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Scope and Content
WAVPM Records document the affairs of this prominent feminist organization of the late 1970s and early 1980s. The collection is divided into five series: Administrative, Communications, Events/programs, Research, and Audio-visual. Dated materials are placed chronologically within each folder. Folders without dates either contain material spanning the life of the organization or undated materials.
Administrative records (1.25 linear feet) are the largest series in the collection, including minutes from general membership meetings, board meetings, and committee meetings as well as voluminous correspondence files and records of fundraising efforts, which include grant proposals to foundations. Administrative folders pertaining to the WAVPM slide show and the National Feminist Conference on Pornography are located in the Events and Programs Series. The Julie Greenberg (a WAVPM coordinator during the early '80s) Notes folder is largely undated and without clear organization, but these records may serve to fill gaps in other administrative folders. The correspondence extensively documents both the internal workings of WAVPM and much of their publicity and outreach work not documemted in the Events and Programs Series.
The communications series includes a (nearly) complete collection of Newspage, WAVPM's widely circulated newsletter. Also included in this series are public statements made by the group and publicity for WAVPM-sponsored events. Publicity related to fundraising is located in the administrative series, and publicity related to events are contained in the Events and Programs Series.
The events and programs series contains materials related to the group's early protests of pornography theaters and sex shows in San Francisco and materials regarding San Francisco Examiner protests. Also included in this series are records of WAVPM's popular slide show of images culled from mass media depicting (or insinuating) violence against women. Records of the National Feminist Conference on Pornography are contained in this series as well. The latter constitutes the bulk of the second box of records, including correspondence with speakers or potential speakers, grant proposals, and conference evaluations. The correspondence folder features exchanges with Kathy Barry, Susan Brownmiller, Irene Diamond, Andrea Dworkin, Suzanne Lacy (representing the Ariadne Artists' Collective), Julia London (representing Women Against Violence Against Women, Los Angeles), Valerie Miner, Judy Reisman, Adrienne Rich, Diana Russell, and Marjorie Smith.
The research series is composed primarily of subject files, containing articles about violence and the media. Most address the proposed link between depictions of violence and acts of violence against women. These materials range in format from academic papers to newspaper clippings.
The Audio-visual Series located in box 3--apparently containing media clips and audio transcripts of slide presentations--remains unprocessed.
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