hits]
    Women's Organizations [11 hits]
    Writings [7 hits]
    Administrative, Prison, and Non-AIDS Files [10 hits]
    Ephemera
    Pamphlets [2 hits]
    Ephemera/Objects [5 hits]
    Posters and Oversized Materials [19 hits]
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